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How AC went from a historically accurate series that removed the crossbow from Altair cause it wasn't period appropriate to the woke mess that had female badasses running around everywhere as well as an extremely diverse ethnic ancient and medieval world.
Let me guess, this guy is a redditor right? He uses the same dumb arguments clowns over there say. How can you say level designers have no blame, they are the ones making the boring open worlds, putting all the blame on leadership is dumb. And I see absolutely nothing wrong with the letter the CEO wrote, but sjw clowns are gonna clowne
America is insane right now Politician after politician, lies, cheats, steals. Yet we continue to elect the same type of people expecting a different outcome
I enjoyed most of them, even the offshoots like the primal one, but the last one absolutely destroyed the franchise for me. The terrible mechanics, the terrible guns, the terrible politics, it was one of the worst games i played in a long time
"We're losing money because people are tired of our live service games" Same breath: "Okay so how do we perfect the live service model?" COMPLETE DISCONNECT
@@keroseno9202 sometimes I feel almost fortunate to be that weirdo that almost exclusively prefers niche JRPG titles with a few cult classic western exceptions.
@@EndymionTv Me after seeing Sparks of Hope cover; "huh, I forgot this was a Ubisoft game, 😎" Me after playing; "ugh, this was a Ubisoft game" *facepalm.
I think the most disgusting thing about ubisoft is that they are smart enough to know what the fans want and they lie and tell their fans they are going to get what they demand but they still go back on their promises. Remember when Ac valhalla was announced and they said the series is going back to its roots but in the end it ended being having nothing to do with the series and now they are doing the same thing with Mirage.
isn't this though the most infuriating thing about video game companies in general? COmpanies making movies will give the fans what they want over and over again (see Pirates of the Carribean, Transformers etc) until they are sick of it. Video game companies for god knows what reason seem to have this insane arrogance where they TELL fans what they want instead of listening. Otherwise we'd have a Mother 3, a proper Chrono Trigger sequel, Metroid Prime 4, Diablo 4 instead of Diablo immortal. etc etc you get my point
@@StewNWT It seems to be a common theme with most AAA game companies nowadays. Even worse when they start attacking the fans of the franchise like the Saints Row. You don't get that much in the indie scene. They just need to stop the pandering nonsense and chase trending and just make good games period.
yes but will people give them money for many years to come every game is the same. Honestly ubisoft destroyed open world games as every game tries to copy them, horizon zero dawn, mad max, rage 2,terminator resistance, days gone, forspoken, shadow of mordor are like ubisoft games. They did to gaming what diablo did to rpgs, they dropped the role playing so they can becomae hack and slash looters which then moprhed into borderlands turning into a looter shooter and makin that a genre. Also stop making souls clones devs.
Employees? It's a single dev, a person does stand for the group itself, also the dev was a former just like w/ the 2 Forbidden West devs who criticized ER.. then a year later ER patch 1.05 added NPC map markers.
@R3TR0J4N no it was ubisoft games because by default they have a shit ton of prompts and ui clutter in their screen. They added the npc markers only on map, no on the UI of the screen when moving the character.
We are the insane ones, not Ubisoft. We still buy their games over and over and over again and expect that they change anything although we know they won't
For me it sucks that assassins creed don’t really feel like assassins creed anymore. If they were to take the combat of 3rd game, combine it with the style and parkour of unity, while having a huge open world as black flag that would be perfect. Now it seems like Ubisoft is just slapping the name onto a game just to sell it
Not to mention we haven’t actually been apart of the brotherhood since Unity. Origins okay fine it’s the origin of the brotherhood. Odyssey takes place even before that & Valhalla we have the blade but we don’t join it. Stupid
The thing here is that if Ubisoft, or any other company, wanted to deliver quality products they would never set a release date, they would give the employees and developers time to finish their work.
