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What do you think will happen with the ubisoftgames we own? I still have 10 in my steambacklog and I'm afraid that they pull a crew 1. Or that they become unplayable as the latest ubisoft games still have denuvo
The news coverage segments a-la SkillUp's "This Week in Games" segments are a good format for your style of coverage. I tend to enjoy them more than the livestreams which I get lost in since I'm generally doing them second screen. The coverage by contrast is way easier to follow. Just one voice here but I like these.
As someone who was ubisoft superfan back in the day, its extremely satisfying to see them get their just comeuppance after preying on their customers for so long
@@busterspark4410yeah I think it’s to the point where they tanked their image to the point where they’re the new scapegoat for everything wrong in gaming
I actually laughed out loud when I read that article about Ubi teying to pressure Valve to hide player counts. It's like... you do not have the clout to even suggest that. Fade away, Ubisoft.
HAH, it's a little like when TH-cam got rid of the dislikes display (for people not using addons, that is) just b/c they made a big expensive vid that became the most hated piece on their site ever.
They came crawling back to steam and demanding things to change to their liking. Steam should do what they do best: Nothing. They've done that for years and won every step of the way
You know why Ubisoft removed the season pass from the game? Because Steam is looking to integrate a new term where games must show exactly what the content will be provided by the future update and if it isn't released withing 3 months of the specified date, buyers will recieve a full refund for the pricing of the presumed pass.
As a former Ubi employee on a minor leadership position in QC, I can only say one thing. It's heartbreaking. Unisoft will always remain in my heart as an Alma mater in gamedev. And I am grateful for all the amazing people there. People that have been betrayed by poor decisions and greed.
Swen Vincke summed up the current state of AAA+ games brilliantly, I recommend checking out his statement at The Game Awards 2024 'just listen to the players and make good games without unnecessary politics' in short.
If you listen to players, you eventually arrive to the biggest game in that genre. If you create a FPS of any kind, people will make suggestions that would ultimately lead it to CS clone. MMORPG of any kind will lead to WoW and so on and so on. Just don't force shit into players mouth that they never asked for and it's 90% sold.
The fact that Star Wars Outlaws "only" sold a million copies (which if they were all sold at full price is $70 million on the gross) and got absolutely killed financially is just one more demonstration of how broken the AAA business model truly is.
You can't fully blame SW Outlaws on Ubisoft . It's a Disney IP and no doubt they had direct oversight on the project and DISNEY DEI'd into the ground .
@@randoir1863 Something tells me Disney didn't exactly have to _force_ Ubisoft to go along with the DEI executive meddling. The character design of Kay Vess (poor Humberly Gonzalez, she's a good-looking woman, and they made THAT out of her performance capture? The inventor of that technology must be questioning his life decisions at this point), the third-grade-level writing, the wooden voice acting, the PS1-era cutscene design, and the sluggish gameplay was all Ubi doing it themselves.
Maybe they can reach out to all the diverse communities they supported for help. What's that, Ubisoft? .... The diverse communities have no idea who you are. Strange Well, at the very least, they must be delighted some company they never heard of supported them. Have a safe trip on your way to Hell, Ubisoft.
Ubisoft Cook : "Here's your burger. Sir" Customer : "uh... the meat is frozen, the bread has mold on it, and you forgot the pickles. I want another one, I already paid" Ubisoft cook : "your burger is absolutely fine" Customer : "Give me my money back if you don't want to make me another sandwich" Ubisoft cook : "Do you know how hard it is to make a burger ?"
@@ineedapharmists you don't need to release AAA games to understand the simple fact that producing something customers don't like would make you loose money or you job. It's the same in every job in the world : You do shit customers don't want -> customer ask for a refund or won't buy. Trying to get the customer empathy after you gave him a bad product in exchange of his hard earned money is an asshole move.
I’m listening to this and looking around my room at my AC2, AC Revelations, AC3, AC Black Flag, Watchdogs and Splinter Cell Conviction collector’s editions…reminds me that nothing lasts forever
@ I was hooked with the story of Ezio and Desmond but after Revelations it felt like they didn’t know what to do with the modern storyline The first one with Altair will always feel special to me
@@falmatrix2r man it sucks to see how ubi wasted the modern day story line. Here’s a spoiler and example in Valhalla, They had an assassin named Basim be a reincarnation of an ISU and brought his corpse back to life in modern day, yet I’ve heard they did nothing with that in Mirage.
I honestly think the last good game from AC gameplay wise was unity, wish they would use that as a foundation it was great just released on the wrong console. Now the one with the best story is ezio’s saga, followed by Black flag… insane how they’ve fallen
Call me a racist or whatever, but if Ubisoft wanted to tell a story with an African protagonist why couldn’t they set it in Africa? I would play that game as I cannot think of any others in that historical setting. It’s truly unique. Instead we have them shoehorn an obscure historical person into a game set in Japan that was overwhelmingly ethnically Japanese at the time.
little fun irony in this. if they named it historical fiction or for that matter intepretational of history theyd be fine actually. but they had to call it historical on top framing that humankind has always in historical diverse, which is a flat out lie. problem isnt Yasuke, problem is the framing of history.
@@kibariou Because he didn't lol. Only source that has ever said that is some discredited western historian that only inferred that history and never found solid proof of it
Not only selfinflicted but 14 years in the making. They anounced this course of action somwhere beetwen AC:Brotherhood and AC3. This is when you forget that you not only selling a product but an experience/piece of art, the value plummets when you stack shit on top of it for profit.
Rabbids is in even worse hands than the Minions right now! At least those tic tacs get a successful company! Give us back those stupid BAWH-las, so we can go back to two stupid franchises having dumb, fun plunger-measuring contests!
@@agingerbeard At this point, it's still a massive improvement. Ubi was always terrible to customers. At least their new owner will force them to make good games again.
@@agingerbeard There are times when tencent takes over something they don't try to fix what isn't broken. (Ex. Digital Extremes [Warframe], GrindingGearGames [PoE]) As long as it works I'm here for it.
@@agingerbeard Tencent cares about quality, because otherwise they'd anger their customers and get reported to the CCP. That same kind of menace is what drove MiHoYo to fix Zhongli.
True ideologues. The can’t admit they were wrong at this point, it would prove that the “chuds” were right all along, and a true ideologue would rather everything burn down around them than ever admit they weren’t right.
Literally the case. They will fail, and fail and fail until they get just 1 single win so they can say "We were right all along" even as everything burns around them. If they Fail, they will double down, if they win, they will double down. People say "When will they learn" and really... they should learn that these type of people will never learn. because they don't think there is anything to learn. They will keep trying until they get win no matter how much they lose in the process.
I still don't get how these companies think it's a good idea to be openly hostile to paying customers, lecturing and talking down to them and not listening to feedback, producing an objectively bad product, then blaming them when it fails. I can see AC Shadows not selling enough to cover costs, the delay was just to polish the obvious technical issues. not actually respond to feedback so the fundamental flaws are still there. It is also now in a stacked month with games people actually want to buy. If they do end up going private and try an asset firesale, I think they have damaged their major IPs so badly they might not even get as much as they think they are worth.
The times we're living in are insane. Who would have thought that companies who sells products would insult their customers base when their product doesn't sell well ? That's so insane I legitimately think it's pathological.
Word is, they’re keen to sell but the sticking point is the guillemot bros insist on retaining control of the company if they do. Nobody is going buy with that offer. Their arrogance will bury that company in the dirt before they’re finally forced to give it up.
If I were you, I'd wait until non-competes are properly banned (yes that lawsuit is still ongoing) and the entire working culture collapses. Game dev is toxic, locking, and unnovative.
THANK YOU for bringing up the similarities in games. A lot of movies and TV have the same issue right now too. Western corporations are obsessed with replacing al their experienced ppl with "Yes Men" who will do what they're told so they can create their "Data-Driven Content".
@@genkureshima9834 I believe there are still holdouts. And once wöke devs go bankrupt, it will create market niches anew and men will re-estabish their corporations....this time wise enough not to hire women with blue hairs, nose rings and/or outlandish views about this world and their game industry jobs (otherwise, they will experience Dan Housers fate)
Yasuke was in Japan for 15 months where he was a curiosity and a retainer who carried Nobunaga's sword. He was never, nor could have, nor had time to, nor would have been permitted to become, a samurai. Thomas Lockley and Ubisoft lied and had Wikipedia change his entry to reflect their revision. That's why they ran from TGS, because Japan was going to lynch them.
Most people in Japan actually didn't care. What's crazy is that a lot of the "japanese" comments on Twitter etc. Were just westerners using Google translate
@@iammiist About Yasuke being in samurai adjacent media or him being the lead character in an Assassin Creed game set in Japan when every game prior has had the dual protagonists being said countries ethnicity? Cause if it's Yasuke in samurai shit, then yeah Japanese don't care if he's a side or minor character. He's been in Nioh and I think one of the Samurai Showdown games. But they do care about Yasuke replacing what should have been a male Japanese character in the AC game set in Japan that everyone has been asking for since the 1st AC. Japanese netizens who branch out to the world wide web are already aware of the double standards the west has towards anything related to the "correct POCs", East Asians don't count as POC's in the west, and view replacement/substitution of Japanese characters with POC's as thinking westerners think Japanese characters are "inferior" and are "improved"/"better" when it's changed to a non-Japanese.
@@paulatreides1354 Come on man, he's not a legend... It's like making a game about king Arthur and the round table and staring Klem no last name the stable boy that once held Excalibur when king Arthur got on his horse...
I remember when that Ubi director said players should become more comfortable not owning their games. Well. Careful what you wish for. We've become comfortable not owning *your* games.
I've seen a couple of videos about "Scrolls-likes" becoming a new trend for indie devs as Bethesda falls apart...I'm genuinely curious to see what kind of Far Cry-like could be made by indie devs with a fresh perspective on the subgenre of action RPG.
Sadly, no, most likely, other big boy companies are going to buy their IPs and keep mismanaging them for profit, but without this level of incompetence
In the film Ready Player One, the corporate executive replies to a comment about the shareholders not being happy with "it's not our job the make them happy, it's our job to make them money." It seems executives have lost touch with reality that this is actually a double direction mandate. It's your job to make shareholders money. To do that, it's your job to make your CUSTOMERS happy. Happy customers yield money to make happy shareholders. The problem is shareholders are clueless about the things they invest in. Like the legendary call where a shareholder complained about Nintendo talking about video games. If investors would stick to industries they know & understand they'd support moves that make happy customers and generate more wealth for themselves.
i literally went "what" and found the topic in question. also a bunch of redditors asking for additional questions for clarity or context and other reddit minded things.
Executives were never in touch with reality. And unfortunately, it's the nature of publicly-traded companies to be anti-consumer. Like, they're legally required to only care about shareholders, and most shareholders only care about immediate profit with no interest in cultivating a healthy product
Gta online is the perfect example for this. Rockstar themselves said " we don't charhe for content. We make good content that players will love and the money will come by itself" So so so true.
