I apologize for the really, really bad gameplay of XDefiant on display, but as I mention later in the video, the game refused to cooperate and had me switching from controller to MnK each match and a whole host of other issues, and I didn't want to keep dealing with it just to get better footage when I didn't want to keep playing. Thanks for watching!
As a fellow Vader 4 pro enjoyer, i can confirm that stuff happens with some games/software, and most of the time, virtual mouse device, that pad uses for "gyro-as-mouse" inputs are at false. I ended up deleting that virtual mouse, because of regular conflicts with Razer software. "Gyro-to-stick" is my preferred way to using gyro anyway, only time when i needed it the other way, when i playing some WII stuff, and i can live without it. Thanks for video, great stuff, as always.
From his perspective. He does not lie and truly believes in the words falling down out of his mouth. He really works without getting tired; almost 15 minutes per day!
I bought RDR2 on a crazy cheap sale, but it was on epic launcher, I played it for one 3 hour sesh and have never gone back because I just cant be assed to load up, update the launcher etc. Il wait for it to be super cheap on Steam and il buy it again on there.
The AC series had a massive sale recently. I figured I’d buy some of the older ones to play on my Steam Deck. Download AC 2. Fire it up. Can’t play without logging into Uplay. Online connection required. Refund request submitted.
Even for old games they do this? This is ludicrous, and im wondering if i should consider taking some measurements in regards of RAyman Legends since i got it years ago
It's possible to get around the UPlay Launcher on some games with a few lines of code or a txt file. It's quite easy to do, all it takes is a simple Google search...
They hired a bunch of people who had never played an FPS before to work on XDefiant, and refused to put the game on Steam. It is not remotely surprising that it failed. Most people I know didn't even know XDefiant existed until Ubisoft announced it was shutting the game down.
@@Ballistic-vn6em it works just like any other business. You make shitty product - you lose your job and company is closed. Why gamedev should be different?
@@Ballistic-vn6em It does show a lot. It shows we're fiscally responsible and unwilling to pay 70+ dollars for janky, unoptimized messes filled with MTX nonsense. You just keep eating that slop they serve you, like a good little piggy. Oink oink.
Getting laid off from a decent job is a nightmare. They don’t warn you, You lose all of your stability, and it feels like you wasted a chunk of your life climbing a ladder that you now have to start over on a different ladder.
It really is. If you get fired, that (usually) means you failed hard and there's a professional lesson you can take to get better. If you get laid off, that means that despite your best competent effort, you still failed through no fault of your own and you can't just improve your way out of it.
It is a year of unprecedented failure in games. From Concord being the biggest flop in history, to Ubisoft management utterly destroying their company with a severe and continuous lapse in judgement.
I've been playing XD every day since day 1 and this news yesterday made my jaw hit the floor. I thought it was a troll or something. S3 was the big season they've been talking about to draw more players in...instead Ubi straight murdered their own product. You did a really good job on this vid. Most of these ive watched since yday are more attacking it than covering it lole an actual gamer.
@toptiertech7291 We tried but they never gave us anything to buy. S3 was when they were supposed to have an actual store to buy cosmetics. All they gave us were battle passes a handful of skins on a 2-3 day rotation.
Xdefiant wasn't given a legitimate effort. It feels like ubisoft just decided to gut the game because they are desperate to save money. I have never seen an xdefiant ad. A game with no advertising makes no sense.
The problem as I see it is Ubisoft stopped making games with the intent of making great games. Their titles seem to be designed to make money first and be games second (at best).
They clearly made a decision about 10 years ago that they were going to commodify their games. Rather than making each one as a seperate project, they were basically going to make one game, one engine, one UI, and then just have an assembly line of reskinned releases coming out. Well, eventually people realized that Ubisoft games are very samey, and if you've played one you've played them all.
Ubisoft products are "games" the way vegetable oil, whey protein, and artificial flavors pressed into a square of plastic and sold for use on sandwiches are "cheese". Pasteurized process game product, you might say.
The corporate speak email must be completely demoralizing. Soulless jargon meant to placate people, it would have the opposite effect if it was coming to my inbox.
I found an example of how you can improve your phrasing at 13:54. "...The Finals, which I think is a great parallel to XDefiant; it's kind of like the "Battlefield"...version of XDefiant, in a way-- where XDefiant is the "Call of Duty" one..." Could be better phrased as "...The Finals - which is to Battlefield as XDefiant is to Call of Duty..." There's a few phrases English class likes to teach us that feel like, "who talks like this?" but can serve the conciseness of your speech when you get good at working them in. Practice using them more often and I think it'll help one little bit in improving your commentary-based content.
As an XDefiant player with over 200 hours in the game thank you for the fair take. Honestly you hit the nail on the head with the video as a whole and I appreciate it. For me this was gonna be my multiplayer PvP game since TBH none of the other ones I care to play since I don't play or care for Battle Royale or just one life modes at all and pretty much every other non-BR or one life mode is not up my ally or just put off from past actions like Overwatch 2. Marvel Rivals is probably the closest that I'd want to play but I am also just someone who is feeling more like I just wanna only play PvE and single player games at this point in my life honestly. I was trending in that direction already since about late 2020 when I got back into Killing Floor 2 thanks to some people I randomly met in Left 4 Dead 2, but when XDefiant came out that was gonna be the game that was the exception to the rule. Sadly though its just not a thing now so back to PvE and single player games again I guess. Thanks Ubisoft. Also for me as someone who hadn't played a Ubisoft game since quite literally like 2006 with Rayman Raving Rabbids I am 10000000% *OK* with seeing them shutdown forever. The good riddance feeling you mentioned at 10:54, especially as someone who actually had hope for this game and tried to support it with not just my time but a little bit of money, especially since I only get around 1440 dollars a month. 10 dollars here and there for me was a lot, and to see this happen anyway. ESPECIALLY with season 3 not even being given a fair shake and as you mentioned a freaking a Steam launch. It honestly just pisses me off. I don't use that lightly personally. Screw Ubisoft, and I hope everyone else worked on the game actually lands on their feet for projects and games that matter. It also pisses me too since CoD really needs some actual competition, the crap they pull in their games and have for years just feels depraved at this point and frankly lazy. Put me off from playing Call of Duty ever again and I do mean that. Haven't played since Black Ops 4 and certainly wasn't gonna bother since MW2019's non-sense. But now we aren't gonna get anything like it now though. So YAY!!! /s Again thanks for the video and the very fair take with everything, reason I'm subbed to your channel and also why I'll be supporting you on Patreon next year.
