We're not all in the same boat. We're all in the same _storm,_ but some of us are in luxury yachts full of safety measures and with full larders, and some of us are on flimsy rafts
You people are getting rafts? Ah, for a raft... meanwhile, we've got people out here on planks, little pool floaties, or just desperately treading water... it's a good thing "a rising ride lifts all boats"! Now... how many of us, exactly, _have_ boats...?
Aw, that poor little Monetization Director... Monetization Directors are people too, you know! More specifically, they are people who _choose_ to make a fat fortune off of the misery of innumerable people with vulnerable neurology and/or addictive tendencies, laughing all the way to the bank while the bankers foreclose on some of their players' homes for failure to pay their massive lootbox gambling debts. So, in summary... they're people, but they're not what I would necessarily call "human". Certainly no high on that "humanity" trait...
@asyuoli696 no it's not. Othering a group based on traits they can't change, (like having blue eyes or being bourn in Reading) is in no way like othering a group based on their choices to harm others. Maybe it's time to reassess your actions and choices, just to make sure that no one is othering you for justified reasons.
@@DragonNexus probably because they are a small investor group, as I understood from the letter. So probably not super rich people, just people with some savings that actually invest in a company. Just my guess really
I personally think that a guy who's entire job description is "fucking over people", "cutting up games for DLCs" and "exploiting voulnerable people with psychological manipulation" should not voice opinions on morality and what is decent..
@@resileaf9501 He's not making a great point. He's using low level employees as human shields to try to deflect criticism about him being an absolute shit stain.
@@jlev1028 People (in particular the anti-woke crowd) celebrating the possible death of the company at the expense of almost 20 000 employees are absolutely terrible people and make being in the same community a shameful thing.
Talking about corporate responsibility versus real world consequences for companies is like talking about possession by evil spirits; even when you can stop them, the evil entities just abandon ship and leave those they were puppeteering to suffer for the actions they knew were wrong but had no control over.
This is why we need a real-world analogue to a soulstone a'la Diablo or Elder Scrolls, to remove the executive from circulation, wealth, and the protection of governments. By trapping the demon in a soulstone, said demon cannot possess new bodies, being eternally bound to an artificial body that cannot cause any harm, but their energies can be harnessed for more wholesome and productive action. And of course, the idea of being trapped in a Harlan Ellison-esque limbo, incapable of moving while being drained for all you're worth, would be terrifying to anyone, even the heartless cousin-fuckers at the top, so the prospect of being soulstone'd would serve as a stern warning to the enemies of mankind.
It's drastic, I know, but I feel a personal wealth cap would work wonders in reducing the power and privilege of the excessively rich and privileged. I mean, does anyone really need or deserve that much power? And even if some people did - would they ever receive it, in our current system which rewards merciless backstabbing, exploitation, fraud and a variety of highly crimey activities which can be gotten away with so long as one is not caught (or can bribe the catcher).
You know Howard Hughes lived under a 90% tax rate and still had enough spare change to run his own television station that would play what he wanted when he wanted and would stop, pause, rewind and fast forward films whenever he wanted. (Much to the annoyance of anyone else watching the station, lol). People have joked he had Netflix before Netflix was ever a thing. At any rate, I think today's billionaires would get along just fine under a wealth cap or a higher tax rate.
Yeah, something is up. They offered the usual, "it needs time for polish" but acknowledged Outlaws didn't do well, backed away from early access, and are selling day one on Steam. They are signaling like a lot more than one game hangs on Shadows.
Part of Ubisoft's failure is how every one of their franchises essentially became the same game. Ubisoft has been using Far Cry 3 as the template for their games for over 10 years. Unnecessarily massive open worlds. Basic stealth and stealth takedowns. Enemy camp assaults with the same pillars of black smoke indicating where the bases are. A huge amount of icons to tackle and objects to collect. The only thing that really changed was the setting and the camera perspective. It's been 12 years since Far Cry 3 came out and I imagine people are tired of playing slightly better and different versions of it by now. Same reason Starfield didn't do so well. People are tired of the formula.
My goto comparison has to be Nintendo, who, despite being much, 𝙈𝙐𝘾𝙃 older, still manages to have not just a robust stable of insanely long running franchises which are distinct and varied and nuanced. "Assassin's Creed" is basically the same thing with some tiny variations. "Mario" is... what? The one with the weaponized vegetables? The fursuits? The dinosaur riding? The 3D one? The one with the water gun? The one with the planets? The one with the body snatching? You can keep a marketable name, sure, but you *can't* just make essentially the same game over and over.
Since Far Cry 3 came out, I've been waiting for Ubisoft to iterate on the formula, but they just haven't. I just don't understand why they don't want to do anything new.
Starfield is a bit different because they actually removed the parts of the formula that actually worked and were worth keeping, leaving the rest intact
Correct. Personally I didn't even like FC3 that much to begin with so I skipped the following iterations and their reskins. I'd imagine even the most diehard fan would get tired of playing virtually the same game for years eventually.
@@sechran Moreover, while Nintendo's franchises do sometimes get a bit formulaic (though they also switch them up occasionally, like what BotW did for 3D Zelda), the fact that they space their releases out more helps to offset that. Releasing a 2D Mario every 3-4 years? That's fine, even if they're fairly similar games at their cores. Release multiple 2D Mario games a year, however, and people are going to get tired of it (which is actually exactly what happened to NSMB for me: I played Wii in late 2010, then when U came around in 2012 I bounced off it at first, and I never even bothered getting 2). Pokemon being the exception, obviously. Pokemon is a little over-milked.
12:40 - I am reminded of GamerGraters dogpiling onto Kotaku 'SJWs' and female indie game devs with regards to 'ethics in games journalism', whilst completely ignoring the cozy corruption between corporate games 'journalism' and corporate game publishers... Funny that.
That is what I always wanted to see. All these sites are just PR arms for video game publishers, and your problem is one of them said "game X is good/bad" or said something good about something in the game so much as alluding to LGBT+?? Then again, feels like the people who hate the latter two like the former sometimes...
At the end of the day, the GamerGraters are bullies and cowards who can't ever punch upwards, even with corporations time and again pandering to all the minority groups that the GamerGraters hate.
Song as old as time for the far right, point to legitimate issues but deflect responsibility for those issues to the marginalized and ultimately protect the powerful.
I think it puts Ubisoft into perspective when I wandered into a CEX last week to find an ENTIRE SHELF taken up by Assassins Creed games. Lots of different titles but essentially the same game. On a metre long shelf. Of a franchise spanning over a decade.
@@MrCrunchytime I mean, Halo also changes pretty substantially from game to game. Sure, most of them are FPSes, but outside of the anniversary rereleases, there isn't a single case where two games in that series play the same.
Failing upward. How on earth is this a thing? "Hey, I bankrupted a huge company and cost thousands of people their job. Can I become your CEO?" "Sure, that sounds like a great idea!"
My often-very-Conservative friend, on Steph: "You know, I've come to realize I misdirected annoyance at Steph Sterling not being fun anymore. She's the same old Sterling. The industry just keeps getting *worse*."
