I worked on Watch Dogs: Legion. The main issue with the game was how much fucking filters we had to go through with everything. Just to get a cosmetic approved for the game (I worked in 3D Design) was so fucking exhausting. I would forward it to the lead designer, who would forward it to the Head of the Design Department, who would forward it to the QA team, who would forward it to the Marketing team, who would forward it to the ethics team , who would refer it to the Director and THEN, ONLY THEN, would it potentially get approved it survived the fucking gauntlet. At Ubisoft we called The Ubitine (Guillotine) cus it felt like we where standing trial anytime we sent I cosmetic idea. Like imagine sending in a idea, then you sit down with the head of inclusion and ethics and they ask you a bunch of racially, sexually and just weird questions about your reasoning behind this game. I had to make up some retarded ass explanation for the Union Jack mask in Legion that we tilted it to the side a bit as a statement to the crooked past of imperialism in Great Britain. When in reality it just looked better on the mask.
that is rough and is a good reason why the company failed then. I've worked with other businesses and the ones that fail cannot get ideas out fast enough because there is too much bureaucratic blockers
That's not just Ubisoft issue, and that's not even strictly DEI issue. Games become bigger, the cost more, they require more copies to be sold in a few days to reach that line where their development starts paying off. This means devs need to interest more people, to get wider audience - even wider than before, and moreover, the market of videogames is literally flooded with games - people have to choose the games now to play because they can't play everything cause there's only so many hours in a single day and so much money in their pockets. Bigger games had to become less risky in every single way possible sooner or later. And this is one of the reasons DEI bloomed that wildly too, because publishers wanted to extend their influence _even more_ But even audience has its limits in size, and eventually interests of the 'normies' have been brought to sacrifice to please DEI fans, and... well, SOME COMPANY just had to be the first which would've started suffering cause of this almost lethally. In our timeline it just happened to be Ubisoft with all their latest fails with laughable SW:Outlaws and miserable presentation of Assassins Creed: Shadows
I love how studios have no problem with your character murdering thousands of people, but if they say mean words and hurt someones feelings? Thats just too far 😂
@@EasterlySumo868True, origins was a good ac game imo, but not amazing. Odyssey was a good game, but didn't really feel like an AC game at all, Valhalla as well.
12:52 but really, writers can't make a truly vile and reprehensible character they have to make all villains misunderstood good guys since Thanos i swear thats the tipping point for that type of villian, what was a cool provocative head scratching idea is now boring and cookie cutter. Make villains, villiains again sure Vauss was relatable on some level but only in part because he's human not because he had moral justification.
and here i am wanting a good game where we get to be the villian. baldurs gate is one of the only ones ive played where i really got that feeling. The sad thing is though that people think if your willing to play a character like that you must be evil yourself when in reality its just a different side of the story. Like ive played dozens of games as the hero but i want a good rpg where im fighting those heros and trying to take over the world lol
@@Stxrend yea i have but i only played the good playthrough and meant to go through it again to do the bad one but forgot. Will definitely have to play it again though as it was an awesome game.
I guess you missed the last thousand or so years where villains are near-universally the most interesting and deeply flawed character of most stories. Some of the best villains of all time have been sympathetic. In Ubisoft alone, the fan favorites are Vauss and Pagan Min: both charismatic characters with relatable motivations and backstories. And Vauss was 100% relatable specifically because of his charisma and motivations, no clue wtf you're on about. Did you even play the game? Frankly, what you seem to be asking for is literally just a poorly written one-note character. Being a villain for the sake of being a villain is boring outside of specific settings. A good example of when this is okay is the Wolfenstein games. They're over-the-top Nazi bad guys with no depth or meaning beyond being a justifiable target to brutalize in an over-the-top uber violent game. It works. Trying to do so in a more nuanced character-driven story is just asking for a bad game.
it's sad how much damage the "woke" and "DEI" did to possible ways of telling a story. they erased entire character setups and plots from existence because if you even only try to use them you will be acused to have Woke or DEI in your game. i'm not saying that you have to have them in your game or story but some stories just have them by nature of their setup and region they play in. that said, in the end the story only matters if the gameplay itself is good, fun and bug free.
*This is what happens when you don’t fight against Woke feminists since 2016 they have ruined Comics and western gaming it’s bout time alot of gamers fight back*
@@NaughtyJuri best way tyo fight back is support games like baldurs gate 3 and shun the trash thats been being put out which everyone has been doing for the most part. Look ath the 100 million+ concord that was loaded with trash. Theyre gonna learn and get rid of dei or theyll go under. Like ill never get why these huge companies are so obsessed with pleasing people that arent even gonna play their games.
It's not surprising. After they ousted Hascoet and a bunch of other executives and employees for sexual harassment and racism allegations the environment probably felt tense. Those who were left at the studio probably felt like they had to comply with whatever DEI crap was pushed on them, otherwise they wouldn't just lose their job, they'd also get smeared as predators or villains.
I can't help it. After the comment they made of "players should get used to not owning games" I can't help but smile when Ubisoft soon won't even own it's own company. The irony is beautiful.
9:30 wtf happened, well 2 hostile take-over attempts, a rapid need for cash flow and then letting in politically driven people, which as gamers well understand now, are usually quite the cancer to let in... amongst other things
What hostile takeovers are you talking about? The only one I can find anything about is when Vivendi tried, failed, and Tencent was quick to swoop in and buy a bunch of shares that have only since lost a ton of money. I don't even know what happens after a hostile takeover. The company stays public and beholden to a board? Honestly it seems like Ubisoft would've benefited from a hostile takeover turning it back into a private company, maybe they would've focused on releasing fewer good games rather than slop-flops and ultimately grovelling for ESG loans.
@@thomgizzizif you think Ubisoft has billions on hand when they're not even worth billions... I don't even know how to engage with this level of stupidity past this
Financial situation could be salvaged. I recently made a John Wick style action montage using Splinter Cell Blacklist stylish takedowns. Looks really cool. If only we got a proper John Wick game that way, Ubi could license and stay afloat. They have all the right tools already. Just give real gamers what they want. Don't take them for granted.
@@phlixcarbon It was made up by candy companies to see more candy. I believe it's called White Day because the typical gift for men to give is marshmallows.
Became, and a long ago too. I feel like it's been an insult since at least 2015. I remember when BotW came out and was praised extensively for doing open-world right; for example: making actual use of the ,,Ubisoft tower", instead of just putting it in there as a formula dictates. For giving an empty map, where movement and exploration is fun, instead of yet another mind-numbing checklist. For this sentiment to exist in 2017, people had to have been tired of the formula for years before that.
To me I don't even consider EldenRing a true Open World RPG. EldenRing did not capitalize on the Open World in an effective way. Its alright but it could of been a lot better. Then you have games like Dark Souls that say "Open World" and you're practically running down hallways with the occasional ballroom sized room.
