Terrible Products Fail And That's Good 

I think the “modern audiences” we hear about don’t actually want to use or play these products. They just like the idea that the products are being produced.

"Thank you for being considerate of where you spend your time and money" Brother, I have to get my car's entire suspension replaced. Hell no, I am not buying Concord

Ubisoft stock dropped 11% after reports of Outlaws' underwhelming sales. I can't imagine what's going to happen after Assassin's Creed Shadows flops.

It's the beautiful culmination of making a piss-poor product and then trying to bully and gaslight people into paying up.

Patriarchal world where the two heads of the rebellion are princess Leia (woman) and Mon Mothma (also a woman). Also, there is a very clear line of good and evil in Star Wars. That was the entire point of light side and dark side.

I miss when if a video game failed, the people making it admitted they screwed up, acknowledged their mistakes and learned from them. But now no one takes responsibility, they blame EVERYONE, the customers, the reviewers, youtubers, the freaking government, I'm surprised they don't blame god almighty while they are at it, but never themselves. Until these companies and creators get their egos in check this crap will never stop.

About a year ago I told a friend I wanted a “Jedi solving a murder mystery, something completely disconnected from the Skywalker saga” and little did I realize then that a monkey paw was curling…

Killing stormtroopers with her bare hands. Whaooow! Such powah! Much skillz!

Dustborn failed so spectacularly you forgot it existed

So cringey when the one lady was on stage saying "she's a powerful leader..." *crickets* ..."...SHES A POWERFUL LEADER..." one person: "woooo" "YASS, YASSSSS"

Fun fact, the current number of players online on the Korean server for Starcraft: Broodwar is 16614. It is 2AM in Korea. This is a game that was released in 1998. This does not count players on LAN or just playing offline. 16614 is only 23.8 times as many people Concord had at peak.

Ah yes, the Acolyte, created by Harvey Wienstien's personal assistant, Leslie Headland. The woman who read and handled all his appointments, emails, messages, arranged all those meetings with all the actresses; says she knew nothing, and the first thing she did was write a play about a boss abusing and exploiting his staff after she stopped working for him. Knew nothing of course.

Ubisoft will say "Gamers don't want single player games anymore" while ignoring Black Myth Wo Kung and Warhammer game sales.

I’m not sure what people expect when you tell them “this isn’t for you” and “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it”. No wonder people aren’t lining up when they’re being excluded from the start.

Every time I hear the "yass, yass" I groan in cringe.

"Anyone that tells you, you have to try everything is a moron." Thank you for saying it

The funny thing about AC shadows is they were so close in their idea to get the buzz they wanted. All they had to do was make the black samurai a side character. It’s close enough to historical accuracy for them to pull off without too many complaints and still tell a story the majority of people would want to experience

The shippers love this stuff. But I’m not sure they even watch it any longer than it takes to grab a frame to trace for their terrible Tumblr art.

Weird how “this isn’t for you” and “just don’t watch/buy it” have come to fruition and these folks don’t seem to enjoy the results of those phrases being used against their customer base.

I imagine the complete failure of Dustborn and Concord secretly left their respective devs weeping in hatred.

People use the sunk cost fallacy when making excuses not to leave their terrible relationships too lol

There's going to be a basketball minigame for Yasuke too, just you wait.

Companies have every right to make DEI / woke / "the message" games and consumers have every right to choose to not buy these products. The market will decide.

As a father: I've watched you grow since you were 12K subs. I'm here for 100k! Keep going brother. I'm proud of you.

Make Free Demos Great Again~ Seriously though, I'm old enough to remember a time when many games had free demos available so that you could download it early, give the game a try and see if it would work on your system or if the game itself seemed fun and like something you'd like to buy. It was very pro-consumer and honestly there were numerous games I ended up buying when they came out because I _GASP_ _SHOCK_ actually knew the game would work ahead of time and knew I'd enjoy the game!

10:54 looks like she's trying so hard to remember all the buzzwords she can use to make herself the victim XD

And for a company, a failed product can be the biggest sign that they aren't providing what customers want and allows them to reorient themselves towards better products.

