Ubisoft - Why They're Hated

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Ubisoft has some issues. I’m going to try to catalog all the issues with the company as it stands now in hopes that one day they might be addressed satisfactorily.
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0:00 Ubisoft Kinda Sucks
1:32 Accusations
6:01 Canceled & Terminated
7:34 Removing DLC
9:15 NFTs
15:38 Uplay
20:54 Ubisoft+ Plus
28:18 Games As A Service
31:18 Open World Games
35:09 Will Things Change At Ubisoft?
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What's Wrong With Ubisoft?
• Ubisoft - Why They're ...
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@reallycool Год назад

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@art-hx6hq 8 месяцев назад

Liberalism in short: we hate you and you can do nothing about it.

@nunosantos00 6 месяцев назад

I will be very honest about this,i hate Rockstar Games because of their outdated gameplay and graphical quality. For me they are some of the worst con developpers ever compared with Saber,after the great update they did to Snowrunner for Xbox calling them incompetent is like saying i love them. The main problem with Ubisoft is Assassin's Creed and those Ghost Recon games,one is overused and another is a nightmare to play. I have seen games like Farcry 2 that brought good graphics and not heavy game engine. Farcry 3 was a blast,6 was a blast. Watchdogs Legion is visually the best third person i've ever seen. Even with all their flaws because nothing is perfect there is no devs today or before comparable to Ubisoft in my opinion. Their gaphical quality overall,gameplay and innovation is 10 years above all the others. There are still a lot of players today stuck in the past with zombies and aliens or monsters so yes you should avoid Ubisoft and keep playing that,this is the best advice i have.

@user-tp5yb4hr4w 5 месяцев назад

that moment when you click on a video that shows up in the recommended feed and it's old news from a year ago lol.

@MoonlitMarch Год назад

Fatigue is really the word of the day for the whole industry, at least in the west. Steve Jobs' talk about marketing people taking over and losing sight of the actual product side of a business rings true now and seemingly forever. It's all so tiresome.

@BAM5636 Год назад

Fatigue is real for sure across the industry. Ironic that Jobs himself was always more of a master marketer though. I guess that is how he knew it would happen perhaps.

@turtleanton6539 10 месяцев назад

Agreed 😊

@DodgyDaveGTX 7 месяцев назад

More like Steve _Jobsworth_ amirite? 😉 (Yeah yeah I know he's dead RIP and all that but w/e 🤷‍♀)

@MrAjking808 7 месяцев назад

Same in the east lol 😂.. their just anime games with different skins

@TheTheValer 7 месяцев назад

Funny considering Jobs and Apple could be the poster children for marketing over quality

@Toukozuki Год назад

Tencent would basically multiply every issue Ubisoft has currently by 10. They don't need their fingers in anymore pies.

@velvetpilot2008 7 месяцев назад

What's Tencent?

@lennartj.8072 7 месяцев назад

@@velvetpilot2008 A huge chinese company which is pretty much controlled by the chinese government. They own Riot Games (LoL), Digital Extremes (Warframe), Funcom (Conan Exiles) and Sumo Digital (idk), and also have huge shares in a ton of others like Epic Games and Supercell. They allegedly steal data and also pretty much enforce a monopoly on the gaming market it China. They also often plagiarize other games.

@LTDLetsPlays 7 месяцев назад

@@velvetpilot2008 a Chinese company that is bad as nexon EA and Ubisoft and buying shares of any company it can

@DrJuiceMD 6 месяцев назад

@@velvetpilot2008The media overlords of most of Asia. Think of basically any big game that you know from Asia and they probably have some sort of ownership through subsidiaries or shares.

@jokerdaace 5 месяцев назад

I mean... any AAA company is shit and even the ones that aren't owned by Tencent are just as bad, look at EA that's a shit company, but one company that "isn't" so shit is riot. So rather they are/aren't owned by *CHINA* doesn't make them bad and I mean... how more bad can it get. they ALL are selling our data/personal information, they ALL are selling us shit products at times, they ALL are shit towards their employees and being racist/sexist. so yeah don't know how tencent will make it worse when Ubishit is fucking pathetic

@Gruntvc Год назад

"Kind of sucks." Nah, Ubisoft full on sucks now. Best recent example, updating the Splinter Cell Remake for "modern audiences." See how well that worked out for Saints Row 2022 and G4.

@coltonwilkie241 6 месяцев назад

At this point I highly doubt the Splinter Cell remake is even happening.

@laxesthecorgi9824 3 месяца назад

@@coltonwilkie241 Don't forget delisting Crew 1

@JJsiN84 10 дней назад

No way are they really? The original splinter cell trilogy were some of my favorite games of all time in the early 2000s. I'm so tired of this "modern audience" crap. It fails every time and then the developers blame us.

@DustyRagu Год назад

RIP Rayman. One of my favorite series of games, now that the awfulness of triple A development and Ubisoft itself drove Michel ancel completely out of the industry we'll never really get another proper one with that same charm, fun and soul again

@Masilya111 Год назад

Ubisoft Montpellier that usually worked on the Rayman IP seems to be stuck forever with BGE2. The last hope seems to be the studio that made the mario+rabbids games. I think they have the talent to make a new ambitious 3D Rayman game. But hey, that's probably hopium on my part.