"I have never seen a company self gaslight as hard as Ubisoft" See Lucasfilm/Disney. Continually running IP's into the ground, and pushing ideologies that the majority of their potential consumers don't want. At least Disney has other revenue streams to keep their company afloat. The wells at Ubisoft have all but gone dry.
Actually disney doesn't. Disney has not money. The parks were the thing that kept them afloat and somewhat independent. But covid and inflation killed that rev stream. Disney is now a DEI shareholder/loan mandate slave because of how much money they lost in the past 6 years.
I mean people are enjoying Skelton crew so far though that seems more a welcome respite rather than a definite turnaround of the general state of things.
Underrated comment. Someone’s creative freedom doesn’t automatically force individual people to invest their time, energy, and support. People can create whatever they want, but that doesn’t equal money making machine.
Ubisoft only believes in whatever they think will make them money. Their corporate culture is also full of people who abuse employees and take advantage of women. Progressivism is anathema to corporate culture.
Meanwhile, central and eastern Europe took up long-distance running and their games are completing ultramarathons. You want a game you can play for years and get fresh updates for that isn't a live service game, you find it in Czechia or Poland or other former Soviet satellite states.
Ignoring their customers isn't only a Ubisoft problem, look at BioWare, look at Obsidian, it's a total clown show over there. Jokes on them, we are the ones with money and time, something that they simply don't have anymore.
Exactly, as I say often: "We win everyday, by simply doing nothing. These companies have ALL the skin in the game while we get to play with no cost or risk. They forgot who they were playing against, and who makes the rules."
1. Obsidian the note taking app? or is there a studio named obsidian. 2. I wouldn't have noticed that CDPR doesn't listen to fans. CP77 was mostly fixed, so I don't see a problem? Or do i not know something about CDPR?
The funny thing is we've all been telling Ubisoft to make an Assassin's Creed set in Japan for well over 10 years now. If they would have just done it then, there would have been no competition with other games with similar settings like Ghost of Yotei. Shoot, they most likely would have set bars, too.
It's downright laughable how gaming studios think they can lecture their audience. Who do they think they are? They act like they're superior than the very fans who keep their lights on and their careers thriving. It's a classic case of delusions of grandeur, and it's infuriating to see them bite the hand that feeds them.
Education and intelligence does make you better than the people who do not have those traits. However, you assume Ubisoft is educated and intelligent, which is your mistake. Some people there might be, most people probably aren't. I mean, just look at that virtue signalling and dei bs. Don't say those people are smart and educated when they are preaching such nonsense
20k employees is bonkers. I work for one of the largest private oil and gas companies that makes billions per year, runs fields like small towns and it has half the employees as a video game developer.
All the hollyweird peeps trying (or actually got) into the industry, because theirs is failing. It's like californians moving to Nevada and still voting the same..
@@BeaugosseRiche that’s disingenuous. Core gameplay structurally speaking, yeah, it has been pretty much the same since 07, but everything else onwards was definitely innovated upon/changed
@@DaakkuuYRS Odyssey was kinda fun if you played it like an action RPG but it didn’t feel like an assassins creed game. Personally I didn’t have technical issues with it but I didn’t play it till it was gifted to me a few years after release lol
Ubsifot's own quote " you know the definition of insanity? It's doing something over and over and over and over" And ubisoft has done exactly that, monetization, game design, world design. Everything
I can confirm the "hires that have never made a game before" part. I literally have a friend who graduated from law school, but got hired by Ubisoft to work on VFX for AC: Shadows. He's never done anything creative EVER, but he is gay and Asian. I never confronted him or asked him why they hired him, but my guess is it's because he's a gay Asian man.
The ridiculous thing about ubisoft defending the historical facts backing their decision is that... it's all bullshit. They obviously had no consulting with japanese history and cultural experts because so much of the stuff they showed is either just plain wrong or completely tone deaf. Their choice of Yasuke as a main character (who is a real historical figure but completely inconsequential) has also pissed off the japanese public because ubisoft would rather pick up any excuse to make you not play a japanese male character. We've had playable characters in AC of just about every ethnicity, but when you finally get to japan you take it away from them? For what reason exactly?
When did game developers begin to think their job was to be the arbiters of moral truth? Just make good games. They work in the service economy and their job is to provide a product that entertains. I care as much about their lofty ideals about as much as mine server’s politics at Buffalo Wild Wings.
yes. exactly I want to become a gamedev and am currently already making mods for other games. AND IT'S NOT HARD. I just make my mini games or mods in a way that I myself would want to use them. I put in as many features that all can work together in some way, so that thr players can do stuff that I could never have thought about. (thats really fun to watch) But NEVER, EVER do I insert anything from the real word, especially not politics or something. Only limit the player if it would break features otherwise. The games were you are forced to pick 1 of 4 ugly characters because "thats equally" is just bullshit. ...but I do like it if games have to option to make your character look however you want, of you want to look like on of those dei games then sure, go along, I will make my characters look as pretty as possible xD BUT Characte creation shouldn't be a priority of the game, first finish features then something like this can be implemented.
They don't. If you believe that, then you've fallen to the propaganda that benefits from selling you an outrage narrative. Really think about it: these corporations have no morals, no ethics. It's all about myopic decisions made to maximize profit at the expense of everything else. Progressive companies aren't publicly traded corporations, they're studios like Digital Extremes or Larian, who can put into practice what they actually value-treating people right and making good games
Here's an example of the Ubisoft creative process: "We want to make a pirate game set in the Caribbean, circa 1700. But we don't want it to be like other pirate games, so our pirate game will have a twist: There will be space aliens, talking animals, and Bigfoot in our pirate game! Hooray, we are original!" People who just wanted a pirate game set in the 1700's: "No thank you." "yOu aRE sTifLiNG oUR CReatiVIty!!"
@paulatreides1354 No, but it's absolutely to the players to decide that a game is busy or has strange priorities and they're not interested in buying. You can make whatever game you like but I still get to choose if I want to spend money to play it.
The last 60 dollar game I bought on Steam was Space Marine 2. I don't buy "triple-A" games because I don't trust the publishers not to cut off half the game with dlc. All the games I own with the most play time were 20 dollars earlier access or on sale.
Indeed, buying AAA games when they release, or preordering, is practically never worth it. If you know the game is good, wait a year or so, and get it on a big discount. If your hardware can support it, it's probably unwise to decide that AAA should never be purchased.
The most money I've ever spent on a Steam game was $50 for Fallout: New Vegas at launch (and y'know what, even though it was an all-timer for horrible launch jank, I STILL loved it to pieces and regret nothing.) I haven't spent even $40 on a game since 2016 (Fallout 4, on a 33% off its usual $60 asking price.) There are exactly two companies I trust enough to buy on day one (or before). One is SCS Software (I plan work vacations around new map DLC for American Truck Simulator) and the other is Pathea Games (whose Kickstarter I backed for My Time at Evershine because Sandrock was my 2023 Game of the Year and one of my favorite games of all time.)
@@SimuLordyeah the games now come out trash because at their core they’re trash but back then they just needed a bunch of ironing out. Other good examples of this is Battlefield 4 and AC Unity at launch, both now viewed positively because their core gameplay is strong with the bugs ironed out. There’s little to no saving of modern AC because their main protagonist sucks as an assassin.
so i think the problem with Naoe is based on how she is played, so a fun fact, in japan female ninjas would play up the role of info gatherer sneak into lord's homes as whores, even sometimes poisoning them viva a claw Now how cool would it be if you played a male and female ninja maybe they're a couple and working together as part of a new brotherhood. You switch between them to do missions and quests and everything is tied together, even allowing you to do a certain quest that would require the other char, but you could do it as the one not require to do the quest and earn special scenes and so on the amount of replayablity and routes you could take
Ubisoft’s only hope is for their next project to be an out of the park grand slam home run. Since their next product is going to be Shadows I think we all know what that means.
"Why can't they say they made Yasuke cos..." Cos we all know why Yasuke was chosen, the game originally had a Japanese (male) protag but they did a last min. switcheroony for a browny point, for "(forced) diversity" sake.
not necissarily. personally i think he could be a really interesting caracter but ubi tried to gaslight instead of just saying "hey we think this caracter could be more interesting for our players to play and explore". it could all be avoided if they where upfront and didn't try to sell to us on it was because of them being true to history bullshit. also it doesn't really matter why decitions are made as long as the execution is good. bad writing is bad no matter the skintone or sex of the caracter.
For Honor was a game that was supposed to be a tight AA-ish brawler that got massively out of scope by Ubi's editorial team. They wanted the team to make the game for everyone and forced them to add a lot of garbage. it took a long time to fix the game for the actual target audience and lots of communication (and also reduce the dev team in order to make a profit from the smaller but very dedicated audience)
A real shame since FH was the only good thing that came out of Ubisoft in recent years. The team is small and slow, but they took the game in a good direction, too bad people didn't stick around more.
People did complain about Naoe - story & ninja wise. Story: Because she's daughter of Fujibayashi Nagato. Fujibayashi Nagato was a leader of the Iga ninjas and people wanted to play as him instead. Ninja aka Kunoichi: There's discourse if there were truly any female ninjas and what their purpose was. There are claims they were only there to get intel from their targets. But I think a lot of people would shrug this off if the other protagonist was Japanese male but they went with outsider that has so little to do with Japanese history.
In the meantime, I started playing pathfinder wrath of the righteous after 600 hours on BG3. What can I say, the future of gaming are the AA or Indies as this is where the talent, passion and leadership is. Because both Ubisoft and bioware have been speed running their way down the drain.
That the Boss of Ubisoft is calling the retainer Yasuke a Samurai shows how completely clueless he is. The fiction of Yasuke being a Samurai is an invention of the conman Thomas Lockley. A man that edits his own Wiki page to confirm the “facts” is his book. That journalists use his articles and articles based on Lockley’s work to confirm their belief that Yasuke is a Samurai shows what a poor state journalism is in. I would say that Ubisofts disrespect for Yasuke’s history is the ‘canary in the coal mine’ that called attention to all the other game play issues and cultural disrespect shown in Assassin’s Creed Shadows trailers. The Tran-Pride outfit for Yasuke shows they are just going to double down on the virtue signalling and monetisation of minority issues.
