Assassin's Creed Shadows Pre-Orders "Tracking Solidly" as Ubisoft Financial Results Drop Sharply

Ubisoft announced its financial results for Q3 of the fiscal year 2024-2025, including the period between October and December.

[anast]

There are a ton of people that don't care about controversy.

[JEECE]

Well, most of them probably don't know about it. But sometimes the grievances the "hardcore" have against a game can reverberate among casuals, even if they don't know why. Look at how badly Star Wars: Outlaws failed, despite the IP. I highly doubt that many of the casuals who skipped over it (who almost certainly would have bought a game like that in 2016 or so) had exactly the same reasons for doing so that people on here did, but clearly a lot of them were affected by the negative sentiments toward that game. Whether that will affect a more established franchise like AC may be a different question (yes Star Wars is a much bigger IP overall but Outlaws is not an established game franchise like AC).

[anast]

Good point. I agree. We see this with the "woke" tag among casuals and cores. Star wars fans might have a different culture than AC fans.

[PoSTedUP]

I agree if it came out in 2016 it would have sold more and did better, but that's when a lot of gamers, hardcore and casuals alike, weren't paying a lot of attention to politics and agendas. A lot more people, casuals in particular, have become more aware since then. There is a huge push back against a certain agenda nowadays and it show. As well as what you said about hardcore reverberating into casual market. This is a big reason why [insert many recent games here] didn't sell as well as their counterpart or predecessor; and why their user views are in the lower numbers. Imo

[The_Hooligan]

I am so far behind on my AC games. Last one I played was Origins. I do want to play Mirage because I heard it is shorter then previous games. But which game do you guys suggest I play if I had to pick between Odyssey and Valhalla?

[LucasRuinedChildhood]

The last AC game I played was AC4. lol. Odyssey definitely seems to be more liked and seen as more fun than Valhalla though. It got a 60fps update as well if you're playing on a PS5/Series X.

I have a friend who mostly plays RPGs and doesn't bother with AC in general but who really liked Odyssey and has encouraged me to play it.

[The_Hooligan]

I was just reading some articles about Odyssey and Valhalla and it was a general consensus that Odyssey was a better game and Kassandra was sort of like a cannon character. So, I will be playing Odyssey and skipping over Valhalla and then start Mirage. Appreciate your response.

[anast]

I prefer Valhalla, but Odyssey was cool too. They are almost the same, it comes down to would you rather be a Northman or a Spartan. Also, Mirage was also supposed to be a Valhalla DLC.

[Ninver]

Last one I played was AC2. The rest are quite mediocre imo.

[anast]

That was a good game for it's time. I'm not saying then others are better, but AC2 has aged.

[PoSTedUP]

I like rogue/black flag, but syndicate was good. That's the last one I played more than 30mins of.

[-Foxtrot]

Not like I’m bothered about the whole controversy that’s been going on but in regards to their comment, didn’t they say something similar about Outlaws?

[anast]

If it is. It's a wait for a deep sale just to see how it fits in the AC world.

[Abear21]

The game was delayed so chances are it’s going to slap, unlike most of the AAA titles launching in Beta these days. I’ll still wait tho, lol

[Fonsecap]

I don't doubt it, but there'll be a good bunch of refunds also after launch