Ubisoft Stock Tanks to 10-Year Low After Lukewarm Star Wars Outlaws Launch

Ubisoft stock tanks to 10 year low!

*Zooms out*

Yeah it's definitely star wars outlaws guys

I feel like lukewarm is the best Ubisoft has managed in about a decade now so seems like it should have been within expectations.

When I hear "UbiSoft" the first word I think of is "lukewarm". Mediocre, inoffensive junk food gaming that's rarely so bad that it's unplayable but also never meaningful, interesting or memorable.

This has been their m.o. for decades, I don't know what people were expecting?

Not releasing your new game on the largest game market in the world is a bold choice as well.

Damn, it’s down 45% over the last year as well. They seem to have released a few flops recently; and their notable IPs kinda just aren’t exciting anymore.

Maybe don't charge $145 for a digital product. Maybe charge $50, and sell it to 5x the people. It quite literally costs nothing (okay, pedantically, the tiniest fraction) to sell more units.

I'd play an okay Star Wars game for $50 day 1. Wouldn't you?

And then when it goes on sale, loads of people would pay $20 on a 60% sale price next year. Whose paying $60 at a 60% off sale for a year old okay Star Wars game? No one. Not one soul.

Oh, you can get it cheaper for subscribing to Ubisoft+. Fuck off with that bullshit, do you even hear yourself?

Luke lived on a desert planet, of course he's warm!

I think that's kind of a shame.

I don't care for Ubisofts bland and lazy open world design formula, but SW:O appears to not do a lot of the usual open world BS that they're known for.

I only get this from Skillup's review and he had a host of problems with gameplay, but I also got the sense that this is a game that will be remembered fondly by a subset of the star wars fandom.

Hopefully the lesson that Ubi learns isn't "see, we should stick with what works. Another generic open world Assassins Creed RPG-Lite".

Who even invests in ubisoft? If you know anything about games you would know ubisoft is crap company and if you dont know, why would you risk your money to something you have no idea about.

I mean it's the first time in a long time someone other than EA got the star wars licence, and they make a bland, unexciting game. I can't imagine Disney is very happy.

Get fucked ubisoft

Wow, if I ignored everything that was posted outside of Lemmy, I would have thought this was a great game that everyone should be buying.

Good thing I knew this would flop. Its especially funny considering Outlaws' marketing campaign was Ubisoft most expensive marketing campaign ever.

You can block tainted production companies on steam, this removes all their slop from the store page and vastly improves the marketplace.

Ubisoft was the first shit-hole prod company I ever blocked and it was glorious.

In an alternate universe I just got a 10 kill streak with Ahsoka on the Siege of Mandalore map in Battlefront III. Star Wars Eclipse is coming out in a few months, and gameplay demos show that it looks every bit as good as the trailer.

Ubisoft doesn't often make bad games but they never make great games either, they are always 4/10, 5/10, 6/10. The only thing that I can give a better score to is Child of Light. Took long enough for this shit to start losing money.

Most everyone I’ve seen that actually played it seems to like it.

Really good looking game graphically, though.

Fucking finally die, ubishit. Release those toiling within your guts and let them make tasty roguelite twinsticks or metroidvanias on UE for 10$ a pop

starm war

Wait, it's already out?

Ubisoft! What a joke!

Well, I'm having a really good time with it. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is really tight and enjoyable. It's a lot like an Uncharted in Space RPG. In both that regard, and it's gameplay.

I don't get why? It's a great game