This was always the path. I am not happy, nor am I celebrating their downfall. I just wish they would have got their shit together earlier on so we didn't get here. What do you think?
I’m celebrating because it’s the only way for real change and the board of directors is investigating them thank god. Stop being Canadian about it. ( come on you know what I mean )
I'm celebrating because they failed trying to manipulate costumers and using those scammy publicity tactics we all know (abusive microtransactions, re skinned games, fake trailers, etc.) not becaused they failed trying to make good games, in that case I would've hoped the opposite. I think it sets a good precedent for other publishers trying to do the same things. Things you expose right here in your channel, and things that other companies take in account when trying to make the most money while putting in the less effort on their product as they can. We want good games! and this kind of publishers are responsible for the state gaming is in right now, where only a handful of the houndreds of aaa games that come out every year are released in a decent state and don't see their clients as moneybags willing to spend on anything they put out
@@ethanesslinger9805 No, someone can simply read. Go back to the gameindustry article and you'll find out. They said that in the past decades we have seen how consumers don't have an d want anymore physical material for things like music (Spotify) and movie (streaming) and that videogames (by being digital) also obtained in the recent years a lot of innovation... STOP. The whole prase was an assumption made by the journalist. Where's the phisical copy of Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Wukong and Space Marine 2? Still every Ubisoft game has aphysical copy. Nice try lil bro
For once gamers were able to put aside their addictions to better the gaming industry. Usually they just pay for it anyway then complain again. Like the people who bought The Day Before even though every video pointed toward it being a scam and totally unfinished. They bought it then complained.
Worst thing is that they already could have learned their lesson with Ghost recon breakpoint. After they listened to the fans and removed live service stuff people started buying the game. Just listen to your fucking audience. Jesus.
But they won't because they're fucking addicted. They NEED their yearly fix of AC or Far Cry. They'll cave and buy those creatively devoid games because Ubisoft games are made for people who have no standards. Target markets.
@@kiddeath8883 EA has other successful IP’s other than Battlefield (FIFA, Madden, Star Wars Jedi, Sims, Apex Legends, etc), so it wouldn’t be all of EA.
@@spud7402 none of those IP's are successful other than maybe Apex, EA Sports as a whole is a failure to it's community, SWJ was decent but a standalone single player game doesn't make enough money.. and Sims? lol that's one of the biggest cash riddled dlc infested waste bins EA ever published..
*Its no surprise.Their continued greed and scumbaggery has resulted in this.* *Ubisoft should get used to the decline and mediocrity, of their own doing!!*
They had good developers and programmers back then. The quality has gone down because all of their great talent had left the company. Just like Rockstar games
@Kiryu_Kazuma01 Yeah. Now the new Rockstar sucks. All the older great talent left the company. GTA6 is the first game that is being developed without the original team members. Which is cause for concern.
Old Ubisoft>>> new Ubisoft Their games gave me so many good memories (prince of Persia, Rayman , watch dogs, assassin, Splinter Cell, the division, far cry), what a shame they became what they are now ...
They already became what they're now before watch dogs launched. They just managed to still bring something out every now and then that's worth getting while not being on sale back then. When watch dogs came out they already had everything revocably licensed, copied games instead of putting their own DNA into it, rushed releases. The Old Ubisoft died in 2006, let's see if they go under entirely or actually go back to their roots and actually take care of the games they make (by that I mean all games they make, not like 1 or 2 that are worth it every now and then).
Now they make assassin creed games only , I love splinter cell POP and watch Dogs.. I think they have to stop making Assassin creed games for now and focus on their older titles with better quality
A based in reality R6 Siege without characters, make believe equipment, and straight up gamey mechanics. Faction based maps with true to life equipment and weapons available specific to those maps. Could have law enforcement VS suspects on one map. A military faction VS terrorist on another. The alpha of Siege was awesome before all the character crap was added to it.
Bro the game that they had planned before siege was supposed to be next level. They scratched Patriots for that piece of garbage. I swear that's when they went full woke.
To be honest, I think it will have a negative effect if anything because if Ubisoft doesn't make games anymore, there is less competition so you find even less alternatives to the garbage that is being put out there right now.
Deserved. They never give their player base what is asked for and ruin their own games through incompetence. 1) Skull and Bones: Give audience AC Black Flag pirate experience like they asked for 2) Star Wars Outlaws: Don't fuck up female lead for sake of DEI and make sure game was actually good 3) AC Shadows: Make Japan historically accurate, provide badass ninja main character, ditch DEI Yasuke 4) Give players new Splinter Cell / Remake 5) Profit All they had to do, and they fucked every bit of it up
@@ZahratKabira Splinter Cell will be affected by ESG, no doubt. Prince of Persia Lost Crown was nothing. And Skull and Bones without the Black FLag gameplay was always going to fail. All they had to do was take AC Rogue and expand on it.
Sad? They deserve all of the crap they’re getting. You can’t have an organization like that and expect to continue to make money on mediocre to terrible games every launch. Then on top of that, tell us we can’t own our games
@@Kiryu_Kazuma01 you damn right it's sad because it affects the industry. It makes this space less valuable to investors and it fucks the small guys over. So yeah, it is sad.
@@RedBeardMortis I disagree, other companies seeing this, might put things in the right direction. People are getting sick of the god awful games, broken, filled with MTX, terrible quality, and putting an agenda first. The investors are the reason they’re failing, they’re focusing on their investors, not the FANS. People are sick of this crap, AA and Indie devs will be just fine. And they will keep the industry going and growing. Ubisoft, EA, and Activision are all terrible. They’re focused on greed. This isn’t sad, this is a sign that gamers are starting to avoid this crap we have been seeing for a decade
They had it so, so easy with AC Shadows.... Even if it was released totally broken, people would still buy it or at least wait for it to be fixed but keeping some hype. But they had to do it, they had to take the only relevant black character in Japanese history, twist his story beyond the limit, and make him the only real historic protagonist of the saga. And that's just for starters. It's literally the definition of Go Woke, Go Broke.
I think the best thing that could come out of this would be for Ubisoft to start selling off individual IPs. I would love for any of the Tom Clancy games to go to a studio who actually wants to make one of those games.
