Ubisoft is one of the bigger publishers in gaming, but it needs to step up its quality and offer more than Rainbow Six Siege and Assassin’s Creed to survive.
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Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
Give us more Rayman thanks...
I agree with this and I'd love to see a new Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Brothers in Arms, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and like the previous poster said a new Rayman.
The problem is Ubisoft isn't a great developer anymore. I hate saying that, but all their games are filled with filler and feel the same, nothing new. Then on top of that they have always on internet connection and microtransactions in their games.
Look at what they are doing to Beyond Good and Evil 2, a game me and so many people wanted a sequel to and it is nothing like the old one.
So as much as I agree Ubisoft needs more games, including new IP, I just don't trust that they know how to make good games anymore.
Plus in all honesty we as gamers need to start demanding more from them, just like we do of Activision and EA, because Ubisoft is the most anti-gamer company out there.
Notice that Rainbow Six Siege is their most popular game, and yet it has stayed away from the copy/paste open world mission structure that we've seen them implement in all of their other big game franchises. I want an old-school Ghost Recon game, a proper Splinter Cell game with serious thought put into the missions, and I want Far Cry to go back to the more survivalist/ in the mud/ getting dirty/ realistic type of game that Far Cry 2 was trying to be. I don't want leveled enemies, and I don't want to play a game that is designed for players to grind for loot.
But, I will continue to play only R6.