What's baffling to me is that the CEO is still getting his bonuses every year. Bonus for what? They haven't done anything good. In any other employee performance assessment they'd get zero bonuses
This is the plan. It's what ALL of this is about. The executives are effectively the ruling class. They join a company, create controversy to get people arguing and keep the company in people's mouths and minds to float the interest in the stock, all the while they take their massive salary and bonuses. If the company gets into trouble they just fire employees and rush games. They don't care what really happens to the IP or the company. They just exist to suck the money out that they can, then golden-parachute away to the next big thing. Executives never get the blame. All the negative rep dies with the company and they're never held to account. DEI isn't the enemy. Left isn't the enemy. Right isn't the enemy. The executives that steal your cash are the enemy and they need to be held accountable when they drain companies like a capri sun.
the fragility of progress: how each generation must reignite what should have been an enduring flame, whether through negligence, conflict, or simple complacency. It’s a call to hold on to our shared light and, perhaps more importantly, to pass it forward with care. Youre a goat for this one
I don't think either Tencent, Sony, or other companies will risk buying a falling company like ubisoft. We're probably going to see a bidding war for IP and studios.
Could be history in the making, here! A failing company that literally sells their IPs to make ends meet and close safely, when they could've stopped digging their own grave anytime? Not even EA has fallen so low, and they won "most hated american company" twice in a row in the 2010s.
Both have smart business leaders. They'll wait until the bottom falls out, then buy up what they want for pennies on the dollar. Could even see something like TenCent purchase IP they want while Sony goes after TD3 (cuz they really really want a live service game that can go hard & def could see them monetize the hell out of it). Ubi needs help. It's sad to me they got so far away from just making good games. The French have a saying though, "Je ne sais quoi?" and I think that is floating around rent free in the Guillemot's heads 24-7.
I think Tencent already has a massive amount of the stock for Ubisoft. If they can acquire a bit more before the company goes private, they'll have control and then direct it the way they see fit
They ignored splinter cell. Bad marketing, disgusting hiring practices and questionable outbursts. I mean i have zero sympathy on the company. Even "twitter" journos could not save them.
@@SpectreStatusThe whole Tom Clancy franchise. They missed handled the IP, wildlands was fun to play me and my best friend played a lot. I was actually looking forward for another ghost recon and splinter cell. But ubisoft self sabotage made it unlikely. What stupid person would miss handled such amazing IPs such a stupid move by them.
That might be the executive level intent, but at the lower level people have actually convinced themselves they're fighting a civil rights battle, as if it's the 1930s and they're on the right side of history.
Assassins Creed Shadows will be a great game. Because they know this is the last straw. They CANNOT screw this up. That is the reason for the delay, and the new clips coming out confirm that THEY ARE working on it. So they know what they are in right now but will not publicly announce it.
Just want to say, out of all the people that make video essays, You are easily the best. Natural speaker, you hit all the angles, and passionate. keep it up. Your success is well-deserved.
After watching how other corporate entities conduct themselves I wonder how long it will be until Ubisoft and other AAA studios stop trying to make great games and start trying to lobby laws that stifle competition and make it impossible for new studios to exist.
@@bjones243Nintendo may have cutthroat lawyers. But I don’t think anybody wants to pick a fight with Rockstar and Take 2. Their legal team is just spooky.
Looking at the last year of Ubisoft's blunders, I feel like I can boil down the whole affair to that one scene from "Naked Gun" where Nordberg (OJ's character) fails to sneak up on criminals in a boat. Nordberg proceeds to get shot at by 10 guys, he recoils from the gunfire and hits his head as he stumbles back, then burns his hand on the stove, he then leans his shoulder into wet paint before he gets his fingers crushed by a window, then he shoves his face into a 2-tiered wedding cake, steps into a fucking bear-trap and finally runs into the boat's railing, goes overboard and drops into the fucking ocean. THAT is what it feels like when I think about the Ubisoft's last year.
They say a joke doesn't work when told twice but I gotta say, watching Ubisoft has been EVERY BIT AS FUNNY as the scene you so wonderfully re-enacted with words.
Yo, after that Mirage dumpster fire and the Outlaws trainwreck, Ubisoft’s officially on my permaban list. They ain’t getting a single coin from my loot stash ever again
The funniest thing about the whole AC Yasuke drama is, that it's a grave that Ubi dug for themselves. The character is constantly depicted as a samurai, most famously as the "Obsidian Samurai" in Nioh. That was never the issue. Ubis marketing was, their insistence that they are the arbiters of history and truth (while literally falling for a con man) with the character, almost forgetting to market their female main character etc. If they would have just shut up about it, said that the main character is inspired by Yasuke as much as the female character is inspired by Fujibayashi Nagato (her in-game father), one of the three most well known ninja, everything would have been fine...
Nah Ubisoft has shown that they can make competent black assassins with Bayek, Adewale and Aveline. Yasuke is NOT it. Bros got weak parkour, weak stealth, and is overall weak in being an assassin.
@@bloxguy999 Which is perfectly fine since you have two characters. Naoe plays like classic AC characters, Yasuke like the RPG characters. The duo would have been pretty neat to get both fanbases together. But alas, IdPol got in the way of this becoming a good game
Im sorry but ubisoft has never claimed their ac games as accurate to history in they usually put disclaimers at the beginning of the game saying exactly that. I mean the first games has you fist fighting the pope and giving George Washington magical artifacts and shit.
@@MaverickHunterXZA Eh I kinda hated the contrast, I was hoping Ubi would ditch the dual character schtick and go back to a classic single character title.
Them trying to deflect Yasuke's criticism because Naoe also gets criticism for her gender is a very low bar for a gotcha, because if Yasuke was actually burly japanese man instead of black, the naoe criticism wouldnt be there. Naoe is getting criticized for being a woman because there isnt a real counterpart character to play instead. Who the hell would want to play as Yasuke instead of the japanese character he was supposed to be? And our only alternative is the obvious Strong Female Protagonist trope, so yeah we don't like her also. If Naoe was by herself it would be fine, but Yasuke has an AOE criticism zone. Him being in the game is making every other aspect of it sour.
All these corporate suits just piss me off with everything they say. Anyone with a professional design education will be able to see how mediocre, blegh and passion-less huge chunks of these games are, as if they were made by people who do not in fact have a professional understanding of design. I could talk for hours on end about where these games are failing on fundamental design principles like informative clarity or even basic formatting. They have no idea what is objectively good or bad. Games are rushed, have minimal development put into them, no polishing, individual talent isn't listened to and and and. What these people say is so disconnected from reality, it is bizarre.
The gall of that ubislop drone to conflate them making a for-profit, leisure product, to upholding democracy. You just know he's a few sentences away from saying that they think of themselves as ww2 soldiers making landfall on Normandy
I've got to give you props LD. As someone who had learned public speaking it, by happenstance, sounds like nails on a chalkboard when someone in the public sphere is constantly stumbling over their words or maybe worse using "umm" or "uhhh" as filler words. You rarely if ever do either and it's so damn refreshing. I'm sure most people either don't notice or don't care, but for me, it means something, so thank you.
"Thank you for pleasing my one miserable nitpick that means absolutely nothing to normal people" That's basically it, not as much of a big deal as you make it out to be. And such matter can be simply explained by people reading from a script rather than speaking their thoughts on the spot.
The fact he took the time to script a video and potentially re-record over any mistakes rather than just rambling about a topic he knows little about is worthy of recognition as a lot of creators clearly don’t bother, credit where credit’s due is never a bad thing
Dude you’re starting to turn into the coffeezilla of the video game industry and i’m becoming such a fan. I love all the research you do and the constant facts backed up by evidence. Even when opinions are included, you provide both sides when applicable and whenever developers try to “deny” the claims like ubisoft does, you back it by empirical evidence supplemented by concrete information. Your passion for objective journalism is so evident and i’m glad you’re picking up steam to combat mainstream video game journalism
Thanks man, I'm glad people have been enjoying the content. I just want to provide a balanced perspective as I feel oftentimes people end up getting caught up in outrage rhetoric. I talk about things in the way that I do because I actually want to see change, in hopes some developers, or studios take notice, and think for a moment.
Im not entirely sure how much ac shadows is costing them to produce, but i feel confident in saying if that game breaks even or even loses money, its game over for ubisoft. That will be the final nail for someone to either take over, or force it to go private. There is no other outcome. If it absolutely blows sales out of the water, then maybe they get to live another year or so. What im also super excited for is the next ghost of tsushima game. Which has a japanese female main character. That game is going to do insanely well, and then ac shadows will have to sit down and shut up with the claim that "gamers hate our main character because shes female and japanese" if anything, some parts of the gaming/online community fetishize japanese women.
Audio engineer of 12 years professionally here, fan of your channel. I’ve been putting your videos on while driving to gigs and I’ve noticed your noise gate settings are kinda wonky. This might be more of a note for whoever is editing your videos but the release time on the gate can be increased a bit and it’ll still sound good without cutting off the end of what you’re saying or when there is a small pause. It’s ok to have air there 😊
18:35 that's not true There was infact a constant and healthy relationship btn the XDEFIANT dev team and their community, same goes from Ac Mirage it's more prevelant woth mirage than it was with XDEFIANT but there was open communication but that didn't change the fact the game wasn't doing enough to get a large enough core audience to justify a dying company ( Ubisoft) sinking more money into it which now that i think about it should also probably apply to skull & bones and yet they still sink money into that void of a game , regardless, from my own interactions within those communities ( Mirage & Defiant ) there was healthy player-dev relationship
If the company goes down, it will be the most deserved fall of all time. It's like we're trying to tell them that they are on fire, but they won't believe us, and everyone has buckets of water and is trying to help out, but they just keep dodging them. It's frankly become unbelieveable at this point. It is one of the biggest anti-consumer moves I have ever seen.
It's actually amazing when you actually take a look at the decline of Ubisoft and how they constantly pretend like they are not the problem. It's a warped mindset for a company selling a product.
Diversity is great. Unfortunately when it’s a decision made by a board room with no connection to the lived experience of people they’re trying to represent, you end up with a milquetoast, tone deaf AESTHETIC of diversity like switching to hip hop as soon as the black dude starts swinging the club. It’s not maliciously racist, it’s just narcissistic pining for applause so they can feel less shitty about squeezing money out of fans. It’s the same story with Disney and Star Wars. Making it about the message first and prioritizing story and heart last gets you a hollow disingenuous lecture they hope to monetize
I was a huge fan of Ubisoft for Assassin's Creed Game. The last time I supported them was AC4 Black Flag. I heard Unity was a buggy mess, I didn't buy them. Ever since then, their products has been worse and worse and ignored all feedback. It's as if the real Templars has invaded them and ruined the game. As if Activists had join them and ruined it themselves. A shame and a waste. Ubisoft deserved it.
Origins is really good, faithful to the franchise and also innovative to it with rpg mechanics. That was the last time we thought Ubisoft was turning the ship around
@@Silath01 Origins was very much true to the franchise with the story. Even with a disliking for the RPG mechanics, the story and the characters (especially Bayek) was absolutely what can be expected from an Assassin's Creed game. They handled the foundation of the Creed very well, how leap of faith came to be, how "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" was built out of the broken hearts of Bayek and Aya. It was backed by an extremely rich historical setting with Cleopatra's Egypt and the superstitions and religious beliefs of that era, along with the presence of the Romans and the final assassination of Caesar. Say what you want about RPG mechanics, but the story of Origins was probably even better than previous installments like Syndicate, Rogue and Unity.
