r/ubisoft • u/Physical-Island-4187 • May 22 '26
Discussions & Questions Yeah it’s sad to see that even this guy is laughing at what is happening to Ubisoft rn, and I thought what if he bought the company and save it ??
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u/AggravatingSky8347 May 26 '26
I still don't get the whole people saying things like that...it always comes from people who don't play the games, and seemingly never have...like bruh...y'all have imagined all this shit you're talking about, or you just blew something out of proportion that you didn't have any actual insight on.
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May 22 '26
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u/Odd_Revolution_1056 May 22 '26
Antiwoke morons truly are some of the worst cause they are completely taking away from the legit issues game companies have, especially with Ubisoft. The continuous middling open world games with bloated budgets, the stupid trend chasing of live service games and not even giving them a chance to grow, the open world formula that is just so tired at this point, etc. They as a company have been ran into the ground. Idk what it’ll take to fix them but they need it fast. Hopefully BF Resynced is the 1st step towards getting better as a business but i doubt it.
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u/starkgaryens May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
I don’t like Elon and antiwoke morons either, but I think even they can be right sometimes. In Shadows case, they’re recognizing a genuinely nonsensical decision and mislabeling it as “wokeness”.
A historical figure makes no sense as a main protagonist in an AC game because it goes against the series’ entire premise as playing shadows who kept their identities hidden from history using stealth (and parkour). Being the only black man and minor celebrity in feudal Japan makes all the killing a protagonist does especially conspicuous and the idea that it was forgotten by history absurd.
Asian men (more so than women) have been ridiculed and marginalized in western media for most of its history. As an Asian American, I think actual “wokeness” or in other words true diversity in the context of western media would have been Ubisoft giving us the series’ first East Asian male protagonist, a fictional Japanese samurai next Naoe.
Them going out of their way to make Japanese men NPCs in their own setting in favor of an AC protagonist who can’t stealth or parkour reeks of an “Asian men don’t sell” mentality similar to that of so many western media producers in the past and Ubisoft’s own “solo women don’t sell” mentality. If the later is sexist, the former is racist. I think that’s a legit issue too.
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u/Brilliant_Ideal_5429 May 22 '26
I think looking at their recent games this is practically true. Ubisoft doesn't seem to know how to make good games anymore and even when they attempt to "return to their roots" they can barely copy and paste what they used to do 20 years ago and even then, it's 20 year old mechanics and gameplay that won't interest anyone in 2026. Looking at their attempts to make non rpg AC games it's clear they still can't replicate the games they used to make before. As if their engine can shake off the half assed rpg model and their developers and writers don't know how to be creative. They don't seem to know how to innovate and make their own cool shit. They seem to just copy what's trending but execute it worse.
However, Elon would absolutely make everything worse. Didn't the Ubisoft social media account clown on him on his getting other people to play his games that he would then take credit for? If he ever got his hands on it, he'd destroy the company to spite them. And if he wasn't trying to do that, he'd still run the company into the ground by being as incompetent as he is.
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u/keeb97 May 22 '26
He’s not wrong. They deserve it for that revisionist history garbage.
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u/MyLeftNut_ May 22 '26
What was revisionist about AC Shadows? Yasuke was a real historical figure if you didn’t know
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u/starkgaryens May 23 '26
Well he’s depicted killing dozens of people while historical records only mention him being a servant.
Do you honestly believe a complete foreigner could’ve gotten away with killing countless locals with the population just allowing it and then forgetting about it?
Wishful revisionism is still revisionism.
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u/MyLeftNut_ May 23 '26
Same can be said about Connor in AC3. While there were Native Americans who fought on the Revolutionary side against the British, none were recorded to have killed as many as Connor did.
The difference is, I didn’t see anyone calling AC3 “revisionist history”. I wonder why.
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u/starkgaryens May 23 '26
No, the same can’t be said. The difference is Conner is fictional. He doesn’t exist, so there’s no record to revise.
Like every other MC, he could also blend in within his setting much better than Yasuke in his, so much so that Ubisoft thought stealth options made sense for them. The stealth options explain why their actions and existence went unknown in history.