Ghost Recon Wildlands was the last game by Ubisoft I actually enjoyed. Breakpoint signaled the end for me. AC Valhalla couldn't hold my attention for more than an hour, despite the fact I love almost anything involving Vikings. Tom Clancy XDefiant was proof of their completely tone deaf strategy and their complete disconnect with what gamers actually wanted. They are reaping the consequences of too many missteps.
Funnily enough Breakpoint isn't even that bad (for sale price obviously), it got some improvements over wildlands - generally both are overall the same tho, you can just see (and sometimes feel) that the devs held back either because they had to rush or because they wanted to play it overly safe - both of them had been essentially the best shape ghost recon ever has been in, yet they're at the same time so shallow and one can't help but think what could've been without being that overly cautious and enough time.
Me and my buddy just were talking about how much we would pay to go back to the good days of playing assassins creed 3 multiplayer and blacklist spies v mercs. Ubisoft used to be such a up-tier developer. Shame.
And, so? They keep making garbage games, all their games are the same with “go here to unlock more of the map”, with 8,000 different useless collectables, turning what could have been a 5v5 R6 like Counter Strike and turned it into a crazy/cheesy hero shooter. Oh, and let’s not forget the complete avoidance of anything Splinter Cell all these years. Not to mention the live service games with never ending time savers, and awful microtransactions. The days of Ubisoft of making great games, seem to be over. A lot of these companies like Ubisoft believe they can deliver the same garbage games they have been giving us, and expect to be fine.
It's a French company that has major subsidiaries in Canada. It's in their blood to be a hardline liberal, basically impossible to remove any DEI influence in their company.
That DEI sheet is probably very illegal in France (as it discriminates one gender). I'm surprised it's not in Canada. That being said, if there is one thing that Dev studios do not lack is male devs. Hard to build a diverse workforce when 70+% of your devs are dudes >< The outrage about this is just pathetic
@@robertraymond348 trust me, I very much do. Our ignorance has made the world pay a hefty price and we are terrified our neighbors can be so blindly bigoted towards people expressing themselves as they have the freedom to do
If Ubisoft goes under, I hope this sends a message to all of these other arrogant DEI companies that think they can just do whatever they want to push an agenda without repercussions. No company is ever safe from going broke, no matter how "big" they may be (looking at you, EA and Activision). This has been proven time and time again.
The main issue in my humble point of view is that deal of exclusivity with Epic is doing absolutely no good for their PC games sales. As much as I like Epic, I haven't bought a single game in their store, I don't intend too, have double dipped and got also on Steam more than a few games they given for free to further support the developers, and I always wait for their exclusive games to pop on Steam, examples: Satisfactory, Breakpoint, Witchfire, Mechwarrior 5, and so on.
afaik epic doesn't want to do exclusives anymore, at least I think I remember reading not too long ago that the exclusives didn't work out and only did cost them money, whereas the free games actually made them overall gains
at this point Ubisoft going bankrupt would be the best thing that could happen to gaming. That would send a clear message that no one is "too big to fail" when using the shitty tactics that Ubisoft is known for
@ZahratKabira i am not hoping for garbage. I was inferring that you are basically asking for garbage from ubi, if you couldn't understand that. I don't want the crappy management and CEO to succeed because their crappy decisions are destroying the company. Hope you understood this clearly
Crazy how they knew they were releasing obviously broken games but didn’t care until the crash. Now all of a sudden they care about quality control they knew assassin creed was fucked and we’re still willing to drop it as is.
I don't really have a problem with open world games at all, it's just that basically all of their games have looked the same since like Far Cry 3/AC 4. Hell I'd take a Ubisoft game with the classic Ubi formula if it just played really good and didn't nickle and dime me but at best they've looked meh for a long time.
"Hell I'd take a Ubisoft game with the classic Ubi formula" Did you play Mirage? Fact is people don't actually want the classic Ubi formula. They want something new that isn't a glorified mobile title.
@@Athasin The original Ubisoft Formula is them caring about their games. Which they haven't that much since 2006 - since then it's just bugged releases, copying and an occasional release that's worth the price they ask for.
@@Unknown_Genius The original Ubisoft formula was engaging stories: Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Far Cry, The Division all have a common thread...then Rainbow Six Siege happened, they got all that live service money just making skins, and they got lazy in the creativity department.
@@Athasin Watch Dogs & Division had been one of the few that were worth it. Far Cry was a maybe on sale thing while Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon (in between 2006-2014) had solely been a CoD style game with a mediocre story and honestly rather poor gameplay (especially RS, the Vegas ones always felt like they were made by a small company with barely any budget). Assassins Creed is a "eh" kind of thing honestly, some like it, some don't. The Ubisoft that actually did care has simply died in 2006. All their bs (copying, releasing unfinished products, general anti-consumerism) was born around that time, same as the fact that they were among the first to perfectionize revocable licensing and still sell it on mass to people starting in 2009 next to EA. But that's for every big company - just think about Activision, I hardly think most people playing games nowadays even remember them being formed as the first indie company due to the former big ones paying poorly and treating their workforce like trash. Loads of people however remember the "golden era of CoD games" as an era where Activision already didn't give a damn and only wanted cash (the original MW2 being one of the prime examples of corporate greed as a forced sequel with no proper pay, yet one of the most sold games fondly remembered by many which also is one of the main examples that paved the way to how the industry is treating games nowadays). If you see a pattern between timings there, you may start to realize that the former small ones which had been worthwhile have turned to soulless machines over a decade ago already. We don't even need to actually bring EA in here tho, because we both know that people had been so focused on EA being a bad company around that time that they fully ignored all the bs the others did.
I don't think DEI stuff like that is about "ideology", I think it's more a misguided attempt to make money, like everything Ubisoft has been doing the last decade.
With ubisoft mabe with the numerous other studios were the devs are/ were constantly spouting ideology talking points( cough cough concord). like their part of the church of scientology its definitely not just a misguided attempt to get new money. But at the same time they should have been able to see well dei has been doing with every flop in games and film. and they didn't cancel or change their projects that seem based around it, I'd say its past just being misguided
>be comfortable with not owning games >Pay subscriptions that we can alter anytime we want >If you don't like it, don't buy it >Have a strong female character mushed in every new title > :O Our company is going bankrupt! What happened?