The issue with gaming today is two-fold, but stem from the same root problem, which is that the industry simply became too big for its own good. It started attracting the wrong kind of people in too great numbers. The one issue, is that due to the massive growth of the industry at large, the top executive and decision-making positions have attracted suits who are there for the money first, gameplay and game design understanding second. They wanna see profits rather than good games, and they don't have the intellect, insight, nor passion, to understand that good gameplay and profits need to be interlinked, never separated. The other issue, is that at the lower levels of the working floors, due to the size of the industry the job positions now seem more established and secure, on par with any other big industry, and thus attracts the type of people who aren't actually living and breathing game design, but rather they simply want to pursue "an artistic/creative career", and game design, script writing, story telling, all these positions suddenly become attractive to them. We see the same issue in Hollywood, where there now is a horde of writers who can't for the life of them write a good story, because the only perspective on life they have, is that little Hollywood bubble they have isolated themselves in. They don't write stories because they have something meaningful to tell and share. They do it because it's convenient and the idea of this type of career pleases their ego. Gameplay and story writers in videogames now are no different. They don't actually have real world experience living full lives, and they also aren't really hardcore gamers who understand what good gameplay and storytelling means to a gamer. These people instead just live in their little "creative career" bubbles where everyone else are like them, where no one really has any passion or vision or dedication, but instead most of them are more attached to what their career says about them, than actually having something meaningful to say themselves. Consider this. A real game designer/story teller, will make their work on their own even if it only reaches a handful of people, even if they don't get paid for it they will still sit up hours at night to work on it on the side. Why? Because they have a passion for it, and because the work itself is meaningful to them, so they can't not do it. It's their soul they pour into it. But these career creatives who never had deep aspirations and motivation to share something novel and honest, they lack that deep attachment to the soul of the work they put out. They care more about who they work for, than what they work on - and again that is because the industry has grown too big and fosters too many incentives for people to get involved that doesn't include good gameplay development and interesting story telling. Rather it's status, social media worth, money, career opportunities, and padding their own self to appear as something on the paper rather than letting their work speak for itself.
Same company doesn't mean same people. People can quit, retire, get fired from a company and you wouldn't notice a thing. The people who mean AC2 probably doesn't work there anymore.
that's true i just recently replayed assassin's creed 2 and wow man the passion the love put into the game compared to the shitty woke cashgrab games there putting out right now is a night and day difference i miss old ubisoft 😔
When you hire someone that clicks the box of "modern audiences" rather then hire someone that clicks the box of "good programer/developer"... what do you friggin expect?😢
It's obvious why they don't make military games. They hired a bunch of women who weren't gamers but pretended to be in order to become influencers or to make money in college. Colleges started discriminating against men, and only allowed women into their game development programs.
Or military games are super over saturated and it's a French Studio: in a culture that doesn't fetishize the army. I won't argue that some studios went way too into hiring diverse picks over talent. I still remember when at Pax the Creative Dev at Bioware literally said he's not looking to hire another boring white guy. He'd prefer someone interesting he can play DnD with, they don't even need to be good at coding. That said, it's not DEI ruining your games. Or at least not DEI is not the root cause. It's companies cutting corners, delivering less for more, and ass consistent lack of cohesive creative driven decision making.
@@arkainin4638 I think you're both right. One of the biggest problems I have with DEI BS is how half assed it all is. "Here's my character, he's gay." "What other traits does he have?" "Uh... He's gay... What more do you need?"
13:01 Actually, they pussified their dev team first. The cool devs quit or changed jobs or retired, and they hired whiny babies to take their place. And now it shows in the games that are being developed.
This has been true for a lot of companies in the 2010s. They got rid of the senior folks for new hires and gradually pushed out the experienced staff. Now, it's showing.
Customers usually don’t know what they want, and a company needs to figure that out and try to give it to them, but customers definitely know what they don’t want. These activists that take over these companies think they can make what consumers don’t want and force them to want it 😂
I've always disliked the expression "Who asked for this?". I loved a lot of media that I didn't ask for. _Dark City_, _The Matrix_, _The Crow_, _Warhammer 40k_ and many others, I never asked for those and I loved them when I watched, read or played them. I think you're pointing out well a large part of the problem, that being that if something doesn't catch on, they go into hissy fits because it's always worked for them before. In the old days, if a product failed, it would be quietly forgotten and people would move on with their lives.
Customers do know what they want. You are just slow and take sayings literally. The company can't listen to every suggestion from every customer and the company need to find the things that the majority of customers want and don't get too niche and and in futures that not many people want. How are you this slow?
They are trying to appease the vocal minority. They are so scared what the media are going to say, instead of making games that players would not experience in real life. Making games to fit the real world narrative takes away the experience of playing edgy characters. I feel GTA 6 will not be as edgy as GTA 5. Triple A companies need to make games for the majority, not the monority.
UbiSoft was the goat from like 1998-2010. Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, R6S, AC, Prince of Persia and Far Cry were all bangers in the beginning. But all them have went in the toilet.
"So they actually just pussified their games". Pretty much sums it up. I don't know about anyone else, but I think it's clearly an observable thing that happened over the years.
Ubisoft got woke cancer and it's spreading like wildfire eating them up from the inside, these companies think their ideologies are a lot more popular than they are due to their echo chamber, they are about to find out the hard way just how small and unpopular their ideology is, whether they can come back from it is debateable, I can guarantee you now the new Assassins creed is going to flop hard no matter how long they delay it.
"If you don't like it, don't watch it" -progressives at G4 "If you don't like it, it's not made for you, don't play it" -progressives at kotaku I'm seeing a theme here.
and then they call you bigot because you don't want to play the games that are not made for you so you are racist, sexist, homophobic etc. I actually had a argument with someone but it was over The Acolyte tv series. I commented that the show doesnt look interesting for me and its not made for me so a dude started arguing that im a bigot and racist.
Can I just remind everyone that Black Flag featured cross-dressing, homosexuality, aggressive anti-colonialism, and a massive racial conflict. Assassin's Creed has _always_ been woke... it just _used_ to also be good.
Honestly, I haven't hated the new AC games as much as most. In fact, for me atleast, Odyssey was probably my favorite AC, and I played them all (except Mirage), but man, this company just commits scandal after scandal now. I will miss AC, but at this point, I hope Ubisoft just closes its doors. That would be such a win for gamers because if even UBISOFT can't come back from pissing off their community too muh, maybe it will remind other western AAA studios that ultimately, WE are their bosses. If they continuously deliver poor labor, then they'll eventually get the sack. That's how it works in the real world, and I think western AAA studios have gotten way too comfortable delivering mediocrity. Time for a change!
The Division between Ubisoft and gamers has been growing for years. The company is a Far Cry from what it used to be, and they've basically Assassinated themselves in recent years. They've lost all Honor, and we can only hope for a New Dawn to rise from the Skull and Bones of this decaying company.
Gamers as the Watch Dogs of the industry have been Brothers in Arms though. Now that those anti consumer practices are killing the company they should Just Dance.
@@futavadumnezoI know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, and maybe it is, but we're seeing it play out in real time. They basically want to slowly and gradually change/distort/destroy established social and cultural norms to create a "utopia" where everybody is on equal footing and nobody is sad. Of course this is impossible and stupid.
