Thread 724849285

Ubisoft stock is plummeting towards new lows.
How would (you) save Ubisoft at this point?

>>724849285 (OP)
>How would (you) save Ubisoft at this point?
I wouldn't

>>724849285 (OP)
I honestly don't think you can. Ubisoft's fanbase are spread out among too many franchises so they can't just close every studio but one and live off one game at a time. EA could've just shut down everything that wasn't FIFA and sustained itself.

>>724849658
>EA could've *had
FIFA license is gone.

>>724849285 (OP)
They're have to do a full reversal but by now a lot of the disdain they're getting is from factors outside of their actual products. They've grown complacent with their franchises and refused to give their fans what they wanted and now they reap the benefits of being condescending and "knowing better".

>>724849285 (OP)
>Ubisoft in fucking shambles
>stock price dropping
>pull out the ultimate ''break in case of bankrupcy'' game and finally make AC Japan
>Only you still pull a quick one
>game releases
>no hype
>no active discussion
>feels like the game came and went
>Shareholders are pissed and are staging a hostile takeover
>Spent the entire year gaslighting your investors into believing that AC shadows was a massive success
>SALES DONT MATTER LOOK AT ACTIVE PLAYERS
>LOOK AT THE ENGAGEMENT NUMBERS
>Manage to succesfully convince Tencent to buy your worthless company
>finally come out and say that the game in fact sold like shit and that the IP is worthless now
>Cash out and run
Never trust the French

>>724849364
Skimpy Outfits for the Female operators in Siege

>>724850203
Tencent has been the go-to for game devs that want to pimp their IPs to the highest shareholders. All of them are IPs with female protagonists without fail.

I don't want to post the secret formula on how to save ubisoft because ubisoft might be in the thread right now and I never help someone for free.

>>724850203
yeahhhh you aren't making a deal with Tencents without a bunch of finance niggas and accountants poring through all your financials

I thought AC shadows was the best selling game in US and EU?
What happened there

>>724850357
Shit, you’re right.
I was going to point out how doubling down on their race baiting and female protagonists was actually their ticket to success, since other companies leaning away means they’ll sweep the niche in the market. Naughty Dog would be their only competition here, what with that space game they’re making
I’ve already said too much, I just hope they’re not taking notes.

>>724850357
We'll give you 15 EUR store credit.

>>724849285 (OP)
>7000 staff
Too many cooks in the kitchen. I need to shed 90% of the weight but it couldn't be done because ubisoft got the bright idea of unionising everyone a few year ago. Also french law giving protection from mass layoff fucked it even further

>>724849364
fpbp

Ubisoft already saved themselves by moving all their valuable IPs to a sub company partly owned by tencent. Now there's no reason for anyone to invest in ubisoft itself and they can go bankrupt.

Rabbids Go Home 2

Lynch every leftist and woman at ubisoft.

>>724849285 (OP)
I thought yasugay saved them lol

>>724849285 (OP)
Save?

>>724850203
>SALES DONT MATTER LOOK AT ACTIVE PLAYERS
>LOOK AT THE ENGAGEMENT NUMBERS
Once a company starts lying about sales it's beyond over. One of the reasons why the share price is so low is many people know the figures are fictitous. It's fraud and illegal but law enforcement has collapsed so nothing will be done. They'll still go bust though.

>>724850357
i can imagine ubisoft management posting this thread in hope of getting an actual answer.
good lord, they suck so much

>>724849285 (OP)
New AC set in modern times. But here is the twist: they bring back Altair. They clone him and use the animus to rebuild his memory. I know it is generic af, but I'm trying to keep it ubisoftish so the board might not get scared. At least they could have some fun with middle ages guy being out of place in the future, they can do some power fantasy self insert shit to make it sell better, can make him and Desmond do buddy missions together and so on. I'm thinking something more like Arkham games. Hell, what if they could let you use old ACs save files? Literal whos don't sell as much as a self insert and thats the only face left for them to salvage (Desmond became code and there is too much Ezio fatigue).

>>724851000
It was obviously Star Wars Outlaws that was supposed to save them. After it bombed they went into the panic mode and delayed Yasuke's game. One can imagine how buggy it would have been if they really pushed it out in Christmas market.

>>724849285 (OP)
Save?

>>724851727
Outlaws is a funnier easily missable bomb to me than Shadows.
They had years of seeing just how many people fucking hated NuWars since TLJ, and could easily have leaned into that. We know from Survivor that disney has limited creative control over the games, so barring a contract breaching level of disparagement they had free reign to target the points everyone hates about the ST.

>>724849285 (OP)
All they had to do is drop the DEI and woke shit and focus on actual stories and gameplay.
Not to mention cutting down on the open-world BS, producing more AA content to get a short-term fix and then make an actual good AAA game.
This along with bringing back their older IPs like Rayman.

But it's too late. Way too late and I don't feel bad for them at all when Tencent will eventually take them over.