Theyre spending too much time in these Mtx cash grab games. They have lot of ips they dont do sht with like splinter cell, watchdogs, far cry etc. Instead they make either some garbage games or micro transaction baits.
Anyone else get the Ubisoft survey email this morning asking what you want out of an open world shooter? It came across as “we’re out of touch and out of ideas, please tell us what you want.”
Of course they’re dying, they’ve been making shit games for the last, arguably, almost decade and doing everything anti consumer possible. It’s like they literally go “hey community, what do you guys want to see? Oh cool, ok team let’s do the opposite”
What has Ubisoft done to avoid this? When you work in entertainment, you need to make what people find entertaining. Ubi doesn't do that and a lot of studios don't do that. Expect to see more of this across the entire American/Western entertainment industry, not just gaming. This has been years of these big companies gradually losing the market, but now the pace has picked up because everyone is sick to death of it. The ideas and activism they force down our throats has been a disaster in real life, no one wants to hear or see it anymore. It's become poison.
What's absolutely crazy is that the board doesn't even need to launch an investigation they can literally just asked their player base and then Force Ubisoft to do what they're being told to do by the player base. We clearly know what we want and they clearly don't.
I specifically remember watching some video on how europeans should be allowed to protect their cultural heritage and one of the point made in defense of that was that nobody in their right mind would go to Japan and say that their culture is not inclusive enough and has to be changed, yet here we are
The last Ubisoft product I purchased was Tom Clancy’s Division 2 on its release. Played it to death and binned it 2 months ago. I have no intention of returning to the game or buying any Ubisoft games in the future.
Ubisofts audience are people who played R6/GR in the 90s and Farcry/Splinter Cell/Assassins Creed in the 00s. These are the people they should be making games for.
After years of not buying any Ubisoft games I decided to give them a chance and bought The Crew 2 which was on a massive sale on Steam...Played it for one hour and it immediately reminded me why I don't play Ubisoft games anymore... I refunded the game not because I wanted my money back, it was like a dollar lol but because I didn't wanted them to add another sale in their statistics, this company needs to go down and serve as an example to the whole gaming industry...EA and Ubisoft create the most soulless videogames out there...EA still lucky cause they can milk Fifa and idiots spent tons of money on microtransactions so is gotta be Ubisoft
I was a huge Ubisoft fan, and now all I'm excited for involving Ubisoft is for them to close up shop. The people in Ubisoft today aren't the same people who made those amazing games back in the early 2000s.
I remember when Ubisoft was the developer I was most excited about. Back in the days of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.
YES! We won a battle!!!!! No more pre-order "early access" bull-crap, a better friendly incentive to "pre-order" -> Free first Expansion! Now that's consumer friendly practice! Multi-platform availability! No rushed launch! Finally! As I said, I loved SW Outlaws, but Ubisoft really disserved a slap regardless!
If Ubisoft wants a comeback that also hits their desire for a diverse audience, they should reboot Brothers in Arms and center it around The 92nd Infantry Regiment a.k.a. Buffalo Soldiers in the Italian campaign. And then…make the game not suck.
When Ubisoft dies i wonder what will happen to the games we "own" will they just become unplayable if they have an online component and we can even download after they are gone? Ubisoft death could give us an clear view of what would happen scenario if we lost steam. I have been burned by Ubisoft for too long they just make slop they should definitely be gone from the industry at this point with a couple of IPs being sold to other companies interested in being innovative, also they being a French Woke company is even more incentive for me to see them gone. Wokeness and DEI needs to be removed entirely from the industry.
Humm , I agree with the first part but them being a ''french woke company's ? Is the problem that they are french ? Or woke ? Cause I can say a woke company I get the problem with that but a problem with them being french ?
@@Thefool201 Are they not a French Woke Company? There is nothing wrong with her sentence and everyone knows where the problem is with Ubisoft so what are you even trying to argue? Your question has the exact same logic as those people who pushes DEI agenda, asking the wrong questions and creating problems that doesn't exist
I'm not surprised about the outcome with Ubisoft. I stopped caring about Ubisoft after Far Cry 6 and dropped them after they told us to get comfortable not owning games. I hope this is a wakeup call for other AAA devs and publishers
Did you see the shrine toy, I was WTF, this is one of the most disrespectful things I have ever come across linked to a video game and I have been around since the days of Pong. The horrors of Nagasaki are nothing to be celebrated it is one of the worst moments in human history! It is disrespectful to the people who lost their lives and the people who thought this was a good idea should be ashamed!
I mean... kind of. Yes, but I also can't deny the fact that BF1 had an outro that was supposedly paying respect to all soldiers was turning into extremely disrespectful as well when they started to advertize the player numbers as "more than double the number than the amount of soldiers the british and the ottoman deployed in the war" and made funny meant tweets about people being burned alive by flamethrowers. If anything companies are just out of touch in general, thinking they're funny not even noticing what they do.
pretty unfortunate considering Ubisoft made some, if not all, of my favorite titles back in the day.. the original Far Cry titles, Rainbow Six Vegas, Division 1, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon (before WIldlands).. man they have fallen so far
I on the other hand am celebrating their downfall. I got falsely banned in Siege and their ABYSMAL support system told me to go pound sand despite having proof I did not violate TOS. Just got banned with no chance to defend myself since I’m not a streamer or content creator with a following that’d harass them online 🤷♀️
There's a company trying to burn the games industry to the ground. This won't happen. We will lose some game studios but will be left with good game studios. ❤
Issue is as well now. The Current Tom Clancy can (and probably will) Revoke his name, characters, and likeness from Ubisoft with this company's failures rn.