The company itself doesn't care about wokeness, they care about making money. Its middle-management consultant companies like Sweet Baby Inc who trick the investors/CEOs into creating games for an audience that doesn't exist that causes this problem. Ubisoft (and every other major media entertainment corp) wasn't trying to push wokeness onto you, they were led to believe wokeness is what sells, and now they are learning the hard way that they were very wrong.
This is what happens when you start thinking of short term profits and prioritize it over making quality games and thinking long term. I think we all knew this was coming. Not surprised at all
Montreal was a Titan of industry. We also had Eidos Montreal as well. Then Ubisoft destroyed all the companies & now they are the biggest & look what they did. Pathetic. I am a Montrealer & I’m ashamed of what they became.
Ubisoft between 2010 - 2015 was actually very based. Assassin's creed brotherhood, Far Cry 3, Rainbow Six Siege (which is still a decent game). Now it seems like they've turned all of their series into repetitive slop full of buggy BS and are just rehashing the same old formula in every game, just in a different setting.
@@conscripthornet4430 Eh, I'd disagree slightly. Taking out terrorist hunt definetly sucked, but the firing range is good, free-for-all deathmatch is a good way to warm up, and some of the new operators are fun to play. The map reworks for the most part have been good (except for house). Honestly I think the worst thing about the game is the lack of a real anti-cheat and the ranked system being totally garbage.
Game dev's need to focus on a consistent quality of product that provides fun in ways that others do not. They also need to realize that gamers play one or two games at a time, and generally only children, who have no money, plays more or for long periods of time. Subsequently, when you release a new game, you're going to 100% compete against your pre-existing games. 100% they need to stop pushing woke agendas since no one wants a unethical immoral life lesson while trying to enjoy their free time.
yeah Far cry 3 was nice and then Far cry 4 become gay boss lol and then it got worse and worse with every year after and today they are Ubiboobies... vallhala wass gay too i started the game after the first scene with his son his father being gay viking in front of the young son i turned off uninstaled and never touchd it again disgusting game...after that prince of africa and so on to much nonsense prince wass always a black haired blue eyes persian not an african
THQ should've stayed alive and we should've lost Ubisoft over a decade ago, imo. They've been producing mediocrity for a long time now. Or barely making good games. Or taking a while to patch a game up. I'm sorry but what was the last incredible game they made?
The Ship of Theseus is functionally the same ship once every plank and nail has been replaced. The Game Developer of Theseus is not the same Game Developer after most of the core employees have been replaced.
It's not crazy. I saw a video today about one of their employees and they were showing some kind of presentation explicitly stating they want to burn game companies into the ground. Seems like they keep their promises. Job done.
@@Pixelsoep why tho? I mean what do they gain except the employment from these companies that will all implode ala Ubisoft? I am not denying it man, as it seems obvious that is their intent. But what the hell do they gain when companies see them as a disaster being tied too for their upcoming titles?!?
9:12 "What the F happened" DEI hiring. I'm not kidding. It's that simple. Ubisoft used to be a bunch of male gamers. Now it's a bunch of pink/purple haired feminists who have never played a video game in their life. Same thing happened to Bungie and a bunch of other studios too.
Not necessarily related, but that’s what happened to Rooster Teeth, too. Warner Bros went DEI crazy and hired a ton of alphabet cult members who subsequently got founding members fired (this is all without addressing also hiring pedophiles, so there’s more to it but this is definitely still a factor), and a ton of OG’s up and left, I’m assuming because they didn’t like or could at least foresee the direction of the company.
@@LobotomizeMeCapn I mean sorta bc they definitely got dei cult people but basically all the founders besides Bernie were still there at the end when WB scrapped them, the dei hires were annoying but by that time I had stopped watching most RT related content, and that’s definitely the reason a ton of them left especially after some of the pedos got exposed in 2021
I don't think it's "just" DEI hiring. I think it's also poor management and the fact that they want money more than enjoyment for us the consumers. Long term games with micro transactions are much more important than good games that you pay for once. Plus like you said, their reputation is important. That way, when their games fail they can blame the consumers for not accepting "LGBTQ content" or being "racist" etc. They use DEI as a shield to protect themselves when they ultimately fail. But underneath it all is pure greed for milking the gamer's wallet like a parasite. We allow this to happen. So many gamers open their wallet for this garbage which allows them to milk them dry. They don't need many gamers. They only need the whales. Those with thousands to spend.
Hey Asmon, IGN just blacklisted Wukong off their game of the year by force. It had a 90% vote as GOTY and suddenly it's gone. This would be a great next story to cover for ya
This type of stuff is what makes me think wukong might not end up winning game of the year despite its popularity, game industry have been trying to take it down
...I don't know why you'd say that, I'm looking at the list and it's still there. At no point did it reach 90%, that's nuts, the highest was like 75% I think? It's good, but clearly not THAT good. There's enough bull going on out there without just making stuff up. Your 'great story' is just a fantasy you made up? lmao
That's not even true, at all. Like...no part of what you said. It's literally still there, on the list. I've no idea why you'd bother making up something so obviously false lmao The highest it got was like 75-80%, all the top games on the list are hovering around 70%
Ubisofts biggest problem is that it takes 5 years to make a good game but they don't have that long to bleed out, or the people in place to make meaningful change
It amazes me how FOMO controls gamers so entirely. I've been in the r/PatientGamers world for a while. Haven't bought a ubi game within a year of release in ages and I haven't bought a ubi game for full price since Far Cry 4. Ubi is uninspired and soft. But even their worst games aren't THAT horrible when you haven't bought one for less than 50% off in years. Even breakpoint (which is pretty awful) is not that bad when you buy it for $10.
The first game or two out of any franchise is going to feel better due to the fact all assets are new never seen before when u use the same assets over qnd over and over again like call of duty it seems boring we have seen it before even tho it’s a new game
A company's reputation doesn't matter. Blizzard is a perfect example. Terrible ass reputation yet people still buy their games no matter what. CD Project Red "destroyed" their reputation with cyberpunk, but people still gonna pre order Witcher 4
YOU GUYS REALIZE THAT THEY PUSHED BACK ASSASSINS CREED TO FEBRUARY ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH?? Do they expect more black people to purchase their crappy game?
Ever since someone pointed out that coulda chosen from a couple famous Japanese samurai that actually existed (Hanzo) that coulda have brought the whole japenese market but nah let’s just make him black
I'm 100℅ sure the only reason they delayed the game so that they Don't end up looking lesser version that ghost of yotei. No drama or wokeness will be fixed.
Ubisoft should get used to the idea of not owning their company.
Underrated
So real
They won’t own anything and they’ll like it.
@@gamezonereactions8388 those poops look like the global food menu these companies are trying to force on us.
Brilliant 😂
Ubisoft wanted gamers to get comfortable not owning their games
It looks like gamers did get comfortable not owning their games
And they did in record time too.
