Man Ubisoft could be so great but they just land so meh. Watchdogs, tom Clancy wildlands, the division, farcry. They all have potential but just don't have that last 15%
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It feels tragic. On the one hand, they made some of my most favourite games especially the Splinter Cell series, and it would be sad to see a once great developer to go. But then on the other, the greedy bastards deserve to go under for ruining some of my most favourite games including the Splinter Cell series.
But seriously though, if Ubisoft do go under, I hope that their IP would go into safe hands, like how Baldur's Gate franchise has been handed over from Bioware to the competent team of Larian (and I do hope Larian does not enshittify unlike the fate of other companies, such as Ubisoft and EA).
If it's any consolation, probably all the game devs that worked on your favourite titles have left Ubisoft long ago.
Larian isn't making another Baldur's Gate.
It’s funny how many times they’ve clearly stated it too lol
The best thing about it is that they're not making another BG just because they don't want to. I think it is safe to say say that they won't enshitify as long as Swen Vincke is at the helm.
They were decent to the Anno series, but honestly that's probably just because they didn't see the value in messing with the formula that Anno solidified around the time of the acquisition and it reliably boosts their numbers with strategy gamers who otherwise might not be customers of Ubisoft's at all
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"Company fails to generate infinite revenue even after implementing every abusive tactic known".
Imagine, about five years ago, they peaked at $82.
It was also during that time when they talked about getting into Crypto, NFTs, and all sorts of other get rich quick schemes.
Now look at them.
More like, company keeps pushing for short-term profits, runs out of goodwill built up in the past.
Ubisoft had many long standing issues, but disowning The Crew users was the worst possible move they could have made in their already dire situation.
I played and enjoyed both of them, shutting down the first one instead of giving it offline functionality really pissed me off and was the final straw for me with Ubi. It had a fully offline playable story, NPC vehicles to race etc. and the game would've been preserved forever.
Instead we got the crew 2, always online AAA signature garbage.
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Part of me is sad because some of my favorite games might get shitcanned as a result, but it’s a loss I’m willing to accept if it kills such a parasitic company.
I'll be sad if For Honor stops being supported
Oh no.
Anyway
Came here to say this.
Ubisoft executives need to become comfortable with "not being employed."
Unfortunately, that's not how this works.
This is late stage capitalism, execs are judged on how much money they managed to squeeze out before the company died. They'll be hired immediately specifically to do it again somewhere else.
The company dying in incidental.
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Literally all they had to do was make good games
Not sure what you mean. They needed more NFTs and AI from what I can tell! /s
Honestly though whenever I hear big companies like this fail, it keeps making me go back to the Steve Jobs interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBjNmXvqIM
How have I never seen that interview!? Thanks, great stuff...
It's funny it happened to Apple too
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Ubisoft always reminds me of an old pun my Latin teacher taught us: Semper ubi sub ubi. Always where under where.
Semper ubi sub ubisoft
they MBA'd themselves into extinction
edit; everyone with an mba is only qualified to be a farm laborer
Farm labor is complicated and specialized.
And fucking physically hard
Hey now, I know a bunch of farm laborers and started out as one myself.
They are nowhere near qualified for farm labor. That requires being able to work, not just regurgitate platitudes from the most recent bullshit management fad.
Management will destroy this world.
There’s a world where management is treated as an important but not godly position. Where they are schedulers and arbitrators of conflict, and where they aren’t free from consequences because they’re already at the top. And holy hell it’s also not the place where the position is used to promote someone out of where they’re useful simply because paying a labourer more than a manager is seen as unthinkable. It ain’t this one, but I like to think about it sometimes.
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You're right Ubisoft, I am pretty comfortable not owning your games 🥰
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They need to get comfortable with losing their company.
I guess shareholders got used to not owning their stock?
It's because they're not AAA anymore. They went AAAA so I guess they've had a financial rating overflow and now they've gone negative.
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FFS just get Olden Era released and then go die in a corner somewhere, Ubisoft.
Get rid of uplay. I might buy ubisoft games if they weren't tied to that horrible service
Not just Uplay, but also their activation servers. Their games make calls to their endpoints to authenticate if you own/access the game and DLC. If those activation servers are decommissioned without a replacement, your game won’t activate and you’ll lose access to DLC.
They announced they would do this for legacy games several years ago, and I was going to lose access to all the DLC I paid for with my Splinter Cell Blacklist game that I physically owned on a Wii U disc way back in 2013. Bought all the DLC because I loved the game. After enough gamer backlash, Ubisoft backpedaled and the activation servers remain for now. However, the concern is still there that I’ll lose the stuff I paid for when they decide they can’t serve it anymore or if they go bankrupt. Without them updating the game code or open sourcing it, I lose updates, DLC, etc.
We need digital ownership reform, or else it’s piracy time again. This will especially be critical when Gabe steps down from Steam and new owners are appointed, or if Steam goes public.
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Ubisoft just needs to get comfortable with no longer owning their games. 😈