The saying used to be: 'too big to fail', these days it's 'too big to change'. As the Hindus have known long ago, you have to destroy in order to create anew. Ubisoft collapsing is not a bad thing, it is simply Shiva doing his part clearing the way for Vishnu to create something new. That is the natural cycle of life, or creation and destruction, death and rebirth.
While it's super amusing to watch the big bad faceless corporation fail the fact is everyone else hurts from it. The people who pushed for micro transactions and everything else that drove Ubi into the ground? They'll be fine. They'll sell the company and make money or move on to another company. Regular people who just want to work on games are the ones out of a job. Fans of these IPs no longer get new ones. We should want these companies to learn from their mistakes or to get rid of the people who don't have the company and more importantly the fans best interest in mind. People who care more about making as much money right now as possible or to use someone else's game to push whatever their personal views are. Otherwise we're gonna see more and more fan favorite series just be lost to time.
I remember Ubisoft being saved from bankruptcy back in 2007 with the release of Assassin's Creed. I hope they can, somehow, manage these tough times. Imo, listening to the fans and allowing them to guide their current gaming projects couldn't do any harm. They have some of the best franchises - Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Ghost Recon, Anno, For Honor and even Assassin's Creed that has had its moments. I don't want to see them fail.
All they have to do is cut out the woke crap and start making good games again. They should start with Splinter Cell, Rayman, and bringing back Patrice Desilets for Prince of Persia and give him full control.
1000% I would've played this game more if it was on steam. Its just the simple fact that I have steam open all the time and I would see the game in my library making it hard to forget.
I was hoping that they would make games like they used to. I guess that's what happens when you reward the Executives only and not the actual people who made the game. The Devs. The Artists. The Project Managers. The Creative Director. The ones who actually made the direction of the game. Not the CEO. The Execs in suits should've been removed from the project long ago. Yet they fired the talents and reward the useless ones that are only there for the business side of things. Ubisofts' downfall is deserved.
I have almost 100 hours in the game and I really didn't expect it to be closed, I was expecting a release announcement on Steam, but no, I'm going back to Titanfall 2.
Haha! Same when I played OW1. TBH I still play most of my games that way since I started on PC. Plus on occasion I still play with Wiimote & Nunchuck. Really effective as long as its setup well and the game has decent control options.
@@Mugthief My bad if it came off that way, I wasn't aware the cut had happened. I was making a joke alluding to the videos a while back when you had said something about not being able to do it for this reason or that.
@@Mugthief I like it better now that you have it free and wild again. It looked like a scam when you used that "horse tail" hairstyle (sorry. English is not my first language and I don't know how that hairstyle is named in English).
Imagine reducing your exposure by a factor of 10 just to save on a 30% fee... And then consider they have the costs of coding and maintaining their own launcher and keeping their servers up 😂
At this point Ubislop can crash and burn, I do not care because management there will never change and they are the core problem (I do feel sorry for the devs thou). Also sure games do need competition to stay customer-focused problem is how much competition a live-service model can have? Because basically we all have a 1 or 2 games we play on perpetuity however there is no way people can play 4 or more. So what do you do? Drop the game you played for 5 years and spent money and time to move to something new? For a month maybe, but 80% chance you're gonna go back. So who is gonna fund the new games? This concept really isn't that hard to grasp, unless you're a CEO apparently.
Mug, I've been watching you for a couple of months, since Ubi got f-ed (i've been watching older vids as well, also exceptionally awesome, and I just wanted to say that I really, really appreciate and like that you are really about video games, not about any agenda like ragebaiters, this was highlighted in my eyes especially when you've made a video about veilguard. You were so fckin genuine and not bashing the game for whatever ragebaiters were doing I don't want to give my political opinion, but I reall like that neither do you, and you really just about games We need more people like you Or Im good with more vids from you😂 but thats just my personal opinion Keep this up my man, you are insanely great and talented And offtopic but if i may ask What happened to shaving your hair short after 50k subs?😂 not being petty, i kinda have the same hair as you, and im thinking of new style and i really wanted to see you first before deciding😂 this sounds like im a dickhead i know, but please don't take it the wrong way 🙏🏻 Kisses and hugs, love ya
Been looking forward to this video as someone who enjoyed XDefiant, and also in general love your takes on gaming as a whole. Thanks for the upload! Now to watch! And demand you give me back my mugs MugThief!! 😭😭😭
My heart goes out to the entry-to-mid level employees at Ubisoft. I hope they get great new jobs at companies that aren’t soul sucking and will respect their talents.
The rhetoric of not wanting studios and their parent companies to shutdown for making bad decisions has become incredibly tiring and annoying. Please give it up. Gaming studios and publishers are businesses just like any other. If they make poor choices and shut down they don't deserve any extra consideration than one would normally warrant. Let them shutdown, their employees will find jobs at the new businesses that take their place. That's how the market works.
Do you not know what XDefiant is? It’s a 6 v 6 hero shooter which uses the likeness of all their other properties. Far cry, watch dogs, siege, splinter cell
I hate it so much to see Ubisoft falling so hard. Of the big publishers this was always my favourite since AC1, the Ubi formula just did it for me for a long time, I played all Far Cry game, almost every AC and so on. It's such a shame to see them fuck up so hard for years now.