I don't feel bad for these people who keep paying for early access. You get what you deserve.

The power of many is the free market. The writers didn't really understand "the power of many."

My ten year old daughter will overuse a new word she's learned like vitriol, and it sounds just like Amandla.

The power of one The power of two The power of the market

Its so bizarre how these companies seem to want a specific audience to consume their product and often will push away people they don't want consuming their product? A business should want as many customers as possible, and want to cater to what they want. I don't understand how this attitude has persisted so long and all these people have been allowed to fail forward for so long.

That dig at Tate at the beginning was flawless

"Treat yourself as a business and treat their own time and money as capital.". This is some of the best life advice that can be given. Not just with games, but with everything in life. Great advice.

"the quirk of pattern recognition", "I'm using a grin that, unlike most book characters, *does* reach my eyes," i'm SENT XD

"Hyper conservative vitriol" = "They made fun of me cause i can't rap"

Dustborn, a game that wears literally every single problem with current day media proudly on its denim sleeves, ironically gets outshined due to the over saturation. Its gotten THAT bad.

Losses are just as important as profit when allocating scarce resources in an economy. If you can’t even make back your costs, then you need to stop making them and provide a benefit that people actually want. The beauty of capitalism on display.

'' full force punch from a toddler'' - that has me crackin up.

5:21 - Why is that trooper distracted by that animal, idk its name, but not the dozens of rats running around when that thing is barely larger?

I'm willing to bet Amandala herself wasn't watched the Acolyte.

At some point this industry HAS to learn social media pats on the back don't pay the bills.

Ubisoft probably spent more time trying to make Outlaws main character look like Rocky from 1985 movie Mask than checking their game features worked.

Opening gaming scene: I know these games love heroines but there is a reason why you don’t punch people with helmets on. Just ask hockey players. I realize I’m supposed to suspend disbelief but this is just goofy.

I'd like for someone to explain to me how a "vocal minority of far right RU-vid trolls" have so much influence over the droves of woke new audiences, that they refuse to watch a show they all clearly love. I've posed this question multiple times on social media, purely for educational purposes of course, only to have the defenders delete all their posts and dissappear.

How cute...she learned a new word and repeated it at least 3 times in short amount of time.

The "bad ai" bug in Star Wars Outlaw is not accurate. The reason the enemies don't attack you is because of the main character's hidden ability. The "Mary Sue" field. Anyone within 10 meters of the character will be instantly idiotic if they are male. Just thought I'd clear up that misinformation.

Totally agree. I also hate in this new age the consumer need to be very careful because big companies use a lot of cash to say the game is actually good, and if you read only the "game journalist" you may be fooled. I'm not saying there is no echo chambers on the other side, but at least with many views you can made your own conclussions.... Or look for a channel that shares you POV (like this one and me) and enjoy the reviews.

I felt so bad about the cancellation that I went ahead and signed the please DONT renew this show petition (yes it exists)

AAAA stands for "Absolutely Abysmal Absence of Audience"

Ubisoft should worry about a lot of unpaid rights usage violations they pulled on Japanese heritage sites and the Sekigahara Rifle Corps. The fact they've intentionally ignored the Corps' request to remove their group's flag will just be the beginning of a lot of litigation.

2:50 thank you for being one of the few people to call the "early access" what it is: a penalty for people who either can't, or refuses to, spend over 100 bucks for this garbage!

"Breakage." I didn't know there was a word for that. Cool. Just a heads up for anyone feeling masochistic enough to want to play Star Wars Outlaws or AC Shadows, you can sign up for Ubi's subscription service and then immediately cancel after processing payment. You don't have to wait until the end of the month and remember to cancel. I feel like that's probably common knowledge, but in case it's not.

I absolutely love seeing bad things failing and good things succeeding. I also love that we have access to so many good things out there for free or cheap (Tubi, Pluto, thrift store DVD bins, watching Greg on RU-vid etc.) so I'm not under any obligation to watch or play stuff I won't enjoy.

