>"We don't disclose production costs, it did cost over 100 million euros, we'll say that. We don't give any final costs.We also invested heavily in the engine," Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said in a recent shareholders meeting.
Considering this stupid game has caused so much confusion and discontent.
I believe the true cost of the game was 400 million euros.
That's why Ubisoft sold their ass to Tencent just 2 weeks after the game's release.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106503/assassins-creed-shadows-budget-confirmed-to-be-over-euro-100-million/index.html

So what did all that money go to then?

>>716040783
Not to studying Japanese culture to keep it authentic at least.

100 million for 3 million "players" as they last called them, UBISOFT WON!

>>716040730 (OP)
>cost over 100 mill euros
He's really lowballing it, I guarantee this shitty game is at least cost more than 200 mill considering the how many ubishit studios worked on it.

>>716040783
a handful of executives snuck it out as their blue-haired employees dilated to gay Yasuke erp

>>716040730 (OP)
During investors call Yves openly admitted that first delay from late November to February added at least 20 million euro to games budget. That shit easily was over 200million euro considering overall 5 years production cycle and 2 years of pre-production after Oddysey released.

>>716040730 (OP)
>Assassin's Creed Shadow Costs 100 million euros
So? It sold 10 million copies so far.

>>716043207
>sold

>>716044683
it's true, my nearby retail store dedicated niggercreed stand was always full of copies and the only explanation is that they kept ordering units every day to keep it full.

>>716040730 (OP)
Pretty sure that number is still a lowball, because a few months before its release they still dumped over 20mil there to """"fix"""" some shit

>>716040730 (OP)
lmao, they already published their annuals of when this and SW Outlaws released.
Unless SW cost a crazy 800m, Shadows was more like 400m instead of 100m.
Also, notice the absolute disingenuous "over 100m".

>>716040730 (OP)
>Shadows cost 100mil in total
That's actually really fucking cheap. I was expecting the 100mil to be the basic production budget excluding all marketing, distribution etc. Guess outsourcing asset production to a thousand indians really helped with the budget.

So in other news, the new Assassin's Creed was highly successful

>>716040730 (OP)
>over €100 million
Technically true!

>>716046570
100m was just their advertising budget. Journos get paid hide the truth. Saying the budget was "over 100m" is the same as saying your game has 2 million "players". You don't need to outright lie, just make it seem like a big deal by using big numbers.

>>716047245
Nice fan fic. Cope more

>>716046475
pretty much this
if one didn't sink them even further, the other sure as fuck did
i sure am enjoying not owning your games, ubi!

>>716047245
Over 100mil usually implies a figure somewhere between 100 and 120mil. Not 150, 200 or more. Saying that the total budget was "over 100mil" means that it was significantly less than 150mil.

>>716040730 (OP)
lmao how many mental gymnastics did you have to go through to somehow believe it wasn't a massive commercial success?

>>716047703
It's coming from UBI, so it can mean anywhere between 100m to 1bil, we'll never know since those motherfuckers lie as easy as they breathe

>>716047245
gamepass also helps fudge the numbers a bit.

>>716047847
That's the one thing they can't do. At least not on financial reports. They don't have to give an exact precise figure but, by FTC law, they can't be off by more than a couple percentage points or risk getting delisted.

>>716040730 (OP)
>"cost over 100 million"
Yeah, at like 250 million, nice way to downplay the loss.

>>716040730 (OP)
If it cost 120million they would just say it cost 120 million, over 100mil means it cost way over 100 mil which includes 400 mil.

wow, are ubisloppers still coping about this game

>>716048050
They never gave you a figure in the first place, pay attention to the wording. If someone says it cost over 50 bucks they aren't saying it cost 50 bucks.

Wasn't the estimates like $300mil for Outlaws and $250mil for Shadows?

>>716048256
>it's over X so i can be anything from X to 2-3 times X
I mean this is AI but i think it's not total bullshit.

>>716048050
Sure but >>716046475

>>716048256
You sound angry

>>716040730 (OP)
spider man 2 cost approximately 300 million USD so shadows probably also sits in that ballpark

>>716048754
Did Spider-Man 2 have two hours of end credits?

>>716048927
No this shit again, it's been debunked. Most of the people on the credit didn't work on the game. They just listed every Ubisoft Employee, I believe Valve does something similar in their credits which is why 'IceFrog' is listed working on HL:Alyx

>>716048927
When you hire a thousand indians for pennies that tends to pad the credits and makes it really difficult to judge the production budget.

>>716040730 (OP)
>over 100 million

KEK, funny way to say over 500 million.

>>716047773
>how many mental gymnastics
ESL?

>>716049048
>No this shit again
Do you have to deal with this shit often in your line of work?

>>716049072
Which they legally can not do. Not on financial reports. You think they'd risk getting delisted?

i have almost 40,000 shares of ubisoft at around 2.20 cost basis.

buy it out and make me rich tencent-sama

>>716040730 (OP)
>Outlaws did not sell due to 'Brand Challenges'
They're blaming Star Wars for their game not selling? I'm sure that's one of the biggest brands on the planet.

>>716049135
What financial report? It's literally just bullshit from the CEO.
>We don't disclose production costs, it did cost over 100 million euros, we'll say that. We don't give any final costs.

>>716049135
It's not a financial report, it's just an interview for some journalist dude
He doesn't need to be honest

>>716049135
They just did.
Over anything is not a number it's a lie by omission, it could be 101 million it could whatever the fuck.
Same as the "players" shit.
How can you even give fucking Ubisoft the benefit of doubt?
Like this shit here >>716049048
It's like you guys WANT to be lied to.