hmm, they delayed it to feburary, also known as black history month in the US, also they will be competing with kingdom come deliverance 2, monster hunter wilds, avowed, and the new civ game all coming the same month....i expect there will be a 2nd delay
That brings back memories... "The gift for PC gamers as they only pirate either way and dont give us any money" *fully ignores that almost 50% of the income of their games came from PC back then*
It became completely clear to me recently when I really struggled with enjoying Ghost of Tsushima as much as I wanted to and then deleted it to make room for God of War Ragnarök that I am done with open world games. Tsushima was really good and I probably will finish it at some point but I had the game for longer than I've had Ragnarök and even though I don't even know which I've spent most playtime in I feel like I've experienced and progressed probably 3x-5x more in Ragnarök than I had in Tsushima. As far as it goes with Ubisoft open world games I've not finished any of their games since Far Cry 5. Its time the rest of the companies learn from this and I do hope Ubisoft becomes a memory of the past to make a real fukking example of what's to expect if the rest continues the BS
It's crazy how they are just oblivious on what they can do to fix this. Yet, they just keep going forward with the same old ..... and they wonder why they are failing. They are too concerned on what journos think and not people who actually play their games. All they need to do is release The Division 3, Ghost Recon: Exiles, Splinter Cell Remake and make them have a more darker, grittier tone to them. Also, what happened to Beyond Good and Evil 2?
Reviving Splinter Cell the right way is probably their last chance to turn this shit around. I suspect that’s why they haven’t shown us anything about SC remake yet. As shit started to hit the fan they’re probably reworking some concepts of the remake to make it as good as possible. It’s literally their last shot.
It's a company that obviously didn't care about its customers apart from their money. The sheer disrespect and complacency of over the years, from greedy practices to the lack of care when handling historical subject matters, to racism/sexism practices by favoring one particular group of people over the others. Even their announcement is just full of fluff bs without substance. Good riddance.
This was always the path. I am not happy, nor am I celebrating their downfall. I just wish they would have got their shit together earlier on so we didn't get here. What do you think?
I’m celebrating because it’s the only way for real change and the board of directors is investigating them thank god.
Stop being Canadian about it.
( come on you know what I mean )
Who knows maybe they'll turn on their backup generator and get their shit together
I'm celebrating because they failed trying to manipulate costumers and using those scammy publicity tactics we all know (abusive microtransactions, re skinned games, fake trailers, etc.) not becaused they failed trying to make good games, in that case I would've hoped the opposite.
I think it sets a good precedent for other publishers trying to do the same things. Things you expose right here in your channel, and things that other companies take in account when trying to make the most money while putting in the less effort on their product as they can.
We want good games! and this kind of publishers are responsible for the state gaming is in right now, where only a handful of the houndreds of aaa games that come out every year are released in a decent state and don't see their clients as moneybags willing to spend on anything they put out
I am does that make me a bad person IDC to be honest they got what they wanted/deserved
They should first and foremost cut ties with Sweat Baby and other Woke BS
"Players should be comfortable not owning games" Ubisoft should be comfortable not selling games. Seems fair.
I can't even remember the last time I bought an Ubisoft game. Seems like that won't change in the near future
Maybe try to read the article first cause they never said that word.
@@ZahratKabira uh oh, someone bought outlaws.
Their terms were acceptable.
@@ethanesslinger9805 No, someone can simply read. Go back to the gameindustry article and you'll find out. They said that in the past decades we have seen how consumers don't have an d want anymore physical material for things like music (Spotify) and movie (streaming) and that videogames (by being digital) also obtained in the recent years a lot of innovation... STOP. The whole prase was an assumption made by the journalist. Where's the phisical copy of Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Wukong and Space Marine 2? Still every Ubisoft game has aphysical copy. Nice try lil bro
In the end, it was Ubisoft that had to get comfortable with not owning our money.
Well said 😊
You'd think they would have heard of and learnt about the error that Kelly Sue DeConnick made, but I guess not 😁
Had to get *comfortable
For once gamers were able to put aside their addictions to better the gaming industry. Usually they just pay for it anyway then complain again.
Like the people who bought The Day Before even though every video pointed toward it being a scam and totally unfinished. They bought it then complained.
...identify as a women or non binary individual ?!
Ubisoft; how about using talented people for a change?
this is what happens when you forget who pays your bills XD
and consistently shits all over us
yup. and they said it themselves. bunch of whinners
Worst thing is that they already could have learned their lesson with Ghost recon breakpoint. After they listened to the fans and removed live service stuff people started buying the game. Just listen to your fucking audience. Jesus.
@@jakeypants_YT Like the people in these comments?
@@rabidkangar00 you love eating slop, dont you?
Launchs on Steam, still requires their fucking app, whats the point??!
I haven’t buy an Ubisoft game in years. I’m proud of this
bought*
bought a ubisoft game*. Also, there's supposed to be a period at the end of both sentences.
My yeti mic I got 2 years ago came with a coupon for a free ubisoft game and I couldn't even be bothered to use it.
I'm almost there. One game for 3 years
Stop giving money to people who hate you.
This cannot be stated loudly enough.
So stop paying taxes lol
But they won't because they're fucking addicted. They NEED their yearly fix of AC or Far Cry. They'll cave and buy those creatively devoid games because Ubisoft games are made for people who have no standards. Target markets.
@@Leo.de99 ???
@@Leo.de99 Sadly those people rob you at gunpoint and kidnap you if you refuse.
If the next Battlefield fails, DICE will be joining Ubisoft in this sharp and well deserved decline.
And if Elder Scrolls 6 fails Bethesda too will join them. 😂
EA*
@@kiddeath8883 EA has other successful IP’s other than Battlefield (FIFA, Madden, Star Wars Jedi, Sims, Apex Legends, etc), so it wouldn’t be all of EA.
@@spud7402 none of those IP's are successful other than maybe Apex, EA Sports as a whole is a failure to it's community, SWJ was decent but a standalone single player game doesn't make enough money.. and Sims? lol that's one of the biggest cash riddled dlc infested waste bins EA ever published..