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Yeah
Did kendrick write this ? 😂Bar 👌🏾
I own none of them, and I'm happy
I worked on Watch Dogs: Legion. The main issue with the game was how much fucking filters we had to go through with everything. Just to get a cosmetic approved for the game (I worked in 3D Design) was so fucking exhausting. I would forward it to the lead designer, who would forward it to the Head of the Design Department, who would forward it to the QA team, who would forward it to the Marketing team, who would forward it to the ethics team , who would refer it to the Director and THEN, ONLY THEN, would it potentially get approved it survived the fucking gauntlet. At Ubisoft we called The Ubitine (Guillotine) cus it felt like we where standing trial anytime we sent I cosmetic idea. Like imagine sending in a idea, then you sit down with the head of inclusion and ethics and they ask you a bunch of racially, sexually and just weird questions about your reasoning behind this game. I had to make up some retarded ass explanation for the Union Jack mask in Legion that we tilted it to the side a bit as a statement to the crooked past of imperialism in Great Britain. When in reality it just looked better on the mask.
that is rough and is a good reason why the company failed then. I've worked with other businesses and the ones that fail cannot get ideas out fast enough because there is too much bureaucratic blockers
"Head of inclusion and ethics"
Sounds like someone who needs to dissappear fast.
this is the kind of info the people want to know - thanks for posting this
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@@Svoorhout85 Absolutely, that sounds like the most pointless of middle management.
"Pussified their own games", nice words
Didn't know Ubisoft published Stray.
It’s to bad andypants gaming is a grifter.
Every ally of w0k3ness, I hope you are watching.
Think hard about your future.
That's not just Ubisoft issue, and that's not even strictly DEI issue. Games become bigger, the cost more, they require more copies to be sold in a few days to reach that line where their development starts paying off. This means devs need to interest more people, to get wider audience - even wider than before, and moreover, the market of videogames is literally flooded with games - people have to choose the games now to play because they can't play everything cause there's only so many hours in a single day and so much money in their pockets. Bigger games had to become less risky in every single way possible sooner or later. And this is one of the reasons DEI bloomed that wildly too, because publishers wanted to extend their influence _even more_
But even audience has its limits in size, and eventually interests of the 'normies' have been brought to sacrifice to please DEI fans, and... well, SOME COMPANY just had to be the first which would've started suffering cause of this almost lethally.
In our timeline it just happened to be Ubisoft with all their latest fails with laughable SW:Outlaws and miserable presentation of Assassins Creed: Shadows
Yup, we have cowards that are in management position making all the decisions. They need to take chances and not care about offending soft people.
Asmon is making more money milking Ubisoft’s fall than Ubisoft will make on Star Wars Outlaws and AC Shadows
true
combined
Fine with me.
@@Depressed_until_dead good boy, that is what the "and" means lol
The local mailman make more money this year than Ubisoft.
I love how studios have no problem with your character murdering thousands of people, but if they say mean words and hurt someones feelings? Thats just too far 😂
We need the days of "No Russian" back
@@bommyTomTimindeed we do
Ubisoft is going to have to sell off all their IPs. THEY will have to get used to not owning THEIR games haha
I just hope AC and FarCry go to good companies. Going to Microsoft or Sony would be a lateral move, if not a full on downgrade.
I don’t see that happening.
@@Bonesawisready926I disagree and but we are all entitled to our opinion.
This would be so poetic. Probably the best case scenario for fans of old ubisoft
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Kinda poetic how ubisoft grew with AC and now dies with AC
And the hero turned into the villain. It’s very poetic
the new shit is not ac imma be real
@@itoxicmelonorigins was amazing.
They should have just given us Rayman 4
@@EasterlySumo868True, origins was a good ac game imo, but not amazing. Odyssey was a good game, but didn't really feel like an AC game at all, Valhalla as well.
12:52 but really, writers can't make a truly vile and reprehensible character they have to make all villains misunderstood good guys since Thanos i swear thats the tipping point for that type of villian, what was a cool provocative head scratching idea is now boring and cookie cutter. Make villains, villiains again sure Vauss was relatable on some level but only in part because he's human not because he had moral justification.
I agree, no one wants to write a villian who will act like a villian. The "sympathy for the devil" is getting overplayed.
and here i am wanting a good game where we get to be the villian. baldurs gate is one of the only ones ive played where i really got that feeling. The sad thing is though that people think if your willing to play a character like that you must be evil yourself when in reality its just a different side of the story. Like ive played dozens of games as the hero but i want a good rpg where im fighting those heros and trying to take over the world lol
@@mech0phave you played tyranny? It’s by the guys who made fallout 1 and 2 I think, super good bad guy game
@@Stxrend yea i have but i only played the good playthrough and meant to go through it again to do the bad one but forgot. Will definitely have to play it again though as it was an awesome game.
I guess you missed the last thousand or so years where villains are near-universally the most interesting and deeply flawed character of most stories. Some of the best villains of all time have been sympathetic. In Ubisoft alone, the fan favorites are Vauss and Pagan Min: both charismatic characters with relatable motivations and backstories. And Vauss was 100% relatable specifically because of his charisma and motivations, no clue wtf you're on about. Did you even play the game?
Frankly, what you seem to be asking for is literally just a poorly written one-note character.
Being a villain for the sake of being a villain is boring outside of specific settings. A good example of when this is okay is the Wolfenstein games. They're over-the-top Nazi bad guys with no depth or meaning beyond being a justifiable target to brutalize in an over-the-top uber violent game. It works.
Trying to do so in a more nuanced character-driven story is just asking for a bad game.
Don't look Ezio, don't look.
Oh god, poor Ezio. I loved that trilogy.
Altair run, i'll shelter you.
RIP Ezio and Altair
so glad they didn't have to see this shit
You may rest easy now, Desmond.
This wouldn't have happened to Ubihard
😂 underrated
Ubihard?
- She
I have really bad back pain and this joke made it go away for but a moment 🎉
@@kaiderhai86she/her/it/them/theyre/they/those/we/were/never/soldiers 😂
That's what she said.
it's sad how much damage the "woke" and "DEI" did to possible ways of telling a story. they erased entire character setups and plots from existence because if you even only try to use them you will be acused to have Woke or DEI in your game.
i'm not saying that you have to have them in your game or story but some stories just have them by nature of their setup and region they play in.
that said, in the end the story only matters if the gameplay itself is good, fun and bug free.
Nah, Ubisoft's downfall has nothing to do with "woke" or DEI games.
They've just been objectively making dogshit games for about a decade now.
*This is what happens when you don’t fight against Woke feminists since 2016 they have ruined Comics and western gaming it’s bout time alot of gamers fight back*
"it's sad how much damage the "woke" and "DEI" did" thats the whole idea about "woke"...
@@NaughtyJuri best way tyo fight back is support games like baldurs gate 3 and shun the trash thats been being put out which everyone has been doing for the most part. Look ath the 100 million+ concord that was loaded with trash. Theyre gonna learn and get rid of dei or theyll go under. Like ill never get why these huge companies are so obsessed with pleasing people that arent even gonna play their games.
It's not surprising. After they ousted Hascoet and a bunch of other executives and employees for sexual harassment and racism allegations the environment probably felt tense.