@@EndymionTv easy fix all they have to do is announce the game but do not set a release date. You cannot rush quality and if you want sponsors sure but the finished product comes first and is the only thing that matters. It feels like 90% of every game released in the past 10 years has been delayed so more time is obviously needed.
you have to understand that no sound investor will ever put their money into something that cant predict good and timely returns. And I have absolutely no idea ho anyone will ever bridge that disconnect, as someone who is focused on the economic side of things will never understand the developer, hell it's quite likely that the investors don't even play games or know what a quality game looks like. All they want is for the big number to go up. This is how I imagine their conversations going: "so what, you have a product yet", "well yes, but it's....", "does it work well?", "technically it does y....", "ok ship it now, 6 months is plenty of time to put a AAA game together", "...".
@@nobalkain624 yeah but making movie or video game is way more expensive and require more people then a book or a painting. So the more people invovle in the project the more dilute one version for that work is, movie and video game is more like a product make to be sold then a passion project like a painting or the first books. Let not forget movie and video game got a producer (some one that mediate between the director and the money) which further dilute the vision of the project. It even worse for video game cause the director have no power in the industry so most triple a studio will replace a director or force them out if those director dont change the project to their liking(there basically 3 except to the rule kojima, sid Meier, miyamotor)
@@khanhnguyen-tt3ff It doesnt change that the best Movies and Video Games have been passion projects that where made by Artists who wished to share a vision they had with everyone. Sure they want to make Money, like everyone, but they also had an Artistic Vision. When you put Money before Art you get things like Avengers. Trying to claim something cannot be Art just because multiple Artists are involved is just an odd thing to say. Plus if you really want to get technical almost all Movies and Games have a person at the helm that trying to get everyone to help them create their Art.
I remember before they used to have one person in charge of every franchise. And if that person didn’t like a suggestion they had the ultimate power to shut it down, it was crazy
It’s hilarious to me that millions of dollars worth of consumer research and corporate think tanks can’t figure out that all you have to do to be successful as a game developer is listen to what your fans like and don’t like and deliver accordingly
I know right? Like, all they need to do is read the average RU-vid comment section. Hell, even the developers at their own company, probably gamers themselves, could tell them this.
I have a theory about the line about insanity that Vaas said in FC3: an employee that already new the future roadmap of games being developed by Ubi decided to joke over this overly repetitive game designs and scammy micro-transactions that future games would have, kind of a fourth wall breaking and such.
Rainbow 6: Patriots had the best story in Rainbow 6 ever told imao and it would have made Tom Clancy proud (RiP) BUT instead Ubisoft made the dumb decision of canceling it in favor of Siege and Abandon Single Player entirely for Multiplayer.
Siege was good for like 3 years too. Now it’s just an Esports machine where the devs cater to the pro league and milk the other 99.9% of players with the battle pass.
Looking at how they actively remove everything "controversial" in their games it would never happen todaty. Ubisoft is the corpiest of corperations out there.
siege is one of their best releases ever though. Well it was, until they changed leadership and went all in on microtransactions and balancing the game to be more casual.
I still think rainbow six siege is one of the last good shooters right now. It does bring a lot of really good balances that genuinely fix the game and aren’t stupid fixes that add more problems like most games end up doing. I’d say the only controversial downside to it right now is that the gadgets and the operators are starting to feel too futuristic for the type of game it is.
anyone whines about something "offensive" in the game on twitter, immediately apologize lick their feet and remove the offensive thing in the game no matter how tame and keep releasing trash dlc for people to buy, do not lower the prices of your last 2 games in the series so the moneybags made of meat who want to give the series a try instead of buying the latest iteration can pay full price, they are evil.👹
They really screwed up by not being first to a Japanese game with AC. People had been saying it for years and they didn't listen. Then, Sekiro and GoT drop and now no one wants it because they both did it way better than Ubisoft would have.
Bro u are missing a point here...even if they were first to capture the japanese history as well as they would i would buy the game and from the first crappy run-around mission i would think to myself oooo ive played that game before why did i buy it again?? Am i stupid. So i believe if they made a japanese concept game first they would help sekiro and GoT be even more successful coz ppl whould make the comparison....gameplay,scenario,music etc and last microtransactions....if they ever gonna make a japanese game better be a game not a documentary running simulator like valhalla or their done.thats what i believe
I think what sucks about Ubisoft for me is how they don’t even understand their own IPs anymore. Assassins creed was innovative for open worlds back in 2007 and a niche sci fi and is now an fantasy RPG and the story has nothing to do with AC anymore. R6 siege gameplay wise is still a tactical shooter but the entire realistic aesthetic is destroyed because Ubisoft love selling wacky uniforms and weapon skins. Far Cry is now a looter shooter and so is ghost recon. All their IPs have lost their original charm in the pursuit of industry trends and making a quick buck.
