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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 227 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I hate graphs that don't start the Y axis at zero.

That said, fuck ubisoft.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 118 points 8 months ago

That's pretty normal for financial charts like this though.

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[-] saddlebag@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

Agreed. Took me a moment to realise they didn’t drop to zero. !dataisugly

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 197 points 8 months ago

Ubisoft will have to get used to people not owning their games.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago
[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 155 points 8 months ago

not really news.. This is a 1 years graph.. its been going downward for some time

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Now do a 5 year graph and realise it's kinda back to pre pandemic levels.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

hm.. not quite.. but it certainly has seen some ups and downs, that are larger than what happened this morning. This is a graph of "all time"

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago

It would be cool if these graphs could be inflation adjusted.

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[-] gcheliotis@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

This thread is like a lesson in the importance of x and y axes range in time series plots

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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 73 points 8 months ago

I am curious if the games community has anything positive to say about major publishers at this point.

It’s fun to laugh at one failure, and it’s nice we still get occasional great indie hits. But when most major publishers fail to turn out anything of interest, and even Sony is kind of reaching vanishing expectations amid remasters of remasters, it becomes hard to even suggest what to buy an unknowledgeable kid for Christmas.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 47 points 8 months ago

I appreciate them for the effort they put into bankrupting companies that make AAA corpo slop. Ubisoft could not have stopped Ubisoft without the help of Ubisoft. If were lucky EA could hop on board and bankrupt EA by acting like EA.

[-] Wolfram@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

I'd say I'm happy that AAA companies are reaping what they sow from listening to their dumbass stakeholders.

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[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 15 points 8 months ago

Valve is pretty well liked. not sure you can really call them a games publisher any more though.

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 14 points 8 months ago

I'm buying my son Xbox 360 and PS2 games

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[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 56 points 8 months ago

It didn't tank this morning. It's been going downhill for exactly a month.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You are correct, it's been on a downward slope since about 2021 but had a another sharp dip this morning probaly following the news they were delaying Asassins Creed

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

A rushed game is usually pretty bad, a delayed game is eventually good. While I dont hold AC in very high regard, im glad they told people that it needs more time to cook instead of throwing it out there half-baked.

[-] Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

Kerbal space program 2 was somehow both rushed and delayed :(

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

You can make any graph look bad if you control the axis bounds weirdly like this.

Not that I have good things to say about ubisoft, but at a glance one would assume their stock value plummeted to zero, which is not the case.

[-] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 52 points 8 months ago

This was also my initial take but look at these graphs with the Y axis starting from 0 Stock lost 67% value in the last year alone, and lost 85% in the past 5 years. Looks pretty dire to me. I would say this is undervalued but I have no confidence in the ubi leadership to turn it around.

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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Why don't they just start using ai to generate games? Its cheaper and no one will notice.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 30 points 8 months ago

“Tanked”

Checks graph

19% is a hit but I wouldn’t call it tanked.

Some stocks are just volatile. Here is the full history:

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 29 points 8 months ago

Whenever I see social media say something dropped/jumped, I do the same thing as you - I visit the portfolio and take a birds eye view.

I still think about the one time redditors celebrated a company's stock dropping by 90% over the last day.

But what the picture left out was how the company was climbing by 1000% in a week before dropping.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago

A drop this severe is tanking. Even with a stock history like the one from Ubisoft.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 13 points 8 months ago

did ubisoft make face masks or something wtf happened in 2020

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

I think people were just bored out of their minds

[-] trankillity@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

WTF you think happened in 2020? No one could leave their house, so video game went gang busters.

I worked at a video game retailer then, and it was the busiest we've ever been.

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's been tanking for a lot longer than that

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago

lol, it looks like a cryptocurrency chart.

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago
[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They should be comfortable with people not owning their stocks

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[-] Ullallulloo@civilloquy.com 39 points 8 months ago

They're delaying AC: Shadows.

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[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

It's really a sad seeing Ubisoft going from a trendsetter up until Far Cry 3, to being a failed trend chaser.

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago

You could could say their stock went limp. They be soft.

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