Meanwhile: Space Marine 2 has just sold 2 million units. It's earned its success.

I just don't understand what storm trooper armor is supposed to do at this point. From being taken down by rocks and clubs in return of the jedi to this: getting punched in the face being enough to take them down and render them unconscious.

There was an advert before your video for The Acolyte and Disney- Like a shoe shop trying to sell you one shoe....with a hole in it.

I don't think she even knows what the word vitriol means. She just figures. Hey, it's a word that sounds like I'm intelligent

Wait, I thought we were a small minority of haters? How do we have such power? Oh, turns out we’re not a minority at all.

"Rampage of vitriol" is one of my new favorite sound bites😂

You did touch on this with Starwars Outlaws but there's also another concern that I've been noticing in videogames for a while. For decades hardcore games were the cutting edge of the industry in being ahead of everyone else, this was due to the fact that their player base hardcore gamers demanded such expectations of their games. It's what made such games in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s so great. For years there's been a surge of casual players and whales going into such games and almost all are not able to handle the very hard difficulty and ruthless nature of such games (both single and multiplayer games). In catering to them, devs would nerf/change the games from what they originally were and chase off the hardcore gamers. This ended up getting more games to become easier instead of keeping to their core audience and ruining the games. The devs of Elden Ring were aware of this and it's why they didn't cave in regarding nerfing the difficulty of their game. Starwars Outlaws has not only completely nerfed the difficulty of the game but there's practically no difficulty at all (with the exception of some that were bugs). It's one of the reasons why Ubisoft games have been failing horribly because there's no real challenge in playing them anymore and that's a big part of what makes Starwars Outlaws so boring.

You have a fantastic channel man!

"Slump quicker than Andrew Tates interest in Girls older than 16", OOOOFFF!!!! That one hit harder than the Dreadnaught. Greg is fighting it out with Echo Chamberlain as to who is my favourite RU-vidr of the Summer...and its one close run fight!

The Pecan Pie people are not amused 😡

Sometimes bad products succeed, and that is just as bad.

Love your comical view of these terrible products. When you can’t own your failure, it’s worse than the failure itself. The acolyte…..I can’t speak to the game, was an epic fail for the reasons you mentioned in your 2 hour ‘spot-on’ analysis. Star Wars fans….want what we want! That simple!

I am overjoyed at the failure of Concord, Outlaws, Dustborn, and Acolyte. I truly hope Silent Hill 2 and Assassin's Creed suffer the same fate.

Normies and (former) fans didn't like my show so I will insult them and call them alt-right and bigot. Very mature.

The failure of Dustborn have overshadowed by the fail of Concord.

Greg here's a gem you could use "like Ubisoft's stock, DROP that like button." I couldn't resist its suck in my head now that I thought it

We as consumers need to bring back healthy skepticism when it comes to buying products and spending our time. I feel like ever since the internet became a mainstay in business we’ve grown lazy in research into what we’re buying. Businesses realized our laziness and they’ve weaponized it against us.

Finally someone said what I was thinking! It's not 8 billion humans on this planet actively rejecting this trash fire. Most don't know or care and are not under any obligation to watch it, even if they have a D+ sub. I don't.

"With the superpower, or quirk" Hey, Greg, you watched mha?

Thanks for not blaming the whole failure of the show on “woke ideology.” These failures happen regardless because of companies focusing too much on side features and not the main product. The product can be good and diverse at the same time and you seem to understand that. And I appreciate your point on how immediately bigotry was blamed for the show’s failure instead of the quality of writing. It implies that also works as a bad argument in return. I respect that.

The problem is you were eating pecan pie. What you needed to be eating was peCAN pie.