Kek, the game's marketing cost alone was almost 100 million, they had giant ads everywhere, even here in Southeast Asia where I live, they tried to advertise in Japanese conventions but fucked up due to stealing stuff, the internet was nothing but Shadows ads for a while.

>>716049379
>>716049441
>>716049478

Then it's a literal nothing burger. The statement holds no credibility whatsoever. There isn't even a basis to make an educated guess. It could be 101mil, it could be 500mil nobody is ever going to know.

>>716049595
...yes? that's exactly what people are saying

>>716049128
as a paid shill? yes

kek no fucking way this gold plated pile of shit cost 100M. Valhalla cost over 200M and Ubisoft themselves admitted AC:V was never supposed to be a big project. Shadows easily cost twice that at least

>>716040730 (OP)
Say, does there happen to be a shareholders' meeting coming up soon or something?

>>716049269
>They're blaming Star Wars for their game not selling? I'm sure that's one of the biggest brands on the planet.

I mean what is he supposed to say? Point fingers at the departments that fucked up?

You really can't because nobody is really responsible for anything. This isn't some spot welder being shit at his job, every single little thing in AAA vidya dev is a collaborative effort. It's all chain of command. Lead producers want a thing done a certain way, they will hand down the list of requirements to the department lead who will instruct his designers. Those designers do the thing, show it to their department lead who will present it to his producers and they decide whether it works for them or not and if not the whole game of telephone starts over again. And this is me leaving out a couple steps, especially if the involved parties are not in the same building or even on the same continent the whole process can take weeks.

It is LITERALLY impossible to nail a mechanical or systemic issue down to one person. So you want a CEO to blame the whole team(hundreds or thousands of employees) for the failure of a game? What if the graphics are amazing but the game is just really buggy? Is QA to blame? Those guys handed in detailed bug reports, they told the systems designers what isn't working. What if the mechanics are great but the story is dogshit? Well that's just highly subjective, our focus groups loved the story.

>>716049770
well the article says it cost atleast 100 million as ubisoft doesnt give out budget numbers.

essentially its an article that doesnt need to exist

>>716048462
He's answering a question, he's not giving a quarterly financial report. The figures they provide in their reports are obviously somewhat accurate, they just don't go into detail what each project costs, they give overall figures. Your assumption they are braking laws by giving a vague open ended answer to a question is retarded and based on a misunderstanding of the context of this question, how it was worded and the laws at play.

>>716050064
>vague open ended answer to a question is retarded and based on a misunderstanding of the context
Because i was stupid enough to believe this was more than just a dicksuck interview full of softball questions. My bad.

>>716049256
Either you bought in 1996 and are a retarded faggot for keeping it that long
or
Yoy're a retarded, lying, faggot

>>716049595
Odds are it's closer to 500 than 100.

>>716048462
>what's this, a conversation between two willing people?
>hmmm I actually don't know what i'm talking about, let me google quickly and tell you what an AI thinks
Anon I mean this genuinely. The path you're on will make you a retard eventually.

>>716050284
Which is why i was so surprised when i heard that it, apparently, was a total of "over 100mil." strongly implying less than 150mil. But that's what MW2 cost 18 years ago. I am absolutely expecting any recent AAA game to cost, in total, around somewhere between 200 and 500mil.

running this through chatgpt, which seems to be pretty decent at scrapping the web for these kind of information, you get an estimate of:
- 220-320 million for production cost (mostly based on some leaks)
- 45-150 million for marketing

so around 265 - 470 million, since they sold out to tencent right after i would place the cost at the upper end.
there is no way the game made any profit, good riddance.

>they meant 120 million
>they meant 150 million
>unironically asking retardGPT
Ok, I'll give you morons some actual FACTS here.

https://staticctf.ubisoft.com/8aefmxkxpxwl/2jOPqNEzotGX0odqDUt5jr/57f0ba952c3be14b38ba97a02b17c119/Ent_AGM_2025.07.10_URD_GB_Interactif_def.pdf

Ubishit fiscal year ends on the 31st of March. So everything released between 1st of April 2024 to 31st of March 2025 counts into the fiscal year 2025 statements.

They moved 850 million from "shit in development" to "shit released to scam customers". I circled it red in the pic.
So in the year 24/25 they released games that cost them about 850 million.
They released a bunch of no worth garbage, let's be generous and give those a worth if 150 million. This leaves us with 700 million between Outlaws and Shadows.
Considering that Outlaws was quite a trainwreck in terms of quality and that Shadows is their flagship title (and in this case their figurative lifeline), it's pretty fair to summer that Shadows had at least half of those costs, so it definitely has something along the lines of 300 to tree fiddy million in costs.
The marketing costs in that year were shy of 390 million. Again, let's be generous and say 50 million were for some of those small things and miscellaneous shit, still leaves us with 340 million for both Outlaws and Shadows. Now I know Outlaws had dinner crazy marketing, so my guess here is we need to allocate shortly more of the remaining 340 million towards Outlaws, but it's fair to say Shadows had at least 100 mill in marketing costs.

>>716053715
>Now I know Outlaws had dinner crazy marketing, so my guess here is we need to allocate shortly more of the remaining 340 million towards Outlaws
I'm an idiot. Why does the CEO of Ubisoft think that desperate advertising is going to get players to buy crap games with ugly girls?
It doesn't even have a normal nose.

>>716040783
there's a reason why the credits alone are over an hour long and its filled with jeets

>>716057037
see: >>716049048

>>716040730 (OP)
>Considering this stupid game has caused so much confusion and discontent.
Where o where? "I heard it from /v/" is hardly an unbiased source.

I am simply non-buynary.