When a game dev company gets too big. They get to a certain size. Where it becomes a death spiral. Because they would have to churn out enough good games to keep them afloat. But its impossible at the speed they need. Its unsustainable
Sad thing is that you can be sure that the people being laid off are not the ones responsible for making the bad decisions ending in bad games... Those executives ? Worry not, their job is safe and the Golden Parachute is in place for when the whole thing collapse.
Woah. It’s almost like the people at the top of the company are the ones who helped grow the company to what it is. Game devs are just a cog in the machine. That’s like saying “McDonald’s CEOs aren’t the ones who made the company successful. It was the fry cooks”
Been watching a bunch of videos on this over the course of my shift this morning, figured yours would be the best cap for this...got me imagining a roundtable discussion with you, Legendary Drops, kingerd, and one-two people who have been actively playing throughout the whole mess Great work---now go reward yourself by jumping on the PoE2 bandwagon, will ya?
This comment is only being written 9ish minutes into the video, however: The issue of making the game separate from the Ubi Launcher doesn't truly seem like it would be that difficult, especially when there's companies like 2k out there who have gone through their entire library of games and sunset their launcher. Before the sunsetting of the launcher, all of these games had the 2k launcher mandatory to use before you could do anything with the game itself. I doubt that Ubi will remove uplay or whatever it's called now, but I don't think it'd be a difficult process in terms of work load.
The talent that made the great Ubisoft games in the past, left long ago. The current output is reflection of the current leadership and developers. It will not get better.
I don’t have any sympathy for “individuals” like most people, they should have known what they are signing up for whn employing to work for this particular company and game industry as a whole
“To own the chuds…” Was it worth it to have the company at the mercy of creditors and investors… They want their money…all of it. There are no angel investors to save Ubisoft. Only corporate raiders circling like vultures to swoop in to liquidate assets to the highest bidder. Even, TenCent will need to hesitate after Embracers implosion. Some things are just not worth saving.
And nothing of value will be lost. They are a hollow shell of their former selves and have been overly formulaic and crappy for going on a decade. It's time to move on or go back and play better games. Old and indie games may not have the fidelity (questionable as that is "looks at AC:Unity at launch"), but they have far more fun and heart than what most companies make nowadays.
This is a perfect example of why I don't want to invest in ANY live service game, with my time or my money. Even if it's VERY successful, in 2 years the new one could show up, and kill it, and then you can't even see your achievements or your purchased goods. But at least it's not as bad as MyTeam, they HAVE an offline portion you can play, but because they want to FORCE you into the newest one, you CAN'T play the old offline modes. You can't even SEE your(sometimes THOUSANDS of dollars for many people) purchases!
And you are a perfect example of why they don’t work. It was a free game. Video games aren’t cheap. They are a hobby. That’s like saying “I don’t go to the gun range because it costs money to shoot all that ammo and I won’t get the money back”. Why go sky diving? Once you land it’s over and you don’t get that money back. That’s life bro. You’re paying for the experience at the moment
@toptiertech7291 lol, they don't work because MOST of them suck. And they prioritize milking your time, giving you JUST enough rewards to keep you on the hook, but not too much so they can bleed your wallet as well. If they were GOOD, and not greedy scumbags, maybe I would. But there are Waay too many scumbag ones, and way too many mid ones that fail. Yay let's spend $300 on a game that gets shut down in 6 months.
@toptiertech7291 and no it's not like that at all. The gun range is something you go, and do, and have fun. End of transaction. They don't try to continually milk you, they don't try to use physiological tactics to absorb as much of your time as they possibly can so they can parade their metrics to the investors. And they don't make the weapons you use, or bullets trash and barely functional so that you buy the special guns and special bullets.
@@addidaswguy but most ranges I go to require you to have a membership or you have to pay for the range. Plus pay for the ammo they sell. You guys seem to think that gamers who spend money on games you don’t like are being tricked somehow. People KNOW these things. They WANT to spend money because they like the game. Just like people who still spend money in GTA. If you’re going to spend hours doing something a day then $20 on a skin once every month isn’t going to hurt. You can CHOOSE to play a game. Have fun and that’s it. How did you get the gun? That costs money right? I could say people who spend $2000 on rifles are being tricked because I only spent $600 on mine. Same with golf. How much are good golf clubs? A golfing membership ? But for the amount of money spent, gaming provides you more time than any hobby
It has this Cartoony Style, as so many Games now have. And it's the same old low-player count Game. I play PlanetSide2 for 12years now and nothing comes even close BUT IT SHOULD. MMO FPS has so many Themes it could adopt because there is just one real MMO FPS, and that is PlanetSide2 - 12 years and just Warhammer Eternal Crusade tried to reach for something similar... but sadly it was killed by (guess who...) Behavior Entertainment.
Take a look at Ubisoft's 2023-2024 financial report and their Sep 30 2024 six month financial report. At this point Ubisoft is over $900,000,000 in the red.
Ubisoft stays afloat: They continue with bad monetization with annoying preachy stories and ugly characters Tencent takes over: They continue with bad monetization, perhaps even worse, but the stories are made to appeal to gamers and the characters might look good. Either way Ubisoft's demise is long overdue and it's not like we were ever going to get anything truly good from them again, without the taint of season passes and microtransactions. At least if Tencent takes over maybe the characters won't look like skinwalkers like the characters in Star Wars Outlaws.
I tried to play it the other day and it took 5 minutes to find a match then I kicked and waited another ten minutes joined a game half way and got railed by shotguns
They refused to put the game on the biggest video game platform on earth. Then they proceed to try and gaslight their employees into believing that management is not to blame for this on going disaster that is ubitrash
I'm a little biased but I feel Ubisoft had a money printing machine in the works with The Division IP. No it wasn't perfect, yes it had it's issues but the gameplay (cover based looter-shooter) is tight, IMO. Why they made the decision to abandon (for the most part) the IP is mind boggling. I will be really surprised if TD3 actual ships.
The problem is there will be no more new people coming to the game everybody quit and the people that were coming back were people that were spending money
Can we start a petition against Tencent buying Ubisoft? I don't want to put up with their corporate stalking and harassment attempting to third party me outside the game when I log online for some mutual competition.