@turtleanton6539 10 месяцев назад

Agreed😊

@TheRealRuddRants 7 месяцев назад

Man. That sucks so bad. I hate them. Says I the guy who got Scott Pilgrim versus the world the game complete twice.

@DustyRagu 7 месяцев назад

@@TheRealRuddRants i boight it used so i feel less guilty lol

@kikrinman1450 6 месяцев назад

@@TheRealRuddRants no reason to hate on a genuinely good and effort-filled game.

@SlurpyPie 6 месяцев назад

As someone who is a fan of Ubisoft's older titles it still sickens me that the company that made some of my favorite games of my childhood have stooped so low especially now with their new subscription.

@rezalmao 6 месяцев назад

New subscription is 15 quid for over £1000 worth of content

@tumado7304 6 месяцев назад

They are definition of "go woke go Broke"

@SPexHoS2137 5 месяцев назад

@@rezalmao still it's not worth for people who work and have other things to do than play video games. Valhalla can easily absorb 150 hours which makes renting a waste of money. Apart from that game, Ubisoft creates big worlds so the only situation in which renting suits somebody's book is when they want to play older titles which don't need to be ground for tens of hours.

@rezalmao 5 месяцев назад

@@SPexHoS2137 dont need ubisoft for the open world ac games lol they're on gamepass

@Toksyuryel 7 месяцев назад

What a world we're living in where _Tencent_ can be described as "a light at the end of the tunnel"

@Magodaparty Год назад

For some reason i really love these kind of videos. It has some "documentary" while reveals the other side of the coin

@reallycool Год назад

Thank you for the kind compliment

@0sm1um76 Год назад

How could you say something so controversial and yet so brave?

@reallycool Год назад

I am a hero.

@degariuslozak2169 7 месяцев назад

Somebody had to

@fuguthefish 7 месяцев назад

So stunning and brave

@dephtons 6 месяцев назад

Going to be honest, and trying not to be a dick or anything. But this isn't that controversial, If you're in the ubi community this stuff is talked about a lot, and relatively well known

@benbobgilberto 6 месяцев назад

@@dephtons I think that was the joke bro

@samvimes9510 Год назад

I was going to mention that interview myself, but I'm glad you included it. Puoard's statement that we _"don't get what a digital secondary market can bring"_ is not only condescending, it's incredibly stupid. We know full well what digital secondary markets can bring. We have lived and breathed that stuff for _decades_ now. You mentioned CS:GO already, and there are so many other examples. TF2, practically every MMO ever, Gaia Online, Neopets, Second Life, Roblox, etc. Many of us have learned more about marketplace economics from playing video games than we have from school. Pouard thinks we're ignorant saps, but he couldn't be more wrong. Gamers understand concepts like digital marketplaces, NFTs and the metaverse better than any other demographic. That's why there's always such an intense backlash when any game tries to dabble in that crap. We know exactly how this stuff works and we know exactly how it can be abused.

@reallycool Год назад

Yes indeed, that's exactly the response I was hoping to engender!

@epiccontrolzx2291 Год назад

16:40 GOG Galaxy is a weird inclusion on this list. GOG doesn't develop games and for a game to be on GOG in the first place, it needs to be fully cleaned of any DRM. So it's not as if that version of the game would've been on Steam to begin with. As in, you'll never run into a scenario where you play a Steam game, then it opens the Galaxy launcher to start the game. The galaxy launcher started as and exists as an optional way to help consolidate and organize your DRM-Free games. With its 2.0 version, it evolved to also encompass games you own from all the different platforms as well, including consoles. Markedly different from other launchers created specifically trying to escape Steam's 30% cut

@lennartj.8072 7 месяцев назад

Minor correction: GOG was founded and is owned by CD Projekt Red who very much develop games

@epiccontrolzx2291 7 месяцев назад

@@lennartj.8072 Interesting, would you say Left 4 Dead was created by Steam or Valve? Sure, it's likely there's a bit of overlap since they're in the same building but the "Steam team" wouldn't be taking credit for developing games. Nor would the "GOG team" take credit for developing the Witcher 3

@DanishingAct Год назад

Tencent? I couldn’t disagree more. They are not the good guys in just about any situation.

@parkerburrus289 Год назад

Yep connected to the CCP

@Viiniciws 3 месяца назад

@@parkerburrus289 Better than any United Devastates company.

$@fractalsauce$

@fractalsauce Год назад

A lot of the points you raised just so happen to be the same reasons that the pirating of PC games/hacking of consoles/emulating, and distribution of said software will never disappear.

@TactWendigo Год назад

Ubisoft used to be for me what Bioware was for other people. I looked forward to everything they announced but now it's just like nooo, stop it. Edit: Remember when the Tom Clancy name used to mean something?

@galacticpopcorn9981 Год назад

That Shudder segue was so good that I didn’t even think it was an actual ad until you said “Link in the description”

@dromendus 5 месяцев назад

one of the slickest ad transitions i've ever seen lmao

@logicaldude3611 6 месяцев назад

If you’ve played one Ubisoft game, you’ve played them all. It’s very similar to what Bethesda has become.