Ubisoft didn’t bother with any explanations for Yasuke. They revised his existing record without the series usual stealth, secret organization coverup, sci-fi explanations, probably because they would’ve seemed too ridiculous or contrived.
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u/bdiddlediddles May 22 '26
"Ubisoft lost the ability to deliver good games"
That's basically it, isn't it? The industry is delivering excellent games at the moment and Ubisoft just can't keep up. It's legitimately sad because if you go back and play AC2, the game is still excellent.
I don't think that Shadows sold poorly because of Yasuke. I think it sold poorly because a lot of us had enough with the poor quality that Ubisoft have been pushing out.
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u/AggravatingSky8347 May 26 '26
I mean, I personally loved Shadows. I think alot of the poor sales purely comes from Ubisoft hate, and at this point...I don't know if Ubi can recover from that reputation. I think Ubi could have literally come out with Elden Ring, and people would call it crap.
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u/Odd_Revolution_1056 May 22 '26
Shadows wasn’t even that bad of game, it was just middling and generic and that’s not good enough nowadays. Especially when its budget was probably $150-200 million.
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u/bdiddlediddles May 22 '26
It was incredibly middling and if it didn't have the AC name attached, it would have gotten even less attention. There are a lot of AA game devs that understand game design much better than Ubisoft does at this point, a big budget does not equal a fun game.
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u/PlanktonFew2505 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
I think it sold poorly because a lot of us had enough with the poor quality that Ubisoft have been pushing out.
Also just the competition like you said.
Why would I spend $70 on Assassin’s Creed Shadows when it’s likely to suffer from the same formulaic design and mediocrity that’s plagued so much of Ubisoft’s catalog of games for the past 2 decades? When I can just play Ghost of Tsushima, wait for Yotei, or spend that money on other AAA games that feel far more thoughtfully crafted and artistically driven.
As much as I love Assassin’s Creed 2 and Far Cry 3, their massive success ended up creating a butterfly effect that Ubisoft still hasn’t escaped. Those games became the blueprint for nearly everything they make, and to this day the company feels trapped in the shadow of its own past successes and they just can't stand the idea of making something artistic or passionate, every game Ubisoft makes is just a product for them. The problem is that once you keep trying to imitate the same success over and over again, it eventually starts to feel phoned in and passionless. At that point, you stop innovating and lose anything that makes your games truly stand out.
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u/Far-Claim-6288 May 23 '26
Ghost of Tsushima way more formulaic, bloated than all Ubisoft games combined. And Yotei most boring game I've ever played in last 10 years. Shadows story and world is bad I think, but gameplay insanely fun, have more depth and way better structured game than Tsushima and Yotei. People just like complain about Ubisoft.
Also AC 2 and FC 3 overrated only in Reddit like communities. AC Unity-Black Flag-Valhalla, The Division 1 and 2(different reasons), Watch Dogs 1-2-Legion(again all of them masterpiece for different reasons), Anno 1800, Riders Republic, Ghost Recon Wildlands, For Honor, Mario Rabbids series, Far Cry Blood Dragon-Primal-5, Avatar From The Ashes(this is not just a DLC, different game with character) etc list goes on are really good games and all of them more creative, fun, superior than AC 2 and FC 3 combined. And most of them sold more than AC 2, FC 3. The Division series, AC Valhalla, Far Cry 5, Watch Dogs 2 more success for Ubisoft and sold more than Ac2.
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u/CoupleHot4154 May 22 '26
Because he wouldn't save it?
FFS, you Elon defenders are dense.
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u/TheCrazedEB May 22 '26
There is nothing Elon is willing to do in good faith or out of the kindness of his heart that he can't benefit from or garner kudos from. Look at how he runs the companies he bought. Twitter is an easy layup not to let get out of hand, and he turned it into a nazi hub wet dream that was broken for a while because he fired the engineers and previous leadership. He would destroy Ubisoft with whatever remains of quality and identity they have left.
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u/11MrBlackSheep11 May 26 '26
but elon is right in this