Ubisoft's downfall needs to serve as a massive red flag to the rest of the gaming industry. If things dont change, a lot more companies will share their fate.
They need to learn now before it's too late. Once the falling starts there's no bringing it back up once the fans have left their trust on the company. If workers can't rely on the player base opinions then their game won't be successful. It's not hard to share the work and get opinions before fully releasing the product.
This isn't a loss for the executives. This is exactly what they expect and desire. They have extracted every penny they can from the reputation of Ubisoft. Now the shareholders and executives parachute away with their bonuses and leave the wreckage behind. They do this all the time. Every time you see another lame sequel with the same mechanics. Every time you see corners cut. This is accelerated capitalism. Wealth extraction and consolidation to the executive class. Fuck all of us below them. Customers be damned.
i dont mean to sound edgy. im a very casual gamer. never put any personal investment into the brand. doesnt matter if game is good like elden ring or wukong. or as bad as veilguard or ac shadow, i cant be arsed to even play them. playing more games require me to abandon more games i havent finished yet. so seeing stuff like these ubisoft pushing identity politic so far they reached their bankruptcy, to me its quite basic.
Sir this Ubisoft ship... is unsinkable. Just like the Titanic!.... wait what happened?... but they all got off right?... mainly the big wigs...Okay, good, proceed! Full steam ahead... No icebergs here! Find me a boat. Nope just for me. Maybe a few fam members... but we'll see, need the leg room.
Assassin's creed shadows should have been such an easy home run. It's literally the setting people have been asking for and they still couldn't get it right.
Nah I think these types of Japan games focusing on Samurai have been too over saturated like with sekrio and got. I think a risk Ubisoft should’ve taken would be mainland Japan and deep inside Germany during WWII. It fits the overall AC story and theres been years since burnout of AAA WWII games like BFV and Vanguard.
If they wanted REAL cutting edge content they should have done Korea in the Joseon period (which is quite long). If they did everything right it would have been a huge hit.
@@deathgorilla782 Trailers are irrelevant… but with that being said all the trailers we’ve received and little gameplay snippets we’ve seen have all been extremely positive and have been very well received. Having a negative opinion on a game based on anything we’ve seen has got to be such a weird thing to have. Y’all like to cry too much
Crazy Ubisoft used to be an industry innovator literally being the first to create spreading fire for farcry 2, and making some of the first truly open world stealth games. In modern day far cry 5-6 story was solid but between forced microtransactions, a broken weapon system, and just deviating to far from the status quo it feels like a "far cry" from their peak of far cry 2-3 and the Ezio collection.
I knew Ubisoft was dead when I played Farcry 6. They have fallen so far since then...I was ashamed to have bought Farcry 6 but after that, I said, ok they get no more money from me, now I just gotta facepalm, and point and laugh, but it's kinda sad, they used to make good games, most of them pretty much sticking to grandma's old cookie recipe, but, the cookies were allright, sometimes even good, but now...well grandma passed on years ago, and nobody can seem to make them like she could...R.I.P. Ubisoft, you had a good run.
to your point "in order to grow the studios lost their identity". it is true but i think Epic and Fortnite are one exception here. Fortnite started off as Survival game & pivoted to Free to play BR with very unique Build mechanics. Now 7 years later Fortnite is larger than any other game on this planet. That is not a game anymore, I call it an Ecosystem. They have BR with Builds, No builds. you like racing? they have it. Roguelike? yes. they have surfing maps, survival games, horror, escape rooms, simulators, Guitar Hero & Lego Minecraft. within last 2 days they just released Tactical FPS like Valorant & CS2 & a Lego GTA Clone. Extraction shooter is coming soon. I would love to hear your thoughts on how other studios have lost their identity in pursuit of becoming big while Epic and Fortnite keeps breaking records and redefine gaming year after year.
One of the worst things that happened to entertainment is the corporatization, it definitely helped killing creativity. How can you take risks and invest time on innovation when all you're focused on is making numbers go up constantly.
"they're not paying attention to gameplay, they think they're writing a stage play" that's exactly how it feels to see these social problems in places where people don't care about said problems. We're playing games to experience a different reality and be another person, just write some lore to the world and let us figure what this and that button does. If you want to pass a message to the next generations, you're in the wrong industry, some of us skip cutscenes entirely and if we're curious we'll search the wiki.
Hope you guys enjoy the more comprehensive coverage rather than talking about every thing they do the moment they do it.
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Ubisoft is doing a Rayman Remake if you didn't know
What do you think will happen with the ubisoftgames we own? I still have 10 in my steambacklog and I'm afraid that they pull a crew 1. Or that they become unplayable as the latest ubisoft games still have denuvo
The news coverage segments a-la SkillUp's "This Week in Games" segments are a good format for your style of coverage. I tend to enjoy them more than the livestreams which I get lost in since I'm generally doing them second screen. The coverage by contrast is way easier to follow. Just one voice here but I like these.
Keep coming with the long form videos. Maybe do some movie reviews.
@@OanKnight ecch, no. Hollywood is ded.
As someone who was ubisoft superfan back in the day, its extremely satisfying to see them get their just comeuppance after preying on their customers for so long
Why? They have NEVER made anything good.
But but ...Assassins Creed! ... my point stands.
Yep. I loved games like Far Cry 2, XIII, and og Assassin's creed. Ubisoft really died years ago. The shambling zombie is what is dying now.
For me, Ubisoft died when Desmond also died.
Edit : AC4 and Watch Dogs still good. It's just downhill ever since AC Unity at launch for me.
Yeah I loved Ubigames in spite of their mediocrity. They were relaxing comfort food. This all changed with Breakpoint.
Thank you for spelling all those words right. I feel the same
Ubisoft is in the "Found out" stage.
They'd fuck around so much and fail we haven't gotten this far without a buy out
@@Matanumi I'm starting to believe we haven't heard of a buyout of the company yet simply because nobody wants them.
And they're becoming the Hertz of video games as well!
You mean drive here 😂@@SandroWalach
@@busterspark4410yeah I think it’s to the point where they tanked their image to the point where they’re the new scapegoat for everything wrong in gaming
I actually laughed out loud when I read that article about Ubi teying to pressure Valve to hide player counts.
It's like... you do not have the clout to even suggest that.
Fade away, Ubisoft.
HAH, it's a little like when TH-cam got rid of the dislikes display (for people not using addons, that is) just b/c they made a big expensive vid that became the most hated piece on their site ever.
They came crawling back to steam and demanding things to change to their liking. Steam should do what they do best: Nothing. They've done that for years and won every step of the way
I told the president he needed to close the border. He didn't listen. Sucks being a peeon
@@Yusanislmao steam really is the best at doing nothing
You know why Ubisoft removed the season pass from the game? Because Steam is looking to integrate a new term where games must show exactly what the content will be provided by the future update and if it isn't released withing 3 months of the specified date, buyers will recieve a full refund for the pricing of the presumed pass.
As a former Ubi employee on a minor leadership position in QC, I can only say one thing. It's heartbreaking. Unisoft will always remain in my heart as an Alma mater in gamedev. And I am grateful for all the amazing people there. People that have been betrayed by poor decisions and greed.
Swen Vincke summed up the current state of AAA+ games brilliantly, I recommend checking out his statement at The Game Awards 2024
'just listen to the players and make good games without unnecessary politics' in short.
fucking love Sven
Mafia 4 looks authentic. No blacks or Chinese or Trans in old Sicily
The only game that is safe is Kingdom Come Deliverance II
If you listen to players, you eventually arrive to the biggest game in that genre. If you create a FPS of any kind, people will make suggestions that would ultimately lead it to CS clone. MMORPG of any kind will lead to WoW and so on and so on. Just don't force shit into players mouth that they never asked for and it's 90% sold.
@@ArnechkPoe was able to do it on their own just by listening to feedback but still doing their own thing
The fact that Star Wars Outlaws "only" sold a million copies (which if they were all sold at full price is $70 million on the gross) and got absolutely killed financially is just one more demonstration of how broken the AAA business model truly is.
You can't fully blame SW Outlaws on Ubisoft . It's a Disney IP and no doubt they had direct oversight on the project and DISNEY DEI'd into the ground .
@@randoir1863 doesnt matter, the game is jank as hell, not even the fun jank.
@@randoir1863 Something tells me Disney didn't exactly have to _force_ Ubisoft to go along with the DEI executive meddling. The character design of Kay Vess (poor Humberly Gonzalez, she's a good-looking woman, and they made THAT out of her performance capture? The inventor of that technology must be questioning his life decisions at this point), the third-grade-level writing, the wooden voice acting, the PS1-era cutscene design, and the sluggish gameplay was all Ubi doing it themselves.
@@randoir1863 he said aaa business model. not ubisoft.
@randoir1863 Both companies are terrible these days.
Us: "This game looks bad."
Ubisoft: "HELP! Our freedom to create is being threatened!!"
Us: "Will you stop lying for once?"
Ubisoft: "HELP! Our democracy is under attack!"
Us: Then we will use our freedom to not buy ubisoft games
Us: "You're blatantly pandering."
Ubislop: "HARASSMENT! BIGOTRY! RAYCISSSSSS!"
Maybe they can reach out to all the diverse communities they supported for help. What's that, Ubisoft? .... The diverse communities have no idea who you are. Strange Well, at the very least, they must be delighted some company they never heard of supported them. Have a safe trip on your way to Hell, Ubisoft.
Nailed it.
Ubisoft Cook : "Here's your burger. Sir"
Customer : "uh... the meat is frozen, the bread has mold on it, and you forgot the pickles. I want another one, I already paid"
Ubisoft cook : "your burger is absolutely fine"
Customer : "Give me my money back if you don't want to make me another sandwich"
Ubisoft cook : "Do you know how hard it is to make a burger ?"
Forgot the "shut up and eat, you closed minded bigot"
Hey Jay, how many AAA games have you released?
@@ineedapharmists you don't need to release AAA games to understand the simple fact that producing something customers don't like would make you loose money or you job. It's the same in every job in the world : You do shit customers don't want -> customer ask for a refund or won't buy.
Trying to get the customer empathy after you gave him a bad product in exchange of his hard earned money is an asshole move.
@@ineedapharmists lol are you actually standing up for Ubisoft's complete ignoring of feedback? *slow clap*
@@ineedapharmists”Leave the billion dollar company alone!”
They dug their grave, let em lie in it
I’m listening to this and looking around my room at my AC2, AC Revelations, AC3, AC Black Flag, Watchdogs and Splinter Cell Conviction collector’s editions…reminds me that nothing lasts forever
I kinda want to go back into the older AC games, where should I start? I’ve played all of 4, Odyssey and Valhalla and some of Syndicate.