NGL they used to rub me the wrong way a little, but uh, When they transitioned and started wrestling and just generally started seeing happier, that feeling went away. Much more fun now~
@@MilkieMouse It's often a mistake to assume that people who disagree with us do so because they're stupid. In the case of conservatives it can be very tempting, but no less a mistake.
This person complaining is just insane, he is in charge of the most anti consumer parts of a anti consumer company that in general is so crappy that you can not say their name out loud without throwing up in your mouth.
Is he the one that f-ed up Starlink? The one where you have to "renew" access to your physical crap? Because when I discovered that bit, I was laughed in disbelief and wondered how the Hell they got away with it.
@@MrCrunchytime No idea, but he is in charge of their monotization, so at the very least I bet he is responsible for having pay extra in order to play on the real release date as well as that bs about paying extra to get the complete game as it is day one.
We might as well pack it up, board the ships bound for the West and diminish. It is genuinely 30 years old, this year... the first Playstation was about to drop in December 1994. Where are any of even going...
Hey Yves, we should make a New For Honor with fighting styles that make sense. -Nope, NFTs A Splinter Cell Remake -Nope, NFTs A 3D Metroidvania POP? -Nah bro, NFTs Lets Remaster our classic games - Did you said NFTs?
The fact that Steph came up with the line "I hate to say I hate to say I told you so because I love to say I told you so, which I did, I told you so" while in chronic pain is nothing short of good.
I'm really tired of living in an era of video game history where every week I see a new headline that makes me think "can't wait to see Stephanie's video about this".
End stage capitalism. We no longer need share holders or over paid executives. Why are there investors if the company doesn't need to raise funds as it's profitable? Oh right, gambling exit scams. That's how they funnel the profits out of the company.
I just wanted to say that I have been a longtime fan of this show, back when I discovered you, you were still making videos for the Escapist. I did unsubscribe at some point years and years ago, during a particularly dumb era of my life, but contrary to popular trends it was way before your coming out. I actually re-subscribed after your coming out and I've been back to listening to your weekly show ever since. Thank God for you
This is lovely to see I might be making the wrong guesses about what you mean by "a particularly dumb era", but if you fell for any of the gamer-bro anti-woke bs, then I'm really glad to hear you've seen through it and come back No matter how hard we push back against all that rubbish, the only way it actually ends is if the people who are doing it, stop doing it. So it's great to hear that sometimes people really do see the light
@@PhysicsXL would you like to try rephrasing that? It wasn't very coherent On second thoughts, feel free not to bother rephrasing it. I have a feeling that whatever you're talking about, I'm gonna strongly disagree with you
Feedback loop! Steph does all the wrestling stuff and gets all tired out from that but little do they know...The bed is a secret, final opponent here to hit them when they're literally down!
Ubisoft is the direct cause of me extending my cash shop ban from only being applied to multiplayer modes/games I didn't play, to banning cash shops games entirely. Then they tried the NFT crap & I deleted my entire 17 game account, I only own older GOG releases of Ubisoft games which stopped completely when Origin launched. At least on GOG all cash shops are banned for Single player games/modes, GOG can't control publishers servers, but parity with offline play-ability forces the removal those server links. DRM free offline installers mean I don't use Galaxy, I download the installer fully patched, from the GOG website, Portable updated "Disc" content, I can copy & store on anything.
Love how investors are sick of seeing short-term gains prioritized over long-term gains and even pointed out their poor customer experience. It's good to see some investors are not as blind to issues as AAA companies think they are.
It just kinda sucks that they ONLY listen to the investors and not, you know, the audience for their products which has been screaming at them for years to do better. Seems kinda back-asswards to me.
Especially because, half the time, the "go woke, go broke" crowd will buy 1,000 of whatever they "don't like" to make a TikTok of them shooting at it. Hard to go broke when that's the way they boycott.
There's no doubt people associated the game to Ubisoft and did a hard pass on it, but Star Wars Outlaws underperforming sales on PC is also suffering the same very reason why Alan Wake 2 underperformed: Exclusivity deals with the Epic Games Store (EGS) though Outlaws will release on Steam on November which could led to a boost in sales numbers. Simply put people don't like EGS at all, their anti consumer behaviour (corroborated by the FTC settlement for spying on kids, shadow tactics to force sales of cosmetics in Fortnite, etc.) and overall sleazy way the CEO of the company operates plus the lies puts people off from buying there. Square Enix vowed to never do exclusives again after their abysmal sales numbers in the EGS store and Kingdom Hearts sales numbers in Steam (sold like hot cakes) vs Epic (not many people bought it) is proof of that. Ubisoft will launch the new AC on Steam day one unlike past titles that had timed exclusivity on EGS. Talking about EGS, Just recently Tim Sweeney went on a rant about "A Lot of Games Are Released With High Budgets, and They’re Not Selling" and went on regurgitating the old tired lie of live service games being the future... Which is his way to cope on his failed strategy for publishing Alan Wake 2 (exclusive to PC on EGS, no physical version for consoles) which led Remedy to seek Annapurna as the publisher for Control 2 and how every exclusive (timed or permanent) in the EGS just becomes a financial failure. And of course to cope for the poor sales of Outlaws in EGS too most likely. Didn't expected more from Sweeney who is your average run of the mill centrist who likes to defend Elon Musk on Twitter. This of course rounds up with what you have been saying in the video: Executives making dumb choices in every regard possible and failing without consequences at all.
I always have to wonder: why do EGS insist on exclusivity for games released on PC and companies do so even though it would hurt their sales as opposed to just releasing on Steam like normal?
@@stefanradebach2889the answer is, of course, money. I assume publishers are getting sweetheart deals - if not just straight-up cash - for agreeing to publish exclusively on EGS for a period of time, and EGS is willing to spend it because they're willing to lose millions a year if it means they can capture a bigger share of Steam's audience.
I cannot take Tim Sweeney seriously after a year or so back where he spent a Saturday night on Twitter whining about the bullies he had in junior high.
Overall, this is a corporate problem, not just a game industry problem. No exec of any major company or corporation anywhere is going to suffer if said company implodes.
It's a capitalism problem in general. It's like the rich need to cram their maws full in a panic because they don't know when the bottom is going to fall out on them.
@@lucasLSD no. people need to stop dreaming of working at AAA companies altogether, pull together and join up in indie groups. it is not anybody's job to protect anybody's crushed dreams at this point, people should truly know better. it is not going to be a fun time developing for any AAA studio. period.
@@ZMannZillathe fact that you often use the Saints Row the 3rd music, in a number of them, really makes me smile. SR3, wherever I can play it, has been kind of a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s so ludicrous, going to the point of no limits on insanity simply to cater to pure unadulterated fun. The only sense they want to make is some developer saying “it is fun? Sure, throw that in.” To me, it’s a celebration of crazy fun over seriousness or realism.
Man steve chassard sounds like he loves NFTS and elon musk and definitely “has a lot of [insert minority here] best friends! He cannot be hateful!” Wild to get such a deep and nuanced vibe from a simple tweet.
