Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again, now to March 20, Ubisoft says, as the company pursues "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders
NEWS: Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again, now to March 20, Ubisoft says, as the company pursues "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders" (looks for a potential sale).
They're going to holistically synergize the market capitalization to optimize a paradigm shift for shareholders.
They expect it to bomb and they're going to flood it with microtransactions and vague "AI-enhanced fetch quests" or some bullshit.
They're not trying to make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they're "extracting value" - I'd stay far away from this one folks.
They’re not trying ro make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they’re “extracting value” - I’d stay far away from this one folks.
This has been true of Ubisoft for many years. I'm glad they're saying it out loud now though.
I don't know if there's a combination of words that has less content, or destroys any hope left for the game more thoroughly than what they chose. Never could I have imagined that one sentence would manage to bottom out both categories at once. Give my compliments to the chef MBA!
There is absolutely no reason to buy a Ubisoft game anymore, or from any large studio that is trying to appease shareholders first and foremost. They aren’t making games for you to have fun with; they’re making games to extract as much money from you as possible. Instead of giving you fun quests and characters, they are behind the scenes trying to figure out how to manipulate you. Fuck that noise. The last game I paid full AAA price for was Elden Ring because From deserves my money.
Yea, I couldn't care less what the shareholders want. The point of a product is to be good for the purchaser. Once you take your focus off making a good product, you're through.
At this point, it is better to let Ubisoft die. It is so interested in raising it's share prices, it has alienated it's customers. Now it refuses to learn from it too.
Nintendo, a Japanese company, is releasing Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition on the same day. Every day is the anniversary of a tragedy somewhere.
Almost like shareholders would get value if they focused on making good games. Make good product, people buy, shareholder money go up. Why do we have to keep explaining that to them?
the wording of that announcement evokes a similar feeling to how i write things when im nearing the end of a project, experiencing extreme crunch, and begging for the sweet release of the deadline finally approaching. i’m in a trance like state during those times, barely conscious, barely coherent, just doing what i need to in order to reach tomorrow.
i can imagine there are a lot of people at ubisoft right now experiencing something similar. do not mistake this for empathy. i don’t know what im saying.
"We are looking into a way to turn this into multiple subscription services focused on getting you to gamble that will be allowed in our primary markets."