Ubisoft's recent software struggles and stock price hitting a 10 year low (Guillemot family and shareholders seeking sale to Tencent)
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They enjoy them. The only way anyone learns is if sales reflect it. A game might not be for you or me, but if the masses support, it is what it is.
In Ubi's case, they have titles that sell damn near 10 million each iteration....but you not meeting sales expectations? What in the living fukk? What are your sales expectations then?
That's the kind of shyt that has to go. Giving big budgets to games and/or changing what made a game popular from the jump (looking at you WB Games and what you did to the Arkham series) for a quick buck following trends is what kills developers.
Ezekiel 25:17
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They enjoy them. The only way anyone learns is if sales reflect it. A game might not be for you or me, but if the masses support, it is what it is.
In Ubi's case, they have titles that sell damn near 10 million each iteration....but you not meeting sales expectations? What in the living fukk? What are your sales expectations then?
That's the kind of shyt that has to go. Giving big budgets to games and/or changing what made a game popular from the jump (looking at you WB Games and what you did to the Arkham series) for a quick buck following trends is what kills developers.
You speaking facts, but fuk the masses.
I'm not a gate keeper, but sometimes the masses don't know what a good game really is or know when they're being conned. We can put a lot of blame on the suits and investors, but they will only do what makes profit. If the masses keep buying bad games, that's what will get put out. And they'll keep pushing the line as long as folks keep buying. Example would be NBA 2K and Star Wars Battlefront. NBA 2K is trash because dudes spend $400 on the game every year. Meanwhile EA tried that shyt with Battlefront and the fans didn't go for it.
These companies change up the entire formula of a game to cater to the masses and their dumb ideas instead of the OGs who supported the devs since day 1. The game eventually bleeds to death because the masses moved on and the OGs left when the formula changed.
Batsute
The Lion Choker
Aye am I looking the stock prices right?? shyt is $2/share
I seent that too but theres like 5 fukkin different Ubisofts on the OTC market. Which one is cause even yahoo finance is going with that one.
The problem isn't with that crowd. Think about your complaints and consider whether it is caused by people with limited time.
The only thing that flows from it is the difficulty which is easy to cater to without hurting the gameplay.
The real issue is greed. 5.5 million in sales doesn't seem bad but they're expecting to make a killing with just one title. In previous generations, you'd have 3 Star Wars Outlaws. The production cost on the sequals should in theory drop.
Board of Directors needs to investigate themselves
Everyone enjoyed a Far Cry or Ass Creed game at some point, until they drove them into the ground with boring, repetitive and buggy annual releases
Why are these games half price after a month? These games are still selling millions...What are the margins on that?
Everyone enjoyed a Far Cry or Ass Creed game at some point, until they drove them into the ground with boring, repetitive and buggy annual releases
Why are these games half price after a month? These games are still selling millions...What are the margins on that?
RennisDeynolds
I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!
McKinsey investigators: Fire 10% of the staff and take 3-5 mil in exec pay bonuses 
Ubisoft: by God, we've solved the problem now
Ubisoft: by God, we've solved the problem now
Arkham never had “deep” gameplay to begin with lol and city. Was a logical progression for the series. Rocksteady was always taking the series open world.
I was addressing two different issues. Open worlds and "fetch quests."
Yes, I'm glad they atleast tried to flesh out the gameplay in the newer ones.
But, I 100% AA, but, the rest were ridiculous with the little shyt you had to do to even get 50%..
Most of the board probably under investigation themselves cause they cant keep their hands off of female employees
The board is the reason for all that shyt. Now they’re wasting even more money on an investigation
While the end result of 2077 turned out to be amazing after several fukking years of revisions, can you imagine if it was a more concise 30-40 story drive. Game? Would most likely be in goat contention as its narrative bits are A1
Aye am I looking the stock prices right?? shyt is $2/share
The six-figures, six certs Coli brehs could own Ubisoft right now
Lets get an Arcadium portfolio going