@ I was hooked with the story of Ezio and Desmond but after Revelations it felt like they didn’t know what to do with the modern storyline
The first one with Altair will always feel special to me
@@falmatrix2r man it sucks to see how ubi wasted the modern day story line. Here’s a spoiler and example in Valhalla,
They had an assassin named Basim be a reincarnation of an ISU and brought his corpse back to life in modern day, yet I’ve heard they did nothing with that in Mirage.
@@bloxguy999 personally i think syndicate, black flag, and 1 were the best ones. maybe try finishing syndicate and see where that takes you ^^
I honestly think the last good game from AC gameplay wise was unity, wish they would use that as a foundation it was great just released on the wrong console. Now the one with the best story is ezio’s saga, followed by Black flag… insane how they’ve fallen
Call me a racist or whatever, but if Ubisoft wanted to tell a story with an African protagonist why couldn’t they set it in Africa? I would play that game as I cannot think of any others in that historical setting. It’s truly unique. Instead we have them shoehorn an obscure historical person into a game set in Japan that was overwhelmingly ethnically Japanese at the time.
little fun irony in this. if they named it historical fiction or for that matter intepretational of history theyd be fine actually. but they had to call it historical on top framing that humankind has always in historical diverse, which is a flat out lie. problem isnt Yasuke, problem is the framing of history.
You are a racist, but at least you are aware of it I guess
Ubisoft: “Are we this out of touch?”
Also Ubisoft: “No. It’s the customers who are wrong.”
Theme of the woke.
@@SpaceDad42How is this woke when yasuke actually existed and fought for Nobunaga as a samurai?
@@kibariou Because he didn't lol. Only source that has ever said that is some discredited western historian that only inferred that history and never found solid proof of it
They removed shield melee in r6, cant even melee barricades with your shield anymore, these mfs are so out of touch it's insane.
@@kibariou All of the AAA crap is woke garbage now. Only shills will defend their garbage woke products.
I'm celebrating! This is entirely self-inflicted so I have zero sympathy. I just hope this is the lesson to the industry it could be.
"You be soft" is dying and yet I couldn't be harder.
Unfortunately big companies don't learn from their mistakes. They change their approach only when shareholders demand that.
Not only selfinflicted but 14 years in the making. They anounced this course of action somwhere beetwen AC:Brotherhood and AC3. This is when you forget that you not only selling a product but an experience/piece of art, the value plummets when you stack shit on top of it for profit.
@@alus992 I didn't follow gaming news back then like I do now, so I'm clueless about how Ubisoft got to this point.
Don't hold your breath
"We are not the problem, its the customers that arent buying our products"
Yeah that stupid ass ceo said that exactly
Ubisoft pretending like they're making "art" is hilarious
10:50 if only their games' writing was as well crafted as this guy's writing here, Ubi would be x10 better off. Still horrible, but somehow better.
i just hope that a decent company manages to rip Splinter Cell from Ubi's cold dead hands
not just Splinter Cell, but everything Ubi's been doing these past couple years
And Rayman?
This, and Watch Dogs!
Don't forget Assassin's Creed!
Rabbids is in even worse hands than the Minions right now! At least those tic tacs get a successful company! Give us back those stupid BAWH-las, so we can go back to two stupid franchises having dumb, fun plunger-measuring contests!
Sweet Baby Inc was birthed from Ubisoft. This does not surprise me and hope that someone with a better grip with reality will take over it.
The sad fact is, it'll just be another TenCent entity soon. They're almost as bad to their customers as Ubislop
@@agingerbeard At this point, it's still a massive improvement. Ubi was always terrible to customers. At least their new owner will force them to make good games again.
@@agingerbeard There are times when tencent takes over something they don't try to fix what isn't broken. (Ex. Digital Extremes [Warframe], GrindingGearGames [PoE])
As long as it works I'm here for it.
@@agingerbeard You know what, I prefer the Chinese over the woke mouthpieces that just live in their own DEI bubble
@@agingerbeard Tencent cares about quality, because otherwise they'd anger their customers and get reported to the CCP. That same kind of menace is what drove MiHoYo to fix Zhongli.
True ideologues. The can’t admit they were wrong at this point, it would prove that the “chuds” were right all along, and a true ideologue would rather everything burn down around them than ever admit they weren’t right.
-ideologues- cultists. FTFY.
we're seeing David Cage levels of French persecuted-artist's syndrome in this
Literally the case.
They will fail, and fail and fail until they get just 1 single win so they can say "We were right all along" even as everything burns around them.
If they Fail, they will double down, if they win, they will double down.
People say "When will they learn" and really... they should learn that these type of people will never learn. because they don't think there is anything to learn. They will keep trying until they get win no matter how much they lose in the process.
Martyr complex is martyr.
I still don't get how these companies think it's a good idea to be openly hostile to paying customers, lecturing and talking down to them and not listening to feedback, producing an objectively bad product, then blaming them when it fails.
I can see AC Shadows not selling enough to cover costs, the delay was just to polish the obvious technical issues. not actually respond to feedback so the fundamental flaws are still there. It is also now in a stacked month with games people actually want to buy.
If they do end up going private and try an asset firesale, I think they have damaged their major IPs so badly they might not even get as much as they think they are worth.
The times we're living in are insane. Who would have thought that companies who sells products would insult their customers base when their product doesn't sell well ? That's so insane I legitimately think it's pathological.
Word is, they’re keen to sell but the sticking point is the guillemot bros insist on retaining control of the company if they do. Nobody is going buy with that offer. Their arrogance will bury that company in the dirt before they’re finally forced to give it up.
And that's a good thing, as a company, they've earned that ending. Bad End, good job
Trust the French to eff everything up.
The Guillemot family only owns 13% of the company. They have no leverage.
How very Dixie Carter.
the way the company is structured, they have 51% of the voting power i beleive. Its like facebook and the zuck.
I used to like Ubisoft and even at one point had the desire to work for them. It's crazy to see how far they have fallen.
If I were you, I'd wait until non-competes are properly banned (yes that lawsuit is still ongoing) and the entire working culture collapses. Game dev is toxic, locking, and unnovative.
Go it alone like Laughing Coyote Software.
THANK YOU for bringing up the similarities in games. A lot of movies and TV have the same issue right now too.
Western corporations are obsessed with replacing al their experienced ppl with "Yes Men" who will do what they're told so they can create their "Data-Driven Content".
I wouldn't be so sure about the "Yes Men" bit. More like "Yes They/Thems" since men are basically exiled from every facet of the industry
@@genkureshima9834 I believe there are still holdouts. And once wöke devs go bankrupt, it will create market niches anew and men will re-estabish their corporations....this time wise enough not to hire women with blue hairs, nose rings and/or outlandish views about this world and their game industry jobs (otherwise, they will experience Dan Housers fate)
@@genkureshima9834 "yea dawg" kind of people too
Yasuke was in Japan for 15 months where he was a curiosity and a retainer who carried Nobunaga's sword. He was never, nor could have, nor had time to, nor would have been permitted to become, a samurai. Thomas Lockley and Ubisoft lied and had Wikipedia change his entry to reflect their revision. That's why they ran from TGS, because Japan was going to lynch them.
Most people in Japan actually didn't care. What's crazy is that a lot of the "japanese" comments on Twitter etc. Were just westerners using Google translate
@@iammiist About Yasuke being in samurai adjacent media or him being the lead character in an Assassin Creed game set in Japan when every game prior has had the dual protagonists being said countries ethnicity?
Cause if it's Yasuke in samurai shit, then yeah Japanese don't care if he's a side or minor character. He's been in Nioh and I think one of the Samurai Showdown games.
But they do care about Yasuke replacing what should have been a male Japanese character in the AC game set in Japan that everyone has been asking for since the 1st AC. Japanese netizens who branch out to the world wide web are already aware of the double standards the west has towards anything related to the "correct POCs", East Asians don't count as POC's in the west, and view replacement/substitution of Japanese characters with POC's as thinking westerners think Japanese characters are "inferior" and are "improved"/"better" when it's changed to a non-Japanese.
we don't know if he was or not , it's a legend ..
@@iammiist They did care. Read the articles about Satoshi Hamada. You think a politician does that because the Japanese don't care?
@@paulatreides1354 Come on man, he's not a legend...
It's like making a game about king Arthur and the round table and staring Klem no last name the stable boy that once held Excalibur when king Arthur got on his horse...
I remember when that Ubi director said players should become more comfortable not owning their games.
Well. Careful what you wish for. We've become comfortable not owning *your* games.
From Ubisoft corpse the good indie dev will rise and replace it.
Nah. Let it rot. Let it rot.
I've seen a couple of videos about "Scrolls-likes" becoming a new trend for indie devs as Bethesda falls apart...I'm genuinely curious to see what kind of Far Cry-like could be made by indie devs with a fresh perspective on the subgenre of action RPG.
@@SimuLord yeah, I found one called Voin, looked pretty cool
Dead Ubisofts never say no
Sadly, no, most likely, other big boy companies are going to buy their IPs and keep mismanaging them for profit, but without this level of incompetence
In the film Ready Player One, the corporate executive replies to a comment about the shareholders not being happy with "it's not our job the make them happy, it's our job to make them money."
It seems executives have lost touch with reality that this is actually a double direction mandate.
It's your job to make shareholders money.
To do that, it's your job to make your CUSTOMERS happy.
Happy customers yield money to make happy shareholders.
The problem is shareholders are clueless about the things they invest in. Like the legendary call where a shareholder complained about Nintendo talking about video games.
If investors would stick to industries they know & understand they'd support moves that make happy customers and generate more wealth for themselves.
i literally went "what" and found the topic in question. also a bunch of redditors asking for additional questions for clarity or context and other reddit minded things.
This is basically the entire reason why we need more private, closed capital studios.
Executives were never in touch with reality.
And unfortunately, it's the nature of publicly-traded companies to be anti-consumer. Like, they're legally required to only care about shareholders, and most shareholders only care about immediate profit with no interest in cultivating a healthy product
@@genkureshima9834it’s very expensive to make a game though, and that’s how we got to this mess we’re in currently.
Gta online is the perfect example for this.
Rockstar themselves said " we don't charhe for content. We make good content that players will love and the money will come by itself"
So so so true.
"I have never seen a company self gaslight as hard as Ubisoft"
See Lucasfilm/Disney. Continually running IP's into the ground, and pushing ideologies that the majority of their potential consumers don't want.
At least Disney has other revenue streams to keep their company afloat. The wells at Ubisoft have all but gone dry.
Actually disney doesn't. Disney has not money. The parks were the thing that kept them afloat and somewhat independent. But covid and inflation killed that rev stream.
Disney is now a DEI shareholder/loan mandate slave because of how much money they lost in the past 6 years.
I mean people are enjoying Skelton crew so far though that seems more a welcome respite rather than a definite turnaround of the general state of things.
@@jamesstanley792I believe there's a term for that: too little, too late
@@S_raB That’s fair.