They promise they changed, but I don't believe them just yet. When they announced their program to help women and non-binary pals, I immediately saw a casting couch for new victims and the fox guarding the hen house. 🦊
Ita funny ubisoft wants people to get hyped for assassins creed in japan like its this groundbreaking idea as if ghosts of tsushima didn’t come out years ago. Almost as funny as Disney basically tanking the value of all the IP they bought by over-saturating the market (and with most of what they pump out being trite, obvious cash grabs)
I've been following Steph for around 8 something years now and it's no exaggeration that companies where being warned this would happen the entire fucking time. To see the guy in charge of monetization put the hate down to "game me no like" shows how they lack even basic self awareness. People have been shitting on assass games for years and cause for the last X years they've been released unfinished. The fact that the half baked game comes with multiple monetization methods just makes it too obvious they only care about draining the consumer of cash. But nooooo its all cause "me no like assass game" yeah sure buddy, whatever helps you sleep at night.
I mean, in regards to the AC games, it really is down to not liking them...mostly for completely valid reasons, as you mentioned of course. We *don't* like them because of the predatory practices, harmful work environment, and anti-consumerism...But he cannot engage with those reasons because he's an active participant in at least some of their existence, so he has to reductively tack it onto "The Gamers™" and their absolute horridness due to that being easier than acknowledging his role in the actual problems. Like Steph said, it's an example of how the bigot hate-mobs that tour around everything make for a super handy blame-magnet and allow responsibility to be shifted away from the responsible.
You know, I think the last Ubisoft game I played was the original Assassin's Creed. Even before I knew about all the shit going on there, their games stopped being appealing. Remember Rayman 2? That was an absolute gem of a game. Pity.
The anti-woke mob, as you mention, is just the death of proper criticism in the modern day. I'm a DC fan, haven't watched a single DCEU movie because of so many many issues with these movies and I love hearing people discuss why movies do not work, and how execs meddled and ruined things, but every time I watch a review of any DCEU all I hear is whining that a brown person got to speak on screen and wasn't a bad guys henchman. Then the wb DC games are worse because you start off assuming the person is normal, and then mid way they're like "and the joker for syicide squad is so gay!!! They made him gay!!!" Like bro the joker was always gay, what the hell are you talking about? I've never once seen a single DC Joker and thought: "that man is a heterosexual." And it doesn't matter how gay the joker is, the game sucks in every other way tell me about that! But alas these dweebs cannot go a ten minute video without screaming about "the woke".
@@isauldron4337 "Everybody's bad" doesn't erase legitimate criticisms, dude. People who use it are typically on the criticized side but are too scared to actually say so in case it turns on them.
@Marius1g "Proper criticism" is being critical of media for things it actually does wrong, not screaming and crying because a character is black, or a woman, or gay, or when white men are portrayed as AH. Besides, I just can't take anti-woke nitwits seriously when they're calling DEI programs "indoctrination" when these programs teach people how to function as decent human beings.
15:10 AM's speech about hate spotted! nice to see a reference to that! (for anyone that doesn't get it, it's from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. a good and short read from decades ago. also a single episode radio drama and video game!)
The last time I was this early to a Jimquisition video, we were dealing with difficulty discourse.....wait, that, doesn't narrow things down a lot, does it?
I stopped buying Ubisift games when it becames impossible to understand what you were getting from the 50 different versions of a game they were selling......so that tells you just many years ago it was that i last bought a Ubisoft game.
Odyssey was a bad one. It was the first truly bad AC game, haven't played anything after it due to the bad taste it left in my mouth. And I'd say the new PoP game is pretty good. Immortals Fenyx Rising was pretty good. Xdefiant is a decent game, but nothing good enough to make it last in the sea of similar games.
"Hasn't put out a good game since Odyssey" JFC, that game is barely 6 years old, and it barely qualifies as good. Ubisoft hasn't made a really good Assassin's Creed game since Black Flag, at least. Ever since then, all their games have been "Okay" down to "Absolute Sh-t".
My favorite sci-fi swear word is, ironically enough, "blast" from Star Wars. It's mostly used in old Expanded Universe stuff, though... Not sure it even is canon anymore.
In my completely unprofessional, non-medical opinion: you need a soothing warm drink of your choice and a good book. And a blanket. And an animal friend. Stat!
9:43 I've heard that this is a problem with the nature of the stock market, not the executives or even the shareholders (this doesn't make the actions of the executives any less wrong of course, plus they could easily cut their own paychecks bit by bit first). The only solution is to reform the economy in such a manner that the stock market doesn't _need_ to exist. Which really, would fix so many things wrong with any given nation in general when you think about it. Plus no great depressions or "great recessions" (which are actually great depressions for everyone except the extremely rich) when a bunch of wealthy people decide to get together and f*ck with the stock market to f*ck with the economy
It used to be "Oh, Ubisoft!", now it's Oh F*** NO, Ubisoft!" 1:20 - Ah, as in "Might makes right", "S*** rolls downhill"...all that's missing is "what comes around, goes around" and it's the trinity of a failing authority...let me guess, Konami isn't a game company now? It's the "moral law" that we're expected to live by, one that punishes the observer FOR observing it, you're punished based on how much you live up to it and rewarded based on how much you cheat it. 3:30 - Pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Pay fortunes, you get gorillas. 4:36 - Psychopaths don't feel shame, shame implies that they have a conscience, which of course they don't have. It's negligence at best and pure incompetence at worst, a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars and seemingly lunatics. 10:30 - A bad investment from a branch of the Chinese government?...well, even they have their bad days. 11:40 - I know this isn't a joke, as if it was...it's the worst one yet. 13:48 - If they want to look at the guilty, they need only look into a mirror. 14:15 - Yeah and that boat is the Titanic! 15:00 - They'd silence you or at least try, even if you did, as Tyrion Lannister would put it, when you remove someone's tongue, you're not proving them to be a liar, you're simply showing that you're afraid of what they MIGHT say. 16:25 - If they went speed dating, they should lie and tell everyone that they're serial killers as that's a better appearance.
I absolutely feel for the smaller people who will loose their job, although they did nothing wrong. But that probably will happen one way or the other with the current business practices. They either get cut so the company can appear growing, or they get abused and bullied until they quit or are burnt out. But I would at least hope, that if Ubisoft goes up in flames, then that it will change something for the better in the industry. A wake up call if you will. Is it naive of me to hope for a net positive outcome for the rest of the gaming industry? Maybe, but it's more likely to be the much needed wake up call than if everybody just continues like this for another decade. And who knows maybe loosing their job at Ubisoft (or other similar companies) is also a smaller wake up call for individuals and a chance to find a better job were their work gets the appreciation it deserves without the abuse. Cause in some way those jobs can be similar to being in an abusive relationship and it can be hard to get out of it, even when you know you deserve better.
Ubisoft has been the template of the Useless Upper Management cadre causing chaos and disorder leading to awful games. In fact, their inept upper leadership is almost.... iconic. "We're all in the same boat. Until it sinks, then you're all in the water and we're in the helicopter heading to a new job on another boat."