20:50 dude.. can you be honest? lol them having a black character in Japan has screwed them and sure casuals will buy in the end but it’s gonna be another flop. 😅😂
@@bobbob-dg1kt well then your original comment doesn’t really make sense. You know that like 95% of gamers are casuals right? I feel like people who are super into hobbies always forget that not everyone is invested the same way they are. Mirage sold over 5 million copies. That’s a good amount. People love playing as samurai. This will probably sell well. It’s not going to lose money how XDefiant was
@@toptiertech7291 That's why I said "The most casual of casual" to infer that most gamers aren't interested in yet another sequel, especially one so DEI infested, and only someone picking up their first Ass Creed game might be interested in playing a game that the company is relying on so heavily.
It's funny it took them this long to figure out how being a public company works. Sure you get easier access to investments .. but you are essentially selling off slices of your company in the process 🤨
poor ole Ubisoft can't catch a break, their whole ship is surviving because of these popular online games that they have plenty of but it would not be enough to save them if next AC game fail. Gotta be honest I'm playing through AC-2 right now and damn that game is top notch sadly nowadays Ubisoft is money hungry dying beast.......
If they have content for it, they’ll show it before the game shuts down. No sense abandoning the people still enjoying it, but clearly there isn’t an audience for it. There’s like 15 COD’s, there’s not much different about xdefiant than any of the COD games
XDefiant is just another lamb to the slaughter in the continuous shitshow that Ubi is going through, I don't believe there is much more to it than that. They aren't trying to justify shutting it down, or find alternatives. They are just looking for the most obvious excuse to give it the boot, like an employer fed up with an employee. Further still, on your comment regarding wanting Ubi to find a way forward instead instead of going bankrupt. Yes, but that is also a very and I mean VERY fictious scenario that most people know is just not going to happen as long as Yves and his cronies are in charge of the company. Despite the stuffed up memo of dreams and aspirations, Guillemot doesn't give a singular nanof*ck about games and will 100% prioritize getting his golden parachute before actually making Ubi make great games. His and others' greed is the entire reason we got to this point in the first place. So, in short, I don't believe(like many people) that Ubi deserves a shred of compassion at this point, fans pleaded and begged with them for years and were happily ignored. Now they cry for us and I say: Let's give them the same courtesy.
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I apologize for the really, really bad gameplay of XDefiant on display, but as I mention later in the video, the game refused to cooperate and had me switching from controller to MnK each match and a whole host of other issues, and I didn't want to keep dealing with it just to get better footage when I didn't want to keep playing. Thanks for watching!
As a fellow Vader 4 pro enjoyer, i can confirm that stuff happens with some games/software, and most of the time, virtual mouse device, that pad uses for "gyro-as-mouse" inputs are at false. I ended up deleting that virtual mouse, because of regular conflicts with Razer software. "Gyro-to-stick" is my preferred way to using gyro anyway, only time when i needed it the other way, when i playing some WII stuff, and i can live without it.
Thanks for video, great stuff, as always.
Ubisoft is on fire? I'll grab the popcorn.
I’ll find some kindling.
I got the marshmallows, anyone got graham crackers 'n chocolate?
popcorn ? nah , a full banquet
First, an insurance scumbag gets his subscription to life cancelled and now this? It really IS Christmas time! 😂😂😂
Since its almost Christmas, I guess I'll get the turducken.
> CEO
> "I am working tirelessly"
You can smell the bull from a mile away.
From his perspective. He does not lie and truly believes in the words falling down out of his mouth. He really works without getting tired; almost 15 minutes per day!
They didn't even put it on Steam?! All these stupid companies need to give up on their shitty little launcher no one uses. It's time....
I bought RDR2 on a crazy cheap sale, but it was on epic launcher, I played it for one 3 hour sesh and have never gone back because I just cant be assed to load up, update the launcher etc. Il wait for it to be super cheap on Steam and il buy it again on there.
@@gladiatorscoops4907Ouch. You missed the Black Friday sale last week. Was 20 bucks.
The AC series had a massive sale recently. I figured I’d buy some of the older ones to play on my Steam Deck.
Download AC 2. Fire it up.
Can’t play without logging into Uplay. Online connection required.
Refund request submitted.
No way ubishyt putting uplay requirement on all older games (except AC1 DC)
piracy is always morally correct
Even for old games they do this?
This is ludicrous, and im wondering if i should consider taking some measurements in regards of RAyman Legends since i got it years ago
It's possible to get around the UPlay Launcher on some games with a few lines of code or a txt file. It's quite easy to do, all it takes is a simple Google search...
Everybody saw this coming except Ubisoft.
They hired a bunch of people who had never played an FPS before to work on XDefiant, and refused to put the game on Steam. It is not remotely surprising that it failed. Most people I know didn't even know XDefiant existed until Ubisoft announced it was shutting the game down.
Plus no PS4
Ubisoft falling down? About time tbh, hopefully they go bankrupt before AC Shadows is released
So you wanna see people losing their jobs just because you don't like their games? That shows a lot about you and the whole gaming community.
😢😢😢 Are you losing your job soon? Good!
@@Ballistic-vn6em Same can be said about games urinalists. They wrote articles slandering Black Myth Wukong, Stellar Blade, Elden Ring etc
@@Ballistic-vn6em it works just like any other business. You make shitty product - you lose your job and company is closed. Why gamedev should be different?
@@Ballistic-vn6em
It does show a lot. It shows we're fiscally responsible and unwilling to pay 70+ dollars for janky, unoptimized messes filled with MTX nonsense.
You just keep eating that slop they serve you, like a good little piggy.
Oink oink.
Getting laid off from a decent job is a nightmare. They don’t warn you, You lose all of your stability, and it feels like you wasted a chunk of your life climbing a ladder that you now have to start over on a different ladder.