Can't wait for Tencent buying Ubisoft literally for a fair price of ten Cent.
Well done.🙂
Ubisoft peaked during Ezio Trilogy and Black Flag and after that they just went downhill
And don't forget the og AC1 and AC3 they were also part of that era
Your freedom isn't the right to a customer's money.
Underrated comment. Someone’s creative freedom doesn’t automatically force individual people to invest their time, energy, and support. People can create whatever they want, but that doesn’t equal money making machine.
The most frightening prospect is that Ubisoft actually believes that virtue signaling nonsense.
Any "freelance pharmacist" knows the dangers of getting high off your own stash.
Yeah. same with Jaguar, i hoped it was a publicity stunt but unfortunately it seems both of them are dead serious
When it blows do they get released to the wild?
Ubisoft only believes in whatever they think will make them money. Their corporate culture is also full of people who abuse employees and take advantage of women.
Progressivism is anathema to corporate culture.
Western AAA gaming industry is on Covid ventilators while the east is running track and doing 4 minute mile laps.
Meanwhile, central and eastern Europe took up long-distance running and their games are completing ultramarathons. You want a game you can play for years and get fresh updates for that isn't a live service game, you find it in Czechia or Poland or other former Soviet satellite states.
@@SimuLordvery true
@@SimuLordCDPR fell off though.
But eh, whatever. I'ma stick with good indie games.
Unless the customers refute decent games… and buy sonyslop
@@exhaustive_the_sixth
They saved the game. But do not worry, the hate on cyberpunk opened their doors to consultants! Great job!
I wish we could get a hold of something like an SEC filing or report to really see some numbers
AAA industry nowadays thinks that Supply is supposed to create Demand for some reason. It’s vice versa actually)
The total lack of self-awareness at Ubisoft is staggering.
oh they are self aware, i can garuntee it. they are just gaslighting thier shareholders because they dontwant to get sued
Shot themselves in the foot but still pointing the gun thereabouts. Total disconnect with reality
Ignoring their customers isn't only a Ubisoft problem, look at BioWare, look at Obsidian, it's a total clown show over there. Jokes on them, we are the ones with money and time, something that they simply don't have anymore.
@@waisgdgl2449CP2077 new update just dropped they busy busy
Exactly, as I say often: "We win everyday, by simply doing nothing. These companies have ALL the skin in the game while we get to play with no cost or risk. They forgot who they were playing against, and who makes the rules."
Look elsewhere then Ubisoft / AAA studios to play good games. Problem solved.
CDPR is next to join the list of sh&&ty studios.
@@waisgdgl2449CDPR isn't at that level yet. It can still be saved but all depend on how they'r next games will be.
1. Obsidian the note taking app? or is there a studio named obsidian.
2. I wouldn't have noticed that CDPR doesn't listen to fans. CP77 was mostly fixed, so I don't see a problem? Or do i not know something about CDPR?
Ubishit proving that those who "virtue signal" are often the least virtuous, is pure poetry.
virtue signal? huh? they are openly hateful towards their consumer base?
@logandarnell8946 exactly
@@logandarnell8946 I assume gaver is referring to the sheer amount of superficial DEI that ubi has been pumping out.
They were also hateful towards their employees@@logandarnell8946
@@logandarnell8946The white consumer base especially. And now the Japanese, too.
The funny thing is we've all been telling Ubisoft to make an Assassin's Creed set in Japan for well over 10 years now. If they would have just done it then, there would have been no competition with other games with similar settings like Ghost of Yotei. Shoot, they most likely would have set bars, too.
It's downright laughable how gaming studios think they can lecture their audience. Who do they think they are? They act like they're superior than the very fans who keep their lights on and their careers thriving. It's a classic case of delusions of grandeur, and it's infuriating to see them bite the hand that feeds them.
Education and intelligence does make you better than the people who do not have those traits. However, you assume Ubisoft is educated and intelligent, which is your mistake. Some people there might be, most people probably aren't. I mean, just look at that virtue signalling and dei bs. Don't say those people are smart and educated when they are preaching such nonsense
@@gregoriusprime You're right. That didn't come out how I intended. I do not think that they are more educated or intelligent. I edited it out.
@jsbfe9395 Surprised you're acknowledging your mistake. Not many people do that, so good for you.
20k employees is bonkers. I work for one of the largest private oil and gas companies that makes billions per year, runs fields like small towns and it has half the employees as a video game developer.
Can you get me a job there
All the hollyweird peeps trying (or actually got) into the industry, because theirs is failing. It's like californians moving to Nevada and still voting the same..
Rick?
Because you guys actually work. Half of the people in those offices don’t do shit. They need 6 people to do a 1 person job and they still half ass it.
so you're saying its bad that people have jobs ?
Wild for anyone at Ubisoft to claim they’ve done anything creative in the last 10 years.
Well, I enjoyed exploring Odyssey. But that was before all that woke blm crap
@@sergtrufanov5565 not sure how old you are but it's been the SAME GAME WITH A SKIN since 2007.
@@BeaugosseRiche that’s disingenuous. Core gameplay structurally speaking, yeah, it has been pretty much the same since 07, but everything else onwards was definitely innovated upon/changed
@@sergtrufanov5565 AC Odessey was a generic open world RPG, with bad characters, bad story, and full of bugs even after 10 GB of updates.
@@DaakkuuYRS Odyssey was kinda fun if you played it like an action RPG but it didn’t feel like an assassins creed game. Personally I didn’t have technical issues with it but I didn’t play it till it was gifted to me a few years after release lol
Ubsifot's own quote " you know the definition of insanity? It's doing something over and over and over and over"
And ubisoft has done exactly that, monetization, game design, world design. Everything
The definition of insanity... Doing the same thing over and over, EXPECTING THINGS TO CHANGE. Truly fitting Vaas!
I can confirm the "hires that have never made a game before" part. I literally have a friend who graduated from law school, but got hired by Ubisoft to work on VFX for AC: Shadows. He's never done anything creative EVER, but he is gay and Asian. I never confronted him or asked him why they hired him, but my guess is it's because he's a gay Asian man.
He's Gaysian ☺️
All the power to your friend, but personally I would be insulted if I was a diversity hire.
The ridiculous thing about ubisoft defending the historical facts backing their decision is that... it's all bullshit. They obviously had no consulting with japanese history and cultural experts because so much of the stuff they showed is either just plain wrong or completely tone deaf. Their choice of Yasuke as a main character (who is a real historical figure but completely inconsequential) has also pissed off the japanese public because ubisoft would rather pick up any excuse to make you not play a japanese male character. We've had playable characters in AC of just about every ethnicity, but when you finally get to japan you take it away from them? For what reason exactly?
When did game developers begin to think their job was to be the arbiters of moral truth? Just make good games. They work in the service economy and their job is to provide a product that entertains. I care as much about their lofty ideals about as much as mine server’s politics at Buffalo Wild Wings.
yes. exactly I want to become a gamedev and am currently already making mods for other games. AND IT'S NOT HARD.
I just make my mini games or mods in a way that I myself would want to use them. I put in as many features that all can work together in some way, so that thr players can do stuff that I could never have thought about. (thats really fun to watch)
But NEVER, EVER do I insert anything from the real word, especially not politics or something. Only limit the player if it would break features otherwise.
The games were you are forced to pick 1 of 4 ugly characters because "thats equally" is just bullshit.
...but I do like it if games have to option to make your character look however you want, of you want to look like on of those dei games then sure, go along, I will make my characters look as pretty as possible xD
BUT Characte creation shouldn't be a priority of the game, first finish features then something like this can be implemented.
They don't. If you believe that, then you've fallen to the propaganda that benefits from selling you an outrage narrative.
Really think about it: these corporations have no morals, no ethics. It's all about myopic decisions made to maximize profit at the expense of everything else.
Progressive companies aren't publicly traded corporations, they're studios like Digital Extremes or Larian, who can put into practice what they actually value-treating people right and making good games
@ I wish you the best of luck in the pursuit of your passion. I’m rooting for your success.
They can try to be whatever they want, but they can't blame consumers for not wanting to be a part of their fantasies.
Here's an example of the Ubisoft creative process: "We want to make a pirate game set in the Caribbean, circa 1700. But we don't want it to be like other pirate games, so our pirate game will have a twist: There will be space aliens, talking animals, and Bigfoot in our pirate game! Hooray, we are original!"
People who just wanted a pirate game set in the 1700's: "No thank you."
"yOu aRE sTifLiNG oUR CReatiVIty!!"
Funny thing is this is the same company that made arguably the best pirate game of all time in AC4 lmao
it's not to the players to dictate what they want in the creative process of a game lmao
@paulatreides1354 No, but it's absolutely to the players to decide that a game is busy or has strange priorities and they're not interested in buying. You can make whatever game you like but I still get to choose if I want to spend money to play it.
The last 60 dollar game I bought on Steam was Space Marine 2. I don't buy "triple-A" games because I don't trust the publishers not to cut off half the game with dlc. All the games I own with the most play time were 20 dollars earlier access or on sale.
Indeed, buying AAA games when they release, or preordering, is practically never worth it. If you know the game is good, wait a year or so, and get it on a big discount.
If your hardware can support it, it's probably unwise to decide that AAA should never be purchased.
The most money I've ever spent on a Steam game was $50 for Fallout: New Vegas at launch (and y'know what, even though it was an all-timer for horrible launch jank, I STILL loved it to pieces and regret nothing.) I haven't spent even $40 on a game since 2016 (Fallout 4, on a 33% off its usual $60 asking price.)
There are exactly two companies I trust enough to buy on day one (or before). One is SCS Software (I plan work vacations around new map DLC for American Truck Simulator) and the other is Pathea Games (whose Kickstarter I backed for My Time at Evershine because Sandrock was my 2023 Game of the Year and one of my favorite games of all time.)
@@SimuLordyeah the games now come out trash because at their core they’re trash but back then they just needed a bunch of ironing out. Other good examples of this is Battlefield 4 and AC Unity at launch, both now viewed positively because their core gameplay is strong with the bugs ironed out. There’s little to no saving of modern AC because their main protagonist sucks as an assassin.
so i think the problem with Naoe is based on how she is played, so a fun fact, in japan female ninjas would play up the role of info gatherer sneak into lord's homes as whores, even sometimes poisoning them viva a claw
Now how cool would it be if you played a male and female ninja maybe they're a couple and working together as part of a new brotherhood. You switch between them to do missions and quests and everything is tied together, even allowing you to do a certain quest that would require the other char, but you could do it as the one not require to do the quest and earn special scenes and so on
the amount of replayablity and routes you could take
Ubisoft’s only hope is for their next project to be an out of the park grand slam home run.
Since their next product is going to be Shadows I think we all know what that means.
well did they said Gamers have to get used to not owning what we buy? Don't like it don't buy it? I wonder who else said that...
Whenever someone says something this stupid...