Wanna hear a joke? - What is a manager? - A manager is a person who believes that nine women can give birth to one child in one month. Ubisoft execs are like that.
That game was definitely unique. From the malaria mechanic, guns jamming & having to read your map while driving only to drive directly into a tree or off a cliff was definitely fun
no, i remember everyone hating that game for good reasons but i loved it and its much better than 3 in my opinion. Yes its repetitive and has issues but unlike 3 its an actual open world game that you can mess around, 3d is so scripted you cant mess around in quests, you must be stealthy or kill everyone or use a knife and most skills are locked behind main missions. But yeah far cry 2 had soul, as did stalker modern open world games do not its a colectathon of crap.
One of the good AC game from Ubi before their insanity is Syndicate because they actually made somthing new and fun in it which is the gang gameplay as if I was playing Saintsrow but AC. They should have built upon that mechanic!
What? Syndicate was just heavily dumbed down Unity. Origins completely reworked the series base mechanics and Odyssey built a lot of fresh systems opon that foundation. Even Valhalla has more new stuff than Syndicate did.
For the Avatar comment, the hair connector thing is more like a usb than a reproduction organ. To be honest, its actually a genius idea on how to transfer information biologically Its bundle of nerves, but it can connect to other nerves, hence how they communicate to the animals
I get that he doesnt like Avatar, but it seems like he's being purposefully idiotic on his comments. Pretty obvious what you described is not far from the truth and he is just being willfully obtuse.
Paraphrased quotes by DJ Peach Cobbler about Ubisoft or any triple A studio that I really like: "A lack of failure does not mean you're good at the game. A lack of failure means you aren't playing it." "Valve understands that they have not won, because you cannot win. By the time you realize your formula doesn't work anymore, you will have 10 games with that formula DEEP in development.....it'll be too late to change by then."
It's also insane that over 1000's of years of human history. Most people haven't realized that 99% of humans are NPCs who do as they are told and only chase trends.
Ghost Recon's mistake was Breakpoint and abandoning the realism of previous titles in favor of trying to be CoD. Breakpoint's story being set in a Fictional Country/Island and the Wolves being Technologically advanced.
wish they go with first person mode, do you remember rainbow sieg was supposed to be swat realism and guess what grounding branch is what rainbow siege supposed to be and turns out this guy used to work with ubisoft rainbow siege abandoned realism idea is now doing independent game everyone playing that game right now
@@EndymionTv ubisoft more screw up when the game released it was buggy as hell, forcing everyone to play online without offline more bullshit is that they reuse division third person style and the game gets boring really fast i mean wildlands did a great job but breakpoint is not what ghost recon isnt about
Ghost Recon Wildlands was the last true Ghost Recon imao. Breakpoint was a CoD knockoff that took the realism of previous GR games and adapted a Hollywood Michael Bay/80s action movie type of approach that felt less like a Ghost Recon game. At launch they even took away your A.I. controlled teammates in favor of a "Survive Alone and be a "One Man Army" type of game. Sure they added A.I. Teammates later on BUT it was too little too late and the A.I. sucked.
Absolutely hated not having AI companions and the gear score system ripped straight from The Division. The retroactive addition of AI companions wasn’t even worth it, since the squad maneuvering and planning is uncontrollable and the squadmates don’t seem to actually exist in the world realistically. They shoot a bunch, never kill anyone, and die from one enemy. Unfortunate, because all aspects of gameplay were bettered over Wildlands, but everything else was sacrificed for it.
no, but it want a looter shooter. The last good ghost recon game was the first one and maybe ghost recon 2. Advanced warfighter was a casual shooter on consoles and a joke on pc. There is a game called black one blood brothers trying to copy the old games.