@AssasinOMC 5 месяцев назад

Man bethesda hasnt done anything different since new vegas and oblivion.

@davidstaffen6783 Год назад

Tencent owing Ubisoft would be a terrible thing. 10 cent is one of the worst conglomerates I have ever seen the fact that they're owned by China CCP is terrifying to me

@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro 4 месяца назад

@@RtaincCodude, seriously? That’s the most infantile straw man I think I’ve ever seen. Clearly people don’t fear being turned into communists, people fear the spyware the CCP is already known to use implementing it into as much of our digital lives as possible. It’s bad enough when google and meta steal our info, it’s infinitely worse when a foreign government that actively hates the West does it. The CCP is responsible for literal gen0cide, as with the ongoing Uyghur German-style camps in China. They’re straight up evil, and they’re involving themselves more and more in western media and culture. Thats not something to laugh off.

@Trelitty11 6 месяцев назад

The company died when Desmond died

@NostalgicGamerRickOShay Месяц назад

My love for assassin's Creed died with Lucy Stillman. Without Lucy, Desmond's story lost all of its interest.

@Trelitty11 Месяц назад

@@NostalgicGamerRickOShay hard disagree . Strange take btw . Desmond’s story did not need Lucy . Was it a blow that she died so early , yes , was she necessary for the plot not exactly . Atleast after her sattelite plot being retconned . Her dying wasn’t necessary either . It was a conflict between the actor and big wigs unfortunately getting her killed off . Ac died with Desmond . It was always his story . Not Lucy .

@0uttaS1TE Год назад

I'm glad you dug deeper about why Ubisoft is such a bad company instead of going for the homogeneous "all their games feel the same" critique. I mean, it is true, but it doesn't even scratch the surface about how fucked the company is. Deeply, truly fucked. Some of this stuff smacks of desperation too, such as the NFT thing.

@ravenwarjoy Год назад

I was expecting another, ironically enough derivative video about how Ubisoft's game design has gotten stale, so it's both refreshing and depressing to hear how much terrible, very real shit they get away with.

@reallycool Год назад

I'm pleased not to be as derivative as expected ;)

@ravenwarjoy Год назад

@@reallycool To be fair I made that comment before I reached the section where you *did* criticize the game design for being too stale, but it was relatively short to the part about the negative impact on the industry. So it's just a little bit derivative.

@OuroborosChoked 7 месяцев назад

@@ravenwarjoy Truth is still truth, even if it's repeated a thousand times.

@carsondinwoodie5840 8 месяцев назад

There once was a time as ubisoft was an underdog cinderella story of a company making games that changed the way we played games. They were revolutionary developers. Now they ride on their past victories to reskin their new products with very little effort into anything new. Whats worse is that the company is now known to treat its employees almost as bad as blizzard and EA, which is like saying well at least we arent as bad as a syberian gulag.

@khanghua966 6 месяцев назад

True they lose innovation while ruining their games with microtransaction

@hpoonis2010 Месяц назад

Siberian. Your version is a fantasy-game title.

@burn1none 6 месяцев назад

They do, in fact, delete your games. For example in 2016 they removed access to Might and Magic Duels of Champions. I spent hundreds of dollars on both the ps3 and pc versions respectively. One day all access was removed and the games were DELETED from my Steam library. I implore you to do the research as your statement about games being available in single player is wrong. I made a more extensive comment but I’m assuming it was auto deleted for the link I put in about Ubisoft

@davidstaffen6783 Год назад

Online shutting down sucks but it all happens at some point... Getting your dlc removed is supper not okay in any instance. This is why my stance on piracy changed from being a bad thing to a requirement in the modern era. So many game and content is not able to be paid. DRM is trashed.

@ImpossibleBurk Год назад

I don't think the current heads of Ubisoft will ever be able to change their ways, so like you said, maybe a full restructure would be necessary for this company to save themselves. My issues with Ubisoft are mostly surface level as a consumer; I just wish they would stop homogenizing all their franchises haha. Great video!

@reallycool Год назад

Yes, I do cover that as well towards the end of the video! Thank you so much for the compliment!

@razvanmazilu6284 Год назад

These days whenever I hear of a new Assassin's Creed or Far Cry game my eyes just glaze over. Especially in the case of AC. It's been like that for years. The most recent Ubisoft game I played was Watch Dogs. It was a different world with a different story and certain new mechanics, but after an hour or two of playing it was obvious it was just another take on the same Ubisoft open world game loop that I had experienced previously in their games. From what I've seen in reviews over the years, nothing seems to have changed and it's been 8 years. Climb this, kill that, collect X, Y and Z, clear the area of icons. Move on to the next area, repeat. I'm not saying it can't be fun, it obviously still is for a lot of people else they wouldn't keep making them like this, but for me... I lost interest in the formula a long time ago. I'm bored of it, jaded, whatever you want to call it. And this is just about the games themselves. Before even considering that handing money over to them feels dirty at this point. The reality of the matter is that Ubisoft, as a company, is truly one sick puppy and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Perhaps even more so than some of the other usual suspects. That said, the one thing that is guaranteed to make Ubisoft even worse is if Tencent gets involved.

