Ubisoft Sellout - Bankruptcy Speedrun Any% Thread

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East_Clintwood said:
So Massive did their big new Title Update today. Not just the new season but the launch of Project Resolve their huge planned bug fix (supposedly over 2k fixes)/QoL shit that delayed the new DLC by an entire year. So how's it going you might ask? Well let me show you what now greets you when you log in.
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The final boss of the manhunt pissed me off so much that I still haven't finished it for my other characters.
The fact that they still manage to fuck up another update is just pathetic.
 
Miller said:
The artwork is generic as hell. It's pretty much a ESG-friendly checklist:
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Project U is a new kind of session-based co-op shooter from Ubisoft. And, from the looks of it, someone has leaked some gameplay footage from its ongoing closed beta phase. So, go ahead and take a look at it.

Ubisoft revealed Project U almost a year ago. In this game, players unite in massive battles against overwhelming legions of machines.
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I'm getting the same kinda vibes I got from Hyenas, before Sega pulled the plug on that pile of crap.

I hope Ubisoft poured crazy money into Project U, just to shut it down within a year of release.
 
I wonder...just how much money does Ubisoft have to burn? Do they have a massive warchest like Nintendo? Is the latest goyslop really selling that much? Ubisoft looks to have two massive failures on their hands coming up (Skull & Bones/Division Heartland) that just seem to be multimillion dollar trashfires.
 
Back me up! said:
I wonder...just how much money does Ubisoft have to burn? Do they have a massive warchest like Nintendo? Is the latest goyslop really selling that much? Ubisoft looks to have two massive failures on their hands coming up (Skull & Bones/Division Heartland) that just seem to be multimillion dollar trashfires.
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Are they just being kept afloat by the Canadian taxpayer at this point? Feels like all they have going right now is Siege and even that's not exactly gaining players, although it is stable.
 
Back me up! said:
I wonder...just how much money does Ubisoft have to burn?
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According to their last full year financial statement (for the year ending 31/3/23) they had 1.4 billion euros cash/cash equivalents, even on the back of a bad year. According to their recent quarterly sales reports they're also beating sales projections for this year (and they were already forecasting to be back in profit), so it's unlikely they're going bankrupt anytime soon, even assuming they they do eat shit on Skull and Bones and Heartland (which you're right they almost certainly will).
 
East_Clintwood said:
According to their last full year financial statement (for the year ending 31/3/23) they had 1.4 billion euros cash/cash equivalents, even on the back of a bad year. According to their recent quarterly sales reports they're also beating sales projections for this year (and they were already forecasting to be back in profit), so it's unlikely they're going bankrupt anytime soon, even assuming they they do eat shit on Skull and Bones and Heartland (which you're right they almost certainly will).
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Hell I'd only give it 50/50 that Heartland even comes out!

The rest is good to know, I guess they are doing something right if they can keep floating along. Gonna have to take a couple of bad really make a decent I guess. Have to see how Star Wars Outlaws goes.
 
Back me up! said:
I wonder...just how much money does Ubisoft have to burn? Do they have a massive warchest like Nintendo? Is the latest goyslop really selling that much? Ubisoft looks to have two massive failures on their hands coming up (Skull & Bones/Division Heartland) that just seem to be multimillion dollar trashfires.
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don't forget they publish just dance, I assume it's their fifa/cod.

wasn't heartland some mobile game no one really gave a shit about? I'd say they should rather do a division 3, but given how massive being massive retards in how they handled division 2, I rather not invoke that monkey paw...

as for skull and bones.. to my shame I have to admit I had fun while playing the open beta. but not $100 fun. let's see how the game develops, might actually grab it on a (deep) sale down the line, I'd probably get a few hours out of 20-30 bucks for the whole thing.
 
ZMOT said:
don't forget they publish just dance, I assume it's their fifa/cod.

wasn't heartland some mobile game no one really gave a shit about? I'd say they should rather do a division 3, but given how massive being massive retards in how they handled division 2, I rather not invoke that monkey paw...

as for skull and bones.. to my shame I have to admit I had fun while playing the open beta. but not $100 fun. let's see how the game develops, might actually grab it on a (deep) sale down the line, I'd probably get a few hours out of 20-30 bucks for the whole thing.
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Heartland is Ubisoft PvEvP extractor shooter in The Division universe, The Division Resurgence is the mobile game. Supposedly Heartland is done but had two really bad closed beta so either Ubisoft is gonna tweak it some more, put it in the vault and/or reuse it content for The Division 3.
 
I thought XDefiant got the same "back in dev hell" treatment as The Division Heartland but I guess the game is coming out soon.
 
ZMOT said:
as for skull and bones.. to my shame I have to admit I had fun while playing the open beta. but not $100 fun. let's see how the game develops, might actually grab it on a (deep) sale down the line, I'd probably get a few hours out of 20-30 bucks for the whole thing.
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There's a buttload of giveaways going on on Twitch and Twitter. Might be able to pick up a copy that way.

They are absolutely trying to drum up positive vibes.
 
ZMOT said:
I'd say they should rather do a division 3, but given how massive being massive retards in how they handled division 2, I rather not invoke that monkey paw...
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They are doing a Division 3, sorta maybe. They announced their intention to move a team onto it once the Star Wars game is released so right now it's in sort of a pre-pre production phase. Which is weird because if they'd been planning a sequel as normal it should have been in development before anyone even knew the Star Wars license would be available. That in turn shows how little faith/interest they had in the franchise, hence instead of a sequel we got two shitter moneygrabs and some absolutely appallingly bad last minute live service for Division 2 instead.

Of course that gets even funnier when you consider the following from their most recent quarterly sales report:
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Fun fact, when a corpo is touting something as a "long-term seller" it's to try and distract from the fact it wasn't an immediate term seller. Which in Avatar's case means:

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So it took 6 years, cost god knows how much to make (likely including a shitton of license fees) all to make half what The Division 2, a game they were originally planning to abandon after just a year, made. As for that strong community reception, that's going to lead to it's long term sales?

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East_Clintwood said:
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Fun fact, when a corpo is touting something as a "long-term seller" it's to try and distract from the fact it wasn't an immediate term seller. Which in Avatar's case means:

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There's no way that Avatar can be a long-term seller, it's a singleplayer game with a fixed story, not a live-service like The Division.
Their mistake was to make an Avatar game when most people have moved on and forgotten about the shitty movie.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
The Division just feels really dirty now that we had COVID apocalypse and it has the idea of you fighting for the plaguetard Globohomo government.
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to be fair division was more grey in showing how fucking inept the government was but the smarter people established a contingency.
no idea how the division 2 "expansion" and other post-launch shit ruined that tho.

Miller said:
Their mistake was to make an Avatar game when most people have moved on and forgotten about the shitty movie.
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I didn't even know ubisoft was working on an avatar game, so little/forgettable marketing happened.
the IP also never struck as particularly "multimedia", people watched the movies for the technical marvel back then, not for the story, world or characters. least never heard anyone say "man I wish to explore that setting" or mod it into other games with fanfiction etc.

since it runs on snowdrop it should at least look good, but I also got zero interest in that IP...
 
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