The universe usually always sends justice their way. Via ironic means beyond all imagining lol.
"Why can't they say they made Yasuke cos..."
Cos we all know why Yasuke was chosen, the game originally had a Japanese (male) protag but they did a last min. switcheroony for a browny point, for "(forced) diversity" sake.
not necissarily. personally i think he could be a really interesting caracter but ubi tried to gaslight instead of just saying "hey we think this caracter could be more interesting for our players to play and explore". it could all be avoided if they where upfront and didn't try to sell to us on it was because of them being true to history bullshit.
also it doesn't really matter why decitions are made as long as the execution is good. bad writing is bad no matter the skintone or sex of the caracter.
@@tozkal96nah, game went to production during blm, it's clear as day why they choose fentanyl assasin
Browny point? You think they're doing this for points? Not to indoctrinate a specific demographic with liberal propaganda?
You think they're doing this for points? Not to indoctrinate a specific demographic with propaganda?
You think they're doing this for points? Not to indoctrinate a specific demographic?
Honestly I can’t believe For Honor lasted longer than XDefiant. For Honor is ironically Ubisoft’s most loyal fanbase
For Honor was a game that was supposed to be a tight AA-ish brawler that got massively out of scope by Ubi's editorial team. They wanted the team to make the game for everyone and forced them to add a lot of garbage. it took a long time to fix the game for the actual target audience and lots of communication (and also reduce the dev team in order to make a profit from the smaller but very dedicated audience)
@@chucknya1448I just wanted a For Honor 2 😔 but got this crap instead
@@lordduckofquack sorry there's almost no one left now and something akin to a sequel never got greenlit.
A real shame since FH was the only good thing that came out of Ubisoft in recent years. The team is small and slow, but they took the game in a good direction, too bad people didn't stick around more.
People did complain about Naoe - story & ninja wise. Story: Because she's daughter of Fujibayashi Nagato. Fujibayashi Nagato was a leader of the Iga ninjas and people wanted to play as him instead. Ninja aka Kunoichi: There's discourse if there were truly any female ninjas and what their purpose was. There are claims they were only there to get intel from their targets. But I think a lot of people would shrug this off if the other protagonist was Japanese male but they went with outsider that has so little to do with Japanese history.
In the meantime, I started playing pathfinder wrath of the righteous after 600 hours on BG3. What can I say, the future of gaming are the AA or Indies as this is where the talent, passion and leadership is. Because both Ubisoft and bioware have been speed running their way down the drain.
That the Boss of Ubisoft is calling the retainer Yasuke a Samurai shows how completely clueless he is. The fiction of Yasuke being a Samurai is an invention of the conman Thomas Lockley. A man that edits his own Wiki page to confirm the “facts” is his book. That journalists use his articles and articles based on Lockley’s work to confirm their belief that Yasuke is a Samurai shows what a poor state journalism is in. I would say that Ubisofts disrespect for Yasuke’s history is the ‘canary in the coal mine’ that called attention to all the other game play issues and cultural disrespect shown in Assassin’s Creed Shadows trailers.
The Tran-Pride outfit for Yasuke shows they are just going to double down on the virtue signalling and monetisation of minority issues.
RIP Ubisoft. You will not be missed. 🤭
Not the modern one, no. The old one, though... yeah, I miss that, ngl.
@@mokadelic4037 Yep. All you have to do is load up Chaos Theory and play it to realise how good those days were.
Sayonara ubisoft
Ac1-Blackflag
Farcry 3-4
Watch dogs 1 and 2
🫡
rest in spaggehti, will forgetti
What's baffling to me is that the CEO is still getting his bonuses every year. Bonus for what? They haven't done anything good. In any other employee performance assessment they'd get zero bonuses
This is the plan. It's what ALL of this is about. The executives are effectively the ruling class. They join a company, create controversy to get people arguing and keep the company in people's mouths and minds to float the interest in the stock, all the while they take their massive salary and bonuses. If the company gets into trouble they just fire employees and rush games. They don't care what really happens to the IP or the company. They just exist to suck the money out that they can, then golden-parachute away to the next big thing.
Executives never get the blame. All the negative rep dies with the company and they're never held to account.
DEI isn't the enemy.
Left isn't the enemy.
Right isn't the enemy.
The executives that steal your cash are the enemy and they need to be held accountable when they drain companies like a capri sun.
the fragility of progress: how each generation must reignite what should have been an enduring flame, whether through negligence, conflict, or simple complacency. It’s a call to hold on to our shared light and, perhaps more importantly, to pass it forward with care.
Youre a goat for this one
I really enjoy that this isn’t edited and there are natural pauses in the video. It feels more like a conversation with a bro
I don't think either Tencent, Sony, or other companies will risk buying a falling company like ubisoft. We're probably going to see a bidding war for IP and studios.
Could be history in the making, here! A failing company that literally sells their IPs to make ends meet and close safely, when they could've stopped digging their own grave anytime?
Not even EA has fallen so low, and they won "most hated american company" twice in a row in the 2010s.
Both have smart business leaders. They'll wait until the bottom falls out, then buy up what they want for pennies on the dollar. Could even see something like TenCent purchase IP they want while Sony goes after TD3 (cuz they really really want a live service game that can go hard & def could see them monetize the hell out of it).
Ubi needs help. It's sad to me they got so far away from just making good games. The French have a saying though, "Je ne sais quoi?" and I think that is floating around rent free in the Guillemot's heads 24-7.
I think Tencent already has a massive amount of the stock for Ubisoft. If they can acquire a bit more before the company goes private, they'll have control and then direct it the way they see fit
They ignored splinter cell.
Bad marketing, disgusting hiring practices and questionable outbursts.
I mean i have zero sympathy on the company. Even "twitter" journos could not save them.
Splinter Cell will be announced tonight.
@@francescofioroni70really? 😂
Yeah it's a shame what happened with Splinter Cell. And all their IPs really.
@@SpectreStatusThe whole Tom Clancy franchise.
They missed handled the IP, wildlands was fun to play me and my best friend played a lot.
I was actually looking forward for another ghost recon and splinter cell.
But ubisoft self sabotage made it unlikely.
What stupid person would miss handled such amazing IPs such a stupid move by them.
#10:10 translation: "You would be the enemy of the civilization if you do not buy the ultimate edition and let me get the annual bonus."
That might be the executive level intent, but at the lower level people have actually convinced themselves they're fighting a civil rights battle, as if it's the 1930s and they're on the right side of history.
Assassins Creed Shadows will be a great game. Because they know this is the last straw. They CANNOT screw this up. That is the reason for the delay, and the new clips coming out confirm that THEY ARE working on it. So they know what they are in right now but will not publicly announce it.
Just want to say, out of all the people that make video essays, You are easily the best. Natural speaker, you hit all the angles, and passionate. keep it up. Your success is well-deserved.
After watching how other corporate entities conduct themselves I wonder how long it will be until Ubisoft and other AAA studios stop trying to make great games and start trying to lobby laws that stifle competition and make it impossible for new studios to exist.
Nintendo is already doing that. They forced Palworld to get rid of the game's central mechanic of capturing pals.
@@qu1253Yeah 😂 They literally patented throwing a ball.
@@qu1253
And people say Japan has some "anti-monopoly" law or some bullshit, as if laws mattered in the real world.
@qu1253 Nintendo is trying to, but it hasn't happened yet, and it may not now that Sony and Rockstar and have stepped up to support PocketPair
@@bjones243Nintendo may have cutthroat lawyers. But I don’t think anybody wants to pick a fight with Rockstar and Take 2. Their legal team is just spooky.
20k employees - It's like half Intel - but no product or foundries to show for. What an insufficient pile of mess, my god...
Looking at the last year of Ubisoft's blunders, I feel like I can boil down the whole affair to that one scene from "Naked Gun" where Nordberg (OJ's character) fails to sneak up on criminals in a boat.
Nordberg proceeds to get shot at by 10 guys, he recoils from the gunfire and hits his head as he stumbles back, then burns his hand on the stove, he then leans his shoulder into wet paint before he gets his fingers crushed by a window, then he shoves his face into a 2-tiered wedding cake, steps into a fucking bear-trap and finally runs into the boat's railing, goes overboard and drops into the fucking ocean.
THAT is what it feels like when I think about the Ubisoft's last year.
They say a joke doesn't work when told twice but I gotta say, watching Ubisoft has been EVERY BIT AS FUNNY as the scene you so wonderfully re-enacted with words.
Lol, I had to pause this video to go watch that clip. Yep, that's what is happening to Ubisoft.
and it’s times like these that make me grateful for the verry little activation does for call of duty
Yo, after that Mirage dumpster fire and the Outlaws trainwreck, Ubisoft’s officially on my permaban list. They ain’t getting a single coin from my loot stash ever again
The funniest thing about the whole AC Yasuke drama is, that it's a grave that Ubi dug for themselves.
The character is constantly depicted as a samurai, most famously as the "Obsidian Samurai" in Nioh. That was never the issue.
Ubis marketing was, their insistence that they are the arbiters of history and truth (while literally falling for a con man) with the character, almost forgetting to market their female main character etc.
If they would have just shut up about it, said that the main character is inspired by Yasuke as much as the female character is inspired by Fujibayashi Nagato (her in-game father), one of the three most well known ninja, everything would have been fine...
That’s what these bricks don’t understand. It was never an issue about skin color, the issue was the attempt to rewrite history.
Nah Ubisoft has shown that they can make competent black assassins with Bayek, Adewale and Aveline. Yasuke is NOT it. Bros got weak parkour, weak stealth, and is overall weak in being an assassin.
@@bloxguy999 Which is perfectly fine since you have two characters.
Naoe plays like classic AC characters, Yasuke like the RPG characters.
The duo would have been pretty neat to get both fanbases together.
But alas, IdPol got in the way of this becoming a good game
Im sorry but ubisoft has never claimed their ac games as accurate to history in they usually put disclaimers at the beginning of the game saying exactly that. I mean the first games has you fist fighting the pope and giving George Washington magical artifacts and shit.
@@MaverickHunterXZA Eh I kinda hated the contrast, I was hoping Ubi would ditch the dual character schtick and go back to a classic single character title.
Them trying to deflect Yasuke's criticism because Naoe also gets criticism for her gender is a very low bar for a gotcha, because if Yasuke was actually burly japanese man instead of black, the naoe criticism wouldnt be there. Naoe is getting criticized for being a woman because there isnt a real counterpart character to play instead. Who the hell would want to play as Yasuke instead of the japanese character he was supposed to be? And our only alternative is the obvious Strong Female Protagonist trope, so yeah we don't like her also.
If Naoe was by herself it would be fine, but Yasuke has an AOE criticism zone. Him being in the game is making every other aspect of it sour.
All these corporate suits just piss me off with everything they say. Anyone with a professional design education will be able to see how mediocre, blegh and passion-less huge chunks of these games are, as if they were made by people who do not in fact have a professional understanding of design. I could talk for hours on end about where these games are failing on fundamental design principles like informative clarity or even basic formatting. They have no idea what is objectively good or bad.