Those who were left at the studio probably felt like they had to comply with whatever DEI crap was pushed on them, otherwise they wouldn't just lose their job, they'd also get smeared as predators or villains.
I can't help it. After the comment they made of "players should get used to not owning games" I can't help but smile when Ubisoft soon won't even own it's own company.
The irony is beautiful.
I sail the seas for their games 😂 they don't own them
@@spehssmahreens8258 this is real asf 🤣🤣🤣
Man, watching the karma strike is so satisfying.
Ubisoft should get used to people not buying their games
Even asmon himself said that lines out of context
9:30 wtf happened, well 2 hostile take-over attempts, a rapid need for cash flow and then letting in politically driven people, which as gamers well understand now, are usually quite the cancer to let in... amongst other things
Gamers knew they were cancer since 2013
What hostile takeovers are you talking about? The only one I can find anything about is when Vivendi tried, failed, and Tencent was quick to swoop in and buy a bunch of shares that have only since lost a ton of money. I don't even know what happens after a hostile takeover. The company stays public and beholden to a board? Honestly it seems like Ubisoft would've benefited from a hostile takeover turning it back into a private company, maybe they would've focused on releasing fewer good games rather than slop-flops and ultimately grovelling for ESG loans.
Dude they have billions on hand... what actually happened is you made up a bunch of crap to get attention.
@@thomgizzizif you think Ubisoft has billions on hand when they're not even worth billions... I don't even know how to engage with this level of stupidity past this
@@thomgizziz They are currently sitting on about 1 billion.
Financial situation could be salvaged. I recently made a John Wick style action montage using Splinter Cell Blacklist stylish takedowns. Looks really cool. If only we got a proper John Wick game that way, Ubi could license and stay afloat. They have all the right tools already. Just give real gamers what they want. Don't take them for granted.
Note: In Japan, on Valentine's Day, women give chocolate to men.
Based
and march 14, men give back something to women who gave them chocolates. and it"s called white day.
@@mihey4022 White day? Ayo 🤨?
@@phlixcarbon It was made up by candy companies to see more candy. I believe it's called White Day because the typical gift for men to give is marshmallows.
@phlixcarbon our friend is referring to sperms, though vocabulary choices were questionable the sentiment is inclusive feel free to take part.
I like that "ubisoft open world" became an insult to open world games.
Along with the term 'Ubification'. Filling an oversized open world with a disgusting amount of collectibles and endless mundane side activities.
Oh, and activating radio beacons or some other map-revealing gubbin.
Became, and a long ago too. I feel like it's been an insult since at least 2015.
I remember when BotW came out and was praised extensively for doing open-world right; for example: making actual use of the ,,Ubisoft tower", instead of just putting it in there as a formula dictates. For giving an empty map, where movement and exploration is fun, instead of yet another mind-numbing checklist.
For this sentiment to exist in 2017, people had to have been tired of the formula for years before that.
To me I don't even consider EldenRing a true Open World RPG. EldenRing did not capitalize on the Open World in an effective way. Its alright but it could of been a lot better.
Then you have games like Dark Souls that say "Open World" and you're practically running down hallways with the occasional ballroom sized room.
@@habama1077It didn't help that Ubisoft flooded the market with endless AC sequels at that point and the Far Cry games too.
The issue with gaming today is two-fold, but stem from the same root problem, which is that the industry simply became too big for its own good. It started attracting the wrong kind of people in too great numbers.
The one issue, is that due to the massive growth of the industry at large, the top executive and decision-making positions have attracted suits who are there for the money first, gameplay and game design understanding second. They wanna see profits rather than good games, and they don't have the intellect, insight, nor passion, to understand that good gameplay and profits need to be interlinked, never separated.
The other issue, is that at the lower levels of the working floors, due to the size of the industry the job positions now seem more established and secure, on par with any other big industry, and thus attracts the type of people who aren't actually living and breathing game design, but rather they simply want to pursue "an artistic/creative career", and game design, script writing, story telling, all these positions suddenly become attractive to them. We see the same issue in Hollywood, where there now is a horde of writers who can't for the life of them write a good story, because the only perspective on life they have, is that little Hollywood bubble they have isolated themselves in. They don't write stories because they have something meaningful to tell and share. They do it because it's convenient and the idea of this type of career pleases their ego.
Gameplay and story writers in videogames now are no different. They don't actually have real world experience living full lives, and they also aren't really hardcore gamers who understand what good gameplay and storytelling means to a gamer. These people instead just live in their little "creative career" bubbles where everyone else are like them, where no one really has any passion or vision or dedication, but instead most of them are more attached to what their career says about them, than actually having something meaningful to say themselves.
Consider this. A real game designer/story teller, will make their work on their own even if it only reaches a handful of people, even if they don't get paid for it they will still sit up hours at night to work on it on the side. Why? Because they have a passion for it, and because the work itself is meaningful to them, so they can't not do it. It's their soul they pour into it. But these career creatives who never had deep aspirations and motivation to share something novel and honest, they lack that deep attachment to the soul of the work they put out. They care more about who they work for, than what they work on - and again that is because the industry has grown too big and fosters too many incentives for people to get involved that doesn't include good gameplay development and interesting story telling. Rather it's status, social media worth, money, career opportunities, and padding their own self to appear as something on the paper rather than letting their work speak for itself.
Assassin's Creed II was such a beautiful game, and it genuinely upsets me how this is somehow the same company that made that masterpiece.
Ezio was a badass. I wish we could get another trilogy were we see an entire assassin's life again.
I went back and played it lately. The mechanics are outdated but it still hits just like day 1. 👌
ubisoft is now a shadow of it's former self sadly 😔
@@rt_j5 Is there anything we can do to stop this? Maybe government intervention or we could pool our money together and buy Ubisoft?
Same company doesn't mean same people. People can quit, retire, get fired from a company and you wouldn't notice a thing. The people who mean AC2 probably doesn't work there anymore.
Let's be honest, it's not a surprise after almost a decade of them cashgrabbing instead of using passion to work on their videogame.
that's true i just recently replayed assassin's creed 2 and wow man the passion the love put into the game compared to the shitty woke cashgrab games there putting out right now is a night and day difference i miss old ubisoft 😔
The last game that were any good were for honor and siege.
Lets hope EA will follow suit
especially when now they litteraly berate their players for not agreeing with their alternative history and pandering. LIke bruh
It all started to go downhill after Far Cry 3 and AC: Black Flag
Who remembers the massive graphics downgrade debacle from Watch Dogs 1?
To be fair, they had to do it since the ps4 and Xbox one where underpowered.
I still remember thinking the game looked amazing. Then, I saw it was made by Ubisoft and immediately lost interest.
its absolutely insane that this is the same company who made shit like farcry 3😂(actual loser in the replies)
I am pretty sure all the devs who worked on Ubisoft classics have left by now.
@Bonesawisready926 yup
@@Bonesawisready926or they were fired for not sticking to the narrative
Blood Dragon is literally a reskin and it still felt fresh and new.
