FUN FACT: Ubisoft’s early 2021 market cap was over $12 billion. Nearly four years later, it’s under $2 billion. If you’d bought $10 million in shares then, today they’d be worth barely over $1.5 million. Those positive videos I said I wanted to make? I see this as one of 'em CORRECTION: I misspoke in the video: I say The Lost Crown only released on steam, I meant to say it did NOT. Thank you commenters for pointing that out
@Ajsimsa Let's see.... HL series is not even finished, TF2's current state, CS2 Being stripped of what made previous titles fun. All updates are now just cosmetic dress up (Which is basically the bare minimum).
@@TheKingerd I feel people can tolerate corporate B.S. to a certain level, with politics and ideologies Etc. But, you ever mess someone around with their hard-earned money, essentially stealing from them, then there's never any coming back from that. But, most excellent video Sir!!! :)
@@s.muller8688 unfortunately Last of Us 2 and God of War: Ragnarok made huge profits. Its not like your statement isnt true for those games that were marketed as "woke" games since they were announced (cases that were profitable were blatant bait and switch) but still, chose your words carefully.
Not just profits but reliable almost guaranteed profits. Back in the day when one team is making one game for the whole company they always had to put their best foot forward because every game could have been their last. But now these companies are so massive that they can afford quite a few failures before actually feeling it. This is what's happening to Ubisoft and unfortunately they've made too many stinkers and now their passive income from microtransactions and keeping old games available for sale is now being outweighed by their failures.
If a game literally is made to upset people and spit in their face, then yes, we should celebrate it losing. You should never cheer for someone hating you.
Back then, Ubisoft knowm for making and releasing various diverse video games of different genres. -Assassin's Creed -Brothers in Arms -Beyond Good & Evil -Tom Clancy -Cold Fear -Zombi -Prince of Persia -Far Cry -Driver -Rayman -Silent Hunter Today, all you get from Ubisoft with their out of touch management are -RPG with season pass (Shooter) -RPG with season pass (action-adventure) -RPG with season pass (racing) -Turning their valuable tactical genre of Tom Clancy into Fortnite CoD hybrid -Turning AC into fantasy RPG
Arguably, I think throwing The Crew Motorfest (if that’s what you’re referring to as the RPG racing game) is doing it some disservice. Probably has a lot more passion put into it, much more than how I felt with FH5. But to each their own, I appreciate the Ivory for not being out of touch too much.
The tragedy of Shadows is that fans begged Ubisoft for years for an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan, and how playing as a ninja was the perfect setting for the style of game. But they just couldn't get themselves out of western Europe, so we got game after game about western Europeans with little in the way of cultural diversity. Now, in a post-Ghost of Tsushima world, Ubisoft is fighting an uphill battle that they created themselves.
Yea, that's their problem. Players told them what they wanted, they didn't listen back then. When the slop train is past its expiration date, now they feel the need to "innovate" and give the players the setting they asked for, years later - with the main dish being DEI packaged as ACS...
Spot on. I was one of those people who for years kept saying: "Man, AC set in Japan with Templars spreading their influence sounds pretty cool! I'd play the hell out of that!" Now, I just don't care. I haven't even played Mirage yet and that's the closest game we have to what the series once was.
Yep, I was one of those people. I remember talking with my friends in college about how Japan would be perfect for it and couldn't fathom why they hadn't done it yet. And here we are lol
At this point why even bother playing AC Shadows. It's just an inferior Ghost of Tsushima and with Ghost of Yotei releasing next year, what will be even the point of having any interest in AC Shadows?
If only they bothered fixing the game rather than trying to defend the decision of casting quite literally the only black man in all of feudal Japan as the next assassin soo much soo people started questioning whether the guy really went from a slave to a samurai or its all a lie perpetuated by a politically biased historian
I understand the sentiment behind "we shouldn't hate on bad games" because there were talented people who worked for a long ass time to make them happen, and ultimately they're the ones that will suffer if the game doesn't perform. But I think you're totally right, the only way that businesses will receive the message that we don't want something is for us to stop buying it.
It's not how capitalism works. Not everything can succeed. People worked hard on EVERYTHING. If a company deliberately and by choice went against what they knew the market wanted then of course we should warn people who may get tricked by them.
Why would you worry about Ubi employees and not ten thousand different small indie companies ? The argument that "people worked hard" is literally treating people as if they have no critical thinking ability. Like we just accept what they are saying without thinking about it. People who make something bad deserve to fail. That's how the economy works. Accepting slop is how you end up with slop everywhere.
@ the vast number of people who work on games aren't responsible for key decisions, such the type of game they're making, what features it has, monetization or even when it's ready to ship. I do feel sorry for people in that position who likely work really hard and genuinely want to make something people will love. The people I don't have sympathy for are the executives and CEOs who make bone head decisions, like ignoring feedback, approving unrealistic deadlines and setting silly sales targets that can't be met.
That argument immediately falls apart when you remember that the devs get paychecks every(other) week. Yeah they already got paid and are just working for their bonuses with publishers holding the money over their head and using the "think of the developers" excuse to shame gamers into buying. Devs should get paid for their work but if a studio shutters because their work sucked then that shouldn't be on gamers.
@@jdizzy192 what on earth are you talking about? Who's shaming people into buying games for the sake of the devs!? I'm just saying it's a shitty situation that the people who suffer are not often the people responsible for bad games. As someone who has worked in many dev teams, I can tell you that its leadership, not developers that are responsible for shitty products.
