Ubisoft's recent software struggles and stock price hitting a 10 year low (Guillemot family and shareholders seeking sale to Tencent)

[Barney Rubble]

They need to focus on combat, it's always mid. When they show off a new Assassin's Creed we should be talking about how visceral, fast and fluid the combat is. How does an indie game like Sifu have better combat than any AAA Ubisoft game in history.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

Their name is literally "you be sawft"

Whatchu expect?

 

[KFBF]

Capitulating to racists is an automatic L.

 

[Phantum]

So all this time the board of directors thought they were putting out heat?

 

[TDT]

So all this time the board of directors thought they were putting out heat?

Havent heard anything concerning Far Cry 7 in a while ..

..and they claim Beyond Good & Evil 2 is"still in active development"

 

[Volt]

Can't give a game deep gameplay because the "I got 9 kids and work 15 hours a day" crowd wants game to be pick up and play.

Ironically, that's the kind of game these people play the least.

Nobody who works 8 hours a day + commuting and adult responsibilities actually finishes those 100+ hour games full of bullshyt and padding. This is why we got all this data on people not ever finishing games.

But then again, fukk all of them hoes that bytch when games like Resident Evil 2 Remake and Metroid Dread come out as short and sweet experiences designed around tight gameplay and replayability.

It'd be better for everyone involved to downscale, but people keep demanding unreasonable things...

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Looks like turbulent times ahead for Ubi

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/assassins-creed-maker-ubisoft-ubi-faces-questions-over-its-future.html

In the light of recent challenges, we acknowledge the need for greater efficiency while delighting players," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in the statement last week, adding that the company's executive committee is launching a review to further improve its execution.

Ubisoft shares have slumped to decade-lows against this backdrop of dismal investor expectations about its triple-A games pipeline and financial prospects.

Meanwhile, JPMorgan said in a note last week that they now expect lower unit sales of Ubisoft's triple-A game releases and see a slower cadence of releases moving forward. JPMorgan maintained its "neutral" rating on Ubisoft stock, but cut its price target to 11 euros from 21 euros.

Deutsche Bank, which downgrade the stock to "hold" from "buy," said that Ubisoft's guidance cut was "bigger than we expected" and that the postponement to Assassin's Creed Shadows "pushes a substantial amount of revenue" out into the next fiscal year.

Following the decision to delay its upcoming Assassin's Creed game, AJ Investments, an activist investor with a less than 1% stake in Ubisoft, said that it was working with other shareholders in the company to push the French firm to sell itself to private equity firms or to Chinese gaming giant Tencent.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Looks like turbulent times ahead for Ubi

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/assassins-creed-maker-ubisoft-ubi-faces-questions-over-its-future.html

They make the same fukn games year after year with tons of microtransactions. All use the same formula, you played one, you played them all. Then they tried to follow trends to get in on the GAAS model.

Fuk em.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

They make the same fukn games year after year with tons of microtransactions. All use the same formula, you played one, you played them all. Then they tried to follow trends to get in on the GAAS model.

Fuk em.

Thats the problem with playing it safe for too long…it’s safe until it isn’t.

i think think AC shadows and the ones in development will sell decently but the rest of their catalogue looks kinda dire and for a company their size not to have live service to lean on is a death sentence.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Thats the problem with playing it safe for too long…it’s safe until it isn’t.

i think think AC shadows and the ones in development will sell decently but the rest of their catalogue looks kinda dire and for a company their size not to have live service to lean on is a death sentence.

AC Shadows might do ok for the hardcore fans. You have to ask yourself how many will buy it after playing Ghost of Tsushima.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

AC Shadows might do ok for the hardcore fans. You have to ask yourself how many will buy it after playing Ghost of Tsushima.

I doubt the new Ghost will drop before it. I think people will still show up for AC in Japan, the games always sell well to the casual market, now add samurai and ninjas which is what they been asking for.

 

[daze23]

Thats the problem with playing it safe for too long…it’s safe until it isn’t.

i think think AC shadows and the ones in development will sell decently but the rest of their catalogue looks kinda dire and for a company their size not to have live service to lean on is a death sentence.

seems like Rainbow Six does decent numbers

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

seems like Rainbow Six does decent numbers

I stand corrected, Seige is still doing ok.

Xdefiant seems like it didn’t really hit.

 

[Chef]

It’s crazy how Far Cry 3 was one of their companies triumphs in that turned into a trend that would be part of their undoing.