Ac4
Rayman
Splinter cell
So much potential
When you hire someone that clicks the box of "modern audiences" rather then hire someone that clicks the box of "good programer/developer"... what do you friggin expect?😢
It's obvious why they don't make military games. They hired a bunch of women who weren't gamers but pretended to be in order to become influencers or to make money in college. Colleges started discriminating against men, and only allowed women into their game development programs.
Or military games are super over saturated and it's a French Studio: in a culture that doesn't fetishize the army.
I won't argue that some studios went way too into hiring diverse picks over talent. I still remember when at Pax the Creative Dev at Bioware literally said he's not looking to hire another boring white guy. He'd prefer someone interesting he can play DnD with, they don't even need to be good at coding.
That said, it's not DEI ruining your games. Or at least not DEI is not the root cause. It's companies cutting corners, delivering less for more, and ass consistent lack of cohesive creative driven decision making.
@@arkainin4638 I think you're both right. One of the biggest problems I have with DEI BS is how half assed it all is.
"Here's my character, he's gay."
"What other traits does he have?"
"Uh... He's gay... What more do you need?"
13:01 Actually, they pussified their dev team first. The cool devs quit or changed jobs or retired, and they hired whiny babies to take their place. And now it shows in the games that are being developed.
They hired woke whiny babies
This has been true for a lot of companies in the 2010s. They got rid of the senior folks for new hires and gradually pushed out the experienced staff. Now, it's showing.
Were these people called whiney babies so often that they formed “Sweet Baby” to compensate 🤔
More like UberFlaccid
Lol this was pretty good
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@@lowdistortion hahaha thanks 😂 I'm jam packed full of stupidity. That's what my mom says at least 😭
I like "Ubislop" better.
You-Be-soft
LMFAO ill buy when the stock certificate value is higher then the stock it self, the certificates usually cost around $1.50 to produce.
Remember Prince of Persia the warrior within? Anybody?
My younger self does.
That Godsmack soundtrack...o ya. Loved it
That Ubisoft is gone
My nostalgia game
Awesome game. Story was really good too with the whole Dahaka demon thing and the Sand Wraith.
"The downfall needs to be studied", taking literally
No cap, Ubisoft should be a case study in all MBA classes what not to do.
This isn’t the first time, just the newest one.
💩WEF ESG DEI SBI IGN DISNEY BUD LIGHT BRIDGE WOKE LEFT💩
@@gamezonereactions8388 Do you mean to make this sound insane?
Ubisoft's dialogue went from Breaking Bad to High School Musical in 8 years.
whoever bought the "dip" ...well that dip just went lower...at $ 9.22 today.
Buy the dip, until the dip buys you.
Rip dip
It's going to continue going lower and lower lol
That dip is looking like a clear pathway to privatization
Honestly if you want buy the dip just wait until it gets to 5$ or something which is plausible looking at how things goes
Customers usually don’t know what they want, and a company needs to figure that out and try to give it to them, but customers definitely know what they don’t want. These activists that take over these companies think they can make what consumers don’t want and force them to want it 😂
I've always disliked the expression "Who asked for this?". I loved a lot of media that I didn't ask for. _Dark City_, _The Matrix_, _The Crow_, _Warhammer 40k_ and many others, I never asked for those and I loved them when I watched, read or played them. I think you're pointing out well a large part of the problem, that being that if something doesn't catch on, they go into hissy fits because it's always worked for them before. In the old days, if a product failed, it would be quietly forgotten and people would move on with their lives.
Customers do know what they want. You are just slow and take sayings literally.
The company can't listen to every suggestion from every customer and the company need to find the things that the majority of customers want and don't get too niche and and in futures that not many people want.
How are you this slow?
All the men are gone.
They remade all their games for the 🏳🌈"modern audience." So where is the audience?
If you put a loaf of bread in the garden for your unicorn, by the end of the week there will be loads of loaves in your garden.
you are the modern audience you just dont know it yet. Just wait until the american economy collapses, no one will be able to afford games anymore.
The demand for “modern audiences” far exceeds the supply. It’s like they hate money
😂😂😂
The modern audience is at a small subreddit where they cry about how wrong everyone else is about Ubisoft
Black flag was INSANE. i have played that game 100% 2 times now. Unity was the last innovative and good AC game and that was literally 10 years ago.
odyssey was also amazing tho
You mean camel simulator?😂@@thefeaj
@@_Azur that's Origins
Nah, unity was mid AF
Agree!! Unity is the best assassins creed for me because of gameplay and unfortunately boring story) Black Flag is masterpiece
I am beginning to believe that there is intent here. Ubisoft is being destroyed from the inside out. Hostile takeover?
Well if they were such idiots to let the game be this way then it was meant to happen.
Ubisoft will own nothing and be happy.
Everyone: Get Woke Go Broke!
Ubisoft: Nah, it'll be FINE.
Tell that to Budweiser 😂
Ubisoft: "Nah, I'd win."
*cuts to Ubisoft on an airport*
narrator: turns out it wasn’t, in fact, fine
They are trying to appease the vocal minority. They are so scared what the media are going to say, instead of making games that players would not experience in real life. Making games to fit the real world narrative takes away the experience of playing edgy characters. I feel GTA 6 will not be as edgy as GTA 5. Triple A companies need to make games for the majority, not the monority.
Ezio didn’t deserve to see this failure. I want to buy the ezio collection but won’t support this company anymore
Same
Just sail the seven seas if you want to play the old masterpiece and don't want to support them
@@starrynight8709 good idea but need a reliable ocean as many are infested with dirty pirates
@@stevegonzales527 Fitgirl repacks.
buy a preowned disc copy, ubi doesn't get any money from that
UbiSoft was the goat from like 1998-2010. Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, R6S, AC, Prince of Persia and Far Cry were all bangers in the beginning. But all them have went in the toilet.
I think Ghost Recon Wildlands and Farcry 5 were also good. Of course they butchered Ghost Recon..Farcry is going downward too.
"So they actually just pussified their games". Pretty much sums it up. I don't know about anyone else, but I think it's clearly an observable thing that happened over the years.
Ubisoft got woke cancer and it's spreading like wildfire eating them up from the inside, these companies think their ideologies are a lot more popular than they are due to their echo chamber, they are about to find out the hard way just how small and unpopular their ideology is, whether they can come back from it is debateable, I can guarantee you now the new Assassins creed is going to flop hard no matter how long they delay it.
Sweet baby inc came out of ex ubisoft employees, let that sink in
@@SWOTHDRA Exactly and there lies the issue.
Nah, Ubisoft was shit before sweet baby, those guys starting to do bad praxis since 2012, sweet baby was just the nail on the coffin
@wetzinalvarado6930 because when sweet baby inc didn't exist the members were in ubisoft...
"If you don't like it, don't watch it" -progressives at G4
"If you don't like it, it's not made for you, don't play it" -progressives at kotaku
I'm seeing a theme here.
and then they call you bigot because you don't want to play the games that are not made for you so you are racist, sexist, homophobic etc. I actually had a argument with someone but it was over The Acolyte tv series. I commented that the show doesnt look interesting for me and its not made for me so a dude started arguing that im a bigot and racist.