It’s EA, it’s not DICE
*Its no surprise.Their continued greed and scumbaggery has resulted in this.*
*Ubisoft should get used to the decline and mediocrity, of their own doing!!*
Exactly. They did this to themselves, the quality of games we got on the PS2 and Xbox 360 era, that Ubisoft is long gone
They had good developers and programmers back then. The quality has gone down because all of their great talent had left the company. Just like Rockstar games
@@JeruTheDamaja3 old rockstar 😔
Back when they used to release 5 GTA games for one generation. Now they release 1 GTA game for 3 generations
@Kiryu_Kazuma01 Yeah. Now the new Rockstar sucks. All the older great talent left the company. GTA6 is the first game that is being developed without the original team members. Which is cause for concern.
@@JeruTheDamaja3pretty much every gaming studio these days are run by a bunch of liberal women. I’m not surprised I’m falling out of the hobby lmaooo
>delayed assassin creed shadows until Black History month
lol
Old Ubisoft>>> new Ubisoft
Their games gave me so many good memories (prince of Persia, Rayman , watch dogs, assassin, Splinter Cell, the division, far cry), what a shame they became what they are now ...
They already became what they're now before watch dogs launched.
They just managed to still bring something out every now and then that's worth getting while not being on sale back then.
When watch dogs came out they already had everything revocably licensed, copied games instead of putting their own DNA into it, rushed releases.
The Old Ubisoft died in 2006, let's see if they go under entirely or actually go back to their roots and actually take care of the games they make (by that I mean all games they make, not like 1 or 2 that are worth it every now and then).
Now they make assassin creed games only , I love splinter cell POP and watch Dogs..
I think they have to stop making Assassin creed games for now and focus on their older titles with better quality
A based in reality R6 Siege without characters, make believe equipment, and straight up gamey mechanics.
Faction based maps with true to life equipment and weapons available specific to those maps.
Could have law enforcement VS suspects on one map.
A military faction VS terrorist on another.
The alpha of Siege was awesome before all the character crap was added to it.
Basically, a big budget version of Ready or Not? Nah, that would actually sell.
Bro the game that they had planned before siege was supposed to be next level. They scratched Patriots for that piece of garbage. I swear that's when they went full woke.
I wouldn't say Ubisoft is dying because honestly at this point it's just a rotting corpse infested with maggots 😂
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "zombie company".
I just hope that Ubisoft doing a Titanic has a positive effect on the rest of the industry.
Same I hope so too. Companies like EA and Activision should see this and realize their moronic moves. But they won’t.
To be honest, I think it will have a negative effect if anything because if Ubisoft doesn't make games anymore, there is less competition so you find even less alternatives to the garbage that is being put out there right now.
Deserved. They never give their player base what is asked for and ruin their own games through incompetence.
1) Skull and Bones: Give audience AC Black Flag pirate experience like they asked for
2) Star Wars Outlaws: Don't fuck up female lead for sake of DEI and make sure game was actually good
3) AC Shadows: Make Japan historically accurate, provide badass ninja main character, ditch DEI Yasuke
4) Give players new Splinter Cell / Remake
5) Profit
All they had to do, and they fucked every bit of it up
New Splinter Cell: in development.
Good games? Prince of Persia The Lost Crown.
Skull and Bones: supposed to be like that from 2015 beta
@@ZahratKabira Splinter Cell will be affected by ESG, no doubt. Prince of Persia Lost Crown was nothing. And Skull and Bones without the Black FLag gameplay was always going to fail. All they had to do was take AC Rogue and expand on it.
@ZahratKabira Lost Crown was nothing no one wanted that game.
* Fix anti-cheat in Rainbow Six Siege
outlaws failed bc of dei? no it failed bc it’s only on the ubisoft launcher and the gameplay is ass. stop making up non existent issues
I've said this once and I'll say it again, Ubisoft will more than likely shut its doors in 2026 or 2027 if this next AC title flops.
Fuckin sad
They won't close if they get to the level of becoming insolvent they'll sell for pennies on the dollar.
Sad but deserved
Sad? They deserve all of the crap they’re getting. You can’t have an organization like that and expect to continue to make money on mediocre to terrible games every launch.
Then on top of that, tell us we can’t own our games
@@Kiryu_Kazuma01 you damn right it's sad because it affects the industry. It makes this space less valuable to investors and it fucks the small guys over. So yeah, it is sad.
@@RedBeardMortis I disagree, other companies seeing this, might put things in the right direction. People are getting sick of the god awful games, broken, filled with MTX, terrible quality, and putting an agenda first. The investors are the reason they’re failing, they’re focusing on their investors, not the FANS.
People are sick of this crap, AA and Indie devs will be just fine. And they will keep the industry going and growing. Ubisoft, EA, and Activision are all terrible. They’re focused on greed. This isn’t sad, this is a sign that gamers are starting to avoid this crap we have been seeing for a decade
Ubisoft should get used to not owning their company.
Ubisoft fell off after dragging their feet about the Splinter Cell remake... SMH at how they've pretty much shit on the Tom Clancy brand
I think they fell off waaaay before the SC Remake thing
I hope ubiwoke goes completely broke and shuts down, it would be a huge W for gamers
They had it so, so easy with AC Shadows....
Even if it was released totally broken, people would still buy it or at least wait for it to be fixed but keeping some hype. But they had to do it, they had to take the only relevant black character in Japanese history, twist his story beyond the limit, and make him the only real historic protagonist of the saga. And that's just for starters.
It's literally the definition of Go Woke, Go Broke.
I think the best thing that could come out of this would be for Ubisoft to start selling off individual IPs. I would love for any of the Tom Clancy games to go to a studio who actually wants to make one of those games.
Exactly what I have been thinking
Massive needs to get free of UBI and go elsewhere.
Get woke go broke is really starting to show it’s teeth and I’m glad
Imagine posting an office job and saying you must be a man to apply. Everyone would lose their damn minds
Ghost Recon Wildlands was the last game by Ubisoft I actually enjoyed. Breakpoint signaled the end for me. AC Valhalla couldn't hold my attention for more than an hour, despite the fact I love almost anything involving Vikings. Tom Clancy XDefiant was proof of their completely tone deaf strategy and their complete disconnect with what gamers actually wanted. They are reaping the consequences of too many missteps.