@@arkgaharandan5881 Wildlands at least felt like a progression story-wise going from terrorists to fighting cartels in Bolivia which are real problem in today's world.
@@arkgaharandan5881 Breakpoint felt more like a looter shooter than wildlands imao. Advanced Warfighter 1 and 2 on consoles was pretty good and I'm glad that they made the enemies the Mexican cartels.
Calling it Now: Splinter Cell reboot/remake/remaster will be a buggy & glitchy mess at launch and the Story will be a disaster that will cater to "Modern Audiences" and push "The Message" thus Mocking and Alienating the original fans.
Bruh the hair connector thing in avatar is not their genitals 😅. It’s basically a usb port they can connect to other living things. Two of the avatar ppl were literally shown banging just like humans do in the first movie. That shit is hilarious tho.
It's really sad what greed can do to people and companies. This is the same company that produced one of the best trilogies ever made in Prince of Persia trilogy, Rayman games, Splinter Cell, Child of light, King Kong adaptation which was underrated as well as the first Far cry and AC games which were very good. They now have become the AC/Far cry Milk company. They don't care about bringing back their other great ips, they don't care about changing their formula to their open world fetch/bloated games. They could have easily take the decision to put a high budget into remaking POP trilogy like Capcom did with Resident Evil, bring a new Rayman game, don't take 10 plus years to bring back Splinter cell. So many wrong choices....
Corporations that prioritize greed and profits are ruining stuff everywhere. Executives and whatnot have so much money already, yet they still cut corners, mistreat employees, and overcharge to make profits. It’s truly sad and disgustingly greedy behavior. The micro transactions, the following of the generic gaming formulas, the releasing of half assed products at full price, lazy writing, etc, it’s all just really disgustingly greedy behavior.
They ironically bleed more money by doing all of that corner cutting and then basically demanding people buy junk in a broken game. Why would people buy something in a game that doesn't work?
Every industry in the world is currently doing that right now. Maximum profits, breaking records, but doing all they can to keep costs low. Skeleton crews of halfway staffed teams stressed to the max, expected to pick up double the slack while wages stay the same and housing prices continue to soar. There is no fucking way I will ever be able to afford a home. There is no way we will all be struggling this badly and content with it for so long. Something has to change before the power we hold is taken away.
Last Ubisoft game I remember enjoying was Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Despite how much I hate them now, I still have to admit that Chaos Theory is still the best Stealth game I have ever experienced.
Watch dogs legion frustrates me to this day, played nonstop on release in a serious case of comatose copium, didn't even finished the game. Rip watch dogs 😪
The Ubisoft MO...= Create something truly great and unique Then Run it into the ground by releasing too many sequels where you barely change anything about the game but sell it at full price...do that over and over till gamers get sick of your games..
Ubisoft's greatest Sin and mistake was cancelling Rainbow 6: Patriots and disrespectfully still using Tom Clancy's name to promote their multiplayer only games that barely have anything to do with Tom Clancy.
@keroseno Ghost Recon: wildlands was more like Sicario and Zero Dark Thirty with semi realistic Tactical Ghost Recon: breakpoint was a cheesy 80s with you on your own going up against an army with none of your AI controlled teammates.
@keroseno Wildlands was more like Ghost Recon advanced Warfighter 1 and 2 in terms of the enemies you were facing like the Mexican and Bolivian cartels.
@keroseno Question: what type of laptop am I going to need to run ARMA 3 ready.or.not and Tarkov any other tactical Shooters like the original R6. I have a Dell latitude E5400 laptop.
This was such a good video for committed gamers like me. You speak my heart, my friend. I am so old that I remember a time when you could just say, “It’s a new Ubisoft game,” and everyone knew it was going to be good. Now, if you tell people that, everyone knows that within a few weeks, it won’t even wind up in dollar sales bins, because there won’t even be a hard copy published to throw into the, “Reduced To Clear,” bins. I feel like I’ve lived through the birth, the rise, the renaissance and the decline of the video games industry now. And it’s fat cats like Yves Guillemot who caused this decline. I think Red Dead II was the highest we’ll ever get in terms of story, art, gameplay, characters, music and all around quality coming together to make a perfect game? If you don’t like that game, I’m sorry for you, as even Rockstar shows signs of toileting their company now. It ain’t getting any better. And it sure as hell ain’t at Ubisoft. This video summed it up perfectly.
