Ubisoft premiered the television commercial of Assassin’s Creed III
Skull and Bones surprises with second-highest player engagement in Ubisoft's history, marking an unexpected success story.
Funny how all the clickhate was trying to spin that it was "struggling" to reach these very numbers.
Over 700 Ubisoft staff in France strike due to failed salary talks, highlighting a major dispute over fair compensation.
Ubisoft is eroding from within. They used to be such a great publisher, but their hubris, greed, ignorance, and willingness to embrace crappy business practices such as intentionally releasing broken games with a "patch it later" mentality just so they can garner Black Friday sales, their in-game cash shops to sell you virtual junk, over priced collectors editions where their price increases but their quality remains the same, giant open bland land masses to explore packed with copy & paste boring filler side quests designed to waste your time with menial tasks.
And let's not forget their employees constantly getting pissed at the executives treating them like crap, which has been an on-going problem for years. Yeah, Ubisoft had rightfully earned their title of Ubi-junk.
What a shame.
Couldn't happened to a more deserving company. Here's to a AAAA Strike for all those well deserved AAAA Salaries.
🖕 Choke on it U-beSawft.
The industry is hitting some issues I'm seeing games not selling as well, Sony projections are down, games cost way too much to make and are not hitting return on investment, and now employees demanding to be paid more.
It reminds me of the movie industry. The cost to make movies aren't making their money back yet you have everyone demanding to be paid more. The things that needs to change are cost of development including employee/contractor wages, and I'd even say to lower the MSRP on games. I know they are trying like hell to monetize games to bring in recurring revenue like mobile games, but that's not the answer. The onus is on the industry to correct this and I think the way to do it is cutting back on costs.
I don't see how employees can demand to be paid more when sh*t like Skull and Bones isn't bringing back money and god knows how much they spent on the development of that game. I think I remember seeing that after Black Flag or when Sea of Thieves was announced.
Ubisoft just announced its financial results for Q3 of the fiscal year 2023-2024 and confirmed a release window for Assassin’s Creed Codename Red, on top of a lot more information about the performance of its major games.
Saw this on tv last night, pretty epic.
"He is detined to lead us to freedom"
"This country might finally be free"
I thought he wasn't supposed to be on a side, I thought Ubisoft said it wasn't about the war and I thought they said Connor wouldn't get involved in it...the war wasn't his interest.
So the truth is finally out...why did Ubisoft lie, they made the British the evil ones and turned it into a British vs American thing instead of it being a Assassin vs Templar thing. When I first saw AC2 videos and trailers I knew it was about the templars and bringing them down...this though just seems to be about winning the war.
It just dosen't make any sense in the AC mytho that the British would be the evil ones, surley it would of made more sense if the British were mad eup of Assassins to try and liberate America from Templar control or to try and stop them so America isn't founded under them. The US was always the main source of the templars as said in the codex pages.
It bugs me more that they've lied and talked crap about this subject since it was released, "Oh Connor is netural", "Connor won't ge invovled", "we don't want to make one side look evil, no one is" and then all we've seen is one sidedness in the game since it was announced, I mean look at the E3 trailer. Why havent we've seen no footage, screenshots or gameplay videos of Connor helping the British.
I hate when developers lie, they only did this to sell more copies in America.
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Disagree all you want but Ubisoft have lied to us and if any other company did this like Capcom/Square Enix/Activision or EA it would be exactly the same. I'm not "hating" on the game I just don't understand why they would lie, why not and come out and say "Oh yeah they are the enemy".
Awesome
Game of the frickin year !
Wasn't gonna get this game, but scored it for free so now I'm interested.