They seem to be very caught off guard by Star Wars: Outlaws’ underperformance, and after investor pressure, are trying to massively course correct. This is what happens when you vote with your dollars!
It was so bad Epic dropped their exclusivity deal?
Epic’s exclusivity deals haven’t been working for anyone, so they’re dropping them across the board, other than for games they publish themselves.
Thanks christ. I’m sure whatever games were slated for exclusivity are thankful they’ll get some actual players on day 1
It would be hilarious if Ghost of Yotei released in Feb too, though unlikely.
But Monster Hunter Wilds will be released close to this.
Big shock. This game has had a lot of red flags, and not the good kind one would expect from a Japanese themed game. Everything about this game from the marketing to the merchandising has been bad at best, and outright offensive/borderline racist at worst.
People have been dreaming of a Japan based AC game since the first one. Ubisoft could not have picked a worse game to mess up this badly than this one.
I haven’t been following all the press for this game, so could you please tell me why some of the marketing and merch is racist?
In xenophobic Japan, a foreigner especially an African is allowed to massacre Japanese people with zero consequences. The same problem will exist if a westerner enters Japan and massacres Japanese citizenry with zero consequence.
It was a very anti-Japanese ( replace Japanese with Jewish or any other ethnic or cultural or minority group ) game centered in Japan. ( Butsu buddha statue is expressly forbidden in Japan from pictorial / digital / non-real-life representations but Ubisoft decided to make a digital 3d model and place it in AC:S) with blatant disrespect and cultural-dissonance.
If it was Yagyu Juubei and Naoe or some similar Japanese main-characters there would be almost no backlash.
Lot’s of small disrespectful things too like they use at least one family crest they most likely don’t have permission to use and they have it on a flag that has the edges of it cut off, they use some chinese architecture.
They also recently started pre-orders for a figure that features a half destroyed Torii Gate which is a kind religous symbol and on top of that they have a character sitting on the Torii Gate. Any damaged Torii Gate must be taken down or repaired, the only broken one allowed to exist in japan is one that half survived the bombing of nagasaki.
I told the truth and people downvote the truth. It is sad. Somehow pushing “The Message” absolves people of any responsibility to what they are supporting and doing causing problems.
I’m never going to play this game but this is all great news
I was a prime demographic for Star Wars Outlaws, as I like Star Wars and the more recent RPG style Assassin’s Creeds. I chose to skip it after the initial impressions, and I’m glad I did. Nice to see that enough other people did the same to make a difference. I’m down for more of the same with a Japanese skin, so hopefully they won’t manage to mess this one up to the point that I won’t enjoy it.
Well I’m prime demographic for Outlaws too and i had an incredible blast with the game. It’s not a GOTY but it was very enjoyable to me. Very immersive and the story was alright too.
Good, I’m glad you liked it! I may try it sometime in the future when Ubisoft does their usual deep discount.
Same, I couldn’t even finish watching a 10 min review, it was so boring. When I went to pick up Space Marines 2 in a big store, it was full of SW Outlaws discs. I picked up the last SM2, and Astro Bot was already sold out, so people were happy to buy games, just not this one.
Same here. Their thing with removing the crew though made me finally give up on Ubisoft. I could deal with the stupid pricing given that I at least got 50 hours out of a game, had an okayish story, and was a time occupier. Removing games so I can’t play them again? Fuuuuck that. Cost is all of a sudden a massive issue for me, I’m not going to pay 60 bucks for what is essentially a rental. I’ll wait and pay rental prices for it if they’re just going to yank it as soon as it’s not profitable.
I liked Jedi Survivor.
I know it’s like totally unrelated, but that game was fun.
Clever… maybe they can be taught. Steam on day 1 should go a long way to help their terrible numbers. I don’t condone any of the other shit they pull, but this is a good step in the right direction.
The fact that users wanting a “feature complete” product at launch is seemingly news to them is absurd.
CEOs and other higher-ups being completely out of touch is nothing new though.
It’s sort of new though-
In the past an executive couldn’t really keep a pulse on the market themselves, they needed real world connections, they needed information that wasn’t just available at their fingertips and the only way to readily get it was relying on people under them to feed truthful and useful information and not just be ‘yes men’.
Information is readily available at their fingertips now though, there is no excuse for being so disconnected and out of touch.
it will be like $5 6 months after launch anyway. Fuck em
These idiots could just release a high quality story expansion for Black Flag every year for ten years and make a billion dollars. Instead they do… This.
Seems like they watched the new Ghost of Yotei trailer