When they say this to you, smile and thank them. They saved you a lot of money.
Bro let the man finish 0:49 lol
😂 you can watch the original video, there's a link in the description
😂😂
I kean hes not wrong though. Asmon just yaps usually @@n1lknarf
AC Black Flag was peak Ubisoft. Miss those times...
Fucking LOVED BF
BF was the only AC I beaten and would absolutely replay
Can I just remind everyone that Black Flag featured cross-dressing, homosexuality, aggressive anti-colonialism, and a massive racial conflict. Assassin's Creed has _always_ been woke... it just _used_ to also be good.
I don't think I beat Black Flag, but I sailed around and basically fought everybody because it was awesome.
there are so many confuse woman there who hate men 🤣🤣🤣
Those talented devs who made splinter cell are long gone
Truth, I miss those guys tho, choas theory deserves a full blown remake
Ubersoft.....failing hard. A shame....but, reputation is like glass. Once broken to a 1000 pieces no amount of "glue" can restore it.
90% stock plummet since January 2021. You would have been better off buying degen cryptocurrency meme coins than Ubisoft stocks
Good. These companies forgot who the fuck owns them. The gamer.
Bet your giblets @@joshbuxton8249
STONKS 📈
Or even some lame ass NFT scam - probably
"Maximizing Shareholder Value" gets you short term success, cultivating a good reputation keeps you alive during good and bad years.
Honestly, I haven't hated the new AC games as much as most. In fact, for me atleast, Odyssey was probably my favorite AC, and I played them all (except Mirage), but man, this company just commits scandal after scandal now. I will miss AC, but at this point, I hope Ubisoft just closes its doors. That would be such a win for gamers because if even UBISOFT can't come back from pissing off their community too muh, maybe it will remind other western AAA studios that ultimately, WE are their bosses. If they continuously deliver poor labor, then they'll eventually get the sack. That's how it works in the real world, and I think western AAA studios have gotten way too comfortable delivering mediocrity. Time for a change!
The Division between Ubisoft and gamers has been growing for years. The company is a Far Cry from what it used to be, and they've basically Assassinated themselves in recent years. They've lost all Honor, and we can only hope for a New Dawn to rise from the Skull and Bones of this decaying company.
In before this comment gets an 1000 likes
Chatgpted, but still funny
GG
Heheh I see what you did there 😂
Gamers as the Watch Dogs of the industry have been Brothers in Arms though. Now that those anti consumer practices are killing the company they should Just Dance.
2:42 dude really said black shadows
That’s the point
@@joshin9326😂
fk black shadows :)
The implied name
“Pussyfied” the game! I love Asmongold! I can’t stop launching!
go woke go broke lmao
Flops worth hundreds of millions of dollars, lmao. Woke, ESG, and DEI brings great businesses to the ground.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂
That’s because it’s not the same people that started the company
Wokeness is more important than profit making - Game creation companies 2024
But why, why are they doing this? What's the plot
@@futavadumnezoI know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, and maybe it is, but we're seeing it play out in real time. They basically want to slowly and gradually change/distort/destroy established social and cultural norms to create a "utopia" where everybody is on equal footing and nobody is sad. Of course this is impossible and stupid.
@@futavadumnezo they really thought they would make more money that way by including those .... really sad.
The company itself doesn't care about wokeness, they care about making money. Its middle-management consultant companies like Sweet Baby Inc who trick the investors/CEOs into creating games for an audience that doesn't exist that causes this problem. Ubisoft (and every other major media entertainment corp) wasn't trying to push wokeness onto you, they were led to believe wokeness is what sells, and now they are learning the hard way that they were very wrong.
This is what happens when you start thinking of short term profits and prioritize it over making quality games and thinking long term. I think we all knew this was coming. Not surprised at all
Montreal was a Titan of industry. We also had Eidos Montreal as well. Then Ubisoft destroyed all the companies & now they are the biggest & look what they did. Pathetic. I am a Montrealer & I’m ashamed of what they became.
Ubisoft between 2010 - 2015 was actually very based. Assassin's creed brotherhood, Far Cry 3, Rainbow Six Siege (which is still a decent game). Now it seems like they've turned all of their series into repetitive slop full of buggy BS and are just rehashing the same old formula in every game, just in a different setting.
Everytime they add something new to R6 it's complete garbage and makes the game worse unfortunately.
because 2010-2015 developers are either retired or quit, now they got replaced with camels and donkeys on a farm
Far Cry 3 gameplay was ok, story sucked. Brotherhood sucked, and so did Siege.
Black Flag is still the best pirate game of all time too. Ezio and Edward Kenway are legit great characters.
@@conscripthornet4430 Eh, I'd disagree slightly. Taking out terrorist hunt definetly sucked, but the firing range is good, free-for-all deathmatch is a good way to warm up, and some of the new operators are fun to play. The map reworks for the most part have been good (except for house). Honestly I think the worst thing about the game is the lack of a real anti-cheat and the ranked system being totally garbage.
When ubisoft went woke, greedy, and introduced DEI, they destroyed themselves.
Game dev's need to focus on a consistent quality of product that provides fun in ways that others do not. They also need to realize that gamers play one or two games at a time, and generally only children, who have no money, plays more or for long periods of time. Subsequently, when you release a new game, you're going to 100% compete against your pre-existing games.
100% they need to stop pushing woke agendas since no one wants a unethical immoral life lesson while trying to enjoy their free time.
🎻 It has overstayed its welcome.
💩WEF ESG DEI SBI IGN DISNEY BUD LIGHT BRIDGE WOKE LEFT💩
@gamezonereactions8388 And they will blame white male gamers and Donald Trump. 😂
Ubisoft makes games for their financiers like blackrock and woke journalists. They dont make games for the players anymore.
yeah Far cry 3 was nice and then Far cry 4 become gay boss lol and then it got worse and worse with every year after and today they are Ubiboobies... vallhala wass gay too i started the game after the first scene with his son his father being gay viking in front of the young son i turned off uninstaled and never touchd it again disgusting game...after that prince of africa and so on to much nonsense prince wass always a black haired blue eyes persian not an african
Also, whoever remembers, Ubisoft also took Heroes Of Might And Magic, and they fked that up too.
That game got Thanos-snapped out of relevancy.
New HoMM is being made by a smaller studio, they licensed it out. Might be their best decision, honestly.
@@FaultyGear9 for Real???
I member
At least HOTA is still somewhat alive
Ubisoft, working on a Japanese themed game, dropped out of the Tokyo game show.
Battlestate Games, the Tarkov devs, are going.
the absolute state.
THQ should've stayed alive and we should've lost Ubisoft over a decade ago, imo. They've been producing mediocrity for a long time now. Or barely making good games. Or taking a while to patch a game up. I'm sorry but what was the last incredible game they made?
You reap what you sow.
Next is Bioware calling it.
And CDPR sadly
Isn t bioware already dead since Anthem ?