@flannelmcmannel Год назад

Great video, I totally agree with the issues of Ubisoft Fatigue.The last Ubisoft game I completed was Far Cry 2 and when I tried to play Far Cry 3, I had to put it down about an hour into it. There's also the fact that Ubisoft keeps re-releasing Blood Dragon, despite being just an alright game with some meta humor

@reallycool Год назад

Far Cry 2 is something of a masterpiece

@princeofdarkness4711 7 месяцев назад

every ubisoft game i felt this way except Far Cry 3, because takedowns and outposts felt so new to me, while Far Cry 2's saving grace was the gun jamming mechanics, 2's open world is false and Maze like. 2 felt like a tech demo where I wanted gun jamming in all games, where 3 felt like there is actual motivation to do things with story telling I wish all game stories have, because if I see another Millionth Stoic character I'm gonna lose my dang mind.

@mountingfailure2309 Год назад

I love the digital market place so much. Owning things is so old school. I much prefer basically just loaning media from corporations that can delete it from their library when ever they feel like it

@peter42liter93 6 месяцев назад

bruh aint no way i got a god damn ubisoft ad literally right before the video

@reallycool 6 месяцев назад

I've got a lot of comments of that, kinda hilarious

@DocVolteer Год назад

I miss the 90's and early 00's Ubisoft it their golden ages with so many memorable games, Rayman, the Tom Clamsey franchise, Beyond Good and Evil.. so many memories yet today their a shadow of their former self

@DocBrewskie Год назад

In the 90s no one would have batted an eye about saying “when you smile it looks like you are eating a lemon”.

@GhostLeadGaming Год назад

ubisoft games deserves to be pirated

@MykonosFan Год назад

I believed Vibblio was real. 😥

@reallycool Год назад

Excellent!

@TorgoHiggins Год назад

Good clean breakdown of Ubisoft's issues. The only two games of theirs I've played in the last decade are Child of Light and Mario+Rabbids, which are both proofs that some of the heads there CAN do great things outside of their usual. They're absolutely excellent games, relatively self-contained, and the sort of projects they should be cultivating and pursuing more of.

@BlazeHedgehog Год назад

Jeeze, that ad read is so smooth I almost didn't even believe it was real.

@adammorrissette7627 4 месяца назад

Yeah, I have to say fuck Ubisoft. They double charged me for something but their damn app won't even let me access what I was charged twice for. Nor have I received ANY sort of correspondence from the multiple attempts I've made to reach out to their "customer service" to resolve this issue. (i use the term VERY loosely)

@actionbastard86 Год назад

Tencent, the people who pretty much own fertnert and epic games, buying out ubisoft. Give it a couple of years and division *will* be turned into a battle royale with a title like "Division: Drop Zone". The sad truth is that people keep *willingly* spending their money on this kind of garbage and wont stop, and short of someone with teleportation powers appearing in every person's home on the planet and walloping them with a rolled up newspaper before they make a purchase to course correct, nothing will change.

@velvetpilot2008 7 месяцев назад

Part of my problem with Ubisoft was they used Dr. Stuart Ashens (back when gaming RU-vidrs were a commodity and not over exposed) to promote their garbage collector's editions and preorder tat. I think they knew they were smearing his good name and to him I'm sure he was just happy to be recognized by a large company regardless of their reputation.

@anarchogarfieldist1652 6 месяцев назад

Holy shit, that might be the singular best add transition I have ever seen

@dudebro8811 7 месяцев назад

That sponsor plug was so smooth I genuinely didn't even notice it was a plug at all. That's advertising right there, good job.

@rosini112 Год назад

Wow, not even 10k views, I expected a video like this to have a few hundred thousand views. You nailed the points in a concise way and brought up some very important topics. I hope the RU-vid algorithm is kind to you sir.

@reallycool Год назад

Thanks! If you like me, consider sharing me :)

@RetroHoodie25 7 месяцев назад

That has to be the cleanest ad placement in a video ive ever seen 🙆‍♂️

@aLwE17 7 месяцев назад

As a 30 something gamer and a dad, the idea of a gaming subscription just sounds like a waste of money, I used to subscribe to EA's Origin membership years back, and realized I only spent a couple hours every month on it and all I play are old games like Red Alert 2. I still prefer to buy my games at a Steam Sale, and a few I'm excited on launch, though I have hundreds of Steam games just collecting digital dust because I literally have very little time to play them between work and family time, I'd set aside 1-2 hours of game time in the evening and probably 1-2 hours of game time during the day as a break from work, compared to when I was younger playing 18 hours straight during the weekends and summer vacations was nothing.

@jabberw0k812 Год назад

I liked AssCreed a lot back in the day, but that doesn't mean I want to play a hundred games with the same design. Can't even imagine how tedious it would be to have an Ubisoft subscription...

@TheGoldenBolt Год назад

more like p- poopy-soft. Nailed it.