It’s “go woke go broke” except when the game is actually good, almost as if there was another, more important factor than appealing to these warriors of trad values. But hey, what have I expected from people calling Alloy or Courtney Hope (Jesse from Control) ugly?
Yeah, I've seen them bending over backwards to explain the successes of "woke" games like BG3, etc... Just a bunch of bad faith actors, with their useful idiots in tow.
@@MintyCoolness Did you see that list of 'bad woke games' by that curator on Steam? They literally have every good game released since the beginning of games on the list. Every game that got a thumbs up for not being woke, however, was a shovel-ware hentai game. I don't think they actually like video games.
@@distorteddivine3638 I know of that list. I even used it as a recc' sheet for games I might like, lol. Their loss is my gain, after all~ Fr tho, they get at us for not liking certain aspects of games, but then go around and do the same thing, depriving themselves of some of the greatest games in history. It's hypocrisy, and if they at least owned up to it, I would respect their opinions, even as a disagree...
Maybe don't implement always-online DRM? That can negatively affect sales, especially now after people are finally realizing the problem with that which people were warning about a decade ago. The Crew 1 anyone?
being an investor of ubisoft must feel like being a famous food critic at a failing restaurant. You're being wined and dined with a quality meal while every other patron gets served shit and the owner is in back whipping their staff members and screaming. On your way out the owner comps your meal and offers you a wad of cash if you write a good review.
@2:54 Hey, I watched that episode 3 days ago. I was expecting this week's episode to be about the Star Citizen developer demanding its team have 7-day work weeks with no overtime pay. Maybe a screencap or 2 of its subreddit filled with corporate cock gobblers saying "it's no big deal."
Funny thing is that it doesn't feel like Star Wars itself is cursed- those Fallen Order games have sold gangbusters from what I understand. But slapping the license on Your Typical Ubisoft Game, or Your Typical Hero Shooter, game styles that have seen some pretty darn diminishing returns lately, and you get a lot less money and good will going your way...
We're not all in the same boat. We're all in the same _storm,_ but some of us are in luxury yachts full of safety measures and with full larders, and some of us are on flimsy rafts
Good analogy, it's just missing the part where there are tiny fleets of super gigantic tankers taking and hoarding resources from everyone else 🙏
You people are getting rafts? Ah, for a raft... meanwhile, we've got people out here on planks, little pool floaties, or just desperately treading water... it's a good thing "a rising ride lifts all boats"! Now... how many of us, exactly, _have_ boats...?
Forgot that the yachts have guns being used to sink the rafts before they get too close.
Where are the orcas?
Where are mah Dolphin mates?
The man in charge of destroying vulnerable people's lives wants us to stop being mean to him, you guys!
Time to double up !
Aw, that poor little Monetization Director... Monetization Directors are people too, you know!
More specifically, they are people who _choose_ to make a fat fortune off of the misery of innumerable people with vulnerable neurology and/or addictive tendencies, laughing all the way to the bank while the bankers foreclose on some of their players' homes for failure to pay their massive lootbox gambling debts. So, in summary... they're people, but they're not what I would necessarily call "human". Certainly no high on that "humanity" trait...
@@hazukichanx408 While I get your point, othering the people you don't like as non-human is full on fascist thinking.
@@asyuoli696what?
@asyuoli696 no it's not. Othering a group based on traits they can't change, (like having blue eyes or being bourn in Reading) is in no way like othering a group based on their choices to harm others.
Maybe it's time to reassess your actions and choices, just to make sure that no one is othering you for justified reasons.
You know it's going really bad when even the investors are telling you to stop thinking only as far as the next 3 months.
Frankly we need more investors realizing their money is being fucked up by this short sighted idiocy.
Seriously, that blew my mind.
"What're you doing focusing purely on making us money!?"
A rare moment of sanity.
@@DragonNexus probably because they are a small investor group, as I understood from the letter. So probably not super rich people, just people with some savings that actually invest in a company. Just my guess really
AN investor. One. The rest of them are still short-sighted idiots, I guarantee it.
I personally think that a guy who's entire job description is "fucking over people", "cutting up games for DLCs" and "exploiting voulnerable people with psychological manipulation" should not voice opinions on morality and what is decent..
It's firmly in "Heartbreaking: Worst person you know just made a great point" territory.
@@resileaf9501 He's not making a great point. He's using low level employees as human shields to try to deflect criticism about him being an absolute shit stain.
@@Rystefn Sure, his reasons are bogus, but the point itself is legitimate.
@@resileaf9501What point?
@@jlev1028 People (in particular the anti-woke crowd) celebrating the possible death of the company at the expense of almost 20 000 employees are absolutely terrible people and make being in the same community a shameful thing.
Talking about corporate responsibility versus real world consequences for companies is like talking about possession by evil spirits; even when you can stop them, the evil entities just abandon ship and leave those they were puppeteering to suffer for the actions they knew were wrong but had no control over.
This is why we need a real-world analogue to a soulstone a'la Diablo or Elder Scrolls, to remove the executive from circulation, wealth, and the protection of governments. By trapping the demon in a soulstone, said demon cannot possess new bodies, being eternally bound to an artificial body that cannot cause any harm, but their energies can be harnessed for more wholesome and productive action.
And of course, the idea of being trapped in a Harlan Ellison-esque limbo, incapable of moving while being drained for all you're worth, would be terrifying to anyone, even the heartless cousin-fuckers at the top, so the prospect of being soulstone'd would serve as a stern warning to the enemies of mankind.
It's drastic, I know, but I feel a personal wealth cap would work wonders in reducing the power and privilege of the excessively rich and privileged. I mean, does anyone really need or deserve that much power? And even if some people did - would they ever receive it, in our current system which rewards merciless backstabbing, exploitation, fraud and a variety of highly crimey activities which can be gotten away with so long as one is not caught (or can bribe the catcher).
Nice Metaphor👍
You know Howard Hughes lived under a 90% tax rate and still had enough spare change to run his own television station that would play what he wanted when he wanted and would stop, pause, rewind and fast forward films whenever he wanted. (Much to the annoyance of anyone else watching the station, lol). People have joked he had Netflix before Netflix was ever a thing. At any rate, I think today's billionaires would get along just fine under a wealth cap or a higher tax rate.
@@GhengisJohn Billionaires shouldn't exist. They are basically thousands of ethical + legal violations in a designer trenchcoat.
You know its going bad when Ubisoft actually offers an expansion for no extra cost.
Yeah, something is up. They offered the usual, "it needs time for polish" but acknowledged Outlaws didn't do well, backed away from early access, and are selling day one on Steam. They are signaling like a lot more than one game hangs on Shadows.
And the majority of their catalog is on massive discount right now.
Like when AC Unity was released as a broken mess and Ubisoft had to make the game’s DLC free.
Part of Ubisoft's failure is how every one of their franchises essentially became the same game. Ubisoft has been using Far Cry 3 as the template for their games for over 10 years.
Unnecessarily massive open worlds. Basic stealth and stealth takedowns. Enemy camp assaults with the same pillars of black smoke indicating where the bases are. A huge amount of icons to tackle and objects to collect. The only thing that really changed was the setting and the camera perspective. It's been 12 years since Far Cry 3 came out and I imagine people are tired of playing slightly better and different versions of it by now.