Basically
ETA: Veilguard is their last hoorah to stay relevant.@@etienne8110
CDPR is still going strong what are you on about? @@PutraRhm
@SpardaAlucard1 witcher 4 is coming
Ubisoft should feel comfortable losing money.
In fact if this keeps up, they will be the one to « own nothing and be happy ».
The Ship of Theseus is functionally the same ship once every plank and nail has been replaced. The Game Developer of Theseus is not the same Game Developer after most of the core employees have been replaced.
I JUST watched the original video man..
Rip Ubisoft
Goodbye Ubisoft
Ubislop destroyed assassins creed
The worst thing about this is other game publishers won't learn. They will continue to push DEI filled disasters.
Ubi-Soft? Nah Ubi-Dead.
Ubi-softer sales
This is crazy that sweet baby single handedly destroyed a company
One of their goals is to burn down the industry. They are pretty successful so far.
Not just this company either!
$BI spawned from Ubisoft. Kim Belair is an ex-employee. Ubisoft is kind of patient zero for narrative consultants.
It's not crazy. I saw a video today about one of their employees and they were showing some kind of presentation explicitly stating they want to burn game companies into the ground. Seems like they keep their promises. Job done.
@@Pixelsoep why tho? I mean what do they gain except the employment from these companies that will all implode ala Ubisoft?
I am not denying it man, as it seems obvious that is their intent. But what the hell do they gain when companies see them as a disaster being tied too for their upcoming titles?!?
I indeed enjoy being called racist by Twitter dwellers who have not played Assassin's Creed game before.
Welp. You win some you lose most of it.
9:12 "What the F happened"
DEI hiring. I'm not kidding. It's that simple. Ubisoft used to be a bunch of male gamers. Now it's a bunch of pink/purple haired feminists who have never played a video game in their life. Same thing happened to Bungie and a bunch of other studios too.
Literally what the entirety of 343 industries is, they’ve never touched a game in their lives besides animal crossing
Not necessarily related, but that’s what happened to Rooster Teeth, too. Warner Bros went DEI crazy and hired a ton of alphabet cult members who subsequently got founding members fired (this is all without addressing also hiring pedophiles, so there’s more to it but this is definitely still a factor), and a ton of OG’s up and left, I’m assuming because they didn’t like or could at least foresee the direction of the company.
@@LobotomizeMeCapn I mean sorta bc they definitely got dei cult people but basically all the founders besides Bernie were still there at the end when WB scrapped them, the dei hires were annoying but by that time I had stopped watching most RT related content, and that’s definitely the reason a ton of them left especially after some of the pedos got exposed in 2021
Any company with Sweet Baby Inc ties = auto fail
I don't think it's "just" DEI hiring. I think it's also poor management and the fact that they want money more than enjoyment for us the consumers.
Long term games with micro transactions are much more important than good games that you pay for once.
Plus like you said, their reputation is important. That way, when their games fail they can blame the consumers for not accepting "LGBTQ content" or being "racist" etc.
They use DEI as a shield to protect themselves when they ultimately fail. But underneath it all is pure greed for milking the gamer's wallet like a parasite.
We allow this to happen. So many gamers open their wallet for this garbage which allows them to milk them dry. They don't need many gamers. They only need the whales. Those with thousands to spend.
At this point they should have made Yasuke white.
There definitely wouldn’t have been all this fake outrage and white fragility
man, far cry 3 was my game best game, how low have they fallen?
Far cry 2 was so ahead of its time and far cry 3 was good too
" Requiescat in pace " - Ezio Auditore da Firenze
Haven't heard that in a minute. Big W
At this point, it has to be intentional sabotage
Yes, I think you're right.
EZIO, ALTAIR AND DESMOND DIED WITH A FRANCHISE
Hey Asmon, IGN just blacklisted Wukong off their game of the year by force. It had a 90% vote as GOTY and suddenly it's gone. This would be a great next story to cover for ya
This type of stuff is what makes me think wukong might not end up winning game of the year despite its popularity, game industry have been trying to take it down
@@GreatRaijin Sales numbers don't lie, its the one thing we can depend on for truth.
...I don't know why you'd say that, I'm looking at the list and it's still there. At no point did it reach 90%, that's nuts, the highest was like 75% I think? It's good, but clearly not THAT good. There's enough bull going on out there without just making stuff up. Your 'great story' is just a fantasy you made up? lmao
That's not even true, at all. Like...no part of what you said. It's literally still there, on the list. I've no idea why you'd bother making up something so obviously false lmao
The highest it got was like 75-80%, all the top games on the list are hovering around 70%
@@GreatRaijin happened with hogwartss legacy
I'm glad that enough gamers are sick of this kind of thing enough to affect sales and make a real difference.
Those Splinter Cell games are so badass. I miss those.
Chaos theory was game of that generation imo, or mgs solid 3
Ubisofts biggest problem is that it takes 5 years to make a good game but they don't have that long to bleed out, or the people in place to make meaningful change
*I swear by Sweet Baby Inc. being the PETA of the video game industry.*
It's not the only one in gaming
It amazes me how FOMO controls gamers so entirely. I've been in the r/PatientGamers world for a while. Haven't bought a ubi game within a year of release in ages and I haven't bought a ubi game for full price since Far Cry 4. Ubi is uninspired and soft. But even their worst games aren't THAT horrible when you haven't bought one for less than 50% off in years. Even breakpoint (which is pretty awful) is not that bad when you buy it for $10.
The first game or two out of any franchise is going to feel better due to the fact all assets are new never seen before when u use the same assets over qnd over and over again like call of duty it seems boring we have seen it before even tho it’s a new game
Ezio was amazing, I can thank ubisoft for that much
Champions of Norath was such a goooood game.
Why don't they make games like that no more?
That and Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance 2 was my fucking shit back in the day, so addicting and fun to play with others.
Gamers are on full Vaas mode with Ubisoft: "AYE!!! You F**k! Look me in the eye!!!" 😂😂😂
It bothers me that asmon keeps mentioning Cyberpunk but hasn't played through it yet. A damn shame..
A company's reputation doesn't matter. Blizzard is a perfect example. Terrible ass reputation yet people still buy their games no matter what. CD Project Red "destroyed" their reputation with cyberpunk, but people still gonna pre order Witcher 4
I loved cyberpunk :/ am I a loser?
YOU GUYS REALIZE THAT THEY PUSHED BACK ASSASSINS CREED TO FEBRUARY ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH??
Do they expect more black people to purchase their crappy game?
all they know is double down they never back up they never introspect or admit they are wrong. they just double down everytime.
Ever since someone pointed out that coulda chosen from a couple famous Japanese samurai that actually existed (Hanzo) that coulda have brought the whole japenese market but nah let’s just make him black
It's going to come with a coupon for free fried chicken sushi
@@puzzlepeace8859 nice racism
They will probably try to use the "you are raycist" argument.
I say "good luck" to them as I am not white and I won't fall for an obvious PR stunt.
Rayman!!! OMG I loved it so much om PS1!
I'm 100℅ sure the only reason they delayed the game so that they Don't end up looking lesser version that ghost of yotei. No drama or wokeness will be fixed.