I always got the impression they were holding on to their feudal Japan Assassin's Creed for when they were really in trouble and needed the sales, the fans have been asking for it for years. So it's ironic (and hilarious) that by the time they finally decide to give us samurai and ninja, the company is past saving.
Slightly off topic but it's ironic how that previous Intel CEO's quote could also be applied to modern day Intel :O Complacency is exactly what allowed AMD to catch up and leapfrog them at x86
Prince of persia didnt get a steam release till august which was the main reason why it failed because the player base is there instead of ubiconnect. And skull and bones couldnt be canceled years ago because it had gotten a grant by the Singapore govt. So it was a gonna bleed money till they shipped it. They saw the iceburg and decided to drive straight into it.
It boggles my mind they looked at Japanese History and decided to use Yasuke, a historical oddity, sure, but a footnote in the period at best, instead of, oh, I dunno, possible originator of the Ninja mythos, Hattori Hanzo, who happened to be a notable player in most of the decisive years of the Sengoku Jidai.
Yeah, even in the unlikely scenario Shadows would turn out to be a good game I wouldn't have time to play it. Monster Hunter takes top priority for me.
First Ubi game was Silent Hunter III. Loved Splinter Cell, OG Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six Vegas. I am currently in deep pain because of that, but I take some joy in knowing that karma is getting them in the end.
I just wanna know where the people that made the first Assassin's Creed are. I love history, especially the Crusades, and that game was exactly what I always wanted. I want more historical action games that aren't full of busy-work in a uselessly big map.
To be honest the Yusuke not being a samurai thing is embarrassing Kinda on your end Like. He's a retainer for the lord. People litteraly have no idea what a samurai is
I used to be tolerant of yasuke being a protagonist is Shadows, but after watching this video and learning that they only did that because of BLM, I think its ridiculous.
Ubisoft is like Kareem Abdul Jabar now. A time of greatness. Can the style work nowadays? Maybe, but you can't play anymore, obviously. Kareem is like 75 years old
13:00 shouldve just made a game set in ethiopia or something it has a rich culture if they really wanted an african character create an AC in an african country
All they had to do was a character creator, and let people do their own thing. A ton complained about Nioh having a westerner protagonist, so Nioh 2 has a character creator, and every new game made by team ninja now has a character creator. Problem solved.
Ubisoft told us we need to get comfortable with not owning our games. From the looks of it, Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not owning their company.
Ubisoft: F the Japanese historian we a French company know more about Japan then they do. Also Yasuka was not just a samurai, he invented and wrote the book on samurai.🤡🤡🤡
I bet i could come up with a better narrative, more respectful premise for AC:S that still manages includes Yasuke on the sleep-deprived spot: Yasuke acts as the player character's primary contact and supplier. He is also the closest thing to a friend for the PC, let's call him Kage, as he feels a comradary in that their places in history will be minimal, if remembered at all - Kage because as a shinobi, he is required to give up his name and identity, essentially being erased from history, and Yasuke because he is foreign-born, meaning even though he considers Japan his home and he owes his life to Nobunaga, he will never be its people and is aware that he is little more than a novelty. Near the end the game, Akechi Mitsuhide enacts his famous betrayal against Nobunaga, with Kage on his side. This tragically puts him at odds with Yasuke. The boss fight is instead with him, while Akechi faces off against Nobunaga and his son Nobutada. Kage defeats Yasuke, but is unable to bring himself to slay his former friend. Meanwhile, the Oda barely manage to beat back Akechi. But with the entire castle ablaze, they have no choice but to retreat to the inner chambers where they would perform seppuku. Yasuke, spared by the PC, also retreats into the inner chambers. Those who know history will know that Nobunaga's body was never found, thus implying that Yasuke was the one who recovered and hid the body. While the Oda have fallen, with no body to bring back, Akechi has no way to prove his efforts, nor provide justification for his betrayal. In the end, Akechi still lost and he knows people will be hunting him. The following week becomes a string of losing battles, with Toyotomi Hideyoshi quickly picking slack after Oda. With his forces driven to their last, and with no public support, Akechi admits total defeat. But to keep the hope of his dream alive, he has Kage kill him so that Kage can pretend to be a loyalist who caught and slew the dishonorable traitor Akechi Mitsuhide. Following these events, Kage becomes weary of the bloodstained path of the assassin, as for as much bad he took out of the world, it didn't bring much good. He has now taken up the identity of a wandering monk named Tenkai. One day, he passes by another traveling monk, whose face is hidden beneath a woven basket, but is noticeably dark-skinned. The two briefly meet eyes behind their masks before quietly giving each other a bow and simply going their separate ways.
14:54 convinced me to subscribe it’s so refreshing because there is absolutely an active and weird social movement in these big companies but I really feel like some channels inflame the problem by being disingenuous and not engaging with the real issues like kingerd has in this video.
As someone who's watched as Ubisoft forget about Splinter Cell save when they need Sam Fisher as fan service like Arnold in Terminator, turn Ghost Recon from the cream of the crop armed with the latest experimental tech into generic spec ops group number 94 with T-shirts and decade old M4s, and Rainbow Six from the finest counter terror force made of experts across the world into milsim larpers playing in glorified airsoft matches, all I can say is good riddance.
Stop lying yt man. Because I can't even imagine someone that's black being this ignorant. Brother Yasuke fought in three conflicts during his yrs in Japan cornball.
