Ubisoft has warned of falling company revenues and said it's seen that "many new games are struggling to stand out" as players turn away from traditional full-price releases.
Hey, remember when Assassin’s Creed was good? Remember when The Division felt fresh? Remember when Ubisoft was known for making good games, and not for their logo, which is an aerial view of a pile of shit?
I remember trying to start Ubisoft games from the Steam store, it starting Uplay, and then needing to log in to some online service just to play a game I had the shortcut for on my desktop. So many middlemen.
And you can end up with games in your steam library tied to different Ubisoft accounts too. And despite what they tell you in the community forums, their customer support will waste hours of your time and can’t actually help you with this.
I ran into this recently with Watch Dogs 2 which I never did finish. I finally got it installed on my linux machine, got it to actually start, and then got blasted with the Uplay garbage. Once I got that sorted out then it told me I was signed in with the wrong account and I had to go through a whole thing trying to reset the password for an account I had to guess the email for and wasn’t even sure I had. Now every time I launch the game I have to go through a whole thing where it starts, tells me I’m on the wrong, account, then restarts and makes me sign in with that other account.
I remember when there were 15 Assassin’s Creed games in the first 15 years of the series’ existence. I played maybe three of them and none of them except Black Flag stood out as especially good, and even Black Flag was mainly dragged down by the Assassin’s Creed gameplay. Never played The Division because the premise seemed like one big fascist fantasy.
The story in the Ezio trilogy was at least intriguing, and I don’t know if they ever continued it, finished it or just forgot. There was a whole story arc where the character accessing his genetic memories was caught between future assassins and the Abstergo corporation, who were future Knights Templar. After a certain point, all of the future parts of the games felt like B-stories that were tangential to the main future timeline.
It felt like the first game and the Ezio trilogy were building to something in the future timeline and then they went “Oh wait fuck we can’t have a climax or we can’t keep making these forever!”
The future thing was always a good idea but never well execute in the games. In the first one is better because you don’t have much to do inside the Animus as Altair so the conspiracy thing reading e-mails and investigating your cell is at least intriguing. From AC2 onwards every time you are disconnected from Animus to play as Desmond is boring and distracting, I can’t even remember the other characters.
After a certain point, all of the future parts of the games felt like B-stories that were tangential to the main future timeline.
After they killed Desmond they didn’t have any linchpin to hold the plot line. It’s a mess.
The first one was genuinely groundbreaking at the time. I remember playing it on PS3 and thinking “man I’ve never seen anything like this.” I used to just do the parkour stuff for hours.
It gets very samey and grindy towards the end by today’s standards. But AC2 was an all-time great for me. Assassinating the corrupt pope was a cool as hell moment. I stopped playing after AC3. Haven’t had any desire to try anything new they’ve put out.
Hey, remember when Assassin’s Creed was good? Remember when The Division felt fresh? Remember when Ubisoft was known for making good games, and not for their logo, which is an aerial view of a pile of shit?
Remember when there wasn’t a uplay store? Those were good times.
I remember trying to start Ubisoft games from the Steam store, it starting Uplay, and then needing to log in to some online service just to play a game I had the shortcut for on my desktop. So many middlemen.
And you can end up with games in your steam library tied to different Ubisoft accounts too. And despite what they tell you in the community forums, their customer support will waste hours of your time and can’t actually help you with this.
I ran into this recently with Watch Dogs 2 which I never did finish. I finally got it installed on my linux machine, got it to actually start, and then got blasted with the Uplay garbage. Once I got that sorted out then it told me I was signed in with the wrong account and I had to go through a whole thing trying to reset the password for an account I had to guess the email for and wasn’t even sure I had. Now every time I launch the game I have to go through a whole thing where it starts, tells me I’m on the wrong, account, then restarts and makes me sign in with that other account.
Absolute sheer stupidity.
I remember when there were 15 Assassin’s Creed games in the first 15 years of the series’ existence. I played maybe three of them and none of them except Black Flag stood out as especially good, and even Black Flag was mainly dragged down by the Assassin’s Creed gameplay. Never played The Division because the premise seemed like one big fascist fantasy.
Yeah, typical Tom Clancy fascistic overtones, but I loved the gameplay.
What? When?
The story in the Ezio trilogy was at least intriguing, and I don’t know if they ever continued it, finished it or just forgot. There was a whole story arc where the character accessing his genetic memories was caught between future assassins and the Abstergo corporation, who were future Knights Templar. After a certain point, all of the future parts of the games felt like B-stories that were tangential to the main future timeline.
It felt like the first game and the Ezio trilogy were building to something in the future timeline and then they went “Oh wait fuck we can’t have a climax or we can’t keep making these forever!”
The future thing was always a good idea but never well execute in the games. In the first one is better because you don’t have much to do inside the Animus as Altair so the conspiracy thing reading e-mails and investigating your cell is at least intriguing. From AC2 onwards every time you are disconnected from Animus to play as Desmond is boring and distracting, I can’t even remember the other characters.
After they killed Desmond they didn’t have any linchpin to hold the plot line. It’s a mess.
The first one was genuinely groundbreaking at the time. I remember playing it on PS3 and thinking “man I’ve never seen anything like this.” I used to just do the parkour stuff for hours.
It gets very samey and grindy towards the end by today’s standards. But AC2 was an all-time great for me. Assassinating the corrupt pope was a cool as hell moment. I stopped playing after AC3. Haven’t had any desire to try anything new they’ve put out.
I remember the guy who created the series in the first place got fired by Ubisoft and he went and made a weird experimental indie game instead