Ubisoft Sellout - Bankruptcy Speedrun Any% Thread

[Incecticyder]

I think people really overblow this aspect of Shadow's failure. It definitely didn't help, but the majority of players who contributed to making Valhalla Ubisoft's most successful game ever didn't know about any of this shit and probably didn't particularly care about Yasuke being one of the playable characters. Today I will remind them that 99% of consumers don't follow video game news, which is why all the websites are dying.

Even if they'd made it 2 Jap protagonists I think the game would still have significantly underperformed because the people who made up most of Valhalla's playerbase weren't longtime fans of the series and weren't interested in starting over from scratch in a new 100+ hour game. If they wanted a good samurai game they'd play Ghost of Tsushima or Nioh instead.

They probably did. They do not follow WOKE sites. They follow YTers and the like. You think they did not watch MoistCritical's or Asmongold's videos on the subject? Also, normies that had their businesses/houses looted by urban youths most certainly did not want to play as Yasuke the BLM Wrecking Ball who hijacked a country's history. Even those that did not experience it, still had a problem with the tone-deafness of the move. Add everything else that happened with the game such as the disrespect pointed out by the Japanese on top of the shitty gameplay and you get a product release so toxic that time-traveling WW1 Germans wanted to develop a toxic gas based on it.

That's pretty much what The Saboteur was, and it seemed to do okay. The obvious choice, in my eyes, would be to finally do the modern day AC game that they continually teased in the original trilogy with Desmond and his Scooby gang, but I don't know what ever became of that dumbass plotline.

I guess modern day AC would just be Watch Dogs, though, and we all know how that ended up.

Watchdogs had good gameplay but shitty protagonists.

Hitler seeking a piece of Eden would be fitting giving all the occult stuff around him, however I don't think they could really do it because WW2 Germany isn't prime real estate for "An Openy Open world experience!"

It would be fine for the Open World stuff. Have the protagonist be a Blonde Blue-eyed German and he can go anywhere. Have him sabotage Hitler and you have a story and gameplay. There is a far bigger problem than the open world: Good luck getting the leftist journos to support a game where you have to protect the Jews.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Don't forget Beyond Good and Evil 2 being in development hell for God knows how long. Or Rainbow Six Siege X being a disaster of a relaunch and their servers being compromised.

And making The Crew unplayable.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Be honest, how much has anybody here contributed to Ubisoft? I'm talking buying their games whether new or online.

Division 2 was the last game I bought. Chronologically the last Ubi game I played was XDefiant. Fun, but not worth paying for.

 

[p1138]

Because some of their games were good, maybe even GREAT at a point in time.

Sure, years ago. When was the last great game that ubisoft launched? And I don't mean "launched and then took a year of changes before it finally took off", "launched and was barely playable for the first 3-6 months due to bugs", or any bs like that.

 

[Red Dragon]

Be honest, how much has anybody here contributed to Ubisoft?

I'm a proud owner of the original AC trilogy, Black Flag, Far Cry 2, 3, 4, Blood Dragon and Ghost Recon: Wildlands. All of those games are great and I had a lot of fun with them. I heard AC Rogue is also good, but it looks like just a copy of Black Flag with snow.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Be honest, how much has anybody here contributed to Ubisoft? I'm talking buying their games whether new or online.

recently, not much. though i did end up buying far cry 5 a while back which is fun to fuck around in.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Be honest, how much has anybody here contributed to Ubisoft? I'm talking buying their games whether new or online.

The most recent Ubi game I bought was Lost Crown, which I hated but a lot of people seem to like. I only bought it because it was 15 bucks (no way I was paying 40 for a fucking metroidvania) and I think prior to that the last Ubi game I bought was Far Cry 5, again for 15 bucks.

The last time I paid full price for an Ubi game was The Division 2 shortly after it released because I'd burned through Destiny 2 in a week and was still itching for a good looty shooty experience.

I did play Far Cry 6 and Watch Dogs Legion, but I got them "free" through PS+, and I only finished FC6; made it 3 missions into Legion before I got bored.

 

[sodaboard]

when ubisoft assets go up for sale i want every farmer to pool their money together and donate it to me so i can legally own the splinter cell IP

 

[Google.com]

Grummz, so big grain of salt heree, but I'm inclined to believe it lolView attachment 8476658

The real confusing economics of this is why is Ubisoft operating two Indian locations. They are paying more for indians in Canada when they could be getting the same Indians for less at their already existing india location.

 

[OJ Simpson]

Be honest, how much has anybody here contributed to Ubisoft? I'm talking buying their games whether new or online.