Nobody was bothered by the fact that Assassin's Creed was Assassin's Creed. The sales figures show the same. The problem is that every change that has been made so far has made it the same but WORSE. I would want to play a lot of games just like Black Flag, but the following games have life bars, more bugs, more in-game purchases, more stupid stuff and an even worse story, with fewer features than Black Flag.
I played Odyssey and its quite fun game with very nice world, probably just like its predecesor in Egypt (although I didn´t play it). If you don´t take it as AC game you might have fun with it.
To be fair, i never spent a penny on Assassin's Creed Origins, I enjoyed every minute of it. Even if a lot of people call it out for what it became, it still received a lot of praise for what it was. I cant say the same about the titles that came afterwards. That doesnt excuse Ubisoft for its behavior by any stretch, Origins is my preference after playing all the games leading up to it but no further
I liked all the Ubisoft games I played, the problem is I never thought any of them were S tier games At best A tier and at worst C The are quite literally the definition of mid tier
Whenever people bring up that making Yasuke the main character of a stealth game in medieval Japan was dumb, they’ll bring up Nioh or The Last Samurai. Fine. Gimme a Japanese dude. You have literally hundreds of real warriors and daimyos you could’ve chosen from for your protagonist. Why did you choose the one oddity who was little more than a footnote?
I dont remember who it was from (maybe piratesoftware?), but they had a theory that the reason they delayed the game to compete with monster hunter was so that everyone was so excited with other games that month that they would forget about shadows...
L seen your view count and your peak editing it baffles me how you have just a few thousand subscribers you still going to be big though l have a good feeling nice vid
I wrote this on another video "imagine your company is at its best four years (2017/18 - 2022) since the founding and then u decide to fuck almost everything up to almost reach your all time low in a period of two years... thats an achievement tho" nuff said i guess
who thought it would be a good idea to release a avatar game and a star wars game in the same year? both are notorious for low of fanbase engagement in recent years
I agree with everything in this video EXCEPT Assassins creed hate. It 100% has to do with dude being black. Im not saying these people are racists or hate black people BUT they do not want to play as one. My reasons for believing this are because the arguments against Assassins creed game dont hold up to scrutiny. For example they claim they dislike it because the rap used in trailer. They claim its out of place for the setting. Well problem with that claim is this is NOT the first time theusic in trailer was wildly out of setting. Its not even the first time rap has been in Assassins Creed, black flag had Drake on the trailer. Well they say the protagonist isnt historically accurate. Problem is none of the past protagonists were either yet theres no hate there. "Well as this video claims thats because Ubisoft themselves claimed it WAS accurate" well ubisoft lied.....who cares? Its not the first time Ubisoft lied to the gaming community. Why is this one soo special? Ok well the people then say its because certain depictions arent accurate of japanese architecture. Again NOT the first time Ubisoft has been inaccurate. So why the overwhelming hate for it? Well people then say no its nothing to do with dude being black its just that originally it was supposed to be a Japanese dude. They are mad the Japanese crowd got cheated of representation. Problem with that argument is the discovery of the original protagonist is a recent development, and the hate for the game was immediately after reveal. So that argument dont make sense. So what else could it be? Again everything these gamers claim to be the reason has precedent in older Assassins creeds yet they do not have anywhere near the hate. The reality is its not the gameplay, not the setting, not the inaccuracies, not even the tired stale formula. Its because the main protagonist is black, and they dont want a black samurai to be more precise. Lets be real, because i haven't bought a AC game since flag. And i honestly dont give a shit about historical accuracy, AC3 had you literally saving America by urself against the british. Im not going to buy it because i dont like AC games monotony. However i also dont care if theres a black samurai. A lot of you people need to chill
Sure. That's because i don't want to play a black character. Can you explain to me why all my characters are black if there's a character editor? I mean, the last white characters i played were in Lies of P and Ori and the blind forest. All my friends play black characters if they can. I'm white by the way, but I'm not sure that matters. Was there rap in the 16th century? That would be the first i've heard of it. The thing is, if you claim your character is historically accurate, then the whole thing is looked at more critically than if it's all fictional. And then you add rap and some Chinese architecture in Japan to top it all off. The research was supposedly so thorough and meticulous that you'd think they wanted to tell the historically accurate story of the character. At least that's how it can be interpreted. There was also criticism at the time that Assassin's Creed, which is set in France, is portrayed in a much more accurate and detailed way than any other country. So it's nothing new that people are upset about the quality of the Assassin's Creed games. So you're assuming that we all don't want to play a black samurai without any real evidence or reason for it. Cool. I always find it really nice when people assume things about me without reason or basis. Yeah, and just because you don't care about historical accuracy, then no one else can care, or what's the point? You know, it's really easy to distance yourself from it to the point where you don't even want to understand why people are so upset and just dismiss everything, but how about taking the hard road and really questioning where the anger is coming from. That might broaden your chilled horizons.
Legit, that tori gate statue would be like if as a marketing stunt for a military shooter, a company took a 1 to 1 recreation of a floor on one of the twin towers as a glorified barbie house for all their figurines. Like, oh my *god* I know Ubisoft's incompetence is bad, but even that is a new low.
Last time I engaged with anything Ubisoft published was Capitalism II in 2001. I played a bit of Far Cry 4 because I'd gotten it on sale for like four bucks, and that was $4 more than the value of what I got out of it.
15:38 They ARE that narrow minded judging from how Persians are in their games, in fact, as a Persian myself gotta tell the Japanese friends here: First Time?
