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Ubisoft Sellout - Bankruptcy Speedrun Any% Thread
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I expect Shadows did sell better. There was almost zero hype for Outlaws even before the game launched as a broken mess, and patches only brought it up to a level of playable. Shadows, from everything I've seen, mostly plays like yet another Assassins Creed game, so you're at least getting what you expect.
Plus, unlike Star Wars, Japan/samurai still hold a relatively high appeal for gamers, despite Ubislop's best efforts to steal their own victory with forcing Yasuke into the game.
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It’s pretty obvious it did dogshit, because no victory laps. In fact, they’re entirely silent. All those defenders, all those amateur historians, all those people who claimed Japan loved it and had no problems at all, all those totally real AC fans who were gonna buy it day 1.
This should’ve been the thing to put their detractors in the dirt, and they’re mum.
There’s also no cultural imprint. No fan art, no TikTok gameplay vids, no cosplays, no resurgence in trending because somebody found out a neat trick and it went viral. It’s got next to no footprint atp.
This should’ve been the thing to put their detractors in the dirt, and they’re mum.
There’s also no cultural imprint. No fan art, no TikTok gameplay vids, no cosplays, no resurgence in trending because somebody found out a neat trick and it went viral. It’s got next to no footprint atp.
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This would have been true if Sekiro, Ghosts of Tsushima and Rise of Ronin didn't exist.
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It's still true, even when there are better options available. Especially when this is the setting AC fans have wanted since the series began.
However bad Shadows has sold I dread to think how much worse it would have done if they had gone for some other random time period.
I'm not entirely sure that would be the case. Doing worse if they had done some other setting in place of AC Shadows.
Ignoring for a moment that everything about the game top to bottom is shit, it's still Ubislop and that alone doesn't stop buyers unless it's as fucking broken as Outlaws was to even the casual onlooker. Their next big game no matter what it was after Skull & Bones and SW Outlaws was going to have everyone nitpicking it. At the same time because of the setting they chose for AC Shadows, it was going to have the eyes of fans looking at everything about it because they had been wanting a game in that setting since AC started as a franchise due to how obvious such a thing should have been. Remember, a large part of the negative press for the game was Ubisoft marketing "historical accuracy" and proceeding to fuck literally everything up about that including basic shit that casual fans of japan/samurai/ninja shit in general(without being full on weebs) could spot and wonder wtf was going on.
What I'm trying to say is, with a different setting the game likely would have had fewer critical eyes on it, not had the retarded international news regarding Japan itself hating it with Ubisoft acting like they were koreans or chinese getting revenge for ww2. It still would have done shitty for sales(not as bad as Outlaws), possibly less shitty.
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Even Assassin's Creed Mirage established an Internet footprint for a bit because of its "return to form" from its RPG titles and that "it's just a MIRAGE" rap song playing during sequenced assassinations. I haven't heard a peep about Shadows since the forced marketing about two, three months ago.
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I think I've seen organic discussion around Concord for longer than I did Shadows. No one even bothering to gloat about its failure on /v/ even though it was like 4 active threads at a time during the release period. Was it really all hired jeets?
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That's true, but remember the vast, vast majority of consumers don't follow any kind of gaming news or review stuff. They see new AC game and they buy it or don't based on how they felt about previous entries. Anyone paying attention to how Ubisoft handled PR for Shadows would definitely have been put off, but I think the main reasons the game performed poorly is due to genre fatigue and the fact that (from what I've heard) Valhalla was an absolute slog and deliberately designed to force people into buying boosts and that probably soured a lot of fans (the same way Far Cry 6 killed any interest I have in that series).
Sadly due to Ubisoft's pigheaded refusal to release any kind of worthwhile data we may never know for sure why people didn't buy it, but I remain convinced that Shadows was a case similar to Concord where, even without the DEI shit, it would have failed either way.