Same reason Starfield didn't do so well. People are tired of the formula.
My goto comparison has to be Nintendo, who, despite being much, 𝙈𝙐𝘾𝙃 older, still manages to have not just a robust stable of insanely long running franchises which are distinct and varied and nuanced. "Assassin's Creed" is basically the same thing with some tiny variations. "Mario" is... what? The one with the weaponized vegetables? The fursuits? The dinosaur riding? The 3D one? The one with the water gun? The one with the planets? The one with the body snatching?
You can keep a marketable name, sure, but you *can't* just make essentially the same game over and over.
Since Far Cry 3 came out, I've been waiting for Ubisoft to iterate on the formula, but they just haven't. I just don't understand why they don't want to do anything new.
Starfield is a bit different because they actually removed the parts of the formula that actually worked and were worth keeping, leaving the rest intact
Correct. Personally I didn't even like FC3 that much to begin with so I skipped the following iterations and their reskins.
I'd imagine even the most diehard fan would get tired of playing virtually the same game for years eventually.
@@sechran Moreover, while Nintendo's franchises do sometimes get a bit formulaic (though they also switch them up occasionally, like what BotW did for 3D Zelda), the fact that they space their releases out more helps to offset that. Releasing a 2D Mario every 3-4 years? That's fine, even if they're fairly similar games at their cores. Release multiple 2D Mario games a year, however, and people are going to get tired of it (which is actually exactly what happened to NSMB for me: I played Wii in late 2010, then when U came around in 2012 I bounced off it at first, and I never even bothered getting 2).
Pokemon being the exception, obviously. Pokemon is a little over-milked.
"Nerdzis" .... how..... how did we go this long without this term? This is it right here!
12:40 - I am reminded of GamerGraters dogpiling onto Kotaku 'SJWs' and female indie game devs with regards to 'ethics in games journalism', whilst completely ignoring the cozy corruption between corporate games 'journalism' and corporate game publishers... Funny that.
don't forget places like The Escapist cozying up to them and even hiring notorious internet stalker Mr Fart
fascists are dishonest, thats nothing new
That is what I always wanted to see. All these sites are just PR arms for video game publishers, and your problem is one of them said "game X is good/bad" or said something good about something in the game so much as alluding to LGBT+??
Then again, feels like the people who hate the latter two like the former sometimes...
At the end of the day, the GamerGraters are bullies and cowards who can't ever punch upwards, even with corporations time and again pandering to all the minority groups that the GamerGraters hate.
Song as old as time for the far right, point to legitimate issues but deflect responsibility for those issues to the marginalized and ultimately protect the powerful.
I think it puts Ubisoft into perspective when I wandered into a CEX last week to find an ENTIRE SHELF taken up by Assassins Creed games. Lots of different titles but essentially the same game. On a metre long shelf. Of a franchise spanning over a decade.
No worse than all the marios or halos
@@goreobsessed2308 Hey, you leave Mario out of that comparison. At least Nintendo does something different with each Mario title.
@@goreobsessed2308The "Marios" that are all the same have a 'New!' on the cover and those haven't been a thing since the WiiU.
@@MrCrunchytime I mean, Halo also changes pretty substantially from game to game. Sure, most of them are FPSes, but outside of the anniversary rereleases, there isn't a single case where two games in that series play the same.
@goreobsessed2308 but those games are good
its a little surreal, having just watched the ''ubiconic'' video you made 8 years ago and jumping straight to this one
Man I still remember that hat!
Was that the one where they revealed that the new Ubisoft logo is a coil of dog 💩?
Failing upward. How on earth is this a thing? "Hey, I bankrupted a huge company and cost thousands of people their job. Can I become your CEO?" "Sure, that sounds like a great idea!"
My often-very-Conservative friend, on Steph: "You know, I've come to realize I misdirected annoyance at Steph Sterling not being fun anymore.
She's the same old Sterling. The industry just keeps getting *worse*."
We call that Personal Growth. Love to see it.
Wow. I didn't think conservatives possessed the appropriate grey matter to make those kinds of reflections.
Are you just talking about yourself? Be honest, mate.
NGL they used to rub me the wrong way a little, but uh, When they transitioned and started wrestling and just generally started seeing happier, that feeling went away. Much more fun now~
@@MilkieMouse It's often a mistake to assume that people who disagree with us do so because they're stupid. In the case of conservatives it can be very tempting, but no less a mistake.
I always miscontextualise that Stephanie and me are the same age and grew up in South London. We have similar stages of nostalgia.
This person complaining is just insane, he is in charge of the most anti consumer parts of a anti consumer company that in general is so crappy that you can not say their name out loud without throwing up in your mouth.
He's also basically trying to hold many employees hostage.
Is he the one that f-ed up Starlink? The one where you have to "renew" access to your physical crap? Because when I discovered that bit, I was laughed in disbelief and wondered how the Hell they got away with it.
@@MrCrunchytime No idea, but he is in charge of their monotization, so at the very least I bet he is responsible for having pay extra in order to play on the real release date as well as that bs about paying extra to get the complete game as it is day one.
You're wrong! You are SO wrong it's borderline disgusting!
The vomit comes all the way out of your mouth when you say "Ubisoft". Wait...no!
😕😨🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@ChristopherSadlowski Let me put that to the test.
Ubisof
Ubiso
Ubis
Ubi
Seems I was wrong, and now I have to clean the house.
Jesus, a Sister Sister reference in 2024? I can't get over how beside myself and old these references make me feel.
I know, right? That's so raven
@@hive_indicator318 STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD
Go home Roger!
@@paulhorneschillings1212NEVER! JOIN US IN OUR COLLECTIVE SUFFERING!
REMEMBER EVEN STEVENS?
We might as well pack it up, board the ships bound for the West and diminish. It is genuinely 30 years old, this year... the first Playstation was about to drop in December 1994. Where are any of even going...
If gamers should get used to not owning their games, Ubisoft should get used to not owning their company
Hey Yves, we should make a New For Honor with fighting styles that make sense.
-Nope, NFTs
A Splinter Cell Remake
-Nope, NFTs
A 3D Metroidvania POP?
-Nah bro, NFTs
Lets Remaster our classic games
- Did you said NFTs?
They're still trying to push _Quartz._ Can you believe it?
The fact that Steph came up with the line "I hate to say I hate to say I told you so because I love to say I told you so, which I did, I told you so" while in chronic pain is nothing short of good.
I'm really tired of living in an era of video game history where every week I see a new headline that makes me think "can't wait to see Stephanie's video about this".
Wait 'til you realize that the entire economy works the way the video game industry does, just to a slightly lesser degree.
End stage capitalism. We no longer need share holders or over paid executives. Why are there investors if the company doesn't need to raise funds as it's profitable? Oh right, gambling exit scams. That's how they funnel the profits out of the company.
Don't quite understand.
"In-hair-ent-Lee" got me. The cisual puns in the Jimquisition's current era have been top notch. Thankyou.
Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. Get better. We need you around
I just wanted to say that I have been a longtime fan of this show, back when I discovered you, you were still making videos for the Escapist. I did unsubscribe at some point years and years ago, during a particularly dumb era of my life, but contrary to popular trends it was way before your coming out. I actually re-subscribed after your coming out and I've been back to listening to your weekly show ever since. Thank God for you
This is lovely to see
I might be making the wrong guesses about what you mean by "a particularly dumb era", but if you fell for any of the gamer-bro anti-woke bs, then I'm really glad to hear you've seen through it and come back
No matter how hard we push back against all that rubbish, the only way it actually ends is if the people who are doing it, stop doing it. So it's great to hear that sometimes people really do see the light
Same boat here, the show feels much better now that she's living a better life behind the scenes🙏
@@douglaswolfen7820lol make good games simple as no one wants to play alphabet slop propaganda
@@PhysicsXL would you like to try rephrasing that? It wasn't very coherent
On second thoughts, feel free not to bother rephrasing it. I have a feeling that whatever you're talking about, I'm gonna strongly disagree with you
@@douglaswolfen7820 mental health issues are prevalent in some communities
Professional wrestling: All good. Sleep at an odd angle: Get wrecked, scrub.
Feedback loop! Steph does all the wrestling stuff and gets all tired out from that but little do they know...The bed is a secret, final opponent here to hit them when they're literally down!
Ubisoft is the direct cause of me extending my cash shop ban from only being applied to multiplayer modes/games I didn't play, to banning cash shops games entirely.
Then they tried the NFT crap & I deleted my entire 17 game account, I only own older GOG releases of Ubisoft games which stopped completely when Origin launched.
At least on GOG all cash shops are banned for Single player games/modes, GOG can't control publishers servers, but parity with offline play-ability forces the removal those server links.
DRM free offline installers mean I don't use Galaxy, I download the installer fully patched, from the GOG website, Portable updated "Disc" content, I can copy & store on anything.
Love how investors are sick of seeing short-term gains prioritized over long-term gains and even pointed out their poor customer experience. It's good to see some investors are not as blind to issues as AAA companies think they are.
It just kinda sucks that they ONLY listen to the investors and not, you know, the audience for their products which has been screaming at them for years to do better.
Seems kinda back-asswards to me.
There's no such thing as "go woke, go broke" there is only "go fash, lose cash"
Woo new slang what's "fash" mean?
Fascist
Most don't care about either. Make something good and people will buy it. Simple as that.
Especially because, half the time, the "go woke, go broke" crowd will buy 1,000 of whatever they "don't like" to make a TikTok of them shooting at it.
Hard to go broke when that's the way they boycott.
Explain Concord and Dustborn, then.
SW: Outlaws woulda been a great game if it weren't for all the Ubisoft-ness in it.
Can’t wait for their next release, SW: Inlaws
@@SnuubScadoob damn near snorted coffee out my nose at that.
I was kinds excited when I first heard it but after seeing "Ubisoft" I completely lost interest
@@SnuubScadoob Vader's force ghost argues with Han at Life Day dinner.
There's no doubt people associated the game to Ubisoft and did a hard pass on it, but Star Wars Outlaws underperforming sales on PC is also suffering the same very reason why Alan Wake 2 underperformed: Exclusivity deals with the Epic Games Store (EGS) though Outlaws will release on Steam on November which could led to a boost in sales numbers. Simply put people don't like EGS at all, their anti consumer behaviour (corroborated by the FTC settlement for spying on kids, shadow tactics to force sales of cosmetics in Fortnite, etc.) and overall sleazy way the CEO of the company operates plus the lies puts people off from buying there. Square Enix vowed to never do exclusives again after their abysmal sales numbers in the EGS store and Kingdom Hearts sales numbers in Steam (sold like hot cakes) vs Epic (not many people bought it) is proof of that.
Ubisoft will launch the new AC on Steam day one unlike past titles that had timed exclusivity on EGS.
Talking about EGS, Just recently Tim Sweeney went on a rant about "A Lot of Games Are Released With High Budgets, and They’re Not Selling" and went on regurgitating the old tired lie of live service games being the future... Which is his way to cope on his failed strategy for publishing Alan Wake 2 (exclusive to PC on EGS, no physical version for consoles) which led Remedy to seek Annapurna as the publisher for Control 2 and how every exclusive (timed or permanent) in the EGS just becomes a financial failure. And of course to cope for the poor sales of Outlaws in EGS too most likely.
Didn't expected more from Sweeney who is your average run of the mill centrist who likes to defend Elon Musk on Twitter.
This of course rounds up with what you have been saying in the video: Executives making dumb choices in every regard possible and failing without consequences at all.
I always have to wonder: why do EGS insist on exclusivity for games released on PC and companies do so even though it would hurt their sales as opposed to just releasing on Steam like normal?
@@stefanradebach2889the answer is, of course, money. I assume publishers are getting sweetheart deals - if not just straight-up cash - for agreeing to publish exclusively on EGS for a period of time, and EGS is willing to spend it because they're willing to lose millions a year if it means they can capture a bigger share of Steam's audience.
I cannot take Tim Sweeney seriously after a year or so back where he spent a Saturday night on Twitter whining about the bullies he had in junior high.
@@KSignalEingang Bingo!
@@togliz Yup add to that his fixation to defend Elon Musk who is a bully himself and it is quite the paradox.
Overall, this is a corporate problem, not just a game industry problem. No exec of any major company or corporation anywhere is going to suffer if said company implodes.
It's a capitalism problem in general. It's like the rich need to cram their maws full in a panic because they don't know when the bottom is going to fall out on them.
So what's the solution? Should we buy bad games then to save the jobs of those poor rank and file devs? They are using them as shields.
@@lucasLSD no. people need to stop dreaming of working at AAA companies altogether, pull together and join up in indie groups. it is not anybody's job to protect anybody's crushed dreams at this point, people should truly know better. it is not going to be a fun time developing for any AAA studio. period.
I guess raising the base price of games to $70 doesn't help when no one buys your games anymore.
Big props to the editor the put the clip from Clerks the animated series in around the 3 min mark
Get better soon, Steph!
3:35 "Unfortunately" - they went with Christopher Lee rather than Bruce Lee
Variety is the spice of life!
@@ZMannZillaChris Lee is a GREAT Lee!
L.I.E.
The Lie of Infinite Expansion
It generally doesn't do very well when the first letter of your acronym stands for the same word as the acronym itself.
Okay that gag with the "LiG t-shirt" had me cracking up. Beautifully done, y'all. XD
AGREED! Genuinely laughed out loud.
The little dance breaks are like the only time a merch section cheers me up, it's so good and needs to be acknowledged
Thank you so much! 💜🐼
@@ZMannZillathe fact that you often use the Saints Row the 3rd music, in a number of them, really makes me smile. SR3, wherever I can play it, has been kind of a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s so ludicrous, going to the point of no limits on insanity simply to cater to pure unadulterated fun. The only sense they want to make is some developer saying “it is fun? Sure, throw that in.” To me, it’s a celebration of crazy fun over seriousness or realism.
