‘We had to stop focusing on those who hated us’: Ubisoft says it won the battle against Assassin’s Creed Shadows backlash [VGC]

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• ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you hate Ubisoft because they put a black person in their game, and not because they are greedy bastards who make utterly vapid slop, then you are an idiot.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cool, but I wish they’d look at why people hate them, ignore the bullshit reasons, and focus on the good points — and work to improve them.

  I haven’t cared about Assassin’s Creed since the first one. The fights are like playing Guitar Hero blindfolded, but on Expert, except if you fail, you die and have to start over. QTEs where you can’t even see the prompts are dumb. They had a cool vision for the game, but the actual implementation sucked.

  Another game, I forget which one, had forced inverted X-axis and you couldn’t un-invert it. Bonus, the Y axis couldn’t be inverted like I like. So the game was completely unplayable.

  I feel like they don’t give a shit about gamers.

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  • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah none of those reasons were why people hated Shadows though. It was entirely racists. They aren’t gonna make any more improvements to their formula because Ubisoft doesn’t innovate, they’ll just wait for someone else to add an interesting twist to the open world formula and then steal that.

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  • einkorn@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The fights are like playing Guitar Hero blindfolded

    I won the boss battle in AC 1 without visuals because the cracked version I played glitched out. 🤷‍♂️

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ubisoft is a weird beast. They keep putting out the same slop time after time and people keep buying it up. I think Ubi is just really good at production quality and marketing, and this is apparently good enough to garner sales over and over again. It’s like…they have talented devs, but they don’t let them cook. They have a very “top-down” approach to design to encourage consistency in their catalog, but it seems like it’s also what has caused them to stagnate.

    On the one hand, I appreciate that they are fighting this fight and trying to put a kibosh on the next gen of gamergaters. On the other hand, I kind of don’t care so long as every game they put out is all flash and no substance.

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• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean didn’t"t they also state one of the reasons they cancelled their Civil War AC game was cause of the backlash from this game?

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Partly. But it was more about how the US is currently on the brink of another civil war, so Ubi felt like that might not be great for sales in the US.

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