Are Ubisoft in Trouble?
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Rather forgettable, just copy paste of the same darn things.
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I played it and to be honest I can't remember much about it. The game was pretty generic and bland. I can remember more about playing FarCry 3, 4 and 5 and those are much further back.
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"A Ubisoft Original."
Lol, the irony of this tagline!
But they are not alone and there's been a woeful lack of new AAA IP, and innovation more broadly, across the industry.
I guess the other copy and paste dev/pubs are just copying and pasting just that little bit better.
Certain franchises have just become an annual release conveyor belt, and bring nothing new.
Cool if you are into that sort of thing, or have never payed a particular game before. But I think for many gamers the repetition fatigue is real.
Lol, the irony of this tagline!
But they are not alone and there's been a woeful lack of new AAA IP, and innovation more broadly, across the industry.
I guess the other copy and paste dev/pubs are just copying and pasting just that little bit better.
Certain franchises have just become an annual release conveyor belt, and bring nothing new.
Cool if you are into that sort of thing, or have never payed a particular game before. But I think for many gamers the repetition fatigue is real.
People have been lapping up CoD every year since around 2010.
The whole industry getting away with copypasta every year for so long is simply astounding.
E33 proves that Ubi did have people with original and new ideas.
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Yep, I have said many times that the gaming community gets what it deserves, and I have advocated for voting with our wallets and refusing to support endless copy+paste games (and remasters of remasters).
The trouble is, we just aren't very good at it, and I include myself in that because I've been one of those people playing call of duty every year!
CoD is my kryptonite. I'm such a hypocrite lol.
I often ask myself why, and I guess for me it is perhaps forlorn hope that "this time it will be better".
There have been some brilliant games over recent years, E33 is a prime example, but a lot of releases have been lazy re-skins. But then I guess that is the inevitable price we pay for the evolution of a niche industry run by enthusiasts to a multi-billion corporate machine that attempts to balance the expectations of gaming fans with the revenue expectations of faceless, shiny shoed shareholders (many of whom may be gamers themselves).
Ah, dude. CoD stopped being a good game after MW2. Stop being part of the problem!!
It's thankfully a habit that I got out of long ago. I think I gave up well and truly after that advanced warfare absolute **** bomb of a game.Agreed, it's a hard industry to keep going without appeasement in one direction or another. Then again, Monopoly Go hit $6 billion in revenue. What do any of us know about games that sell!
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Because gamers now demand so many features that development costs are astronomical and the risks of a new ip are therefore equally large. We’ve backed ourselves into a corner.
Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC
The historic Rainbow Six developer will continue in a tech support role…
www.videogameschronicle.com
Another studio gone..
It's not just Unisoft the whole industry is in trouble.
My brother is a game developer, senior 3d character artist and has worked for some big firms, and he's been in an out of jobs over the last few years.
The money is good when he's got work but it's not stable at all.
Also a lot of it is based on investments, actually crazy how much. Some of the developers he worked for basically just at make a fancy tech demo, market the **** out of it, and it builds up interests, people invest, then the share price increases and the whole thing snowballs. Whether anything tangible actually ever gets made at the end almost feel like it's a second priority.
Actually, a lot like Starfield in that respect.
My brother is a game developer, senior 3d character artist and has worked for some big firms, and he's been in an out of jobs over the last few years.
The money is good when he's got work but it's not stable at all.
Also a lot of it is based on investments, actually crazy how much. Some of the developers he worked for basically just at make a fancy tech demo, market the **** out of it, and it builds up interests, people invest, then the share price increases and the whole thing snowballs. Whether anything tangible actually ever gets made at the end almost feel like it's a second priority.
Actually, a lot like Starfield in that respect.
Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC
The historic Rainbow Six developer will continue in a tech support role…
Another studio gone..
Not really surprising, they need to make some huge cost savings. Giving a studio a chop will save a good chunk, and clear that there's a lot more to come.
At this stage I'm not really sure why they're not just selling off their IP. I'm sure another publisher would pick up on some of their AAA games.
Ubisoft got sloppy and lazy this is a long overdue sort out. Something Microsoft needs to do with all the Game developers that it has taken over.