Ubisoft Sellout - Bankruptcy Speedrun Any% Thread

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Kind of. They set up a new company specifically for AssCreed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six, and Tencent owns a 25% stake in that on top of whatever they already own of Ubisoft.

Not sure what this was intended to accomplish (except maybe distract Tencent from their aggressive pursuit of buying Ubisoft outright,) but given Shadows' stillbirth, Far Cry being on unofficial hiatus and Rainbox Six doing nothing but Siege for a decade it feels like delaying the inevitable.
It moves the valuable IPs into a separate entity that Tencent has a hefty stake in now and that Tencent can fully acquire later once the investors who own "OG" Ubisoft shares are distracted with some other stupidity. It's just a slower flavor of hostile takeover, while ridding themselves of the less valuable properties.
 
The Division 2 is suppose to get a small expansion DLC (something like $15) around the end of May.
About time, only what a year? year and a half late? Given how long it's been delayed, how they've been deliberately trying to set expectations from getting too high and the fact the current team are literal retards I'm genuinely looking forward to it being a clusterfuck.

Its time for your monthly penis-flattenning, Division fans.
Pffft The Division gets so little new content and so few updates we don't even get quarterly penis flattening anymore they extended the seasons so it's four-monthly flattenings.

*EDIT* Forget to mention that in addition to whatever announcement's happening on April 23rd they also flew a bunch of content creators out to Sweden to shill for them, although hilariously the most obnoxious of them all KvD doesn't appear to have gone.
 
The Division 2 is suppose to get a small expansion DLC (something like $15) around the end of May.
Honest I really don't trust them after this C Team has been fucking up the game left and right.
I haven't played The Division 2 since it released, is there a good video that runs down all the ways they've fucked it up since? I've been thinking about going back to it so I can catch up on podcasts.
 
Time to see what slop is going to be released for Division 2 to try to get more life/cash out of a stone.
Apparently they looked at the broken ass Fragile Armour directive (you know that thing people hate and have been begging them to fix for literally 5 fucking years at this point) and decided it would somehow make a great mechanic to base a significant chunk of the DLC around.

Storyline is apparently almost entirely disconnected from everything that's actually been going on up to now. According to one of the youtubers that went out to Massive that was a deliberate choice to make it easier for new players. I can sort of understand that logic, but I have to question how many new players they're hoping to get on a 6 year old game with a bad rep compared to keeping the few remaining players happy.

Also maybe I'm biased on account of the fact I fucking hate them and still haven't even finished the NY ones, but 8 new hunter riddles seems like a weird fucking thing to spend your limited dev resources on compared to literally anything else.
 
I wish they would do something about the expertise system, I'm still at level 17.

Storyline is apparently almost entirely disconnected from everything that's actually been going on up to now.
So it's their version of Rise of Iron? lol
They made a point about the new expansion taking place in autumn, I wonder if they have re-used the assets that were made for Heartland.
I still miss the comfy winter setting of the first game.

8 new hunter riddles seems like a weird fucking thing to spend your limited dev resources on compared to literally anything else
I agree.
 
I wish they would do something about the expertise system, I'm still at level 17.
What SHD level are you? They just recently upped the amount of materials you get from SHD points, including increasing printer filament by 50%, so it should be even easier than ever.

I wonder if they have re-used the assets that were made for Heartland.
Probably not given they were both in development, and both due to be released at the same time (would have looked weird). Also autumn weather/foliageaside I'm not sure there'd be much crossover in other assets between NY and the little podunk town Heartland was supposed to be set in.

In other Ubi news apparently they're now offering a 3hr demo of Outlaws in a desperate attempt to drum up interest before it's DLC drops next month, let's see how that's going:
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Oh, oh no. :story:
 
In other Ubi news apparently they're now offering a 3hr demo of Outlaws in a desperate attempt to drum up interest before it's DLC drops next month, let's see how that's going:
I love how they're practically doing everything they can so that Tencent can take over the entire company in 2-3 years. All they have to do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
 
In other Ubi news apparently they're now offering a 3hr demo of Outlaws in a desperate attempt to drum up interest before it's DLC drops next month, let's see how that's going:
If we assume the free demo has been running for a while it seems to have resulted in the game reaching its highest concurrent player count ever...
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A whole 3,400 players! Ubisisters, it looks like we're saved.
 
If we assume the free demo has been running for a while it seems to have resulted in the game reaching its highest concurrent player count ever...
The demo was released on the 17th April. It's also a completely separate entry on Steam to the actual game so it won't have affected the player count except in how many people then went on to buy the game on Steam.
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While messing around on SteamDB I noticed it also tracks some other stats like current Twitch viewership and I had to go and check if it was real and holy shit:
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It does not get much deader than that. I tried to find it in the actual directory to see what was around it with similar player numbers and the website literally broke before I scrolled down that far. To put it in some hilarious perspective though Warhammer Online, an MMO that was officially shutdown 12 fucking years ago and only exists now on a private server has 50+ viewers currently.

Also for the few other Div fans, found this on the subreddit:
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If this is actually true, then even by Ubisoft's standards this would be something truly, truly retarded to do and would make the backlash against seasonal characters seem tame by comparison.
 
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