It’s known that samurai back then were a bit murder hungry. Man remember when Japan had combat monks. Whom most likely never told anyone there history and their last known existence was fighting whoever decided to want their temple as a fort
First I wanna say I stumbled onto this channel due to pure coincidence but if this is the kinda content you make I'm here to stay! Second of all It's pretty ironic how ubisoft the studio that back in the day released so many different kinds of experiences now only releases the same thing in a different coat of paint.
At this point I will ... again ..... post my all time favorite quote when it comes to art and entertainment: "The great opponent to Progress is Conservatism. In other words - the great adversary of Invention is Imitation: the propositions are in spirit identical. Just as an art is imitative, is it stationary. The most imitative arts are the most prone to repose and the converse." - Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
I love how Ubisoft somehow manages to fuck up even more by setting the game's release date on one of the worst terrorist attacks in Japanese history. It says a lot when a Souls-like game like Nioh treats Japan better than AC.
I still mostly like Ubisoft's games but I was pretty underwhelmed with Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. POP Lost Crown was great and Star Wars Outlaws had an unexpected charm to it, but I have zero interest in Assassins Creed Shadows for two reasons. 1) I think the whole idea of Yasuke as the main protagonist in a Feudal Japan Assassin's Creed game is completely eye-rolling and 2) I'm completely Assassin's Creeded out. Even FarCry 6 was a let down because it just felt like I had already played that game a dozen times over.
It sucks that xdefiant wasn’t released on steam , if it was there could have been more chances for people to try it if they were curious but being locked to ubisofts proprietary launcher led to only the super fans of the game that would actually download the launcher to play it
FUN FACT: Ubisoft’s early 2021 market cap was over $12 billion. Nearly four years later, it’s under $2 billion. If you’d bought $10 million in shares then, today they’d be worth barely over $1.5 million. Those positive videos I said I wanted to make? I see this as one of 'em
CORRECTION: I misspoke in the video: I say The Lost Crown only released on steam, I meant to say it did NOT. Thank you commenters for pointing that out
Do one pointing out Valve's laziness
@@mercenarygundam1487What exactly makes Valve lazy?
@Ajsimsa Let's see.... HL series is not even finished, TF2's current state, CS2 Being stripped of what made previous titles fun. All updates are now just cosmetic dress up (Which is basically the bare minimum).
How is it an exageration that DEI is killing the western gaming industry?
dude, your hairline is fine. your waist line on the other had......
That line about Gamers need to get used to not owning their games really came back to bite them hard, didn't it?
We won’t own their games and soon they won’t own their company 💀
@@TheKingerd I feel people can tolerate corporate B.S. to a certain level, with politics and ideologies Etc.
But, you ever mess someone around with their hard-earned money, essentially stealing from them, then there's never any coming back from that.
But, most excellent video Sir!!! :)
Ubisoft should get comfortable with gamers not owning their games.
But...HELLO YOU! I hope you are doing well!
@@mobiusraptor7 Aw, thanks bud! Definitely on the mend now thanks!!!
As profits flowed in, brains flowed out.
you can not connect this to profits, it is a ideological nightmare. No profits made in any woke game so far....
@@s.muller8688 What are you actually even on about? Your brain rot is on full display
@@s.muller8688 unfortunately Last of Us 2 and God of War: Ragnarok made huge profits. Its not like your statement isnt true for those games that were marketed as "woke" games since they were announced (cases that were profitable were blatant bait and switch) but still, chose your words carefully.
@@madkoala2130 neh, it's my opinion, don't like it? too bad. no worries
Not just profits but reliable almost guaranteed profits. Back in the day when one team is making one game for the whole company they always had to put their best foot forward because every game could have been their last. But now these companies are so massive that they can afford quite a few failures before actually feeling it.
This is what's happening to Ubisoft and unfortunately they've made too many stinkers and now their passive income from microtransactions and keeping old games available for sale is now being outweighed by their failures.
If a game literally is made to upset people and spit in their face, then yes, we should celebrate it losing. You should never cheer for someone hating you.
I agree
Grow up.....ffs!
So this guy found 1 page, 1 paragraph about a Black Samurai and written 400 page fan fiction book about it?
Wouldn’t be the weirdest thing to have a 400 page fan fict on
he was a retainer and court jester not even a Samurai.
@@jakobofcincyA retainer that fought in three conflicts DA.
Ubislop has had a very bad year
I love the precedent finally being set that even big companies still need to respect players and make good products or see tangible consequences
Bad decade*
2014: There will never be a gaming company that's hated just as much or more as EA.
2024: Ubisoft: Unleash the Rumbling
More like The Fumbling
Back then, Ubisoft knowm for making and releasing various diverse video games of different genres.
-Assassin's Creed
-Brothers in Arms
-Beyond Good & Evil
-Tom Clancy
-Cold Fear
-Zombi
-Prince of Persia
-Far Cry
-Driver
-Rayman
-Silent Hunter
Today, all you get from Ubisoft with their out of touch management are
-RPG with season pass (Shooter)
-RPG with season pass (action-adventure)
-RPG with season pass (racing)
-Turning their valuable tactical genre of Tom Clancy into Fortnite CoD hybrid
-Turning AC into fantasy RPG
Arguably, I think throwing The Crew Motorfest (if that’s what you’re referring to as the RPG racing game) is doing it some disservice. Probably has a lot more passion put into it, much more than how I felt with FH5. But to each their own, I appreciate the Ivory for not being out of touch too much.
