Ubisoft Health Watch

[nomdeplume]

Just a hunch I'm not about to see the 24H2 patch for multiples games from them nor a spectacular Deep Dip Trois. I have to wonder if actually cash rich American or Japanese investors will take the day.

Who knows, maybe the entire Assassin's Creed series lands on GOG and that awful yearly contract for Trackmania disappears. Immediate fire sale on anything that can still be considered of worth incidentally righting some consumer malice. Pulling themselves out of a deep watery grave by displaying exactly what put them on the map to start with.

 

[Onasi]

There’s no one left except for Tencent who would be able and willing to bail them out as they are now. So it’s either that or go the THQ route by dissolving and holding a fire sale on their IPs.
And yes, theoretically they can avoid such outcomes by righting the ship themselves, but they’ve been failing for so long it just doesn’t seem likely.
But who knows, maybe AC Shadows will turn out to be a smash hit and sell a bajillion copies or something and that will protract the agony for a while. Unlikely, but stranger things have happened.

 

[stahlhart]

Hopefully their assets will be liquidated by a multicultural team of various religious faiths and beliefs.

 

[Vayra86]

There’s no one left except for Tencent who would be able and willing to bail them out as they are now. So it’s either that or go the THQ route by dissolving and holding a fire sale on their IPs.
And yes, theoretically they can avoid such outcomes by righting the ship themselves, but they’ve been failing for so long it just doesn’t seem likely.
But who knows, maybe AC Shadows will turn out to be a smash hit and sell a bajillion copies or something and that will protract the agony for a while. Unlikely, but stranger things have happened.

AC Shadows... lel. That game committed seppuku before it even got out on the battlefield. By Ubisoft itself no less. Its like... just stfu and all would have been fine. 'The game is delayed because we're polishing it' Done. But no...

As for AC landing on GoG... myeah, I've played so much of that I'll probably never want to again. But stuff like GR Wildlands? Yes please. Anno? Same. M&M X? Neat.

The problem is, the half of those games are broken by design without Ubisoft patching out the few dozen ties with their services. M&M X takes the cake, even the Steam version won't work properly without calling in to Ubisoft servers to fix an intentional bug in the code that prevents you to continue. That's right. I ran into that after several hours in the game, and it was the final straw for anything from this company. They're absolute, disgusting, gutter trash.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Wasnt there a lot of reports saying that Ubi are staffed by junior developers who are so inexperienced that havent even released their first game before?

I think Ubi are beyond saving. They've sold out their integrity, their brand and brand name and they have nothing else left to fall back on.

Controversies about their new games aside. Im not expecting anything great to come from them even if they have delayed it.

They need to sell off their IP or start licensing it out to other studios who might do some great work with it. Imagine if Ghost Recon was licensed out to a studio who took it back to its origins.

 

[nomdeplume]

AC Shadows... lel. That game committed seppuku before it even got out on the battlefield. By Ubisoft itself no less. Its like... just stfu and all would have been fine. 'The game is delayed because we're polishing it' Done. But no...

Less said, the better off everyone will be... unless you have memes from internal channels.