It really is. If you get fired, that (usually) means you failed hard and there's a professional lesson you can take to get better. If you get laid off, that means that despite your best competent effort, you still failed through no fault of your own and you can't just improve your way out of it.
If you were laid off then you didn’t get too far up that ladder
It is a year of unprecedented failure in games. From Concord being the biggest flop in history, to Ubisoft management utterly destroying their company with a severe and continuous lapse in judgement.
I've been playing XD every day since day 1 and this news yesterday made my jaw hit the floor. I thought it was a troll or something. S3 was the big season they've been talking about to draw more players in...instead Ubi straight murdered their own product. You did a really good job on this vid. Most of these ive watched since yday are more attacking it than covering it lole an actual gamer.
Because their core game base wasn’t spending money. You can hope to add new players. But it just costs too much
@toptiertech7291 We tried but they never gave us anything to buy. S3 was when they were supposed to have an actual store to buy cosmetics. All they gave us were battle passes a handful of skins on a 2-3 day rotation.
I appreciate the coverage of these news stories. Your vids are always to the point and informative.
Xdefiant wasn't given a legitimate effort. It feels like ubisoft just decided to gut the game because they are desperate to save money. I have never seen an xdefiant ad. A game with no advertising makes no sense.
Exactly. It just never got the attention it needed from Ubisoft
The problem as I see it is Ubisoft stopped making games with the intent of making great games. Their titles seem to be designed to make money first and be games second (at best).
They clearly made a decision about 10 years ago that they were going to commodify their games. Rather than making each one as a seperate project, they were basically going to make one game, one engine, one UI, and then just have an assembly line of reskinned releases coming out. Well, eventually people realized that Ubisoft games are very samey, and if you've played one you've played them all.
Ubisoft products are "games" the way vegetable oil, whey protein, and artificial flavors pressed into a square of plastic and sold for use on sandwiches are "cheese". Pasteurized process game product, you might say.
Ubisoft is really speedrunning the bankruptcy playthrough!
They had ubisoft osaka, yet had to go to westeners/canadian firms to consult for asscreed shadows, lmao.
Do you assume all Japanese people just are educated about feudal Japan?
@@toptiertech7291 They also have main office in Tokyo. They could have easily hired native scholars.
The corporate speak email must be completely demoralizing.
Soulless jargon meant to placate people, it would have the opposite effect if it was coming to my inbox.
I am convinced that "HR professional" is a euphemism for "office worker replaced by a synth Fallout 4-style."
I honestly had never heard of xdefiant or whatever it’s called until this video, perhaps ironically.
I found an example of how you can improve your phrasing at 13:54.
"...The Finals, which I think is a great parallel to XDefiant; it's kind of like the "Battlefield"...version of XDefiant, in a way-- where XDefiant is the "Call of Duty" one..."
Could be better phrased as
"...The Finals - which is to Battlefield as XDefiant is to Call of Duty..."
There's a few phrases English class likes to teach us that feel like, "who talks like this?" but can serve the conciseness of your speech when you get good at working them in. Practice using them more often and I think it'll help one little bit in improving your commentary-based content.
As an XDefiant player with over 200 hours in the game thank you for the fair take. Honestly you hit the nail on the head with the video as a whole and I appreciate it. For me this was gonna be my multiplayer PvP game since TBH none of the other ones I care to play since I don't play or care for Battle Royale or just one life modes at all and pretty much every other non-BR or one life mode is not up my ally or just put off from past actions like Overwatch 2.
Marvel Rivals is probably the closest that I'd want to play but I am also just someone who is feeling more like I just wanna only play PvE and single player games at this point in my life honestly. I was trending in that direction already since about late 2020 when I got back into Killing Floor 2 thanks to some people I randomly met in Left 4 Dead 2, but when XDefiant came out that was gonna be the game that was the exception to the rule. Sadly though its just not a thing now so back to PvE and single player games again I guess. Thanks Ubisoft.
Also for me as someone who hadn't played a Ubisoft game since quite literally like 2006 with Rayman Raving Rabbids I am 10000000% *OK* with seeing them shutdown forever. The good riddance feeling you mentioned at 10:54, especially as someone who actually had hope for this game and tried to support it with not just my time but a little bit of money, especially since I only get around 1440 dollars a month. 10 dollars here and there for me was a lot, and to see this happen anyway. ESPECIALLY with season 3 not even being given a fair shake and as you mentioned a freaking a Steam launch. It honestly just pisses me off. I don't use that lightly personally. Screw Ubisoft, and I hope everyone else worked on the game actually lands on their feet for projects and games that matter.
It also pisses me too since CoD really needs some actual competition, the crap they pull in their games and have for years just feels depraved at this point and frankly lazy. Put me off from playing Call of Duty ever again and I do mean that. Haven't played since Black Ops 4 and certainly wasn't gonna bother since MW2019's non-sense. But now we aren't gonna get anything like it now though. So YAY!!! /s
Again thanks for the video and the very fair take with everything, reason I'm subbed to your channel and also why I'll be supporting you on Patreon next year.
tldr
@@sirlionheart4614 No. Just don't read if its too long. Context and details matter.
The saying used to be: 'too big to fail', these days it's 'too big to change'. As the Hindus have known long ago, you have to destroy in order to create anew. Ubisoft collapsing is not a bad thing, it is simply Shiva doing his part clearing the way for Vishnu to create something new. That is the natural cycle of life, or creation and destruction, death and rebirth.
While it's super amusing to watch the big bad faceless corporation fail the fact is everyone else hurts from it. The people who pushed for micro transactions and everything else that drove Ubi into the ground? They'll be fine. They'll sell the company and make money or move on to another company. Regular people who just want to work on games are the ones out of a job. Fans of these IPs no longer get new ones. We should want these companies to learn from their mistakes or to get rid of the people who don't have the company and more importantly the fans best interest in mind. People who care more about making as much money right now as possible or to use someone else's game to push whatever their personal views are. Otherwise we're gonna see more and more fan favorite series just be lost to time.
The 1st time I've heard of this game is when I saw the YongYea video about it shutting down.