“Pecan pie, which is disgusting” You offend me! (jk I’ll have your slice)

9:33 I know a tax write off when I see one lmao

Wwwwwhy is no one talking about that like button joke? The combination of the "nope, i hear it, I'm sorry" while still choosing to leave it in is for some reason very funny to me. I guess I'm easily amused 😅

Stock hit a 10 year low? Will it go lower? My inner mini investor is intrigued 😂

I am convinced that when the secret level show Aries, that sony will basically force Amazon to remove the concord episode, and just turn it it o lost media

I just did my replay of the DS series and man I had such a better time playing DS2 than I did the first time.

About the Lego set: swapping wings turns the fighters into "uglies" used by pirates mentioned in the X wing books😊

Ya know, it seems that companies that make good products make money, whereas companies that try to make money from products are either wildly inconsistent or run out of gas eventually. What I'm trying to say is that business majors ruin everything. They view business as a purely economic activity, when in reality it is a socio-economic activity.

I do like that AAAA games has become the industry lingo for massively expensive flops

HOLY SMOKES the peanut brittle analogy is GENIUS.

When they/them cry and scream, I know my job is done 😂

Dude, I never had a chance to make a choice about Concord. I didn't hear about it until it was stopped.

After the failure of Concord and Outlaws, it's nice to see Astro Bot, a genuinely wonderful game, come out and receive huge positivity from the gaming community.

7:20 And the uncanny face of the protagonist still makes me uncomfortable.

Seeing this stuff fail gives me much joy too. I don't get how games can be so out of touch nowadays? I dearly miss how 90s-00s gaming had such a vast range of creativity. I love the amount of risk they took on odd concepts in This Y2K era- the Dreamcast/PS2/360. It should show us that GRAPHICS are not the most important thing.. If you can create satisfying movement, gameplay mechanics, physics effects, responsive parts of a environment that makes you want to explore it, engage it, etc. That stuff is so much more important. Not: {"Who can make the largest game map? Or have the most reflections?"} I think Art style, design, vibe, aesthetic is much more important. You don't need top notch graphics to greatly appreciate and enjoy playing a game. That's why we are seeing such a resurgence of players who have gone back to playing older games because they realized the aspects of gaming that they care about and are unhappy with most modern games. So hopefully gaming will enter a new era. That mixes in aspects of the older era's. With our modern capabilities that will hopefully help make it easier to create a satisfying game (without it taking 8 years to build a broken game. Hopefully) Currently everything is trying to be like a Triple AAA game or a free to play online battle Royale game.. A lot of us miss when we had game selection similar to how the Dreamcast/GameCube/360/PS2 era had a mix of. As well alot of those games came with options for local multiplayer, split screen, LAN parties, or offline modes against bots or other diverse offline CPU game modes. Yet modern games are not only lacking those dynamic options that give games nearly endless replayability features... Modern games are lacking even meeting the most basic standards for game's... They don't seemed focused on the core of the games to be Fun. They over focus on "realism" Rather than adding in Artistic adaptations for the greater good of gaming as a whole.. We could be doing so much better yet people are just coming out with the most bland game design, braindead AI, less care for physics effects... We could be doing so much better than this..

The 'Modern Audience' is the same as the previous ones; they want to be entertained and not lectured to.

"Support us or you're a bigot." Rich privileged lady

Greg: "Pecan pie is disgusting." My Dad: "You realize this means war." Me: "Greg spittin' facts."

Literally had to pause the video and take a deep breath after that guy said star wars isn't about good and evil.

My new motto is, If it's "aaa" then STAAAY AWAAAY.

My expectations are low normally and if they get any lower I'll have to dig for them 😂😂😂

Hey if you like souls games, especially sekiro and bloodborne, play Lies of P! Absolutely the best non-From soulslike ever made and it's not even close.. so good

I'm too worried about Wukong having malware to try playing it 😂

in star wars EU 50 years after episode 6, the imperial remnant and the republic team up against the yuuzhan vong and due to lack of resources they started manufacturing x-wings with tie fighter wings to save on supplies

Between these losers, the idiots at Disney, and Logan Paul's Prime lawsuits, I'm just waiting for Elon Muskrat to wake up to his world burning down around him. Hot tip. If you make something for one purpose and it utterly fails at it, you can only coast off fads for so long