Couldn't agree more, seen the rise myself and the industry as a whole has become saturated with greed. Do hope one day, whilst still alive, we see the industry return to a degree of normalcy, where artistic expression helps generate profit, rather then being stifled in favour of another generic release.
Been a Gamer since I was a Kid in the 80's, first played on my Step Dads old 5600 when I was around 2. Spent more time then I care to admit in Arcades and then in my Room Playing any System I could get my hands on. I remember when the Gameboy came out and wished I could get one. Still to this day I am a Gamer, but so much of it has become corrupted by the Greed of those at the Top who have no clue what it takes to make a Good Game. All they care about is how much they can squeeze out of us. They dont care if the entire Game Industry burns to the ground, because they will just move over to something else they can exploit for more money. I am glad I was around to see all the Great Games that were made, but I am sad to see all Crap that has been piling up as well. When Gaming went Main Stream there were more Players who no longer cared about the Quality or Health of Gaming, they just want the latest thing to distract them for a few hours before they toss it to the side for the next Shinny thing.
I would extend this to all mainstream art outside of gaming for the last 23 years actually. The last couple decades have been the absolute epitome of bland, generic, corporate movies and music to such a degree I no longer even pay attention at all to what's going on in the mainstream. It's sad but becoming more and more the same story with mainstream games now as well. However, there are still so many independent small budget developers making great games that I have so many on my steam wishlist and steam library, I don't have enough time to even play them at this point. Yes it takes much more work to find quality underground games but like with music and movies it's effort well spent in my opinion.
@@j85grim4 Agreed, every Entertainment Business is trying to chase this Dream that they can create something that every person in the World will like and buy. Its a Fools Errand that will just lose them the Loyal Customers they Have as they chase those they Wand.
For the part about the Prince of Persia remake, they actually said that the graphics were an intentional choice on their part (due to PoP being different from AC).
If it’s any consolation, this train wreck was designed, developed , and produced by a multicultural team of various beliefs, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
I wish that Ubisoft didn't drop watch dogs I really enjoyed the first one, and liked Aiden as a character, and wished they would've continued with Aiden in a grey hat hacker vigilante like story going around protecting the people from the higher ups above
In retrospect of Unity debacle and a year after Syndicate release, Unity and Far Cry Primal were no doubt one of the main cause for the infamous "Ubisoft formula" other than the yearly release leading to player fatigue. also, it's unavoidable since these franchises were on their 5th installment.
which is funny, because Unity broke the yearly release thing in the worst conceivable way by being the _second_ game that year after Rogue, rushed out of the door in a buggy and incomplete state with multiple dropped plot threads that will never be expanded upon and multiple promised features missing, just to cash in on next gen hype. It wasn't player fatigue or the actual developers that ruined Unity that's for sure.
I love how you call them Oo-bee-soft. My head kept getting confused by that name because I am used to Yoo-bee-soft. Great video btw, very direct to the point. Ubisoft used to be a great title but they have sold themselves out like the big brands , so yeah, dirt on their names…
It’s insane that they’re actually facing consequences for constantly making trash, hopefully their slimy friends in 2k etc also do, they’ve been getting away with it for far too long.
I live in France and that Ubisoft is headquartered in France I was aware Ubisoft was in the toilet, however I was unaware the flushing had started had sad employees sabotaging their work because of one of the bosses! Ubisoft did make good video games, I guess all good things come to an end goodbye Ubisoft I guess you got too big too fast, and forgot your roots you're French we sabotage are work when you mistreat us! A eating 😁!
Honestly if they did make a brand new splinter cell now it would just be ghost recon wild lands. Plus splinter cell in an open world? Ehhh that game was always about its intricate level design and Ubi does nothing but open world now
Its tragic, Ubisoft used to release banger after banger, now i wont pay attention to new releases unless it gets praised by youtubers like yourself. What a fall from greatness.