Nice advertising Ubisoft.
Then you must not watch cod UA-camrs. Everyone of them talked about the game
@toptiertech7291
Don't think I've given a shit about COD game since about Black Ops 3
who tf named this game? Me at 13??
Probably a mongoloid reddit mod.
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I remember Ubisoft being saved from bankruptcy back in 2007 with the release of Assassin's Creed. I hope they can, somehow, manage these tough times. Imo, listening to the fans and allowing them to guide their current gaming projects couldn't do any harm. They have some of the best franchises - Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Ghost Recon, Anno, For Honor and even Assassin's Creed that has had its moments. I don't want to see them fail.
All they have to do is cut out the woke crap and start making good games again. They should start with Splinter Cell, Rayman, and bringing back Patrice Desilets for Prince of Persia and give him full control.
@@SpectreStatusIs this "woke" in the room with us right now?
Shadow will be the end of Ubisoft if they still choose to released it in February with KCD 2 and MH Wilds planned to be released that month.
I had a lot of friends working at Ubisoft Osaka. It's absolutely tragic that it shut down. :(
1000% I would've played this game more if it was on steam. Its just the simple fact that I have steam open all the time and I would see the game in my library making it hard to forget.
I was hoping that they would make games like they used to. I guess that's what happens when you reward the Executives only and not the actual people who made the game. The Devs. The Artists. The Project Managers. The Creative Director. The ones who actually made the direction of the game. Not the CEO. The Execs in suits should've been removed from the project long ago. Yet they fired the talents and reward the useless ones that are only there for the business side of things. Ubisofts' downfall is deserved.
I have almost 100 hours in the game and I really didn't expect it to be closed, I was expecting a release announcement on Steam, but no, I'm going back to Titanfall 2.
19:00 i actually to stomp on overwatch with that setup lol mouse to aim/shoot, controller to move
Haha! Same when I played OW1. TBH I still play most of my games that way since I started on PC. Plus on occasion I still play with Wiimote & Nunchuck. Really effective as long as its setup well and the game has decent control options.
My roommate would laugh at me until he seen its actually pretty effective if done right Iol
I knew XDefiant existed but I didn't realize it wasn't on steam as I never bothered to look for it. Almost like they wanted it to fail
Well, that was fast...
Surprises no one they are full of bad choices nothing is going right for them
Let's hope AC Shadows is the nail in the coffin for Ubisoft.
@@Rosa_0000lol
Ubisoft just can’t stop taking L’s this year man Jesus
XDefiant was ALWAYS on borrowed time.
Hair cut situation is crazy.
Was a big lie.
@@JohnFischl-rz6wz lol, imagine cutting your hair from waist length to shoulder and people are mad because you didn't shave yourself bald.
@@Mugthief haircut where? love you though mug :D
@@Mugthief My bad if it came off that way, I wasn't aware the cut had happened. I was making a joke alluding to the videos a while back when you had said something about not being able to do it for this reason or that.
@@Mugthief I like it better now that you have it free and wild again.
It looked like a scam when you used that "horse tail" hairstyle (sorry. English is not my first language and I don't know how that hairstyle is named in English).
Only shutdown i care about with ubisoft is : when does ubisoft itself shutdown? Long overdue.
Imagine reducing your exposure by a factor of 10 just to save on a 30% fee... And then consider they have the costs of coding and maintaining their own launcher and keeping their servers up 😂
These big companies don't even pay 30, they can negotiate it lower with valve.
Plus they didn’t release it on PS4 so take away 50% of all PlayStation users
If you had XDefiant installed, season 3 will release and be playable through to June 3rd 2025.
He said that in the beginning
Big W. The gaming is healing
At this point Ubislop can crash and burn, I do not care because management there will never change and they are the core problem (I do feel sorry for the devs thou). Also sure games do need competition to stay customer-focused problem is how much competition a live-service model can have? Because basically we all have a 1 or 2 games we play on perpetuity however there is no way people can play 4 or more. So what do you do? Drop the game you played for 5 years and spent money and time to move to something new? For a month maybe, but 80% chance you're gonna go back. So who is gonna fund the new games? This concept really isn't that hard to grasp, unless you're a CEO apparently.
Tried the game with a freind for some time, we never bought anything in the game, because we both knew this something like this Would probably happen
They are giving refunds.
😂😂 it’s actually the reverse. Players like you are why it died. It died BECAUSE people didn’t buy anything in the game. It’s a free game
I only buy my games on Steam and GOG, and never buy games that requires another launcher than those two.
"Sunsetting" is the new industry term for "Shutting Down".
Hey Mug good vid, what is the background music? It sounds very familiar
The map at 18:00 is almost directly a copy of a R6 Siege map. I wonder if that’s common across the game.
They added a R6 Siege map straight up if I’m not mistaken.
Mug, I've been watching you for a couple of months, since Ubi got f-ed (i've been watching older vids as well, also exceptionally awesome, and I just wanted to say that I really, really appreciate and like that you are really about video games, not about any agenda like ragebaiters, this was highlighted in my eyes especially when you've made a video about veilguard. You were so fckin genuine and not bashing the game for whatever ragebaiters were doing
I don't want to give my political opinion, but I reall like that neither do you, and you really just about games
We need more people like you
Or
Im good with more vids from you😂 but thats just my personal opinion
Keep this up my man, you are insanely great and talented
And offtopic but if i may ask
What happened to shaving your hair short after 50k subs?😂 not being petty, i kinda have the same hair as you, and im thinking of new style and i really wanted to see you first before deciding😂 this sounds like im a dickhead i know, but please don't take it the wrong way 🙏🏻
Kisses and hugs, love ya
Been looking forward to this video as someone who enjoyed XDefiant, and also in general love your takes on gaming as a whole. Thanks for the upload! Now to watch!
And demand you give me back my mugs MugThief!! 😭😭😭
UA-cam auto mod is out of control!
Hopefully they get into trouble once Trump's admin takes office and starts putting in anti censorship laws.