Man steve chassard sounds like he loves NFTS and elon musk and definitely “has a lot of [insert minority here] best friends! He cannot be hateful!” Wild to get such a deep and nuanced vibe from a simple tweet.
I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game in YEARS due to the widespread culture of sexual predation at the company
They promise they changed, but I don't believe them just yet. When they announced their program to help women and non-binary pals, I immediately saw a casting couch for new victims and the fox guarding the hen house. 🦊
Holy shit investors complaining about a games company pleasing them too much and not the gamers. Is this like one of the signs of the apocalypse?
So early there arent any comments yet.
Its time to start my monday right with Seph, crapping on Ubisoft.
your hair indeed looks fantastic
Ita funny ubisoft wants people to get hyped for assassins creed in japan like its this groundbreaking idea as if ghosts of tsushima didn’t come out years ago. Almost as funny as Disney basically tanking the value of all the IP they bought by over-saturating the market (and with most of what they pump out being trite, obvious cash grabs)
I remember as a teenager wanting so badly for a AC game set in Japan, before AC3 came out even. Now it’s too little too late
My favorite swear word is the four-letter word I only call Elon Musk. You know, SKELETON WARRIORS.
Leon Muskrat is in a league of his own...at least a thunder-SKELETON WARRIORS.
I've been following Steph for around 8 something years now and it's no exaggeration that companies where being warned this would happen the entire fucking time. To see the guy in charge of monetization put the hate down to "game me no like" shows how they lack even basic self awareness.
People have been shitting on assass games for years and cause for the last X years they've been released unfinished. The fact that the half baked game comes with multiple monetization methods just makes it too obvious they only care about draining the consumer of cash.
But nooooo its all cause "me no like assass game" yeah sure buddy, whatever helps you sleep at night.
I mean, in regards to the AC games, it really is down to not liking them...mostly for completely valid reasons, as you mentioned of course. We *don't* like them because of the predatory practices, harmful work environment, and anti-consumerism...But he cannot engage with those reasons because he's an active participant in at least some of their existence, so he has to reductively tack it onto "The Gamers™" and their absolute horridness due to that being easier than acknowledging his role in the actual problems.
Like Steph said, it's an example of how the bigot hate-mobs that tour around everything make for a super handy blame-magnet and allow responsibility to be shifted away from the responsible.
I'm not the only one that thought Outlaws and Hunters was the same game until Jim started comparing them directly, right?
Not at all, I warned a friend off buying Outlaws, because I though it was Hunters.
If I’m “on the same boat” as the director of monetization at Ubisoft I think I have a moral obligation to *sink this boat*
You know, I think the last Ubisoft game I played was the original Assassin's Creed. Even before I knew about all the shit going on there, their games stopped being appealing. Remember Rayman 2? That was an absolute gem of a game. Pity.
I remember Rayman. Too bad Ubisoft doesn't.
Never stop beeing political Stephanie
💯
The anti-woke mob, as you mention, is just the death of proper criticism in the modern day.
I'm a DC fan, haven't watched a single DCEU movie because of so many many issues with these movies and I love hearing people discuss why movies do not work, and how execs meddled and ruined things, but every time I watch a review of any DCEU all I hear is whining that a brown person got to speak on screen and wasn't a bad guys henchman.
Then the wb DC games are worse because you start off assuming the person is normal, and then mid way they're like "and the joker for syicide squad is so gay!!! They made him gay!!!" Like bro the joker was always gay, what the hell are you talking about? I've never once seen a single DC Joker and thought: "that man is a heterosexual." And it doesn't matter how gay the joker is, the game sucks in every other way tell me about that!
But alas these dweebs cannot go a ten minute video without screaming about "the woke".
You forget extremis comes from both sides
@@isauldron4337 "Everybody's bad" doesn't erase legitimate criticisms, dude. People who use it are typically on the criticized side but are too scared to actually say so in case it turns on them.
Define "proper criticism". Who decides if criticism is proper or not?
@@MrCrunchytime Yep!
@Marius1g "Proper criticism" is being critical of media for things it actually does wrong, not screaming and crying because a character is black, or a woman, or gay, or when white men are portrayed as AH.
Besides, I just can't take anti-woke nitwits seriously when they're calling DEI programs "indoctrination" when these programs teach people how to function as decent human beings.
classic how the monetization director of ubisoft doesn't know "media" is already plural...
15:10 AM's speech about hate spotted! nice to see a reference to that! (for anyone that doesn't get it, it's from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. a good and short read from decades ago. also a single episode radio drama and video game!)
Great opening joke, loved that show as a kid!
Go home Roger!
The last time I was this early to a Jimquisition video, we were dealing with difficulty discourse.....wait, that, doesn't narrow things down a lot, does it?
Why do I find the dancing panda SO alluring?
fr fr
9:35 Don't worry Steph, it gave me a good chuckle.
I stopped buying Ubisift games when it becames impossible to understand what you were getting from the 50 different versions of a game they were selling......so that tells you just many years ago it was that i last bought a Ubisoft game.
Ubisoft hasn't put out a good game since Odyssey. And that was even an oasis in a desert of shite.
No tears will be shed when they are gone.
Odyssey was a bad one. It was the first truly bad AC game, haven't played anything after it due to the bad taste it left in my mouth.
And I'd say the new PoP game is pretty good. Immortals Fenyx Rising was pretty good. Xdefiant is a decent game, but nothing good enough to make it last in the sea of similar games.
"Hasn't put out a good game since Odyssey"
JFC, that game is barely 6 years old, and it barely qualifies as good. Ubisoft hasn't made a really good Assassin's Creed game since Black Flag, at least. Ever since then, all their games have been "Okay" down to "Absolute Sh-t".
The last ubisoft game I played was rayman legends and they haven't had a single release since then that remotely grabbed my interest
@@MrCrunchytime Rogue and Unity are better than Black Flag.
Odyssey? More like AC Rogue.
My favorite sci-fi swear word is, ironically enough, "blast" from Star Wars. It's mostly used in old Expanded Universe stuff, though... Not sure it even is canon anymore.
I bet the dozens of "well said stevey! you are very smart" comments in reply to his linkedIn post inflated his ego so much
Your channel has forever changed me. Whenever I see or hear their name I immediately think "OHHH EWE-BE-SOFT!!"
Steph feeling ill… made me feel better whilst also being ill. We’ll get there, congrats on working I cannot
In my completely unprofessional, non-medical opinion: you need a soothing warm drink of your choice and a good book. And a blanket. And an animal friend.
Stat!
9:43 I've heard that this is a problem with the nature of the stock market, not the executives or even the shareholders (this doesn't make the actions of the executives any less wrong of course, plus they could easily cut their own paychecks bit by bit first). The only solution is to reform the economy in such a manner that the stock market doesn't _need_ to exist. Which really, would fix so many things wrong with any given nation in general when you think about it. Plus no great depressions or "great recessions" (which are actually great depressions for everyone except the extremely rich) when a bunch of wealthy people decide to get together and f*ck with the stock market to f*ck with the economy
Talk about the EA shareholder presentation showing how AI is the future for gaming
The “Lie of Infinite Growth Monetization Abuse” Shirts instead?🤔
Put it in a loot box.
