Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What did they screw up recently?
Well starwars outlaws was supposed to sell 5.5 million copies to break even and they sold 1 million.
The CEO told people to get used to not owning the games they pay for
And overall every game they have made lately is soulless corporate suits driven slop.
They lost what made them special and unique and doubled down on it for years.
What didn’t they screw up?
Doesn’t really answer the question for people like me who didn’t follow their every action
No, sorry. Sometimes I don’t want to answer a question and just feel like being a smartass to hopefully get a chuckle from a handful of people.
Xotic56 has you covered.
the_strange@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The most recent release is probably Anno 117 which came out yesterday. While decently looking it’s lacking features of the previous title (like coop mode and mod browser) with the promise they will be added later and is priced at around 60€ or 90€ if you want to gamble on the quality of the promised to be released DLC. They also relied on AI generated images in some of the assets used in the game instead of paying their artists. Optimisation for the game seems to be ok, but not great but it might be too early to judge that fully yet.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That seems like way too recent to have any impact, though. It wouldn’t even have made it into their report data
the_strange@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
They tried to build a lot of hype around the game and get people to preorder. Maybe those numbers were (far) below expectations?
caut_R@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don‘t get why they’d cheap out on artists, a couple people drawing illustrations is surely not gonna balloon development cost - and arguably one of the easiest places to spot when it‘s AI slop. It‘s as if they think there must be gen AI stuff in the game somewhere or the game‘s worse or something.
the_strange@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
If you look at the older titles, there’s so much love and passion that went into the artworks. 1404 is 16 years old and has aged incredibly well, because of the high quality of the work that went into it. This is missing in 117.
Xotic56@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
If they can save $10 a day somehow they’ll do it for the shareholders at the cost of anyone else around them.
That’s why they’re fucked now and I’m here for it. Screw the greed.