Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again as Ubisoft explores company sale options
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Ubisoft has said it is delaying Assassin's Creed Shadows again, as the company explores sale options.

It was previously releasing Feb 14. Does not look good for Ubisoft.

  • john89English
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Assassin’s creed died with 2 when they fired the creator and decided to milk it as much as possible.

    So sad what this series has become, considering its counter-culture influences.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    I feel more sorry for the Assasins Creed fans. Started by being a stealth parkour game, and its now just trying to be The Witcher

  • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    1 day ago

    Are delays not good? It’s preferable to being broken on launch, not to say that it couldn’t be, but it’s likely that it would be more broken if not delayed.

    • UprisingVoltage@feddit.itEnglish
      92·
      1 day ago

      When a game gets delayed it’s not a good sign in general. It means “the game is broken and we can’t release it as it is”.

      Of course a delayed game will be better than a game that needed to be delayed and released anyways instead, but realistically speaking you can’t fix a broken AAA sized game in one or two months.

      Add this to the fact that Ubisoft (rightfully so) earned a bad reputation among players as time went on, and that devs can’t work at their best when they are crunching and they fear to be laid off, and you’ll understand why non-casual gamers don’t have faith in the game.

  • erin@social.sidh.bzh
    243·
    2 days ago

    that’s the problem:

    “the company had appointed advisors to review and pursue various transformational strategic and capitalistic options to extract the best value for stakeholders”.

    Companies should focus on extracting the best value for consumers not stakeholders… when it was created the stoke market was supposed to be disconnected from real economy to prevent that situation where companies tries to give priority to the stakeholders (who don’t produce anything and don’t increase GDP) over consumers. When that rule started being ignored in the beginning of the XX century and provocked the 1929 krack they should have take it at a warning and stop doing that instead of continuing that heresy.

    • Pregnenolone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Are you thinking of shareholders?

      Stakeholders and shareholders are different. Consumers are stakeholders in this case.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      Ubisoft will likely be a private company soon, and I doubt the situation will change much in the aftermath.

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        Yeah the difference between being public and private disappears when the “private” part just means a private equity firm.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          The private equity that would control it after it goes private, in all likelihood, would be the same family who controls it today and always has controlled it. They’re not interested in stripping it for parts, but they’re also not interested in scaling their operations down and learning some hard lessons to make a sustainable video game company.

  • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    1 day ago

    They’re not saying it but I think it’s likely this is because of all the big games coming out in February. Civ 7, Avowed, and Monster Hunter Wilds are the three big ones and those take up a lot of time. Shadows would get lost in the weeds. Meanwhile there isn’t really a big game coming out in March. So perfect time.