Funnily enough Breakpoint isn't even that bad (for sale price obviously), it got some improvements over wildlands - generally both are overall the same tho, you can just see (and sometimes feel) that the devs held back either because they had to rush or because they wanted to play it overly safe - both of them had been essentially the best shape ghost recon ever has been in, yet they're at the same time so shallow and one can't help but think what could've been without being that overly cautious and enough time.
If Valhalla couldnt hold your attention with all the stuff to do in that game thats a you problem
Me and my buddy just were talking about how much we would pay to go back to the good days of playing assassins creed 3 multiplayer and blacklist spies v mercs. Ubisoft used to be such a up-tier developer. Shame.
0:52 SPACEBALLS; the parody that's better than modern star wars 😂
Pretty much. Everyone says “Rogue One” is SSSOOO GOOD…
@@deralbtraumritter8573it was though, andor sucked ass it was bringing though
It's all Moichandise
Go woke, go broke. GReed and ignorance against their fans...who pay for their existence. Color me surprised.
Their games aren’t bad because of woke shit, their games are bad because they have no content and are lazily made
And, so?
They keep making garbage games, all their games are the same with “go here to unlock more of the map”, with 8,000 different useless collectables, turning what could have been a 5v5 R6 like Counter Strike and turned it into a crazy/cheesy hero shooter. Oh, and let’s not forget the complete avoidance of anything Splinter Cell all these years. Not to mention the live service games with never ending time savers, and awful microtransactions.
The days of Ubisoft of making great games, seem to be over. A lot of these companies like Ubisoft believe they can deliver the same garbage games they have been giving us, and expect to be fine.
Not to mention that they made it not safe for women to hold any position of power due to the men not being able to keep their hands to themselves..
I will throw a party and everyone is invited if this company goes under!!! I HATE UPLAY!!!!!!!!!
You better fucking deliver
your comment is noted. See you after the funeral 🥂🍾
Will be there!!!
Should I bring something to drink?
Why does pure incompetence at the management never meet any consequences? Ubisoft has been nothing short of embarrassing.
They made a special team to know why they're dying? 😂 So they're still not taking accountability for the DEI sheet they've been pushing...
It's a French company that has major subsidiaries in Canada. It's in their blood to be a hardline liberal, basically impossible to remove any DEI influence in their company.
That DEI sheet is probably very illegal in France (as it discriminates one gender). I'm surprised it's not in Canada.
That being said, if there is one thing that Dev studios do not lack is male devs. Hard to build a diverse workforce when 70+% of your devs are dudes ><
The outrage about this is just pathetic
Bro it’s not DEI ruining these games, they just don’t have content. Idk why y’all always turn it into a culture war or veiled bigotry
@@helpumuch6887 blame the americans for starting the culture war
@@robertraymond348 trust me, I very much do. Our ignorance has made the world pay a hefty price and we are terrified our neighbors can be so blindly bigoted towards people expressing themselves as they have the freedom to do
crazy how Yasuke was used as an object in actual history and Ubisoft is doing the exact same thing
seems kinda racist to me
the ppl not talking about the obvious nowadays....
Good point
How can big companies be so out of touch with their own industy they built up in the first place?
If Ubisoft goes under, I hope this sends a message to all of these other arrogant DEI companies that think they can just do whatever they want to push an agenda without repercussions.
No company is ever safe from going broke, no matter how "big" they may be (looking at you, EA and Activision). This has been proven time and time again.
im at the point where i actively avoid products with ubisofts stamp on it
finally! After so many years, UBI soft collapse is no longer a catchword!
Prayed for times like this
The main issue in my humble point of view is that deal of exclusivity with Epic is doing absolutely no good for their PC games sales. As much as I like Epic, I haven't bought a single game in their store, I don't intend too, have double dipped and got also on Steam more than a few games they given for free to further support the developers, and I always wait for their exclusive games to pop on Steam, examples: Satisfactory, Breakpoint, Witchfire, Mechwarrior 5, and so on.
afaik epic doesn't want to do exclusives anymore, at least I think I remember reading not too long ago that the exclusives didn't work out and only did cost them money, whereas the free games actually made them overall gains
at this point Ubisoft going bankrupt would be the best thing that could happen to gaming. That would send a clear message that no one is "too big to fail" when using the shitty tactics that Ubisoft is known for
The fact that they are trying to put a season pass on a single player experience is absolutely disgusting 😂😂
It’s insane to me how Ubisoft is so incompetent that not only the players are pissed off. Even the shareholders aren’t happy.
Ubi has been slowly burning bridges and letting more and more fans down over the past 10+ years. This outcome was inevitable.
This hurts as a long time ac fan I hated this ceo we diserve better as fans 😢
I just want someone to buy them so maybe we get a splinter cell return 😂
It is 8n development but I hope they fail so that all those whining on them will never get it again lmao
@@ZahratKabira tough guy over here! A splinter cell remake would actually be great but not at the hands of ubisoft. Hope for more ubi garbage I guess
@@Exotic-_ Why hoping for garbage. You see, you don't even want this company to succed and redeem itself
I already know the remake won’t be it because current Ubisoft is making it 😂 I don’t even consider it real lol
@ZahratKabira i am not hoping for garbage. I was inferring that you are basically asking for garbage from ubi, if you couldn't understand that. I don't want the crappy management and CEO to succeed because their crappy decisions are destroying the company. Hope you understood this clearly
Don't listen to your players what ya think is going to happen.... such a shame, no more splinter cell, ghost recon, etc.
Crazy how they knew they were releasing obviously broken games but didn’t care until the crash. Now all of a sudden they care about quality control they knew assassin creed was fucked and we’re still willing to drop it as is.
I don't really have a problem with open world games at all, it's just that basically all of their games have looked the same since like Far Cry 3/AC 4. Hell I'd take a Ubisoft game with the classic Ubi formula if it just played really good and didn't nickle and dime me but at best they've looked meh for a long time.
"Hell I'd take a Ubisoft game with the classic Ubi formula"
Did you play Mirage? Fact is people don't actually want the classic Ubi formula. They want something new that isn't a glorified mobile title.
Hey, at least far cry 3 and far cry 4 did not have level gated locations like New Dawn did
@@Athasin The original Ubisoft Formula is them caring about their games.