"LIG" is catchy actually, that deserves to take off
It used to be "Oh, Ubisoft!", now it's Oh F*** NO, Ubisoft!"
1:20 - Ah, as in "Might makes right", "S*** rolls downhill"...all that's missing is "what comes around, goes around" and it's the trinity of a failing authority...let me guess, Konami isn't a game company now?
It's the "moral law" that we're expected to live by, one that punishes the observer FOR observing it, you're punished based on how much you live up to it and rewarded based on how much you cheat it.
3:30 - Pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Pay fortunes, you get gorillas.
4:36 - Psychopaths don't feel shame, shame implies that they have a conscience, which of course they don't have.
It's negligence at best and pure incompetence at worst, a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars and seemingly lunatics.
10:30 - A bad investment from a branch of the Chinese government?...well, even they have their bad days.
11:40 - I know this isn't a joke, as if it was...it's the worst one yet.
13:48 - If they want to look at the guilty, they need only look into a mirror.
14:15 - Yeah and that boat is the Titanic!
15:00 - They'd silence you or at least try, even if you did, as Tyrion Lannister would put it, when you remove someone's tongue, you're not proving them to be a liar, you're simply showing that you're afraid of what they MIGHT say.
16:25 - If they went speed dating, they should lie and tell everyone that they're serial killers as that's a better appearance.
My favourite scifi swear word is 'fuck'.
"in-hair-ent-Lee" was a good one, got a chuckle out of me!
I absolutely feel for the smaller people who will loose their job, although they did nothing wrong.
But that probably will happen one way or the other with the current business practices. They either get cut so the company can appear growing, or they get abused and bullied until they quit or are burnt out.
But I would at least hope, that if Ubisoft goes up in flames, then that it will change something for the better in the industry. A wake up call if you will. Is it naive of me to hope for a net positive outcome for the rest of the gaming industry? Maybe, but it's more likely to be the much needed wake up call than if everybody just continues like this for another decade.
And who knows maybe loosing their job at Ubisoft (or other similar companies) is also a smaller wake up call for individuals and a chance to find a better job were their work gets the appreciation it deserves without the abuse. Cause in some way those jobs can be similar to being in an abusive relationship and it can be hard to get out of it, even when you know you deserve better.
The hair does look fantastic. I concur. Hope ya feel better soon Steph
Chickens are finally coming home to roost.
Favourite sci-fi swear word... Hrm. Pashang, innalowda. We beltas stick togetha, bossmang.
Ubisoft has been the template of the Useless Upper Management cadre causing chaos and disorder leading to awful games. In fact, their inept upper leadership is almost.... iconic.
"We're all in the same boat. Until it sinks, then you're all in the water and we're in the helicopter heading to a new job on another boat."
Yeah the employees will get a huge injustice if Ubisoft goes under, but better be jobless than work for Ubisoft.
Indeed Ubi is literally evil.
Better ded than red, as America used to say.
My reason for not buying Star Wars Whatever: Ubisoft has made the same game over and over again for so long, I just can't care. Why buy a new one?
Shazbot and gorrammit share a place in my heart.
I am a simple fool: I see the news that Ubisoft is losing money, I wait for Steph to tell me all about it.
Dear Jane, have a safe recovery. Sincerely, everyone who ever thanked god for you.
Thank you and your team for the weekly videos! Love Zilla's dance for both the fake and real t-shirts 🐼🐼
Thanks so much! 💜🐼
@@ZMannZilla You have the rhythm and quite possibly the rhyme. Keep it up you delightful person, you!
Management: "We're all in the same boat!"
Also management: *steers the ship into the rocks and takes all the lifeboats*
They want us to get used to not owning their games? They better get used to us not buying them. 🏴☠
This. They asked us to get used to not owning our games, so we stopped buying theirs. They fucked around and found out.
It’s “go woke go broke” except when the game is actually good, almost as if there was another, more important factor than appealing to these warriors of trad values. But hey, what have I expected from people calling Alloy or Courtney Hope (Jesse from Control) ugly?
Yeah, I've seen them bending over backwards to explain the successes of "woke" games like BG3, etc... Just a bunch of bad faith actors, with their useful idiots in tow.
I saw seeing a few people blaming the "backlash against the black samurai in Assassin's Creed", which was the first I heard about it
So, not only are they focusing on the wrong things to complain about, they have shit taste as well??? Sounds about right, lol~
@@MintyCoolness Did you see that list of 'bad woke games' by that curator on Steam? They literally have every good game released since the beginning of games on the list. Every game that got a thumbs up for not being woke, however, was a shovel-ware hentai game. I don't think they actually like video games.
@@distorteddivine3638 I know of that list. I even used it as a recc' sheet for games I might like, lol. Their loss is my gain, after all~
Fr tho, they get at us for not liking certain aspects of games, but then go around and do the same thing, depriving themselves of some of the greatest games in history. It's hypocrisy, and if they at least owned up to it, I would respect their opinions, even as a disagree...
Sorry to hear you're not feeling great in this vid.
We appreciate the sacrifices you make to bring the catharsis we all need about gaming dumbassery
Maybe don't implement always-online DRM? That can negatively affect sales, especially now after people are finally realizing the problem with that which people were warning about a decade ago. The Crew 1 anyone?
forever the only journalist in this pathetic fucking "industry" who EVER say anything that matters. bless you Steph. you fucking rock!
"We're all in the same boat alright, but not all of us are being thrown overboard are we?"
That is some damn poetry right there.
You know it's bad when THE INVESTORS THEMSELVES are telling you that you're short-sightedly focusing on the investors too much
being an investor of ubisoft must feel like being a famous food critic at a failing restaurant. You're being wined and dined with a quality meal while every other patron gets served shit and the owner is in back whipping their staff members and screaming. On your way out the owner comps your meal and offers you a wad of cash if you write a good review.
Thank you for being there for us, Jim! Much love!
@2:54 Hey, I watched that episode 3 days ago.
I was expecting this week's episode to be about the Star Citizen developer demanding its team have 7-day work weeks with no overtime pay. Maybe a screencap or 2 of its subreddit filled with corporate cock gobblers saying "it's no big deal."
One of my classmates did his internship at Ubisoft… and after 2 weeks decided he didn't ever want to work in the gaming industry
I can't believe Ligma is destroying the game industry.
going public never benefits anyone that actually needs it.
ever.
Your hair does, in fact, look fantastic!
They're really pulling the "Go woke go broke" nonsense for the publisher that owns Tom Clancy's video game license?
I honestly expected Steph to start quoting 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' there, when starting to talk about Ubisoft.
How much Hollywood Accounting or other scamminess is involved in "Underperforming"?
Funny thing is that it doesn't feel like Star Wars itself is cursed- those Fallen Order games have sold gangbusters from what I understand. But slapping the license on Your Typical Ubisoft Game, or Your Typical Hero Shooter, game styles that have seen some pretty darn diminishing returns lately, and you get a lot less money and good will going your way...
Well, Ubisoft is a French company so... Vive la révolution!