@@nousername2942 usually wokeness creates corruption. There's a lot of consistency that proves this, but these are not the sole reasons Ubi are a failure, their insistence of pushing the worst monetizing trends and not making gams that are actually good.
@@kaitosevski3881 "Anyone who unironically uses the word woke is likely a closeted fascist" Yeah, sure. I'm a *huge* fan of Benito Mussolini and big government dictatorships.
@@EndymionTv I believe that wokeness is just the way they excuse it. They support Diversity and Inclusion! So those people complaining about the degraded quality in games and the insane monetization are 'ists'.
@@hughjaenus2235 it wasn't the race stuff they were pushing in Valhalla, I know people use 'wokeness' a lot and some use it for everything. My suggestion here is in how they talk about things as a company. It's become very common that when fans of a franchise have legitimate criticism, the company (not just Ubi) likes to infer fans are racist and the preach about Diversity, gender and all that. It's a distraction tactic. So when people have actual criticisms (for example I love Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and Future Soldier, splinter Cell games, and they're not around or turned into something else with varying successes.) fans get called racist etc. I backed away from Ubi when Odyssey was the thing. The game that could be described as 'woke' accurately though, would be Far Cry 6. The game has the whole communist revolutionary thing. They have done things according to woke politics in other games before. Such as making half the gang members you beat up in AC: Syndicate be thuggish women. That would have been rare back in that era. In that game they also changed the whole values between Templars and Assassins. Templars weren't ever just greedy capitalist businessmen who were overly malicious, they were about creating order. and assassins weren't socialists, they were about freedom. Those are examples of woke changes to Lore Ubi did since before people called it that though.
@@ArgentWolf95 I see, i haven't played Far Cry 6 and apart from the "This game was created by a diverse team of multiple religions and genders etc." i don't really see as much wokeness as i do in other games. Like i don't mind if the main character is black or a woman or anything like that, my issue lies when the wokeness is pushed so far it doesn't make sense in the story or the world. For example if they did black vikings, similar to how Netflix decided to make Witcher's (Which is a show meant to be in a cold Eastern Europe setting) half of the cast black + lazy race swaps. In a way i think Ubisoft is actually aware how some of the games die quickly because of their wokeness, notice how in AC Odyssey and Valhalla the protagonist canonically are female, but Ubisoft decides to always use the male counterpart in all of their trailers? it's almost like they're afraid to showcase diversity. And i mean they did do that for Liberation, but that game was a flop. So i'd say they're fine with going woke, but they also know their audience and don't wanna push their agendas too far, even if they pride themselves as a "diverse team". Again, personally i don't mind a bit of diversity as long as it's not forced.
For me I loved watch dogs, watch dogs legion, Syndicate, origns, odyssey, vahalla and far cry 6 was my first far cry game and I loved it. So I don't understand why Ubisoft is failing
Now games are heavy political messaging, microtransactions oriented, only looking for graphics, and with no storyline or soul within the games themselves. Money is the companies' ultimate goal until they realize that people stopped buying their games. Hopefully it can happen to all the games makers that are in the path. Maple story is the real bad guy that brings games today are.
Remember when Ubisoft made good Classics and hidden Gems, like Battle Isle Battle Realms Beyond Good and Evil Might and Magic Heroes of Might and MAgic Rayman Ghost Recon Tonic Trouble Myst Child of Light? Those were the days.
I can kinda understand why games like FIFA or CoD can be released yearly even though I strongly disapprove, but releasing games like Assassin's Creed or Far Cry with the same mentality for years would be like releasing Witcher yearly with the same missions and no matter how good Witcher is repetitive nature of the game eventually would tire customers.
Yeah, it is a shame to see a company like I Ubisoft take these kind of hits(even if they are self-inflicted wounds). Thanks for uploading again so soon Endymion 😎
Thanks for watching! I’m debating if I should do a Forspoken video when the game launches tomorrow or just chill til Thursday and watch Velma then make a video on that for Friday we’ll see As long as you guys watch I’ll make it 🤘🏻🔥
I think in all the live service mania companies are missing one OBVIOUS key point : it's winner take all. Or their whole top management suffers from delusions of grandeur, I guess. With how aggressively these things are designed to lockup a chunk of player's daily time in perpetuity, most of these attempts must fail for the few to succeed.