You googled this list and haven’t played most of them because there’s no way you actually mentioned “driver” like it was ever a good game
@@bennyblunto973 Driver SF wasn't a good game?
An excellent Assassin's game set in Japan already exists. It's called Ghost of Tsushima.
Same with Skull and Bones, it’s call Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag
Ubisoft's CEO lives in one of the world's biggest bubbles and is about to burst.
The tragedy of Shadows is that fans begged Ubisoft for years for an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan, and how playing as a ninja was the perfect setting for the style of game. But they just couldn't get themselves out of western Europe, so we got game after game about western Europeans with little in the way of cultural diversity. Now, in a post-Ghost of Tsushima world, Ubisoft is fighting an uphill battle that they created themselves.
Yea, that's their problem.
Players told them what they wanted, they didn't listen back then. When the slop train is past its expiration date, now they feel the need to "innovate" and give the players the setting they asked for, years later - with the main dish being DEI packaged as ACS...
Spot on. I was one of those people who for years kept saying:
"Man, AC set in Japan with Templars spreading their influence sounds pretty cool! I'd play the hell out of that!"
Now, I just don't care. I haven't even played Mirage yet and that's the closest game we have to what the series once was.
Yep, I was one of those people. I remember talking with my friends in college about how Japan would be perfect for it and couldn't fathom why they hadn't done it yet. And here we are lol
At this point why even bother playing AC Shadows. It's just an inferior Ghost of Tsushima and with Ghost of Yotei releasing next year, what will be even the point of having any interest in AC Shadows?
If only they bothered fixing the game rather than trying to defend the decision of casting quite literally the only black man in all of feudal Japan as the next assassin soo much soo people started questioning whether the guy really went from a slave to a samurai or its all a lie perpetuated by a politically biased historian
I understand the sentiment behind "we shouldn't hate on bad games" because there were talented people who worked for a long ass time to make them happen, and ultimately they're the ones that will suffer if the game doesn't perform. But I think you're totally right, the only way that businesses will receive the message that we don't want something is for us to stop buying it.
It's not how capitalism works. Not everything can succeed. People worked hard on EVERYTHING. If a company deliberately and by choice went against what they knew the market wanted then of course we should warn people who may get tricked by them.
Why would you worry about Ubi employees and not ten thousand different small indie companies ? The argument that "people worked hard" is literally treating people as if they have no critical thinking ability. Like we just accept what they are saying without thinking about it.
People who make something bad deserve to fail. That's how the economy works. Accepting slop is how you end up with slop everywhere.
@ the vast number of people who work on games aren't responsible for key decisions, such the type of game they're making, what features it has, monetization or even when it's ready to ship. I do feel sorry for people in that position who likely work really hard and genuinely want to make something people will love.
The people I don't have sympathy for are the executives and CEOs who make bone head decisions, like ignoring feedback, approving unrealistic deadlines and setting silly sales targets that can't be met.
That argument immediately falls apart when you remember that the devs get paychecks every(other) week. Yeah they already got paid and are just working for their bonuses with publishers holding the money over their head and using the "think of the developers" excuse to shame gamers into buying. Devs should get paid for their work but if a studio shutters because their work sucked then that shouldn't be on gamers.
@@jdizzy192 what on earth are you talking about? Who's shaming people into buying games for the sake of the devs!? I'm just saying it's a shitty situation that the people who suffer are not often the people responsible for bad games. As someone who has worked in many dev teams, I can tell you that its leadership, not developers that are responsible for shitty products.
Pride comes before the fall. Ubisoft is figuring this out in real time.
And they're free falling without a convenient cart to break their fall. I guess not everyone can become Altaïr.
I always got the impression they were holding on to their feudal Japan Assassin's Creed for when they were really in trouble and needed the sales, the fans have been asking for it for years. So it's ironic (and hilarious) that by the time they finally decide to give us samurai and ninja, the company is past saving.
not only that but they give us a monkey as main character
Don't forget that NFT game they sneakily released with no marketing.
Yes an NFT game from Ubisoft in 2024.
Slightly off topic but it's ironic how that previous Intel CEO's quote could also be applied to modern day Intel :O Complacency is exactly what allowed AMD to catch up and leapfrog them at x86
great freaking vid btw
Great video. The editing is top tier. They are FINISHED. Gaming has been in trouble for years. Theirs going to be a lot of firings in 25.
Ubislop said,if you no like no buy.....and i agree.
Prince of persia didnt get a steam release till august which was the main reason why it failed because the player base is there instead of ubiconnect.
And skull and bones couldnt be canceled years ago because it had gotten a grant by the Singapore govt. So it was a gonna bleed money till they shipped it.
They saw the iceburg and decided to drive straight into it.
I was so confused when he said Prince of Persia the Lost Crown only released on Steam 😂
It boggles my mind they looked at Japanese History and decided to use Yasuke, a historical oddity, sure, but a footnote in the period at best, instead of, oh, I dunno, possible originator of the Ninja mythos, Hattori Hanzo, who happened to be a notable player in most of the decisive years of the Sengoku Jidai.
Because no one could blend into medieval Japanese society better than a big black dude from Mozambique.
Honda Tadakatsu "The Warrior who surpassed Death itself".
@@snowshock8958 or the notorious Mitsuhide Akechi.
@@nerospapa8814 There is even a theory that Akechi did not actually die but survived and went into hiding as a monk.