My heart goes out to the entry-to-mid level employees at Ubisoft. I hope they get great new jobs at companies that aren’t soul sucking and will respect their talents.
The rhetoric of not wanting studios and their parent companies to shutdown for making bad decisions has become incredibly tiring and annoying. Please give it up.
Gaming studios and publishers are businesses just like any other. If they make poor choices and shut down they don't deserve any extra consideration than one would normally warrant. Let them shutdown, their employees will find jobs at the new businesses that take their place. That's how the market works.
Thanks Mug
Wait, closing down in June or Jan???
5:55 Is this XDefiant or Far Cry New Dawn?
Do you not know what XDefiant is? It’s a 6 v 6 hero shooter which uses the likeness of all their other properties. Far cry, watch dogs, siege, splinter cell
@@toptiertech7291 That'll be why then.
I hate it so much to see Ubisoft falling so hard. Of the big publishers this was always my favourite since AC1, the Ubi formula just did it for me for a long time, I played all Far Cry game, almost every AC and so on. It's such a shame to see them fuck up so hard for years now.
16:01 That’s Ubisoft for you. You give them money and you get screwed. Stop giving them money casuals.
When a game dev company gets too big. They get to a certain size. Where it becomes a death spiral. Because they would have to churn out enough good games to keep them afloat. But its impossible at the speed they need. Its unsustainable
If you watch this vid, you just got mugged!
why do i think about viva la dirt league all of a sudden XD
I'm still asking for my mugs back. :(
Sad thing is that you can be sure that the people being laid off are not the ones responsible for making the bad decisions ending in bad games... Those executives ? Worry not, their job is safe and the Golden Parachute is in place for when the whole thing collapse.
Woah. It’s almost like the people at the top of the company are the ones who helped grow the company to what it is. Game devs are just a cog in the machine. That’s like saying “McDonald’s CEOs aren’t the ones who made the company successful. It was the fry cooks”
Been watching a bunch of videos on this over the course of my shift this morning, figured yours would be the best cap for this...got me imagining a roundtable discussion with you, Legendary Drops, kingerd, and one-two people who have been actively playing throughout the whole mess
Great work---now go reward yourself by jumping on the PoE2 bandwagon, will ya?
This comment is only being written 9ish minutes into the video, however: The issue of making the game separate from the Ubi Launcher doesn't truly seem like it would be that difficult, especially when there's companies like 2k out there who have gone through their entire library of games and sunset their launcher. Before the sunsetting of the launcher, all of these games had the 2k launcher mandatory to use before you could do anything with the game itself. I doubt that Ubi will remove uplay or whatever it's called now, but I don't think it'd be a difficult process in terms of work load.
The talent that made the great Ubisoft games in the past, left long ago. The current output is reflection of the current leadership and developers. It will not get better.
i hope another game does the f2p no sbmm casual shooter vibe, bc i will never buy CoD every again. i was just getting into xdefiant, im very sad
I don’t have any sympathy for “individuals” like most people, they should have known what they are signing up for whn employing to work for this particular company and game industry as a whole
Yeah. But that’s with any job. Any job you work at could shut their doors the next day and you’re gone
Ubisoft has a branch in Osaka, yet they still failed AC Shadows.
So? Because they have an office in Japan?
Oh my GOD your hair grew back fast
Yves forgot that the customer is always right, and refuses to accept that truth.
Customer is always right in matters of taste. The consumer is not some infallible being of pure logic, even if they think they are.
“To own the chuds…”
Was it worth it to have the company at the mercy of creditors and investors…
They want their money…all of it.
There are no angel investors to save Ubisoft.
Only corporate raiders circling like vultures to swoop in to liquidate assets to the highest bidder.
Even, TenCent will need to hesitate after Embracers implosion.
Some things are just not worth saving.
And nothing of value will be lost. They are a hollow shell of their former selves and have been overly formulaic and crappy for going on a decade. It's time to move on or go back and play better games. Old and indie games may not have the fidelity (questionable as that is "looks at AC:Unity at launch"), but they have far more fun and heart than what most companies make nowadays.
This is a perfect example of why I don't want to invest in ANY live service game, with my time or my money.
Even if it's VERY successful, in 2 years the new one could show up, and kill it, and then you can't even see your achievements or your purchased goods. But at least it's not as bad as MyTeam, they HAVE an offline portion you can play, but because they want to FORCE you into the newest one, you CAN'T play the old offline modes. You can't even SEE your(sometimes THOUSANDS of dollars for many people) purchases!
And you are a perfect example of why they don’t work. It was a free game. Video games aren’t cheap. They are a hobby. That’s like saying “I don’t go to the gun range because it costs money to shoot all that ammo and I won’t get the money back”. Why go sky diving? Once you land it’s over and you don’t get that money back. That’s life bro. You’re paying for the experience at the moment
@toptiertech7291 lol, they don't work because MOST of them suck. And they prioritize milking your time, giving you JUST enough rewards to keep you on the hook, but not too much so they can bleed your wallet as well.
If they were GOOD, and not greedy scumbags, maybe I would. But there are Waay too many scumbag ones, and way too many mid ones that fail. Yay let's spend $300 on a game that gets shut down in 6 months.
@toptiertech7291 and no it's not like that at all. The gun range is something you go, and do, and have fun. End of transaction. They don't try to continually milk you, they don't try to use physiological tactics to absorb as much of your time as they possibly can so they can parade their metrics to the investors. And they don't make the weapons you use, or bullets trash and barely functional so that you buy the special guns and special bullets.
@@addidaswguy but most ranges I go to require you to have a membership or you have to pay for the range. Plus pay for the ammo they sell. You guys seem to think that gamers who spend money on games you don’t like are being tricked somehow. People KNOW these things. They WANT to spend money because they like the game. Just like people who still spend money in GTA. If you’re going to spend hours doing something a day then $20 on a skin once every month isn’t going to hurt. You can CHOOSE to play a game. Have fun and that’s it. How did you get the gun? That costs money right? I could say people who spend $2000 on rifles are being tricked because I only spent $600 on mine. Same with golf. How much are good golf clubs? A golfing membership ? But for the amount of money spent, gaming provides you more time than any hobby
Good. As much as this sucks, I do love watching Ubisoft flounder about with the consequences of their actions.