@tealishpotato 6 месяцев назад

The last genuinely great Ubisoft games I played that were different from their usual copy-pasted drivel were Child of Light, Valiant Hearts: the Great War, and Transference. Those games came out in April 2014, June 2014, and September 2018... except I cant even give Ubisoft credit for Transference, since that was Elijah Wood's & Spectrevision's idea, and Ubisoft just helped them make it. That's how long Ubisoft has gone without trying anything new. You have to go back a half decade or more to find something truly special. Ugh... how the mighty fall.

@Wehyammm 5 месяцев назад

a year later and their ubi connect shop still doesnt ever even load in

@thetexancrus2036 6 месяцев назад

Can we talk abt that AMAZING ad read, so insanely smooth i didnt realize it was an ad at first lmao

@peerburns624 Год назад

This was a great watch. You just nailed it. It perfectly put my convoluted thoughts i gained over the years regarding ubi in precise words. I dont hate ubi. I love how they year after year set their games in unique worlds(as in not only Chicago, LA, New York, WW2, etc pp). I would even go as far as they put their games in relative "brave" settings for an AAA publisher. They spike my interest every year atleast once. But damn the gameplay always(!) dissapoints me. For the reasons you mapped out and some additional personal pet peeves. On top of that their story and writing almost always takes a deep dive after 10 hours or so. I just cant bring myself over to buy another game from them. It isnt even about the money. I just want to prevent myself from dissapointment because i took my time to invest in a world to just be bored after ~5 hours of playtime. edit: and yes, the Uplay Launcher sucks. It got better but is still lacking too much in every regard. Its just anecdotally but i personally lost hours of gameplay because of their broken cloudsaves. Their storefront prevented me from buying their products for weeks. Their support in my cases was laughably slow(read as months(!) of responsetime). To their credit i've heard from a lot of people which had a far better experience in that regard. Just a pretty "meh" experience for me in a practical sense. On top of that comes the more "philosophical" business gremlins you mentioned which i dislike even more.

@doubleshotdanny 7 месяцев назад

How in gods name did bro pull off the smoothest ad transition and i barely noticed

@TheTheValer 7 месяцев назад

The shudder ad coming out of nowhere in the middle of a comparison about Uplay was hilarious

@pavlohoroshko7780 6 месяцев назад

What they have done with AC series feels personal for me. Everything that was released after and including origins are not assassin's Creed games. How could you go from solid parkour layout and flashy combat to one button free run and combat clicker with floating numbers. The absolutely worst management ever to exist. Honestly believe that they deserve to be fired and game rights sold to LITERALLY anybody else for 0.5 cents

@lordreavanplays43 Год назад

I felt the “Ubisoft Fatigue” with Immortals Fenyx Rising recently. The basis of the game seemed really cool; travel through the world of Greek Mythology, free the gods, and save the day. Classic adventure, but with one major problem: After the first hour of gameplay, I didn’t feel like I wanted to even beat the game. I’m still trying to find reasons to play it almost a year later, and I still can’t convince myself to finish it because the puzzles are lack-luster, the story is mediocre at best, and the only think that keeps bringing me back to it is the sheer fact that I want it to be over. That said though, the game does play pretty smoothly, the characters are somewhat well thought out (specifically Zeus and Prometheus though, they’re pretty great), and I rather enjoy some of the combat, visuals, and music, it’s just that the gameplay aside from that makes the game unbearable.

@Evanz111 7 месяцев назад

I had exactly the same reaction to Immortals. However I went back to it fairly recently, and it deserves a lot more credit than I gave it. Hell I 100% completed it and bought the DLC because of how much I enjoyed it. It has some really great puzzles and runs with ideas which it implements really well. Arguably even better than Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

@iluvmusicqwe 6 месяцев назад

I felt like Immortals was a bit of a departure from Ubisoft's formula and thus it's the only Ubisoft game I've enjoyed since black flag and cleared all story/side quets. At least it was different enough from the far cry/watch dogs/assassin Creed gameplay. It is really repetitive though and thinking about the game again i have no desire to ever play it again.

@jessicamacallister9272 5 месяцев назад

Their games are getting worse by the release and their customer service is so bad it basically convinced me years ago they were never getting money from me again. My last interaction with Ubi at all was to be called by their customer support a liar. For some reason they didn’t understand why I was so mad. Then lately they go and prove….hey we don’t care about games by leading the charge against Larian, calling them out for among other things being a big game company because you know 400 employees makes Ubi’s 20,000 look small.

@EvilParagon4 4 месяца назад

I don't think Ubisoft Connect and such are attempts to disassociate with the bad commentary around Uplay, but instead is just to make it intentionally harder to find support for it. EA App and Ubisoft Connect are so generic as terms that any support you need will just return literally anything except your issue. It makes you feel dumb for not being able to fix something rather than it being the app's fault, because clearly no one else has ever had the issue you're searching for, otherwise you'd be able to find it.

@Biodragon882 6 месяцев назад

This video became even more relevant in recent days

@PugLifeJM Год назад

I was familiar with everything said in this video and I agree with every single point made. And yet, I just finished AC Odyssey and it's one of the best games I've ever played. The quality and amount of detail put into a world of such massive scale is astonishing. And I think this is the biggest tragedy with Ubisoft. Behind all the greed, all the company capitalist BS, all the barbaric work conditions and all the predatory schemes mandated to be implemented into every single game, there are incredibly talented, dedicated and passionate people that, despite it all and against all odds, manage to make and put out such amazing pieces of historical art. Art that could be even better if not for... well, Ubisoft itself.