Definitely. I still see people bringing up Concord (never positively and mostly in regard to Marathon) but nobody is talking about Shadows any more except Ubisoft's Twitter when the post those useless 'player engagement' figures.
This might have died off even faster than Skull & Bones. I at least remember people making videos when that game dropped new events, even if it was mostly to bitch about how the game was still boring as shit.
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It would've made more sense if they bought the shadow tactics license and put a Nigglet in that game. Not that i want to give them any ideas.
That's normally true yes, but the saturation of AC shadows ending up being discussed in gaming news, social media, reviews that weren't professional outlets, etc. was significantly higher than normal. I'll just point to Star Wars Outlaws and the massive amount of negative attention it received up into launch and the week after where it was practically the laughing stock of the internet, AC Shadows was that for damn near 6 months.
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Ubisoft stock is worth $2 a share, Heartbeam Inc aka Compile Heart a shovelware factory that has literally never made a good game ever has stock listed at $1.80 a share.
Yea Ubisoft is doing so well they're just barely outperforming actual shovelware.
Yea Ubisoft is doing so well they're just barely outperforming actual shovelware.
Market cap plays a huge role in stock value as well. This heartbeam inch you mentioned has a market cap of 52 million, ubisoft's is 1.29 billion. The number of shares matters.
It would be like saying a company that had a stock value of $800 is suddenly worth less after a 4:1 split bringing the share price down to $200(companies can also basically attempt do the reverse for stock price by doing stock buy-backs as well, both of these scenarios happen regularly).
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I see the servers for The Division 2 are working fine today...
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And again, the vast majority of people aren't terminally online to the point that they pick up on this stuff unless they're already following gaming related topics so the algorithm puts it their way.
None of the PR will have improved sales, but I still choose to believe broader cultural fatigue in regards to all goyslop is the main thing causing these generic checklist simulators to fail. Even if you removed the DEI stuff people just don't want this shit any more.
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Everyone I know is more terminally online than I am, and I post here. They're all staring at their phones and perusing TikTok, Twitter or Instagram.
I sincerely doubt anyone that is even vaguely interested in the game somehow managed to miss the many, many, many controversies surrounding Shadows.
Even those that didn't likely saw the nigger and tuned out.
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That doesn't mean they're seeing what you're seeing. Most of my friends use TikTok and never see anything like I do because they only browse normie content and "safe" memes (not sure TikTok even allows any other kind).
Instagram is the only social media I really still use and the window of time I was seeing stuff about Shadows was 2, maybe 3 weeks. I don't remember Outlaws stuff at all except maybe a couple posts comparing the main character's actress's face irl to her in-game model. This stuff isn't as ubiquitous as people are making it out to be.
I do agree that anyone who saw WE WUZ SAMURAIS probably rolled their eyes and tuned out though, even the normiest of normies I know have started committing felony noticing of the forced race-mixing present in all western media.
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Speaking of wikipedia historical revisionist Jewstorians... anyone seen Thomas lately?
Did the Yakuza send out a hit squad on his self-sourcing/editing limey ass? All the niggerai propaganda, from Asscreed to Netfux, all incepted by one semitic faggot playing mahjong in japan but checkers in the west. A good teaching lesson about propaganda campaigns and citogenesis in the post-modern age, and why I never use Conqueredpedia - because to this day the Lockley fanfiction is still up as gospel despite the Japanese nation itself rejecting it. Nigger worship is State-Mandated Common Core in the zionized west.
The problem is that doesn't explain the shit performance of Star Wars Outlaws. I think you're vastly underestimating how much of the video game buying public reads things online. There's a reason Nintendo ditched e3 before covid, and then the already dead corpse of e3 limped along after once every other major publisher realized that they don't need it anymore. The average idiot who still preorders at gamestop doesn't follow everything, but they hear about this shit and see the videos on youtube, tiktok, etc. Yes star wars has had problems as a franchise, but it's not that dead(yet).
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