Games are rushed, have minimal development put into them, no polishing, individual talent isn't listened to and and and.
What these people say is so disconnected from reality, it is bizarre.
I’ve read the book “how democracies die” and no way they cited that 😂
The gall of that ubislop drone to conflate them making a for-profit, leisure product, to upholding democracy.
You just know he's a few sentences away from saying that they think of themselves as ww2 soldiers making landfall on Normandy
I've got to give you props LD. As someone who had learned public speaking it, by happenstance, sounds like nails on a chalkboard when someone in the public sphere is constantly stumbling over their words or maybe worse using "umm" or "uhhh" as filler words. You rarely if ever do either and it's so damn refreshing. I'm sure most people either don't notice or don't care, but for me, it means something, so thank you.
"Thank you for pleasing my one miserable nitpick that means absolutely nothing to normal people"
That's basically it, not as much of a big deal as you make it out to be. And such matter can be simply explained by people reading from a script rather than speaking their thoughts on the spot.
Production value! Would love to see the blooper reel
The fact he took the time to script a video and potentially re-record over any mistakes rather than just rambling about a topic he knows little about is worthy of recognition as a lot of creators clearly don’t bother, credit where credit’s due is never a bad thing
Bro, he just cut them out
Dude you’re starting to turn into the coffeezilla of the video game industry and i’m becoming such a fan. I love all the research you do and the constant facts backed up by evidence. Even when opinions are included, you provide both sides when applicable and whenever developers try to “deny” the claims like ubisoft does, you back it by empirical evidence supplemented by concrete information. Your passion for objective journalism is so evident and i’m glad you’re picking up steam to combat mainstream video game journalism
Thanks man, I'm glad people have been enjoying the content. I just want to provide a balanced perspective as I feel oftentimes people end up getting caught up in outrage rhetoric. I talk about things in the way that I do because I actually want to see change, in hopes some developers, or studios take notice, and think for a moment.
Let them keep at it. Nothing of value will be lost
Im not entirely sure how much ac shadows is costing them to produce, but i feel confident in saying if that game breaks even or even loses money, its game over for ubisoft. That will be the final nail for someone to either take over, or force it to go private. There is no other outcome. If it absolutely blows sales out of the water, then maybe they get to live another year or so.
What im also super excited for is the next ghost of tsushima game. Which has a japanese female main character. That game is going to do insanely well, and then ac shadows will have to sit down and shut up with the claim that "gamers hate our main character because shes female and japanese" if anything, some parts of the gaming/online community fetishize japanese women.
Audio engineer of 12 years professionally here, fan of your channel. I’ve been putting your videos on while driving to gigs and I’ve noticed your noise gate settings are kinda wonky.
This might be more of a note for whoever is editing your videos but the release time on the gate can be increased a bit and it’ll still sound good without cutting off the end of what you’re saying or when there is a small pause. It’s ok to have air there 😊
18:35 that's not true There was infact a constant and healthy relationship btn the XDEFIANT dev team and their community, same goes from Ac Mirage it's more prevelant woth mirage than it was with XDEFIANT but there was open communication but that didn't change the fact the game wasn't doing enough to get a large enough core audience to justify a dying company ( Ubisoft) sinking more money into it which now that i think about it should also probably apply to skull & bones and yet they still sink money into that void of a game , regardless, from my own interactions within those communities ( Mirage & Defiant ) there was healthy player-dev relationship
Ubisofts sin checklist:
Pride✅️
Greed✅️
Envy✅️
Wrath✅️
Sloth✅️
Gluttony✅️
Lust?
I think we can safely checkmark all the cardinal sins when it comes to Ubisoft.
Lust because they literally get off pushing their agenda. And I wish that was hyperbolic
Lust is the root of all sin, so yes lust too.
@SpaceDad42 it's actually fear, anxiety
If the company goes down, it will be the most deserved fall of all time. It's like we're trying to tell them that they are on fire, but they won't believe us, and everyone has buckets of water and is trying to help out, but they just keep dodging them. It's frankly become unbelieveable at this point. It is one of the biggest anti-consumer moves I have ever seen.
It's actually amazing when you actually take a look at the decline of Ubisoft and how they constantly pretend like they are not the problem. It's a warped mindset for a company selling a product.
Diversity is great. Unfortunately when it’s a decision made by a board room with no connection to the lived experience of people they’re trying to represent, you end up with a milquetoast, tone deaf AESTHETIC of diversity like switching to hip hop as soon as the black dude starts swinging the club. It’s not maliciously racist, it’s just narcissistic pining for applause so they can feel less shitty about squeezing money out of fans. It’s the same story with Disney and Star Wars. Making it about the message first and prioritizing story and heart last gets you a hollow disingenuous lecture they hope to monetize
I was a huge fan of Ubisoft for Assassin's Creed Game. The last time I supported them was AC4 Black Flag. I heard Unity was a buggy mess, I didn't buy them. Ever since then, their products has been worse and worse and ignored all feedback. It's as if the real Templars has invaded them and ruined the game. As if Activists had join them and ruined it themselves. A shame and a waste. Ubisoft deserved it.
Origins is really good, faithful to the franchise and also innovative to it with rpg mechanics. That was the last time we thought Ubisoft was turning the ship around
Origins was a Witcher 3 ripoff and was the first game NOT true to the franchise.
Good game? Debatable.
An assassins creed game? No way in hell.
@@Silath01 Origins was very much true to the franchise with the story. Even with a disliking for the RPG mechanics, the story and the characters (especially Bayek) was absolutely what can be expected from an Assassin's Creed game. They handled the foundation of the Creed very well, how leap of faith came to be, how "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" was built out of the broken hearts of Bayek and Aya. It was backed by an extremely rich historical setting with Cleopatra's Egypt and the superstitions and religious beliefs of that era, along with the presence of the Romans and the final assassination of Caesar.
Say what you want about RPG mechanics, but the story of Origins was probably even better than previous installments like Syndicate, Rogue and Unity.
Ubisoft's downfall needs to serve as a massive red flag to the rest of the gaming industry. If things dont change, a lot more companies will share their fate.
Other companies didn't kill their golden goose though
They need to learn now before it's too late. Once the falling starts there's no bringing it back up once the fans have left their trust on the company. If workers can't rely on the player base opinions then their game won't be successful. It's not hard to share the work and get opinions before fully releasing the product.
I am actually worried that there is one w0ke entity that apparently knows what they are doing. They are called Larian Studios.
* titanic is falling apart *
Captain: "WEB 3 BAAAABIE! LET'S GOOOOOOO"
As a business consultant I concur size dictates margin requirements on products
This isn't a loss for the executives. This is exactly what they expect and desire. They have extracted every penny they can from the reputation of Ubisoft. Now the shareholders and executives parachute away with their bonuses and leave the wreckage behind. They do this all the time. Every time you see another lame sequel with the same mechanics. Every time you see corners cut. This is accelerated capitalism. Wealth extraction and consolidation to the executive class. Fuck all of us below them. Customers be damned.
i dont mean to sound edgy. im a very casual gamer. never put any personal investment into the brand.
doesnt matter if game is good like elden ring or wukong. or as bad as veilguard or ac shadow, i cant be arsed to even play them.
playing more games require me to abandon more games i havent finished yet.
so seeing stuff like these ubisoft pushing identity politic so far they reached their bankruptcy, to me its quite basic.
Sir this Ubisoft ship... is unsinkable. Just like the Titanic!.... wait what happened?... but they all got off right?... mainly the big wigs...Okay, good, proceed! Full steam ahead... No icebergs here! Find me a boat. Nope just for me. Maybe a few fam members... but we'll see, need the leg room.
Assassin's creed shadows should have been such an easy home run. It's literally the setting people have been asking for and they still couldn't get it right.
Nah I think these types of Japan games focusing on Samurai have been too over saturated like with sekrio and got. I think a risk Ubisoft should’ve taken would be mainland Japan and deep inside Germany during WWII. It fits the overall AC story and theres been years since burnout of AAA WWII games like BFV and Vanguard.
If they wanted REAL cutting edge content they should have done Korea in the Joseon period (which is quite long). If they did everything right it would have been a huge hit.
Assassins creed shadows isn’t even out yet so how tf do you already have a negative opinion on it? You’re so weird bro
@@OMGItzSlickerz What do you think the purpose of trailers is?
@@deathgorilla782 Trailers are irrelevant… but with that being said all the trailers we’ve received and little gameplay snippets we’ve seen have all been extremely positive and have been very well received.
Having a negative opinion on a game based on anything we’ve seen has got to be such a weird thing to have. Y’all like to cry too much
Ubisoft, I'm still waiting for my fully modern day AC game with Desmond.
Crazy Ubisoft used to be an industry innovator literally being the first to create spreading fire for farcry 2, and making some of the first truly open world stealth games. In modern day far cry 5-6 story was solid but between forced microtransactions, a broken weapon system, and just deviating to far from the status quo it feels like a "far cry" from their peak of far cry 2-3 and the Ezio collection.
I knew Ubisoft was dead when I played Farcry 6. They have fallen so far since then...I was ashamed to have bought Farcry 6 but after that, I said, ok they get no more money from me, now I just gotta facepalm, and point and laugh, but it's kinda sad, they used to make good games, most of them pretty much sticking to grandma's old cookie recipe, but, the cookies were allright, sometimes even good, but now...well grandma passed on years ago, and nobody can seem to make them like she could...R.I.P. Ubisoft, you had a good run.
to your point "in order to grow the studios lost their identity". it is true but i think Epic and Fortnite are one exception here.
Fortnite started off as Survival game & pivoted to Free to play BR with very unique Build mechanics. Now 7 years later Fortnite is larger than any other game on this planet.
That is not a game anymore, I call it an Ecosystem.
They have BR with Builds, No builds. you like racing? they have it. Roguelike? yes. they have surfing maps, survival games, horror, escape rooms, simulators, Guitar Hero & Lego Minecraft.
within last 2 days they just released Tactical FPS like Valorant & CS2 & a Lego GTA Clone.
Extraction shooter is coming soon.
I would love to hear your thoughts on how other studios have lost their identity in pursuit of becoming big while Epic and Fortnite keeps breaking records and redefine gaming year after year.
One of the worst things that happened to entertainment is the corporatization, it definitely helped killing creativity. How can you take risks and invest time on innovation when all you're focused on is making numbers go up constantly.
Freaking true. So true.
"they're not paying attention to gameplay, they think they're writing a stage play" that's exactly how it feels to see these social problems in places where people don't care about said problems. We're playing games to experience a different reality and be another person, just write some lore to the world and let us figure what this and that button does. If you want to pass a message to the next generations, you're in the wrong industry, some of us skip cutscenes entirely and if we're curious we'll search the wiki.