@reallycool Год назад

Exactly

@unfilthy Год назад

Hasn't Google Stadia been discontinued?

@reallycool Год назад

Yes however this video was already finished at that point and I had to decide the value of removing that one word

@unfilthy Год назад

@@reallycool Damn Google, flaking out at the wrong time! ;)

@Wie_Is_Deze_Gast 6 месяцев назад

If ubisoft takes away dlc's that people paid for they better give every single one of those people a refund as well. I mean imagine ordering at mc Donald's and halway through eating an employee takes all of the food you paid for away from you.

@SLRModShop 7 месяцев назад

Assassin's Creed Valhalla was a revelation to me, I heard a youtuber say that it was £40 and my brain instantly thought "that's not enough". It took me a second to realise that it wasn't what I was going to be paid to suffer through it but the price I would have to pay for the "privilege"... It wasn't a conscious thing, my brain somehow rewired itself at some point and I don't think I'll ever be able to pay to play a modern AAA game. It could have happened with a lot of other games but that hit me with AC Valhalla.

@mrrayner7162 5 месяцев назад

The problem with Ubisoft and players is they make one game, then just theme it out. You mentioned the obvious ones, but the same thing happened with The Crew and Steep - a racing game and a snowboard game. Reflecting on what they were 20 years ago, they used to put out quirky and inspired titles. Sure, they weren't all Rayman (and even the first one wasn't great, but looked amazing) and Beyond Good and Evil, but they took risks on lower budget titles and created some form of diverse experience. I can't remember the last Ubisoft game I played - it was either Blood Dragon or Rayman Legends. Both stellar titles, but they were never really followed up with anything else. Although Ubisoft is the most obvious, it could be said about a lot of AAA publishers - no one is prepared to take a risk due to the perceived need for everything to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and to make profit. I look at my favourite games of the last 15 years, and none of them are live service games. Most are short(ish) single player titles that draw you in, tell a story and finish - leaving you wanting more. Ubisoft fatigue is real.

@Evanz111 7 месяцев назад

With their games specifically: What’s unfortunate is the amount of people who seem to forget how many standards Ubisoft set with their games. I know “Ubisoft game” is a derogatory term right now, but that’s only because they refined a formula which most other games began to copy.

@Totavier Год назад

Another great video to watch and I fully agree that Ubisoft kind sucks a lot nowdays. Funnily enough I still like Ubisoft but more in a "Love-Hate" feeling, sometimes I truly loved the stuffs they made randomly in the past decade, games like: Child of Light (amazing RPG), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (a masterpiece as a 2D platformer game, story telling and in educational elements) or Rayman Origins/Legends (an excellent 2D platformer), between others, but still sometimes I hated when they released really bad games that was either broken or untested properly (*cough*Assassin'sCreedUnity*cough*). But nowdays?, they only care more in the "mainstream" area and with that they lost the focus, probably sooner or later they will realize that before it could be too late but who knows really?.

@danielhale5132 11 месяцев назад

They ripped me off I cancelled my subscription and they still charged me I contacted them and they refuse to do anything but give me my money back and I can't delete the stupid account until the subscription ends so I'm done with them

@Robocop_1987 Год назад

Love the video man . I never liked Ubisoft in the first place , I always found their games soulless and boring . Their early 2000's games like Far Cry 2 , Driver SF , Splinter Cell and the early Rainbow Six games were the only games I liked from them . There's so many good games from many smaller , independent and passionate dev's that I don't even bat an eye to Ubisoft as they're not worth my time and money . The company is standing on it's last legs and is now fully cashing in on the mobile market with Rainbow Six and The Division games which is sure to make a lot of money which will encourage them to make even more mobile games from their existing IP's .

@standlethemandle 7 месяцев назад

Ubisoft is a prime example of why live services are a cancer to the gaming industry

@PosthuMouse Год назад

First of all, big fan, excellent video as always. Secondly, I was right there with you until you spoke positively about the possibility of Tencent acquiring Ubisoft. I just don't see how that could be a good thing. I understand that Tencent's relationship with the Chinese government is complicated, and I'm sure there are lots of good people with good intentions working there, but they are, by virtue of being a Chinese corporation, beholden to the whims of the State. Supporting that kind of acquisition feels to me like tacit acceptance of the treatment of ethnic minorities like the Uyghurs, of censorship of games, of the (for all intents and purposes) "purchase" and exploitation of African villages in dire financial straits, of political oppression in HK and Taiwan, and a host of other unsavory issues. What are your thoughts on this? I always find your content to be thoroughly thought out and well-researched, so I'm hoping you'll have a nuanced take on this topic and will maybe give me some food for thought.

@jj8818 4 месяца назад

These guys made an Assassin's Creed where you could play as a pirate, but forced you to play as a regular-ass office worker in the same game. Fuck them.

