Assassin's Creed is a hugely successful series but is it a franchise that merits its success or is it an example of everything that is wrong with the industry?
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…
Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.
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.
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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.
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.
"Assassin's Creed is a hugely successful series but is it a franchise that merits its success or is it an example of everything that is wrong with the industry?"
At the beginning (the first two titles)the series merited it's success. In it's current state however, I would say that as soon as it went annual, it turned into "everything that is wrong with the industry".
Sad too, as the story had such great potential that it never saw to fruition. At this point it feels like LOST, where the creators aren't entirely sure where it's headed, they only know it's popular and that it must continue.
LOST is a great example to compare it to I think.
it is very difficult to take it seriously when you know it is being so blatantly milked as a franchise. I'm all for being able to treat a game as a game and judge it on its own merits, but the dull mechanics really enforce that sense of lethargy.
I'm playing ACIII right now and must say it's pure crap compared to ACII or even Brotherhood.
The game has lost lots of it's core gameplay mechanics, has worse graphics and a boring story and characters. Definitely it should be called AC downgraded.
I fear what Black Flag will be headed if it is anything like ACIII.
All this makes me agree with both the above posters.