Ubisoft has released its financial results for the nine months ending December 31, 2024, reporting significant declines…
  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    106·
    8 days ago

    We’re all just getting comfortable not owning games. Ubisoft games, specifically. This is what they asked for, right?

    • Artyom@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      8 days ago

      Ubisoft should feel a sense of pride and accomplishment for 1. Stealing the title of worst game publisher and 2. Stealing the title of most evil quote from EA.

        • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          101·
          7 days ago

          https://80.lv/articles/ubisoft-executive-players-should-get-comfortable-with-not-owning-games/

          “One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That’s a transformation that’s been a bit slower to happen. As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect…”.

          Interpreted as “Players Should Get Comfortable with Not Owning Games”

          The real context was they wanted more subscriptions.

          • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
            5·
            7 days ago

            honestly i see the industry moving in that direction, not unlike the “pride and accomplishment” thing of yesteryear. i hate this so much.

            • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              7 days ago

              It seems to be the thing for those adrenaline dopamine shooter games, but why must they abandon the good rpg and strategy games to do only that? I mean in general, they all do.

              I bet a new C&C, even isometric, would gain enough for a studio to thrive. But no, subscriptions it is.

              As an old game dev I hate this even more.

              Pff.

    • big_slap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      hey! do you think they’ll show anything regarding a siege 2 on Sunday? its the only game I’ve played religiously since the alpha and I’m hoping they at least do a facelift of the graphics, lol

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    8 days ago

    Turns out pushing out really high quality games, and then pushing out crap makes people not wanna buy the crap. Your name only carries you so far. But, the executives responsible for this shit will just close up the studio, run away with a golden parachute to the next company they’re planning on ruining.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      17·
      7 days ago

      Thanks to all these bad decisions, hundreds of jobs are gone, our stock is shit, our games aren’t selling.

      But fortunately, we gave those bad upper management a nice severance package and they’ll be taken care of!

      Thanks Ubisoft!

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    391·
    8 days ago

    Suck for the innocent employees but also fuck Ubisoft. Can’t wait for them to crash and burn

  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    8 days ago

    Couldn’t have happened to a better company. Fuck you Ubisoft. I don’t care that you have made some of my favorite games ever. You’ll never get a fuckin penny from me for the rest of time.

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      It’s so sad how they ended up, we need more European companies in this field

    • dipcart@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      7 days ago

      NFTs in game. Said they had made the first AAAA game. Then the CEO said gamers have to get used to not owning games, which pissed a lot of people off and was an incredibly dumb thing to say. Ubisoft seems to be very much out of touch with gamers.

      They also had their most recent assassins creed game have a choice between a black man and an Asian woman as the main character, so some Gamers™ are upset about that I guess.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Ohhhh they were the idiots with the AAAA claim! Haha ok yeah now I remember hearing that and rolling my eyes.

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
    142·
    8 days ago

    Feels bad for the developers, but fingers crossed that the new AC is a disaster and Ubisoft is over.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    It’s odd to realise other people can also be gamers and I may not even be aware of the games they play, can’t even remember the last ubisoft or EA game I bought. Maybe for EA it might be battle for middle earth. Do they make battlefield? Think I got 3 in a humble bundle and some other games.