@davidstaffen6783 Год назад

Ubisoft fatigue is the reason I like breath of the wilds emptiness it feels more lived in because there isn't just random s*** all over the place all the time most of it is empty like our world is. If you go out to the wilderness right now you're not going to find s*** you might find more interesting little bits of nature but you're not going to find a bunch of random things to do or a bunch of weird structures or God knows what yes video games are supposed to be disconnected from The real world and are supposed to be a form of escapism but I still like how grounded breath of the wild feels compared to some of the other open world games I played because it feels like everyone's going about their business trying to avoid the inevitable

@sahilsk6602 3 месяца назад

At this point piracy is simpler. Those who knows Gabe's words will understand

@yoavbenclaudia3073 6 месяцев назад

I don’t hate Ubisoft. I hate the Ubisoft executives. While I’m there there may be execs who aren’t bad, but seeing how Ubisoft has been, I’d place my bets on the majority of execs being the problem.

@dragonmaster1360 3 месяца назад

The last Ubisoft game I put down and never picked back up: Horizon Zero Dawn. Yes, I know it's not a Ubisoft game, but it is so close to the same formula that it might as well be. Take Aloy out, and put in what's-his-name from Odyssey, or Bayek from Origins. Take out the robots and put in Templars. What's changed? Practically nothing, really. Sure, the aesthetic changed, but the aesthetic only matters if the game is good enough to carry it, and the aesthetic in HZD barely plays a part in the story. The machines are just another enemy. They have zero affect on the environment or people, despite that literally being their intended purpose. They're beautiful and awesome, yes, but they have no function except being health bars in your way. In reality, HZD is an empty world, with a predictable story, with "towers" you have to climb to unlock icons (bases, loot, other towers, etc) on the map. It is, effectively, a Ubisoft game. The last real Ubisoft game I dropped: Odyssey. Though I have to give a shout out to the traitor game, Origins, the title to truly abandon the "Assassin" in "Assassin's Creed".

@unbeatleRs 7 месяцев назад

Shaun White Snowboarding and it’s dlc has been delisted off online storefronts (Xbox 360, PS3 and PC) another Ubisoft game gone only way to get this is to physically purchase it now.

@coltonwilkie241 6 месяцев назад

Makes sense considering all the copyright and what not. Not worth renewing anything if nobody plays the game anymore.

@jabberw0k812 Год назад

You know things have gotten bad when fans start wishing Tencent would buy out the company XD

@TheSluremus 7 месяцев назад

If I became one of those very few people super wealthy enough, I would just buy Ubisoft, take it off the stock market and let the creative developers actually be in charge of game development. I'd just set the financial limits in order to ensure economic sustainability for the company. I'll never get that rich, but hey, a guy can dream.

@YoungSweezy 6 месяцев назад

The Ubisoft fatique is perfectly described. Ubisoft always announce something cool, always say that this time it is innovative entry, then its again repetetive, often they even lock the exciting part behind a paywall. I remember going through AC Valhalla, because i REALLY liked the viking setting, i finished the game in 80 hours, just the main content! Then i hopped into Paris DLC, realized its the same shit but in Paris and i stopped playing, never booted up the game again.

@aettic 7 месяцев назад

That was the most slick ad read I've ever seen. Excellent job.

@balther10 7 месяцев назад

Tencent is NOT going to save Ubisoft.

@vffa 4 месяца назад

"I dont think it can be adresses with anything less drastic than (...) a removal of most of thwir current leadserhip" What a nice sentence. Tjat wpuld hold true for pretty much any company or state. Though with companies the word "investor" should be added. We dont need those.

@DocBrewskie Год назад

Telling someone when they smile, it looks like they’re eating a lemon is one of the milesest cases of “racism “I’ve ever fucking heard. I hate Ubisoft btw.

@coltonwilkie241 6 месяцев назад

When you smile it looks like you're eating a lemon.

@jeremiahjackson2137 6 месяцев назад

The early 2000's I spent all my time playing the splinter cell games. I fell in love with pandora tomorrow, and chaos theory, i am one of the people that played the svm mode until the plug got pulled. Where ubisoft went wrong, is they went ahead and kept releasing splinter cell games without svm even though we all asked for it! so we finally got blacklist with svm, and it sucked. All of us original ubisoft fans are waiting to see if we ever get a proper splinter cell game with svm again, otherwise were out.

@dorians4043 7 месяцев назад

That Elden ring fake screenshot is hilarious, Fromsoftware is so anti-Ubisoft in reality 😂😂

@Mopman43 Год назад

You slipped that ad read in their so smoothly it took me a second to realize it was an ad read. The thought came to me, is it pronounced Mr. Ix-ert or Mer-ix-ert?

@reallycool Год назад

It's pronounced "Moriarty," but that's not very brandable

@iamsuperskanick Год назад

The Ubisoft Fatigue section, though… Too real. I used a Ubisoft+ trial to play Far Cry 6, because I sure af wasn’t gonna buy it, and eventually stopped playing it, partly because I hated the cringey characters/writing, but mostly because I kept feeling like I’d played this game before (but better). 😒

@NewSchattenRayquaza 5 месяцев назад

35:10 "Besides them beeing french there are all sorts of problems with ubisoft" That one got me 🤣

@IAm.Messmer.Brother.Of.Malenia 7 месяцев назад

ubisoft is just a bigger bethesda. they found a formula they can abuse to hell and back but at least we get games more often from them, for better or for worse. the thing that pisses me off the most is ubisoft 100% has the potential to deliver a good ass game but they just refuse to innovate

@TrisStrudel Год назад

I’m so glad that your video speaking speed is faster now. I really enjoyed some older videos I watched but the pace of the recording was a bit of a slog. It’s much better paced here. Enjoying the video a lot and you continue to be one of my top 3 favorite guests on EFAP.

