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Ubisoft Montreal focused on creating original ideas

Executive Director ensures that there is no magic dust to make great games.

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AngelicIceDiamond4018d ago (Edited 4018d ago )

Heres one. No DRM for your games.

EDIT: @Zafri Ha, yeah your not funny.

@Malo Ubi can continue to make Assassins Creed but not annualized it like Cod. I can't say they're "killing" the series with annualization's because its not true, at least not now anyway. the hardcore and casual are still very much committed to Assassins Creed games.

The way I see it, DRM will make its way on to console some how some way. Next gen will bring allot, but also bring strict protocol to households.

I didn't know being part of next gen means devs tracking and watching the game that bought with my hard earned money.

Rant over: Anyway I'm sure Ubisoft will showcase some new Ip's at E3, can't wait.

malokevi4018d ago

Assassin Creed isn't even their flagship series. It all boils down to next gen Tom Clancy titles, Rayman, Farcy, Watchdogs, and whatever other gems their working on behind closed doors.

As far as DRM goes, I'm on the fence. On the one hand, I'm pretty confident that all these "always online" and "no used games" rumours are just that, rumours. I've heard that the 99$ Xbox360 setbox Arcade will be always on, and the actual next-gen console will both be abel to go offline and be abel to play used games.

If the rumours of always on happen to be true, it must be for good reason, and will obviously herald benefits. My Xbox Live is always hooked up anyways, and my nice new black Xbox360 will easily last another 5-10 years in case I wan't to play offline.

But, given how online-focused next gen games will be, and given how I have all but completely stopped playing single player games.... bring on the online!

0pie4018d ago

yeah like an assassin creed each year? verry original

malokevi4018d ago

Ubi will keep committing resources to Assassins Creed as long as people continue to buy it.

I gave up at Assassins Creed 2, but I can understand why they still make them. I know some people who are enjoying AC3.

andjudunno4018d ago

Just let the Assassins thing go already, gameplay might be similar to part 3, but its not like Ubi didn't take their time with a cool story and setting to put us players in. And after seeing Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (not to mention watchdogs) I'm totally on board with what Ubi is up too.

malokevi4018d ago

Ubi is my favourite developer. I don't think a Tom Clancy title exists for consoles that I have't thoroughly enjoyed.

I have it in good faith that UBI will deliver all the way to the bank in the coming years.

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Disney adds Blizzard and Ubisoft veterans to its games leadership team

Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…

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Behind XDefiant's Toxic Work Culture, Crunch, and Years of Delays

Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.

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just_looken18d ago

Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
https://www.theverge.com/20...

This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.

jznrpg18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

Every industry has these issues

Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.

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Skull and Bones Hits Second-Highest Ubisoft Engagement

Skull and Bones surprises with second-highest player engagement in Ubisoft's history, marking an unexpected success story.

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thorstein47d ago

Funny how all the clickhate was trying to spin that it was "struggling" to reach these very numbers.

Jin_Sakai47d ago

They have less than 1 million players but some people are playing 4 hours a day. That’s your record engagement.

thorstein46d ago

😢 😭 people are playing a game I hate and having fun. Why aren't they hating the game as much as I do?

GamerRN47d ago

It's an absolutely terrible game....

boing147d ago

I don't believe it one bit. Second highest to what? Any numbers?

ChasterMies46d ago

“Ubisoft announced that ‘Skull and Bones’ boasts over four hours of average daily playtime.”

So the few people playing it are spending a lot of time playing it. But there aren’t enough whales to feed this fleet. This game will die like so many other live service money grabs that came before it.

anast47d ago

This includes free trials.

shinoff218347d ago

I've read that same thing. Ifbtruebits not really impressive. Also maybe I missed it but I didn't catch any numbers in the article. Lastly what I did read felt more like an advertisement as if the site mightve caught a couple dollars from the publisher.

anast47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

People are saying it's around 850k across all platforms and free trials. To put it into perspective Helldivers 2 has around 360k 24hr peak on Steam and another 300k at least on PS5, and no free trials.

Aloymetal46d ago

Most likely. I tried the demo on PS5 and it looks so blurry I was shocked, crappy graphics. I thought for a minute I was playing the wrong version (PS4) but then again most games on PS4 look a 1000x better than this not to mention it's a grinding galore. F that.

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Aloymetal46d ago

@EdgeyMan
Yea man, PS is doom now with these layoffs, watch the PS brand starts doing those same lame xbawx numbers from now on.;)

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