• slaacaa@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    It’s definitely a “you get what you deserve” situation, yet I can’t help but be sad, thinking that more than a decade ago, Ubisoft made some of my favorite games (e.g Splinter Cell series, Far Cry 3, AC Black Flag).

    Though that Ubisoft is long gone by now, and I haven’t touched their games for years.

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      4 months ago

      Black Flag was insanely good, it boggles my mind they managed not to capitalise on that

      Edit: guys, I know they tried, but they still failed

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    4 months ago

    Please don’t forget that even when this company made “better” games and was more profitable, their management and executives were wilful participants in rampant sexual abuse of their workers. Ubisoft is, always has been, and always will be a pile of festering shit and bankruptcy would be too good for them.

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    4 months ago

    I honestly don’t understand this situation and how horny people are to see ubisoft fail. I get it their games are not stellar masterpieces but honestly they are okay/good. It feels like they are incredibly overhated.

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        4 months ago

        Don’t forget shutting down games people paid money for and leaving them with nothing. (Looking at you, “The Crew.”)

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        4 months ago

        The worst part is that Tom Clancy should not be a power fantasy. That brand means nothing in video games anymore.

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      4 months ago

      When their CEO said that players should get comfortable not owning the games they paid for I went from not really caring about their games to actively disliking the company

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      4 months ago

      For me it’s a combination of them making games that all seem to represent everything wrong in modern gaming, coupled with all of the sexual misconduct among their leadership that they covered up and have still not been held accountable for.

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      4 months ago

      They’ve been releasing a lot of half baked games lately, coupled with lazy game design, where a lot of their open world games are the same thing with a different skin. And then the games themselves are the same first few hours of gameplay loops repeated for the rest of the game.

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      4 months ago

      I don’t understand how horny people are to defend companies that treat their paying customers like shit.

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      4 months ago

      Far cry feels just the same since 3. Same gameplay, different story, different setting. While the story itself is usually good, I don’t think it has progressed gameplay wise or in technical or graphics aspects in any meaningful way. Car physics are worse than gta5 which is already out for 10 years or so.

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    3 months ago

    Why hasn’t the board already fired the CEO? Or is the board just full of family members?

    Remember when everyone was on the Guillemots side when they fought to prevent a hostile takeover from Vivendi. The Guillemots became what they feared what Vivendi would have done to the company.

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    3 months ago

    i feel like ubisoft has been having really cool ideas for games pretty consistently for the past decade. (in the sense that every game has a cool elevator pitch.) but then, every time, they ruin those ideas by making the most bland and generic open world game with the most boring stories, dialogue, and gameplay systems imaginable. it’s like the creativity behind their games is forbidden to develop past the elevator pitch.

    this is particularly noticeable with the assassins creed games i think. super cool ideas for settings, time periods, and main characters, etc. but every time, they find a way to turn the games into the most boring and generic slop imaginable. there’s just so much wasted potential.