Which they haven't that much since 2006 - since then it's just bugged releases, copying and an occasional release that's worth the price they ask for.
@@Unknown_Genius The original Ubisoft formula was engaging stories: Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Far Cry, The Division all have a common thread...then Rainbow Six Siege happened, they got all that live service money just making skins, and they got lazy in the creativity department.
@@Athasin Watch Dogs & Division had been one of the few that were worth it.
Far Cry was a maybe on sale thing while Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon (in between 2006-2014) had solely been a CoD style game with a mediocre story and honestly rather poor gameplay (especially RS, the Vegas ones always felt like they were made by a small company with barely any budget).
Assassins Creed is a "eh" kind of thing honestly, some like it, some don't.
The Ubisoft that actually did care has simply died in 2006. All their bs (copying, releasing unfinished products, general anti-consumerism) was born around that time, same as the fact that they were among the first to perfectionize revocable licensing and still sell it on mass to people starting in 2009 next to EA.
But that's for every big company - just think about Activision, I hardly think most people playing games nowadays even remember them being formed as the first indie company due to the former big ones paying poorly and treating their workforce like trash. Loads of people however remember the "golden era of CoD games" as an era where Activision already didn't give a damn and only wanted cash (the original MW2 being one of the prime examples of corporate greed as a forced sequel with no proper pay, yet one of the most sold games fondly remembered by many which also is one of the main examples that paved the way to how the industry is treating games nowadays).
If you see a pattern between timings there, you may start to realize that the former small ones which had been worthwhile have turned to soulless machines over a decade ago already.
We don't even need to actually bring EA in here tho, because we both know that people had been so focused on EA being a bad company around that time that they fully ignored all the bs the others did.
I don't think DEI stuff like that is about "ideology", I think it's more a misguided attempt to make money, like everything Ubisoft has been doing the last decade.
With ubisoft mabe with the numerous other studios were the devs are/ were constantly spouting ideology talking points( cough cough concord). like their part of the church of scientology its definitely not just a misguided attempt to get new money.
But at the same time they should have been able to see well dei has been doing with every flop in games and film. and they didn't cancel or change their projects that seem based around it, I'd say its past just being misguided
>be comfortable with not owning games
>Pay subscriptions that we can alter anytime we want
>If you don't like it, don't buy it
>Have a strong female character mushed in every new title
> :O Our company is going bankrupt! What happened?
05:40 It TOTALLY looks like his left arm is severed from the shoulder and just dangling from the rifle it's hand is holding. LOL, looks so strange!
Theyre spending too much time in these Mtx cash grab games. They have lot of ips they dont do sht with like splinter cell, watchdogs, far cry etc. Instead they make either some garbage games or micro transaction baits.
When playing it safe becomes the most dangerous strategy.
I still remember when the worst Ubisoft take was defending 30fps over 60.
Anyone else get the Ubisoft survey email this morning asking what you want out of an open world shooter? It came across as “we’re out of touch and out of ideas, please tell us what you want.”
Of course they’re dying, they’ve been making shit games for the last, arguably, almost decade and doing everything anti consumer possible. It’s like they literally go “hey community, what do you guys want to see? Oh cool, ok team let’s do the opposite”
What has Ubisoft done to avoid this? When you work in entertainment, you need to make what people find entertaining. Ubi doesn't do that and a lot of studios don't do that. Expect to see more of this across the entire American/Western entertainment industry, not just gaming. This has been years of these big companies gradually losing the market, but now the pace has picked up because everyone is sick to death of it. The ideas and activism they force down our throats has been a disaster in real life, no one wants to hear or see it anymore. It's become poison.
"Oh, you hate **product** and it's ruining the image of our company? Allow us to sell you more **product** surely it will improve your view of us"
What's absolutely crazy is that the board doesn't even need to launch an investigation they can literally just asked their player base and then Force Ubisoft to do what they're being told to do by the player base. We clearly know what we want and they clearly don't.
7:37 if you go to their website its the first thing you see. Their focus is 100% on diversity, inclusivity and accessibility as per their website.
I specifically remember watching some video on how europeans should be allowed to protect their cultural heritage and one of the point made in defense of that was that nobody in their right mind would go to Japan and say that their culture is not inclusive enough and has to be changed, yet here we are
The last Ubisoft product I purchased was Tom Clancy’s Division 2 on its release. Played it to death and binned it 2 months ago.
I have no intention of returning to the game or buying any Ubisoft games in the future.
Ubisofts audience are people who played R6/GR in the 90s and Farcry/Splinter Cell/Assassins Creed in the 00s. These are the people they should be making games for.
After years of not buying any Ubisoft games I decided to give them a chance and bought The Crew 2 which was on a massive sale on Steam...Played it for one hour and it immediately reminded me why I don't play Ubisoft games anymore... I refunded the game not because I wanted my money back, it was like a dollar lol but because I didn't wanted them to add another sale in their statistics, this company needs to go down and serve as an example to the whole gaming industry...EA and Ubisoft create the most soulless videogames out there...EA still lucky cause they can milk Fifa and idiots spent tons of money on microtransactions so is gotta be Ubisoft
Spock: "They are dying."
Kirk: "Let them die."
And not to mention the closure of few Games like Far Cry 3, The Crew, instead of letting for the players to Enjoy, you close that game...
I was a huge Ubisoft fan, and now all I'm excited for involving Ubisoft is for them to close up shop. The people in Ubisoft today aren't the same people who made those amazing games back in the early 2000s.
I remember when Ubisoft was the developer I was most excited about. Back in the days of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory.
Ubisoft went woke and gone broke
Damn Ubisoft fanboys going to fry your ass for this video , you get it "FRY"😂😂🤣
yea... the 10 people who are actual Ubisoft fans lol
YES! We won a battle!!!!!
No more pre-order "early access" bull-crap, a better friendly incentive to "pre-order" -> Free first Expansion! Now that's consumer friendly practice!
Multi-platform availability!
No rushed launch!
Finally! As I said, I loved SW Outlaws, but Ubisoft really disserved a slap regardless!