@@snowshock8958 man refuse to die wth
22:08 Great point! A product failing is one of the best things for the consumers. Companies need to earn our money, we don't owe them nothing.
There's no way that new Assassin's Creed is going to compete against Monster Hunter Wilds.
Yeah, even in the unlikely scenario Shadows would turn out to be a good game I wouldn't have time to play it. Monster Hunter takes top priority for me.
@Immopimmo Yeah.
You meant Kingdome come 2?
First Ubi game was Silent Hunter III. Loved Splinter Cell, OG Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six Vegas. I am currently in deep pain because of that, but I take some joy in knowing that karma is getting them in the end.
Ubisoft goes bankrupt and loses all those IP licenses; some passionate 2A studios got them. That would be a happy ending.
I just wanna know where the people that made the first Assassin's Creed are. I love history, especially the Crusades, and that game was exactly what I always wanted.
I want more historical action games that aren't full of busy-work in a uselessly big map.
Mirage was ass.
Probably true.
Yea I really don’t understand the random glazing of what looked like the most boring game ever made
@ you had to play full price for a half of a game with a shitty combat system.
Dude that Spider-Man edit at the end has me absolutely dying, like my sides hurt.
Releasing Shadow around the same time with Kindom Come 2 and MHWilds, huh? Good luck with that.
That's beyond crazy, lol
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440+ pages of fan fiction.
According to a few reddit or pages.
When greed undermines the quality of your product, your company becomes undermined.
To be honest the Yusuke not being a samurai thing is embarrassing
Kinda on your end
Like.
He's a retainer for the lord.
People litteraly have no idea what a samurai is
Your videos never disappoint
Thank you 🫡
Like I always say, you will ALWAYS end up paying dearly for your own lack of standards.
00:42 Shoulda use Rainbow 6 Patriots teaser footage for that bit
They simply got used to gamers not owning _their_ games.
I used to be tolerant of yasuke being a protagonist is Shadows, but after watching this video and learning that they only did that because of BLM, I think its ridiculous.
Ubisoft is like Kareem Abdul Jabar now. A time of greatness. Can the style work nowadays? Maybe, but you can't play anymore, obviously. Kareem is like 75 years old
13:00 shouldve just made a game set in ethiopia or something it has a rich culture if they really wanted an african character create an AC in an african country
All they had to do was a character creator, and let people do their own thing.
A ton complained about Nioh having a westerner protagonist, so Nioh 2 has a character creator, and every new game made by team ninja now has a character creator. Problem solved.
Ubisoft told us we need to get comfortable with not owning our games.
From the looks of it, Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not owning their company.
dude, GET THIS MAN VIRAL ALREADY
he already looks like he is
@@witness1013unfortunately I wouldn’t call 6k views viral. Deserves way more
Ubisoft: F the Japanese historian we a French company know more about Japan then they do. Also Yasuka was not just a samurai, he invented and wrote the book on samurai.🤡🤡🤡
Legend has it that Yasuke also invented Japan itself
@@CollegeBallYouknow Wow what a man.
I bet i could come up with a better narrative, more respectful premise for AC:S that still manages includes Yasuke on the sleep-deprived spot:
Yasuke acts as the player character's primary contact and supplier. He is also the closest thing to a friend for the PC, let's call him Kage, as he feels a comradary in that their places in history will be minimal, if remembered at all - Kage because as a shinobi, he is required to give up his name and identity, essentially being erased from history, and Yasuke because he is foreign-born, meaning even though he considers Japan his home and he owes his life to Nobunaga, he will never be its people and is aware that he is little more than a novelty.
Near the end the game, Akechi Mitsuhide enacts his famous betrayal against Nobunaga, with Kage on his side. This tragically puts him at odds with Yasuke. The boss fight is instead with him, while Akechi faces off against Nobunaga and his son Nobutada. Kage defeats Yasuke, but is unable to bring himself to slay his former friend. Meanwhile, the Oda barely manage to beat back Akechi. But with the entire castle ablaze, they have no choice but to retreat to the inner chambers where they would perform seppuku. Yasuke, spared by the PC, also retreats into the inner chambers. Those who know history will know that Nobunaga's body was never found, thus implying that Yasuke was the one who recovered and hid the body. While the Oda have fallen, with no body to bring back, Akechi has no way to prove his efforts, nor provide justification for his betrayal. In the end, Akechi still lost and he knows people will be hunting him. The following week becomes a string of losing battles, with Toyotomi Hideyoshi quickly picking slack after Oda. With his forces driven to their last, and with no public support, Akechi admits total defeat. But to keep the hope of his dream alive, he has Kage kill him so that Kage can pretend to be a loyalist who caught and slew the dishonorable traitor Akechi Mitsuhide.
Following these events, Kage becomes weary of the bloodstained path of the assassin, as for as much bad he took out of the world, it didn't bring much good. He has now taken up the identity of a wandering monk named Tenkai. One day, he passes by another traveling monk, whose face is hidden beneath a woven basket, but is noticeably dark-skinned. The two briefly meet eyes behind their masks before quietly giving each other a bow and simply going their separate ways.
This is actually good, if only ubislop had minds like you.
14:54 convinced me to subscribe it’s so refreshing because there is absolutely an active and weird social movement in these big companies but I really feel like some channels inflame the problem by being disingenuous and not engaging with the real issues like kingerd has in this video.
20:04 “A game for everyone is a game for no one” -Arrowhead studios, developers of Helldivers 2
It's honestly refreshing to see triple-A game companies actually reaping what they sew.
