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Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Please don't forget that even when this company made "better" games and was more profitable, their management and executives were wilful participants in rampant sexual abuse of their workers. Ubisoft is, always has been, and always will be a pile of festering shit and bankruptcy would be too good for them.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s definitely a “you get what you deserve” situation, yet I can’t help but be sad, thinking that more than a decade ago, Ubisoft made some of my favorite games (e.g Splinter Cell series, Far Cry 3, AC Black Flag).

Though that Ubisoft is long gone by now, and I haven’t touched their games for years.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Black Flag was insanely good, it boggles my mind they managed not to capitalise on that

Edit: guys, I know they tried, but they still failed

[-] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 5 months ago

They tried... with Skull and Bones

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I was so looking forward to that game. Once I found out it was basically just a multiplayer experience, my interest dropped. Still haven't played it.

The problem with many games and movies nowadays is that the gatekeepers are people who don't really have creative/artistic background. They are business people who make decisions on whatever they think makes the company the most money.

A.I. has its issues and controversy, but I feel like creative people who can't get through the blocked doors of these business types will go on their own and create wonderful things with the technology. I guess time will tell.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 5 months ago

Hey maybe shadows will finally turn them around, I'm sure they did I'm something interesting and new with the game to get us to take notice.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Why hasn’t the board already fired the CEO? Or is the board just full of family members?

Remember when everyone was on the Guillemots side when they fought to prevent a hostile takeover from Vivendi. The Guillemots became what they feared what Vivendi would have done to the company.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 5 months ago

Now the problem is that revenue is still above 0. We need to pump those numbers DOWN.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

i feel like ubisoft has been having really cool ideas for games pretty consistently for the past decade. (in the sense that every game has a cool elevator pitch.) but then, every time, they ruin those ideas by making the most bland and generic open world game with the most boring stories, dialogue, and gameplay systems imaginable. it’s like the creativity behind their games is forbidden to develop past the elevator pitch.

this is particularly noticeable with the assassins creed games i think. super cool ideas for settings, time periods, and main characters, etc. but every time, they find a way to turn the games into the most boring and generic slop imaginable. there’s just so much wasted potential.

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 3 points 5 months ago

I honestly don't understand this situation and how horny people are to see ubisoft fail. I get it their games are not stellar masterpieces but honestly they are okay/good. It feels like they are incredibly overhated.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 5 months ago

I don't really care enough to actively hate Ubisoft - I save those sentiments for companies like Nintendo and Disney. However, they did influence about a decade of horrible game design trends with the popularisation of the dreadful checklist-filled Ubisoft Open World^TM, and that is worth at least a mild dislike.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Also some of the most odious DRM iirc. Not to mention their dalliance with Blockchain Bitcoin NFT whatever.

[-] Melonpoly@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I don't understand how horny people are to defend companies that treat their paying customers like shit.

[-] TheWinged7@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

When their CEO said that players should get comfortable not owning the games they paid for I went from not really caring about their games to actively disliking the company

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 5 months ago

For me it's the arrogance. It's the calling of themselves "AAAA" gaming and trying to push base prices of games past $100 and then making bland boring games. They think they're amazing. This is their reality check. Their games are what I play when I have nothing, and I mean nothing else to play

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

For me it's a combination of them making games that all seem to represent everything wrong in modern gaming, coupled with all of the sexual misconduct among their leadership that they covered up and have still not been held accountable for.

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

They've been releasing a lot of half baked games lately, coupled with lazy game design, where a lot of their open world games are the same thing with a different skin. And then the games themselves are the same first few hours of gameplay loops repeated for the rest of the game.

[-] windowsphoneguy@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe we can all donate some so they can make the billion

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

The Guillemot's ego's just keep on trucking

[-] boreengreen@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Perhaps they should do something good with Might & Magic.

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