If Ubisoft wants a comeback that also hits their desire for a diverse audience, they should reboot Brothers in Arms and center it around The 92nd Infantry Regiment a.k.a. Buffalo Soldiers in the Italian campaign. And then…make the game not suck.
850 million for skull and bones is definitely money laundering
Agreed in FULL Ubisoft has been been trying so hard to fit it when it truly shines when they stand out.
What's the game in the second half of the video? Looks like a OG Delta Force inspired indie?
Dagger Directive. It's not out yet but it's cool
@@BigfryTV Thank you!
@@BigfryTVthanks was wondering same thing. Reminds me of OG ghost recon.
I will definitely buy it😮
ubisoft is simply reaping what it sowed.
"Ubisoft launches investigation into company struggles..."
These people are so disconnected.
They released Skull & Bones when we wanted Black Flag Pirate Ship Combat as a full game..
sees title...
"meh, let em"
companies rise and fall. lets see who steps up to the plate.
When Ubisoft dies i wonder what will happen to the games we "own" will they just become unplayable if they have an online component and we can even download after they are gone? Ubisoft death could give us an clear view of what would happen scenario if we lost steam. I have been burned by Ubisoft for too long they just make slop they should definitely be gone from the industry at this point with a couple of IPs being sold to other companies interested in being innovative, also they being a French Woke company is even more incentive for me to see them gone. Wokeness and DEI needs to be removed entirely from the industry.
Humm , I agree with the first part but them being a ''french woke company's ? Is the problem that they are french ? Or woke ? Cause I can say a woke company I get the problem with that but a problem with them being french ?
@@Thefool201 Are they not a French Woke Company? There is nothing wrong with her sentence and everyone knows where the problem is with Ubisoft so what are you even trying to argue? Your question has the exact same logic as those people who pushes DEI agenda, asking the wrong questions and creating problems that doesn't exist
I'm not surprised about the outcome with Ubisoft. I stopped caring about Ubisoft after Far Cry 6 and dropped them after they told us to get comfortable not owning games. I hope this is a wakeup call for other AAA devs and publishers
Did you see the shrine toy, I was WTF, this is one of the most disrespectful things I have ever come across linked to a video game and I have been around since
the days of Pong. The horrors of Nagasaki are nothing to be celebrated it is one of the worst moments in human history! It is disrespectful to the people who lost
their lives and the people who thought this was a good idea should be ashamed!
I mean... kind of.
Yes, but I also can't deny the fact that BF1 had an outro that was supposedly paying respect to all soldiers was turning into extremely disrespectful as well when they started to advertize the player numbers as "more than double the number than the amount of soldiers the british and the ottoman deployed in the war" and made funny meant tweets about people being burned alive by flamethrowers.
If anything companies are just out of touch in general, thinking they're funny not even noticing what they do.
pretty unfortunate considering Ubisoft made some, if not all, of my favorite titles back in the day.. the original Far Cry titles, Rainbow Six Vegas, Division 1, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon (before WIldlands).. man they have fallen so far
I on the other hand am celebrating their downfall. I got falsely banned in Siege and their ABYSMAL support system told me to go pound sand despite having proof I did not violate TOS. Just got banned with no chance to defend myself since I’m not a streamer or content creator with a following that’d harass them online 🤷♀️
There's a company trying to burn the games industry to the ground. This won't happen. We will lose some game studios but will be left with good game studios. ❤
Issue is as well now. The Current Tom Clancy can (and probably will) Revoke his name, characters, and likeness from Ubisoft with this company's failures rn.
hmm, they delayed it to feburary, also known as black history month in the US, also they will be competing with kingdom come deliverance 2, monster hunter wilds, avowed, and the new civ game all coming the same month....i expect there will be a 2nd delay
Ubisoft needs to get more comfortable losing money.
Ubisoft was the first game developer that i saw adding a store on a single player campaign.
Guess we all just got used to not owning their games lmao.
In my eyes Ubisoft has been dead for a long time now. Ever since they shut down Ghost Recon: Phantoms.
That brings back memories...
"The gift for PC gamers as they only pirate either way and dont give us any money" *fully ignores that almost 50% of the income of their games came from PC back then*
All I see is UA-cam algorithm trend chasers... 🌈
Ubisoft is more concerned with being gay than it is with making quality games
Ubisoft lived long enough to see itself become the villain
Ubisoft just needs to get used to not owning their licenses, at this rate they will all be sold to people who wont waste or destroy them.
bro what the heck is that ADS mechanic
Dog shit
I haven’t bought a new game in years, I always wait a few months for a sale because nothing is where it should be on release
It became completely clear to me recently when I really struggled with enjoying Ghost of Tsushima as much as I wanted to and then deleted it to make room for God of War Ragnarök that I am done with open world games. Tsushima was really good and I probably will finish it at some point but I had the game for longer than I've had Ragnarök and even though I don't even know which I've spent most playtime in I feel like I've experienced and progressed probably 3x-5x more in Ragnarök than I had in Tsushima. As far as it goes with Ubisoft open world games I've not finished any of their games since Far Cry 5. Its time the rest of the companies learn from this and I do hope Ubisoft becomes a memory of the past to make a real fukking example of what's to expect if the rest continues the BS
It's crazy how they are just oblivious on what they can do to fix this. Yet, they just keep going forward with the same old ..... and they wonder why they are failing. They are too concerned on what journos think and not people who actually play their games.
All they need to do is release The Division 3, Ghost Recon: Exiles, Splinter Cell Remake and make them have a more darker, grittier tone to them. Also, what happened to Beyond Good and Evil 2?
Reviving Splinter Cell the right way is probably their last chance to turn this shit around. I suspect that’s why they haven’t shown us anything about SC remake yet. As shit started to hit the fan they’re probably reworking some concepts of the remake to make it as good as possible. It’s literally their last shot.
It's a company that obviously didn't care about its customers apart from their money. The sheer disrespect and complacency of over the years, from greedy practices to the lack of care when handling historical subject matters, to racism/sexism practices by favoring one particular group of people over the others. Even their announcement is just full of fluff bs without substance. Good riddance.
Thank you for making a video about this! I agreed with everything you said in the video.