Fewer of your games, maybe.
They should try making good games and putting them on Steam and GOG and not their shitty launcher.
It’s so satisfying watching one of the worst actors in the gaming industry eat shit and die. I hope Activision, EA, and the other purveyors of overpriced, malware-laden, microtransaction slopware can meet the same fate one day too.
Download our shitty launcher, make an account, connect to the internet, buy the ultimate gold deluxe premium spunky cock edition, give us kernel level access to your computer! Now you can play the 1000th game we’ve released this year, and it will be vapid shit like every other one.
Even if their games were better, I still wouldn’t buy them. They are corrupt and disgusting.
Valid :) I wouldn’t either.
That’s what years of screwing customers over does. Ubisoft is no longer a brand people associate with quality products.
This has been the case for as long as i can remember (since the early 2000s)
The reputation carried them for a while because they still sell older games, plus the occasional good new game.
Maybe you could try putting some more money into great writers and storytellers instead of GRAPHICS GRAPHICS GRAPHICS, but no.
And then the graphics are still shit anyway, except the game now performs at <30fps on the GPU that replaced one of your kidneys
“Graphics are good enough now that literally anything in your imagination can be brought to life”
“Ok, lets make everything look as close to reality as possible :D”That reminds me, I saw some Pac Man collection the other day, the old 2600/7800/arcade games, it was a few games and some history stuff, it was 17 GIGABYTES, FOR PACMAN.
I’m guessing all the old games were most likely less than 50mb, if you include everything up to SNES, guess if you make AI upscaled images you can bloat that space.
No, people are playing other games. Ones that aren’t half-assed, overpriced, and infected with DRM malware. This is a U problem, Ubisoft.
“Consumers are playing fewer games, playing them for longer, and as a result, outside of a few notable exceptions, many new games are struggling to stand out and achieve the sales they may once have had, whilst the market is more volatile and the potential for any specific title less predictable as a result,”
Really, this is about buying fewer Ubisoft games.
Edit: also someone is trying to get out ahead of the next quarterly report, especially since we’re in x-mas buying season right now.
Capital needs to pay people more if they want people to spend money. Sadly, food shelter and health come before video games.
I haven’t slowed down on gaming, I just don’t buy ubisoft bullshit
Ubisofts full releases this year:
- AC: Shadows
- Just Dance 2026
- Anno 117
So literally all sequels. They’re just hoping people will dish out their annual franchise spending.
But the bar is so high these days. Spending millions on graphics just isn’t sufficient.
Maybe if it got rid of insisting on logging on to a Ubisoft launcher, intrusive DRM, in-game stores, buggy releases, and formulaic map exploration it could do better. That won’t happen though because it’s a piece of shit corporation that won’t give up an ounce of control for the fiduciary sake of its stockholders. I hope it shutters soon so the gaming landscape can heal a little more.
Has Ubisoft published anything worth playing in the last decade?
Correction to title:
People are playing less slop games, and new slop releases are “struggling”, says slop-peddler Ubisoft UK, whilst peeing their pants
Games are just as popular as ever, if anything the market has widened significantly, people are just more savvy now too
No longer willing to slap down £50 on Day Zero for a game that they’ve not seen any reviews for and/or not seen any gameplay footage for.
As well as Indie Studios having a renaissance after their struggle era.
I dunno why so many people are dunkin on Ubisoft here. Sure, they make shit, but they’re commenting on an industry wide issue.
and it’s not just their industry. People are also going out to the movies less. Restaurant profits are down as people are staying in more often. I haven’t checked, but I imagine bars are likely struggling right now as well. It’s almost like Western economies are reaching a breaking point, and people are unable to afford anything beyond the bare necessities.
Inbefore they invalidate all their existing games and make you repurchase then with “uPdAtEd gRApHiCS!!”
Just bought Arc Raiders last week
Maybe Ubi should make good games again and stop making me deal with their bloatware app.
Arc Raiders is doing so many things right from the start. The overall package was even at release very well executed, it’s an extraction shooter that keeps the tension of the genre while at the same time removing most of the frustrating elements. While there could be sind improvements to the Speranza UI design, the overall look of the game in game is stunning and it runs really well.
And looking at the number of players - if you release good, entertaining games, people will play them.
