A) funny how that works with Steam everytime. “We don’t need Steam” > sales plummet > “Release on Steam in 60 days”
B) I don’t think releasing the game on Steam will save them here, from what I’ve seen it’s just a bad game plain and simple. It will maybe fill the gap a bit but probably not by enough to actually achieve the sales numbers they would like to see.
It is a good game IMO, but they will have completely missed the hype train by November.
It is a good game IMO, but they will have completely missed the hype train by November.
Interesting, I’d say it’s incredibly badly designed and executed given Ubisoft’s resources and the open world games they can make. The lack of danger and enemy awareness, the perfunctory stealth that barely works, the mostly empty open world and floaty speeder, the formulaic story…
Now, the one thing we learned from Ubi’s mistakes is that there’s no second chance for a first impression. They added a completely new and rather good campaign to try and fix Breakpoint, making all the looter tropes optional and it works great, it’s a good open world game after that, but I haven’t seen an influx of new players.
This is probably why they pumped the brakes so hard on Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The state they released Star Wars Outlaws in was absolutely abysmal. Something tells me they figured if they did the same thing with assassin’s Creed shadows, they were fucked. They’re also now releasing that one day one on steam. I really get the distinct feeling that if assassin’s Creed’s shadows doesn’t sell for Ubisoft, they’re in serious trouble.
They’ve had too many flops and investors are getting pretty pissed at their stupid decisions.
They’re trying to sell the company and have been for awhile. The problem is that without a win, no one wants to buy.
From what I’ve seen and heard it’s an okay game, just seems like it could be so much more.
Ubisoft is basically a franchise at this point, so companies with IPs can give them to Ubisoft and they’ll make it fit their game formula.
Problem is, even though they might try and tweak it occasionally, that formula is now 12 years old.