Good. Good.
It has this Cartoony Style, as so many Games now have. And it's the same old low-player count Game. I play PlanetSide2 for 12years now and nothing comes even close BUT IT SHOULD.
MMO FPS has so many Themes it could adopt because there is just one real MMO FPS, and that is PlanetSide2 - 12 years and just Warhammer Eternal Crusade tried to reach for something similar... but sadly it was killed by (guess who...) Behavior Entertainment.
Take a look at Ubisoft's 2023-2024 financial report and their Sep 30 2024 six month financial report. At this point Ubisoft is over $900,000,000 in the red.
Phoenix, ashes, rising. All that jazz, yes?
Ubisoft stays afloat: They continue with bad monetization with annoying preachy stories and ugly characters
Tencent takes over: They continue with bad monetization, perhaps even worse, but the stories are made to appeal to gamers and the characters might look good.
Either way Ubisoft's demise is long overdue and it's not like we were ever going to get anything truly good from them again, without the taint of season passes and microtransactions. At least if Tencent takes over maybe the characters won't look like skinwalkers like the characters in Star Wars Outlaws.
call of duty *does* need competition, but the french haven't been competition to anyone since napoleon was in charge.
I tried to play it the other day and it took 5 minutes to find a match then I kicked and waited another ten minutes joined a game half way and got railed by shotguns
The Finals is amazing!
They refused to put the game on the biggest video game platform on earth.
Then they proceed to try and gaslight their employees into believing that management is not to blame for this on going disaster that is ubitrash
Improving to perspective of gamers from starwars outlaws over xdefiant is insane. I have no hope for Ubisoft
Ubishit*
I'm a little biased but I feel Ubisoft had a money printing machine in the works with The Division IP. No it wasn't perfect, yes it had it's issues but the gameplay (cover based looter-shooter) is tight, IMO. Why they made the decision to abandon (for the most part) the IP is mind boggling. I will be really surprised if TD3 actual ships.
The problem is there will be no more new people coming to the game everybody quit and the people that were coming back were people that were spending money
The facial age is like fine wine not like the Frenchies at Ubisoft.
The situation situation is crazy
Can we start a petition against Tencent buying Ubisoft? I don't want to put up with their corporate stalking and harassment attempting to third party me outside the game when I log online for some mutual competition.
20:50 dude.. can you be honest? lol them having a black character in Japan has screwed them and sure casuals will buy in the end but it’s gonna be another flop. 😅😂
The color palet in that game is absolutely horrendous.
Honestly no dig at Mug but the video also was a bit boosted in saturation too. Its bright and colorful but not that bright and colorful.
Incredible what happens when you stop making the games that people enjoy and only make games that people hate. Truly inconceivable.
Everything riding on a game only the most casual of casual gamer would be interested in playing, Ubisoft are clearly doomed.
Actually it’s the opposite. The game died BECAUSE it couldn’t get casuals. Only super try hards like playing without SBMM
@@toptiertech7291 I was referring to Ubisoft betting everything on their next game, Ass Shadows, not XDefiant.
@@bobbob-dg1kt well then your original comment doesn’t really make sense. You know that like 95% of gamers are casuals right? I feel like people who are super into hobbies always forget that not everyone is invested the same way they are. Mirage sold over 5 million copies. That’s a good amount. People love playing as samurai. This will probably sell well. It’s not going to lose money how XDefiant was
@@toptiertech7291 That's why I said "The most casual of casual" to infer that most gamers aren't interested in yet another sequel, especially one so DEI infested, and only someone picking up their first Ass Creed game might be interested in playing a game that the company is relying on so heavily.
Man, are you trying to shimmy out of that haircut? It's been ages!! (Sorry if you adressed this on Patreon or somewhere else.)
If ubishit 100% fails and ends up dying, I'll give up all earthly possessions, move to Tibet, and become a monk.
It's funny it took them this long to figure out how being a public company works. Sure you get easier access to investments .. but you are essentially selling off slices of your company in the process 🤨
If your dreamjob is working at Ubisoft something already went wrong there.
poor ole Ubisoft can't catch a break, their whole ship is surviving because of these popular online games that they have plenty of but it would not be enough to save them if next AC game fail. Gotta be honest I'm playing through AC-2 right now and damn that game is top notch sadly nowadays Ubisoft is money hungry dying beast.......
Wild Stuff
I miss Rayman!!
Origins and legends were amazing platformers.
If they have content for it, they’ll show it before the game shuts down. No sense abandoning the people still enjoying it, but clearly there isn’t an audience for it.
There’s like 15 COD’s, there’s not much different about xdefiant than any of the COD games
XDefiant is just another lamb to the slaughter in the continuous shitshow that Ubi is going through, I don't believe there is much more to it than that. They aren't trying to justify shutting it down, or find alternatives. They are just looking for the most obvious excuse to give it the boot, like an employer fed up with an employee.
Further still, on your comment regarding wanting Ubi to find a way forward instead instead of going bankrupt. Yes, but that is also a very and I mean VERY fictious scenario that most people know is just not going to happen as long as Yves and his cronies are in charge of the company. Despite the stuffed up memo of dreams and aspirations, Guillemot doesn't give a singular nanof*ck about games and will 100% prioritize getting his golden parachute before actually making Ubi make great games. His and others' greed is the entire reason we got to this point in the first place.
So, in short, I don't believe(like many people) that Ubi deserves a shred of compassion at this point, fans pleaded and begged with them for years and were happily ignored. Now they cry for us and I say: Let's give them the same courtesy.
To be honest I think Shadows will do well but will it be enough? We'll see. I hope whoever Ubisoft is sold to it isn't Tencent.