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The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise (www.gamereactor.eu)
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[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What? I thought Ubisoft was saying sales were really strong and how Outlaws was such a big success?

I'm going to guess this is the exact same case with Assassins Creed. An AC game set in feudal Japan should have been a Grand Slam. Literally everyone wanted it. But leave it up to Ubisoft to find ways to make money from a printer drop right into the shredder.

It's more than just bugs and "blandness." Clearly people aren't buying what Ubisoft is making, and they keep changing stuff but none of the things they change are the reasons people aren't buying their games. It is crazy to me that executives continue to learn the wrong lesson from failed games 100% of the time. And then they ignore gamers when we straight up tell them what they should have changed. Crazy.

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 weeks ago

I agree about what's happening. They're producing boring games and not learning anything.

But I don't give a shit. Let them go down in flames. New indie devs an studios are popping up all the time with fresh, unique, and interesting games. I haven't bought a AAA game in over a decade and I'm not missing a damn thing.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I partially disagree. I don't want Ubisoft to die. I want them to make good and fun games, like they used to 15 years ago. I want AAA to be like it once was. And I reward when AAA games are like that by buying them.

Gamers want to give our money to developers and publishers. But we want good quality games that at the very least match (but ideally surpass) the quality of experiences we used to get in the past. Recently, Ubisoft has not been providing that, and thus Ubisoft sales have been plummeting. Now, is this a failure of executives? Developers? I say likely both.

Give the developers autonomy for one game, where there is zero executive involvement in the development and see how it goes. If it does well, then just let them make another game with full autonomy. If it goes poorly, make employment cuts on the team or move them around because clearly they didn't do well even without executive direction. But also keep in mind if another huge competitor takes over, like releasing next to GTA6, pretty much every other games sales will suffer most likely (unless its $100 at launch lol).

Its not a hard decision to make when it comes to business. Any person with a single braincell can see this. The problem is that giving a studio full autonomy is a financial risk. There is great potential for failure when executives feel like they have no control. Businesses are too risk averse now to make such simple decisions. They would rather maintain control of a sinking ship instead of giving crew members autonomy to try to right the ship. Its crazy to me.

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[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Just started watching Star Trek and so far watched Picard, Strange New Worlds and the one with the black chick as the main character and holy fuck is star trek a waaaay better story and franchise than star wars. Star wars fuckin sucks.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

I’m struggling to get my head around someone who just got into Star Trek starting with Picard.

I mean, fine - if you enjoyed it that’s great! But it’s a show explicitly about exploring the later life of a franchise figurehead. If you didn’t watch any of the earlier series or movies first you’re missing 90%+ of the context for what’s happening, surely?

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Wait until you get to the real Star Trek, the actual good ones. Next Generation, DS9, Voyager, etc. Whatever they're making now is literally garbage compared to what they used to make.

But to be fair, that is exactly the same case as Star Wars. Used to be pretty good, now Disney has run it into the floor.

[-] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hahahaha theyre all fuckin trash. I tried watching the old shit and its all straight up garbage.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Idk, I liked Jedi: Survivor even though that one was EA.

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