Insane this only has 8k views, great vids brother
As someone who's watched as Ubisoft forget about Splinter Cell save when they need Sam Fisher as fan service like Arnold in Terminator, turn Ghost Recon from the cream of the crop armed with the latest experimental tech into generic spec ops group number 94 with T-shirts and decade old M4s, and Rainbow Six from the finest counter terror force made of experts across the world into milsim larpers playing in glorified airsoft matches, all I can say is good riddance.
I’m black and absolutely despise this DEI woke bullshit. When i heard the afro hip hop samurai music, i audibly said “Goddamnit, ubisoft”
Stop lying yt man. Because I can't even imagine someone that's black being this ignorant. Brother Yasuke fought in three conflicts during his yrs in Japan cornball.
Nobody was bothered by the fact that Assassin's Creed was Assassin's Creed. The sales figures show the same. The problem is that every change that has been made so far has made it the same but WORSE. I would want to play a lot of games just like Black Flag, but the following games have life bars, more bugs, more in-game purchases, more stupid stuff and an even worse story, with fewer features than Black Flag.
I played Odyssey and its quite fun game with very nice world, probably just like its predecesor in Egypt (although I didn´t play it). If you don´t take it as AC game you might have fun with it.
I have a feeling Ubisoft's gonna relaunch Shadows on February next year to coincide with Black History Month.
Yasuke is pure fiction.
even if they used AI to grab stuff from Japanese culture, the AI would have done a far more thorough job
22:57 As someone with extremely unfortunate hairline genetics (literally started losing it at 20) I understand your pain.
balding since i was 16 is it over
I would just like to say that i appreciate your editing skills!
XDefiant was an actually relatively fun game sad to see it's getting shit down.
Shadows is literally their make or break moment
Thats fails, which all points to yes, they’re cooked, more than they already are
To be fair, i never spent a penny on Assassin's Creed Origins, I enjoyed every minute of it. Even if a lot of people call it out for what it became, it still received a lot of praise for what it was.
I cant say the same about the titles that came afterwards.
That doesnt excuse Ubisoft for its behavior by any stretch, Origins is my preference after playing all the games leading up to it but no further
13:10 sounded like Pikachu called me his ninja 😂
If Ubisoft was allowed to be put on the wall of shame multiple times, I'd put them on there more than twice.
I liked all the Ubisoft games I played, the problem is I never thought any of them were S tier games
At best A tier and at worst C
The are quite literally the definition of mid tier
Rayman 2 is my favorite game of all time.
That Pika voice clip in the Yasuke clip where the Pokémon Company provided solidarity for black lives was quite a nice touch.
4:00 PoP DIDN'T release on Steam at first, that was the problem
Robocop in MK11: Complacency is the enemy.
Wearing digital face is necessarily the most important business model for the panderverse.
I like it that you added "Raining the Fire" (BO6 main theme) when showing XDefiant stuff, totally fits.
as always KING, u never dissapoint
Whenever people bring up that making Yasuke the main character of a stealth game in medieval Japan was dumb, they’ll bring up Nioh or The Last Samurai.
Fine. Gimme a Japanese dude. You have literally hundreds of real warriors and daimyos you could’ve chosen from for your protagonist. Why did you choose the one oddity who was little more than a footnote?
because he was black.
I dont remember who it was from (maybe piratesoftware?), but they had a theory that the reason they delayed the game to compete with monster hunter was so that everyone was so excited with other games that month that they would forget about shadows...
L seen your view count and your peak editing it baffles me how you have just a few thousand subscribers you still going to be big though l have a good feeling nice vid
Thank you 🤝
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Watching Ubisoft is like watching the saying “Go woke, go broke” in real time.
DEI is just die for dyslexics.
I wrote this on another video "imagine your company is at its best four years (2017/18 - 2022) since the founding and then u decide to fuck almost everything up to almost reach your all time low in a period of two years... thats an achievement tho" nuff said i guess
The moment yasuke lil bit came up. All I could think of was another legendary figure referenced multiple times throughout. Musashi Miyamoto
who thought it would be a good idea to release a avatar game and a star wars game in the same year? both are notorious for low of fanbase engagement in recent years
Kingerd again kicking ass and taking names. I am fucking here for it.
Back in the late 90s,we called games like these 'shovel ware'
Aside from the absolute joke Ubisoft has become, this was a well put together video and quite entertaining. Got my sub
I agree with everything in this video EXCEPT Assassins creed hate. It 100% has to do with dude being black. Im not saying these people are racists or hate black people BUT they do not want to play as one. My reasons for believing this are because the arguments against Assassins creed game dont hold up to scrutiny. For example they claim they dislike it because the rap used in trailer. They claim its out of place for the setting. Well problem with that claim is this is NOT the first time theusic in trailer was wildly out of setting. Its not even the first time rap has been in Assassins Creed, black flag had Drake on the trailer. Well they say the protagonist isnt historically accurate. Problem is none of the past protagonists were either yet theres no hate there. "Well as this video claims thats because Ubisoft themselves claimed it WAS accurate" well ubisoft lied.....who cares? Its not the first time Ubisoft lied to the gaming community. Why is this one soo special? Ok well the people then say its because certain depictions arent accurate of japanese architecture. Again NOT the first time Ubisoft has been inaccurate. So why the overwhelming hate for it? Well people then say no its nothing to do with dude being black its just that originally it was supposed to be a Japanese dude. They are mad the Japanese crowd got cheated of representation. Problem with that argument is the discovery of the original protagonist is a recent development, and the hate for the game was immediately after reveal. So that argument dont make sense. So what else could it be? Again everything these gamers claim to be the reason has precedent in older Assassins creeds yet they do not have anywhere near the hate. The reality is its not the gameplay, not the setting, not the inaccuracies, not even the tired stale formula. Its because the main protagonist is black, and they dont want a black samurai to be more precise. Lets be real, because i haven't bought a AC game since flag. And i honestly dont give a shit about historical accuracy, AC3 had you literally saving America by urself against the british. Im not going to buy it because i dont like AC games monotony. However i also dont care if theres a black samurai. A lot of you people need to chill
Sure. That's because i don't want to play a black character. Can you explain to me why all my characters are black if there's a character editor? I mean, the last white characters i played were in Lies of P and Ori and the blind forest. All my friends play black characters if they can. I'm white by the way, but I'm not sure that matters.