I refuse to hate on Ubisoft. They are the only company brave enough to focus on multiple licenses that people enjoy on this level. They have a formula that never required the industry to copy them. I'll continue to support the company.
Sounds like so many huge companies (if not all in some form or fashion). Some of them are just getting so ballsy anymore. It's insane how the expectations from companies increased ten fold, but probably makes sense after the push to have everyone to have a "higher wage." Even though that wage increase was for what we were ALREADY DOING. And some of us barely got one too. I'm not trying to do WAY more, and deal with WAY more, at about the same pay I had before. Come TF on. I really need my life back...
That insanity line that was used in far cry and transitions into a Ubisoft joke has also been done over and over again and people still think it’s clever/funny
Don't forget Rocksmith which was always buggy and had technical issues, but still appreciated for it's utility being turned into a subscription model while they continued to ignore all the technical issues.
Ubisoft are the definition of lacking inspiration. Their games aren't even bad per se. In fact most are pretty well made. They just completely lack interesting ideas.
Don't forget they took away all DLC for Far Cry 3 and a load of the assassin's creed games we paid for... We can still kind of own the games but we lost all the DLC. It's stuff like this that makes me think pirating stuff will become mainstream again if not near necessary to keep what you paid for due to how they are operating.
The major problem with Ubisoft that most people don't see is that they actually base their game development on trend surfing. Ubisoft made Far Cry 3 as a trend surfing to Skyrim; Ubisoft made Watch Dogs as a trend surfing to GTA Online; Ubisoft made The Division and Far Cry 5 as a trend surfing to Fallout while also converting the Ghost Recon franchise into a false open world as a trend surfing to Fallout as well; Ubisoft made For Honor as a trend surfing to Mount and Blade; Ubisoft made AC: Odyssey and Valhalla as a trend surfing to both God of War and The Witcher. Oh and one more thing, they even trend surf on the Terminator and Predator franchise.
I bought two just dance titles for my daughter. She was excited to play only to be met with not going into the game due to having to connect online. There was no offline mode to just get into the game so she cant play. That experience was enough to not buy any titles with ubisoft on the box.
Ubisoft had Rayman but they dropped it after Rayman Legends and instead have the rabbits which never got my interest. Lol It's like they were given the chance to have their own "Sonic, Mario and Megaman" but they screwed it up.
You'd think after Origins and Legends that Ubisoft would be full on committed to a new Rayman game in a similar continuity. Those games were like crack cocaine, so fun, addictive and clever, still play them to this day. I can't wrap my head around their disinterest in producing another Rayman game.
Large corporations and greedy CEO's need to stay out of gaming. That's why most AAA games nowadays aren't even fun anymore. The small one to two man development teams are making the best games now it seems.
I tried giving both frontline and valhalla a shot, I dropped frontline almost immediately, I think during the prologue mission. Valhalla I tried a little more, waited to see if it would get good, and then it dawned on me- in game they were contemplating the possibility of the protagonist losing their last family member, and I realized that I didn't give a fuck. It's such a lifeless game, I regularly put more care and effort into my morning shit than that dev team did. Fuck Ubisoft.
This makes me so happy. PLEASE READ THIS - as someone who has worked for a company that has became over powered by greed, 2 things to know: employees are treated as less than, and they do not care about consumers. You and me are nothing to them but more money in their pockets. This greed among these massive corporations NEEDS to change and it comes from us. If you love gaming, the more these money grabbers suffer and die out, the better quality of gaming we will get out of the industry. Ubisoft have brought me a lot of amazing gaming memories, but if they’re willing to put money above all else, then they don’t deserve to have it.
Making a "game as a service" starts with making a FUCKING GAME. If your game is shit, people aren't going to stick around until you make it better. Especially if it's going to cost them more money to see it.
Such a shame, I feel bad for people in Ubisoft making amazing looking Openworlds but their efforts getting wasted by boring, repetitive things to do in it.
