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Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again, now to March 20, Ubisoft says, as the company pursues "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders

Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social)

NEWS: Assassin's Creed Shadows is delayed again, now to March 20, Ubisoft says, as the company pursues "various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders" (looks for a potential sale).
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nanoUFO
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The way they word that is amazing, you can't really fluff that up anymore. Looks like they expect it to bomb.
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FooBarrington
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I don't know if there's a combination of words that has less content, or destroys any hope left for the game more thoroughly than what they chose. Never could I have imagined that one sentence would manage to bottom out both categories at once. Give my compliments to the ~~chef~~ MBA!
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hondaguy97386
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Sounds right, fuck the players.
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Azzu
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Sounds like they're adding microtransactions, buy your pack of 500 jumps, get 100 vaults for free! Also Denuvo.
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DesolateMood
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Wasn't a delay announced a few days ago? Is this the same delay or was it pushed back even further?
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brsrklf
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"Please stand by, the game's finished but we need to find new ways to manipulate you suckers into spending more."
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Ubisoft is going to go bunkrupt or private this year, selling their most valuable assets. I say good riddance. I only hope we yet get to play Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era (Unfrozen is the dev but Ubi is punlisher and IP owner) and Anno 117: Pax Romana. Also wonder who will buy these IPs. Tencent?
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personally i would be willing to pay 15 cents for them
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RvTV95XBeo
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They're going to holistically synergize the market capitalization to optimize a paradigm shift for shareholders.

They expect it to bomb and they're going to flood it with microtransactions and vague "AI-enhanced fetch quests" or some bullshit.

They're not trying to make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they're "extracting value" - I'd stay far away from this one folks.

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OutlierBlue
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They’re not trying ro make a better user experience, squash bugs, or polish the story, they’re “extracting value” - I’d stay far away from this one folks.


This has been true of Ubisoft for many years. I'm glad they're saying it out loud now though.

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Shawdow194
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Yeah. Making games should always about providing value for shareholders. Not about making a good game
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Scrubbles
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Almost like shareholders would get value if they focused on making good games. Make good product, people buy, shareholder money go up. Why do we have to keep explaining that to them?
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Destide
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Thank goodness its not on a date that would cause more controversy with the Japanese people..What's this 30th anniversary about,Tokyo subway sarin attack? They literally cannot stop foot shooting

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samus12345
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Nintendo, a Japanese company, is releasing Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition on the same day. Every day is the anniversary of a tragedy somewhere.
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Chozo
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Sure, but Xenoblade isn't about Japanese historical events. It's a little too on-the-nose with Assassin's Creed.
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TwanHE
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Problem is that it's already rife with other insensitivities towards Japanese culture, it wouldn't be so bad if this was the only thing.
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orca
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There is absolutely no reason to buy a Ubisoft game anymore, or from any large studio that is trying to appease shareholders first and foremost. They aren’t making games for you to have fun with; they’re making games to extract as much money from you as possible. Instead of giving you fun quests and characters, they are behind the scenes trying to figure out how to manipulate you. Fuck that noise. The last game I paid full AAA price for was Elden Ring because From deserves my money.
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fckreddit
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At this point, it is better to let Ubisoft die. It is so interested in raising it's share prices, it has alienated it's customers. Now it refuses to learn from it too.
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P1nkman
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At this point, it is better to let Ubisoft die.


But think about the shareholders! Now they cannot afford that fourth yacht. How will they survive?

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the wording of that announcement evokes a similar feeling to how i write things when im nearing the end of a project, experiencing extreme crunch, and begging for the sweet release of the deadline finally approaching. i’m in a trance like state during those times, barely conscious, barely coherent, just doing what i need to in order to reach tomorrow.

i can imagine there are a lot of people at ubisoft right now experiencing something similar. do not mistake this for empathy. i don’t know what im saying.

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Alexstarfire
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Yea, I couldn't care less what the shareholders want. The point of a product is to be good for the purchaser. Once you take your focus off making a good product, you're through.
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Excrubulent
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Is the CEO trying to short the stock or are they just that out of touch?
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Jiggle_Physics
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"We are looking into a way to turn this into multiple subscription services focused on getting you to gamble that will be allowed in our primary markets."
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