@JoeNoshow27 4 месяца назад

"I don't have any huge distaste for the company. I don't _hate_ Ubisoft." *Proceeds to slay Ubisoft*

@deralbtraumritter8573 Год назад

Kinda sucks? Really sucks. As bad as Activision, EA, even Scamco Bandai... All have horrible customer service. And them killing off game servers and even announced games..

@reallycool Год назад

That's ultimately what prompted this video

@deralbtraumritter8573 Год назад

@@reallycool finally someone who takes a stand instead of blindly defending them. It's why I stay away from the Division Reddit.

@draculactica Год назад

Oh I DO have some strong feelings about ubisoft. I mean not like I would harass or disparage them or anyone period, but boy do I feel negatively about their management and their games

@splashman187 6 месяцев назад

Almost every Ubisoft game have the same menu design and it’s annoying bc I know I’m playing a Ubisoft game without seeing the opening…the disgusting robotic fake futuristic menu says it ever time

@sndchamp9949 6 месяцев назад

I’m so upset at Ubisoft. They have so many phenomenal IPs just sitting on the shelf or changed so much what’s even the point of calling it by it’s name. (AC) Me and my roommate still play Watch dogs 2 together. They have so many great games with such fleshed out and fun mechanics why not just make one huge perfect game. Cough cough fucking SPLINTER CELL

@dublinease247 6 месяцев назад

That was such a cheeky ad read

@makmotv 9 месяцев назад

17:38 this happened to me two days ago when I reinstalled AC: Origins (I bought the game on steam). The game is installed, but i don't know what happened, because according to Ubisoft connect, I don't own it, therefore it showed me a page to buy the game.

@chacachaca11 6 месяцев назад

Crazy how Ubisoft just recently said gamers/consumers should get used to not owning their video games lmao. besides releasing games i dont care about, they have lost me as a customer with how much they despise me as a customer.

@Aladelicous 6 месяцев назад

I was fine and downright loved a lot of Ubisoft games through the 6th gen. But once 7th gen rolled in and Assassin's Creed and Far Cry 3 came onto the scene, things started to change. Their games started to feel more homogenized and they seemed to be pioneers in making games have that automated feel where it seems like the game is playing itself in order to trick players into thinking they're badass without having to really do much for it. The bland open worlds with checklist tasks and committee approved features don't help, and all that other stuff is just the cherry on top for me.

@WSEize 8 месяцев назад

They want to release game every year and their greed will kill them. Learn from Rockstar and FromSoftware they dont release unfinished products.

@lupusge2503 6 месяцев назад

Getting a Ubisoft+ ad before watching this video. Exactly my humor.

@spicyoctopus Год назад

Amazing job Mr. M - I admit my experience of open world games has been heavily conditioned by AC games and the repetitive activities and over zealous hand holding kinda burned me out of that franchise. Playing Witcher 3 or breath of the wolf were great detoxes.

@reallycool Год назад

The Ubisoft style of Open World game is one of the big mother styles, for sure. I cover that more in the "Open World Games" chapter at the end of the video

@SpaniardNL 7 месяцев назад

A bad company, making bad or at best mediocre games, continuously rolling out anti-consumer practices and destroyiny any good will they had.... Geez, I wonder why they're hated...

@kloakovalimonada 6 месяцев назад

They have some kickass gameplay designers though. That of course doesn't absolve the management of their behavior. My point is, the quality of work gets overshadowed by the business practices.

@Jorendo 7 месяцев назад

Ubisoft, always the hypocrite. They were the biggest pusher for consumer unfriendly DRM's. They made grand tales about piracy, just to ironically having them have to depend on pirates to fix Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for them. See the DRM they used was very extreme, It marked every LEGAL buyer as a pirate. No one who legally owned the game could play the multiplayer. Those who had pirated the game could play the multiplayer....see how great the DRM worked? No matter what Ubisoft tried, they couldn't fix it, they had to ask the makers of the crack to have it patched into the official game so legal buyers could play the game online as well. Still that didn't prevent them from keep using consumer unfriendly DRM's and other practices. For all the crying about piracy, Ubisoft was one of the companies that just forced you to pirate if you want to be able to play your freaking game. I remember the launch of Assassins Creed 2, the DRM server was offline most of the time so you couldn't play your SINGLEPLAYER game. Now they force you again to pirate just to be able to have access to your legally bought content. I really wished the Governments would adjust the Digital legal rights to modern times. It's insane you pay to play a game, not own it anymore. That they can just decide to shut the server down and you can no longer download your singleplayer games anymore or the extra contant...THAT YOU PAID FOR. This license thing is a scam.