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Ubisoft boss says it knows players think it has an 'inconsistency in quality,' so it delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to flip that script

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Rider@eviltoast.org⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/assassins-creed/ubisoft-boss-says-it-knows-players-think-it-has-an-inconsistency-in-quality-so-it-delayed-assassins-creed-shadows-to-flip-that-script/

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  • bennel@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I disagree. Ubisoft has been very consistently trash for a while.

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    • BonerMan@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not really, look at anno for example. Its just the big titles that are regarded as not good.

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      • olicvb@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yea, I mean Watchdogs 2, The Division, Steep, I know some friends loved For Honor and R6: Siege is amazing.

        Seems people tend to see ubisoft as AC and FarCry only.

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      • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        1602 was the best Anno. Fight me.

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      • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Their current Monopoly game is infamously bad

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ubisoft games have such a weird “design by committee” feel to it. Like they poll the internet every few weeks and make decisions off of that. New hot game has battle pass? WE HAVE BATTLE PASS.

    They also seem to follow a checklist of mediocrity. Every game needs a dozen collectable items. Every game needs to have these types of quests. Every game has to have a massive open world. Every game needs a online component and live service. Every game needs a incredible hook, which then they Marvel-safe it to avoid offending online babies.

    Their games come off with 7/10 energy. Ubisoft games don’t move the needle. They’re pretty adequate as a game. But when I have thousands of games to choose from every year… Ill pass.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the problem is that they use the same open world formula that they started, but others have taken and improved it and they haven’t kept up with the times. Shadow of Mordor/war scratch the same itsch as assassin’s creed with more interesting mechanics. Those aren’t even new games at this point. Horizon zero dawn and forbidden West offer a more action focused experience with a better open world, again not super modern games.

      It’s like Bethesda, they are still putting out games that are straight from 2010.

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      • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Shadow of Mordor/war scratch the same itsch as assassin’s creed

        ??? It’s the first time I’m hearing Shadow of Mordor allows you to run around famous places in ultra popular historical periods.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They CAN still be fun. General fact of the matter is that the games we find fun aren’t always necessarily innovating much. Sometimes it’s just a comfortable routine.

      Absolutely not going to fault anyone that finds their games boring though.

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      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        7/10 doesn’t mean it’s not comforting. It just means adequate.

        I played the Division 2, Ac Valhalla and FarCry 6 for 100+ hours.

        But if I was talking to friends or making recommendations, we’d be taking about games that are better than that. The Elden Rings or the Ghost of Tsushima

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  • li10@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Assassins creed has been consistently disappointing me since Black Flag.

    AC2 used to be my favourite game and the modern titles are unrecognisable. They’re all just a bunch of generic, drawn out, mass appeal, play it safe bollocks.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The most upsetting thing is that they threw out anything resembling a decent narrative to draw out the series with diminishing returns. We never got closure on the templars and modern storylines are ignored now. We could have had closure and then just had everything in animus after.

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      • li10@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It kinda bothers me that they didn’t at least go all in with switching up the story.

        At this point the whole “assassin’s creed” part kinda holds the narrative and story back, I think they should just drop it entirely and have each game be its own thing.

        I loved the assassin thing when I was 12, but it’s kinda cringe now.

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    • Sundial@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Odyssey was pretty dam good in my opinion.

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      • guylacaptivite@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was. Most of it’s criticism comes from the fact that it’s not really an assassin’s creed game anymore. It was mostly far cry: ancient greece

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      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I enjoyed Origins, Odyssey just felt so… empty. I couldn’t bring myself to do the post-game content I was so bored with it. I got to the Medusa and juat… stopped. Have no desire to go back to it.

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    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unity had a rough launch, but that was the most “assassin” feeling assassin’s creed imo

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      • li10@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I do wonder about giving that another go.

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    • w_l_l_w@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As in you didn’t like Black Flag, or that was the last one you did? I’m currently replaying it for the first time since it came out and it’s alright so far. I completely forgot everything from the story

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      • li10@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Black flag was good, everything after has disappointed me in one way or another.

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  • NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    just don’t buy their games. it’s that simple. go sailing.

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    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s easy, you can’t buy them because according to Ubisoft you won’t own them.

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      • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

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      • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And I’ll say it again, dumb “quotation” because it only referred to convincing people to try Ubisoft+; which is very explicitly a game rental system.

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    • Vittelius@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And that will improve the quality of the games how?

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      • Aedis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It won’t but you also won’t be disappointed by it if you never play them!

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      • GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’ll go out of business and a more competent company will arise to replace them.

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      • LouSlash@szmer.info ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It will over time. They will notice that sales are going downhill so (hopefully) they will start to listen to community complains, maybe also firing some staff until that point because of “financial struggle”.

        If sales will stay the same (or be even better) then they will not try to change anything because “if it works, don’t fix it”

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    • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t even need to go sailing, you can just stop at not buying their games. Ubisoft has not put out any game I’d really consider a must-play in over a decade. The last interesting Ubisoft open-world game was Black Flag in 2013. Even if you’re an absolute glutton for open-world designed by committee slop, Sony basically ate Ubisoft’s lunch with Ghosts of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Spiderman.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It seems like to me some of their games simply just need another two months in the oven.

    There were lots of little bugs in Star Wars Outlaws, but I found that game to be really fun, and largely pretty solid. But then they dropped updates a month out or so that fixed a lot of those little bugs. I wonder if they had just had that extra month to polish it up if it’d have gotten slammed as hard. People may still have wanted different things storywise or whatever, but on a technical level just one extra month could have helped.

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Polish isn’t going to help change the Ubisoft reputation of churning same looking games filled with massive bloaty copy-paste open worlds where you do generic fetch quests, collect hundreds of feathers, and watch watered down PG-13 storytelling that’s tamer than a Marvel movie.

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      • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Outlaws looked great, and had you go to interesting locations, and fly in space. There were no towers to open up maps. The outlaw system wasn’t super amazing in the end, but it didn’t detract from anything.

        I don’t disagree it has a reputation, but Outlaws was a fun break from the super boring Assassin’s Creed games of late.

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