Are you talking about just in general, ever? If so I've bought, starting in 2009 with AC2, including on which platforms:

Spoiler: the list

Assassin's Creed II (360, PS3, Steam)
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PS3, Steam)
Assassin's Creed Revelations (PS3, Steam)
Assassin's Creed III (maybe PS3?, Steam)
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (Steam)
Assassin's Creed Rogue (Steam)
Assassin's Creed Unity (Steam)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Steam)
Assassin's Creed Origins (Steam)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Steam)
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood (Steam)
Call of Juarez Gunslinger (Steam)
Child of Light (Steam)
The Crew 2 (Steam)
The Division (Formerly Uplay (now Ubisoft Connect), Steam)
The Division 2 (Ubisoft Connect, Steam)
Far Cry 2 (Steam)
Far Cry 3 (PS3, Steam)
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (PS3, Steam)
Far Cry 4 (Steam)
Far Cry 5 (Steam)
Far Cry Primal (Steam)
Ghost Recon Wildlands (Steam)
Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Steam)
Grow Home (Steam)
Outland (Steam)
Prince of Persia Sands of Time (Steam)
Rayman Origins (Steam)
Rayman Legends (Steam)
Riders Republic (Steam)
Scott Pilgrim vs the World (The original release) (PS3 I think)
South Park The Stick of Truth (Steam)
Splinter Cell (Steam)
Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (Steam)
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (Steam)
Splinter Cell Double Agent (Steam)
Splinter Cell Conviction (360, Steam)
Splinter Cell Classic Trilogy HD (PS3)
Splinter Cell Blacklist (PS3, Steam)
Steep (Steam)
Trials Evolution (Steam)
Trials Fusion (Steam)
Trials Rising (Steam)
UNO (Steam)
Valiant Hearts The Great War (Steam)
Watch Dogs (Steam)
Watch Dogs 2 (Steam)

That's everything I can remember. And fuck it throw in AND 1 Streetball for the PS2 in for good measure.

 

[Kane Lives]

Be honest, how much has anybody here contributed to Ubisoft? I'm talking buying their games whether new or online.

The only Ubi games that I ever begrudgingly owned are not theirs; because currently they're holding the Anno series hostage. Free my niggers BlueByte.

 

[asr]

I loved the shit outta assassin's creed 1-revelations. Black flag was eh but I did like 3 since it was the revolutionary war, the killing off of Desmond in that way was really retarded and gay though. I was deeply interested in the plot of this precursor race as a kid though and then they kinda ruined it. I'll give them this though the sound tracks back then were amazing. Ezio's Family and the main theme for Revelations had this amazing singer Madeline Bell. I come back to these songs along with some other from the AC series semi regularly.

 

[OJ Simpson]

I loved the shit outta assassin's creed 1-revelations. Black flag was eh but I did like 3 since it was the revolutionary war, the killing off of Desmond in that way was really retarded and gay though. I was deeply interested in the plot of this precursor race as a kid though and then they kinda ruined it. I'll give them this though the sound tracks back then were amazing. Ezio's Family and the main theme for Revelations had this amazing singer Madeline Bell. I come back to these songs along with some other from the AC series semi regularly.

I agree with this. Didn't play the original, but AC2 is still one of my top 5 favorite video games ever, Brotherhood was great too, never did get around to beating Revelations though because tbh I didn't want Ezio's story to end, and still don't. And to this day Leonardo's Inventions, Pt. 1 is still my favorite video game ost ever. From the moment I heard it back when I first played 2 it just always stuck with me. It's incredible.

 

[regalterry]

The real confusing economics of this is why is Ubisoft operating two Indian locations. They are paying more for indians in Canada when they could be getting the same Indians for less at their already existing india location.

Likely some sort of government gibs from the Canadian government.

 

[Waifu Denier]

The real confusing economics of this is why is Ubisoft operating two Indian locations. They are paying more for indians in Canada when they could be getting the same Indians for less at their already existing india location.

They get massive tax breaks and subsidies from the Canadian government conditioned that they keep the studios in Montreal and employ people.

 

[asr]

I agree with this. Didn't play the original, but AC2 is still one of my top 5 favorite video games ever, Brotherhood was great too, never did get around to beating Revelations though because tbh I didn't want Ezio's story to end, and still don't. And to this day Leonardo's Inventions, Pt. 1 is still my favorite video game ost ever. From the moment I heard it back when I first played 2 it just always stuck with me. It's incredible.

It's worth finishing imo, Revelations felt like a good send off. Also man you got me reminiscing back to AC2 and the fun of unlocking Altair's armor or the codex pages.

 

[Back me up!]

Watchdogs had good gameplay but shitty protagonists

Ubisoft could remake Watchdogs and actually clean up the mix up story threads ( I'm pretty sure Pearce was supposed to be the dad, not uncle), make the game look like the E3 lie, and sone other minor fixes and it would sell pretty well.

Pearce had a great look and the hacking stuff was a ton of fun.

 

[Incecticyder]

Pearce had a great look and the hacking stuff was a ton of fun.

The look was fine. He got his family into more trouble however. I get revenge but he went on about it the wrong way. He should have become untraceable before he went full-on "Monte Cristo" on his enemies. Characters like that make such obvious errors and yet we are supposed to see them as clever. But yes, the hacking stuff was amazing. His look made him too suspicious in my opinion, though.

 

[whatever I feel like]

They get massive tax breaks and subsidies from the Canadian government conditioned that they keep the studios in Montreal and employ people.

Quebec provincial government, actually. Though really I think all of their self-formed studios have good tax deals (as opposed to teams they brought.)

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Well American Frontier is great open world slop fodder.

"War torn countryside of WW 2" feels less so.

Asinine take.

It’s not like the cities in Europe stopped existing during the war.

They get massive tax breaks and subsidies from the Canadian government conditioned that they keep the studios in Montreal and employ people.

They mainly get tax credits from the Province of Quebec.