Was there rap in the 16th century? That would be the first i've heard of it.
The thing is, if you claim your character is historically accurate, then the whole thing is looked at more critically than if it's all fictional. And then you add rap and some Chinese architecture in Japan to top it all off. The research was supposedly so thorough and meticulous that you'd think they wanted to tell the historically accurate story of the character. At least that's how it can be interpreted.
There was also criticism at the time that Assassin's Creed, which is set in France, is portrayed in a much more accurate and detailed way than any other country. So it's nothing new that people are upset about the quality of the Assassin's Creed games.
So you're assuming that we all don't want to play a black samurai without any real evidence or reason for it. Cool. I always find it really nice when people assume things about me without reason or basis.
Yeah, and just because you don't care about historical accuracy, then no one else can care, or what's the point?
You know, it's really easy to distance yourself from it to the point where you don't even want to understand why people are so upset and just dismiss everything, but how about taking the hard road and really questioning where the anger is coming from. That might broaden your chilled horizons.
@@samends8863also check What happened in The Day that they are releasing The game...... Oh, and don't forget The half destroyed torii gate
Legit, that tori gate statue would be like if as a marketing stunt for a military shooter, a company took a 1 to 1 recreation of a floor on one of the twin towers as a glorified barbie house for all their figurines.
Like, oh my *god* I know Ubisoft's incompetence is bad, but even that is a new low.
Last time I engaged with anything Ubisoft published was Capitalism II in 2001. I played a bit of Far Cry 4 because I'd gotten it on sale for like four bucks, and that was $4 more than the value of what I got out of it.
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They ARE that narrow minded judging from how Persians are in their games, in fact, as a Persian myself gotta tell the Japanese friends here:
First Time?
4:00 did not release on steam but epic but im sure that's what you meant
and on their own platform ofc
DANGIT. You right I goofed
Don’t even get me started with Beyond Good and Evil 2 not seeing the light of day.
I think you got confused between Prince of Persia The Lost Crown and Rogue Prince of Persia. Great video, as always!
14 mins in. You sir have earned a sub
Apathy is death, worse than death. At least a rotting corpse feeds the beast
It’s known that samurai back then were a bit murder hungry.
Man remember when Japan had combat monks. Whom most likely never told anyone there history and their last known existence was fighting whoever decided to want their temple as a fort
First I wanna say I stumbled onto this channel due to pure coincidence but if this is the kinda content you make I'm here to stay!
Second of all
It's pretty ironic how ubisoft the studio that back in the day released so many different kinds of experiences now only releases the same thing in a different coat of paint.
The one game that they could also justify actual concultancy, proper concultancy that is, and they fuck it up so fucking bad... incredible.
The wheel doesn't need to be a triangle but it could use a push
what game is this @ 13:38
also what character is this @ 14:53
I honestly never heard of Xdefiance, that prince of Persia part or that Avatar game and i spent a lot of my freetime playing games…
We said splinter cell at the same time LOL. What a masterpiece.
At this point I will ... again ..... post my all time favorite quote when it comes to art and entertainment:
"The great opponent to Progress is Conservatism. In other words - the great adversary of Invention is Imitation: the propositions are in spirit identical. Just as an art is imitative, is it stationary. The most imitative arts are the most prone to repose and the converse." - Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
I love how Ubisoft somehow manages to fuck up even more by setting the game's release date on one of the worst terrorist attacks in Japanese history. It says a lot when a Souls-like game like Nioh treats Japan better than AC.
I still mostly like Ubisoft's games but I was pretty underwhelmed with Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. POP Lost Crown was great and Star Wars Outlaws had an unexpected charm to it, but I have zero interest in Assassins Creed Shadows for two reasons. 1) I think the whole idea of Yasuke as the main protagonist in a Feudal Japan Assassin's Creed game is completely eye-rolling and 2) I'm completely Assassin's Creeded out. Even FarCry 6 was a let down because it just felt like I had already played that game a dozen times over.
It sucks that xdefiant wasn’t released on steam , if it was there could have been more chances for people to try it if they were curious but being locked to ubisofts proprietary launcher led to only the super fans of the game that would actually download the launcher to play it
Even on Steam I dont install or play games with BattlEye Drm...
The only Message a big company really cares about from the Community is when the Money stops flowing
In the modern time, a 2D platform game cannot be sold for 40 dollars. Some of the best 2D games that’s on steam is mostly 20-25 dollar.
Delivering solid quality IS enough. That is why Ubisoft is failing... -.-