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      I’ve always thought they do such a good job at building worlds but are absolute shit on story and content. I wish there was a way they’d just build worlds and then hand it off to someone who knows how to make a decent story. Valhalla and Odyssey had amazing worlds that deserved better stories

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      A year ago Ubisoft exec gave an interview where he said that the next leap in gaming industry should be fueled by gaming subscriptions, and that gamers should get comfortable playing by subscription as opposed to buying and owning game licenses.

      He then proceeded to give an example on how players got comfortable switching from physical media and full ownership to digital licenses.

      https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-new-ubisoft-and-getting-gamers-comfortable-with-not-owning-their-games

      This caused a massive player backlash on the wave of protests against the migration from ownership to subscriptions (aka “You’ll own nothing and be happy”). Ubisoft has got a financial dent as sales and subscriptions dropped, and is now facing a problematic financial future.

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      It is difficult to know where to start, since there have been a lot of unpopular actions. A lot of these are pretty standard for the triple A studios unfortunately. Think DRM with always online and authentication server issues, toxic workplace, decommissioned games by removing the servers for them and not giving ways for people to self host, rehashing existing properties to milk success, having their own launcher so having double layers of authentication, microtransactions, subscription based model pushing, game variants locking out certain content unless more money is payed etc.

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      Pretty much. The leadership team all have a golden parachute and will be integrated back into an industry and fuck that up too.

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    Man Ubisoft could be so great but they just land so meh. Watchdogs, tom Clancy wildlands, the division, farcry. They all have potential but just don’t have that last 15%

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    It feels tragic. On the one hand, they made some of my most favourite games especially the Splinter Cell series, and it would be sad to see a once great developer to go. But then on the other, the greedy bastards deserve to go under for ruining some of my most favourite games including the Splinter Cell series.

    But seriously though, if Ubisoft do go under, I hope that their IP would go into safe hands, like how Baldur’s Gate franchise has been handed over from Bioware to the competent team of Larian (and I do hope Larian does not enshittify unlike the fate of other companies, such as Ubisoft and EA).

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      If it’s any consolation, probably all the game devs that worked on your favourite titles have left Ubisoft long ago.

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          The best thing about it is that they’re not making another BG just because they don’t want to. I think it is safe to say say that they won’t enshitify as long as Swen Vincke is at the helm.

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      They were decent to the Anno series, but honestly that’s probably just because they didn’t see the value in messing with the formula that Anno solidified around the time of the acquisition and it reliably boosts their numbers with strategy gamers who otherwise might not be customers of Ubisoft’s at all

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    Part of me is sad because some of my favorite games might get shitcanned as a result, but it’s a loss I’m willing to accept if it kills such a parasitic company.

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    “Company fails to generate infinite revenue even after implementing every abusive tactic known”.

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      Imagine, about five years ago, they peaked at $82.

      It was also during that time when they talked about getting into Crypto, NFTs, and all sorts of other get rich quick schemes.

      Now look at them.

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      More like, company keeps pushing for short-term profits, runs out of goodwill built up in the past.

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        Ubisoft had many long standing issues, but disowning The Crew users was the worst possible move they could have made in their already dire situation.

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          I played and enjoyed both of them, shutting down the first one instead of giving it offline functionality really pissed me off and was the final straw for me with Ubi. It had a fully offline playable story, NPC vehicles to race etc. and the game would’ve been preserved forever.

          Instead we got the crew 2, always online AAA signature garbage.

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    FFS just get Olden Era released and then go die in a corner somewhere, Ubisoft.

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    Ubisoft executives need to become comfortable with “not being employed.”

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      Unfortunately, that’s not how this works.

      This is late stage capitalism, execs are judged on how much money they managed to squeeze out before the company died. They’ll be hired immediately specifically to do it again somewhere else.

      The company dying in incidental.

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      Some will take the blame, take millions as parachute payments, then the low level workers will have their jobs cut.