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Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

What it really comes down to is that this type of “safe” game design where you rehash the same game over and over again for 20 years thing used to make a shitload of money, and now it doesn’t. Or at least, they’re discovering that there’s a mathematical maximum amount of times you can rehash something without innovating. And not doing that is too huge a pivot for a huge lumbering company like Ubsioft to make on a reasonable timescale.

This is what’s supposed to happen though. When not enough people buy games to make them profitable, the games have to change, or Ubisoft goes under. Either is fine.

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frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
And I feel like half of that 20 years was based on FOMO. “I better get the next Assassin’s Creed or I’ll miss out”, and then it’s all the same crap. People do eventually wise up to FOMO.

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- delitomatoes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Miss out on what? Unity was a buggy mess on launch, skip, the British one was a snorefest. By the time of the reboots, Ghost of Tsushima, Elden Ring and BotW already came out
  
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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Honestly the quality of games is the tip of the iceberg.

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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Well, it also doesn’t help how much they are “accidentally” insulting multiple racial groups trying to make an Assassins’ Creed game.

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- EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I don’t think they’re doing that.
  
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  - p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Seems like it to me
    
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