>>724849285 (OP)
Shadow is literally their last chance.
They could just make shadow with naoe as protagonist and let everything works by itself, but they had to put that gorilla nigger that ended up shooting them in their own legs and here we are now

>>724849285 (OP)
that's bullish

>>724852531
Looking at how most major entertainment corporations still act, it is obvious that a lot of execs and major investors are committed to either ride or die with DEI and they would indeed rather kill their business than course correct.

>>724849285 (OP)
Easy, fire everyone useless, try to bring back old veterans who worked on AC 1 to 4
Plan 3 new Assassin's Creed games:
- one in Japan where you play as a (japanese) shinobi
- one in Berlin during the cold war where you play as a spy, maybe as a commie that would be fun to get their perspective for once
- Assassin's Creed: Rayman vs Raving Rabbids
Forget the dark soulsed RPG gameplay, go back to old school parkour and assassination.

Then I make a new pirate game based on a post I saw here years ago
>Imagine Black Flag with fantasy stuff like kraken and ghostships minus the assassin stuff and they slap the nemesis system from Shadow of War on top of it.
Cool pirate banter and battles.
Maybe add an online mode.

Then make a new Watch Dogs in my custom Cyberpunk setting.
Add anime girls and vtubers to Just Dance. I don't know if it's a good idea or if it would scare off normalfags.
I have other plans but I'll keep that's it for now.

>>724853368
People forget that the Larrybuck bribes weren’t just to shove in DEI shit into games, but to also hire people that espoused it. The intent was to make sure nobody could take the money and course correct later, but now it’s bitten them in the ass because the companies are filled with zealots that refuse to bend an inch, even to give even the slightest leeway to restore confidence.

>>724849285 (OP)
i thought AC black fag was huge success. what the fuck happened?

>>724849285 (OP)
What's the issue though? It's not like their actions are funding the business.
All that matters is that their sales cover their expenses. If they don't, then they can downsize and try and make profitable games.

>>724853725
They are funded by debt and a crashing share price makes getting new debt harder.

>>724849285 (OP)
Introduce company mandated black bulls to all employees

>>724849285 (OP)
Saudi / Trump buyout imminent

>>724849285 (OP)
rabbids sex game. i will not elaborate further

>>724853703
Ubisoft also published multiple GAAS bombs in 2013 (ShootMania Storm, Spartacus Legends, Anno Online), they were ahead of their time in live service failures.

classic

>>724850357
>I don't want to post the secret formula on how to save ubisoft because ubisoft might be in the thread right now and I never help someone for free.
>People were asking for pure pirate game
they gave us skull and bones
>People were asking for asscreed in japan
they gave us a nigger main character
>People were asking for splinter cell
they gave us nothing
>People were sort off asking for beyond good and evil 2
they wasted how much money and time for nothing?

Ubisoft reaching rock bottom is a good thing
Either they fold and sell their ips or they'll heavily change, remove 90% of their useless workforce and start putting quality stuff again

>>724850203
So how is Tencent going to handle the fact they have been sold a dead weight company?

>>724850357
hey fuck you too

>>724854164
>terms of purchase
I like it when they turn around cucked leftoid memes

>>724849285 (OP)
This is what happens when you hire thousands of woke employees. I still remember those dumbasses going on strike even when the company was in crisis, kek. Supporting ‘wokeness’ as a company is basically asking to go bankrupt. And as a bonus, you’ll never make a good game with a bunch of activists and union drones on the payroll.

>Ubisoft stock was at its lowest in 2005
>That's around the time they made their best games
??????

>>724854487
>Hard times create strong men

>>724854558
more like
>hard times break weak men
>only the strong men survive, but often crippled

>>724849285 (OP)
this is what winning looks like, chuddy, watch and learn

>>724849285 (OP)
Stop giving it taxpayer money and let it live or die on it's own merits instead of teaching them that they'll still get paid for failure.

>>724850287
You want to see fuck ugly men and women in swimsuits?

>>724849285 (OP)
>How would (you) save Ubisoft at this point?
Rayman 2 remaster.

>>724853703
>i thought AC black fag was huge success
They announced 3 million players (keyword: players) in three days, went radio silent after that and at their financial statement finally came out and admitted the game sold below their expectations and that their fiscal year as a whole was a huge bust

I hope trackmania survives

>>724852531
>>724853368
The disconcerting part in all this is that by the end of this whole dei shitshow, most asian companies or saudi companies will own a lot of older I.Ps. Idiotic western companies/corps are being tricked and bought out of their own market for shortterm investments. Corporations and zealots have unironically done incalculable damage to the gaming industry.

>>724849364
Imagine not buying the dip.
You're just a kid and not a real playa.

>>724849285 (OP)
>How would (you) save Ubisoft at this point?
Bring back Ancel and have him walk through each of the offices ordering the staff to engage in the ancient Roman practice of decimation whereby 1 in 10 workers get beaten to death by their colleagues.

>>724852531
>will
Tencent is all but own them already. The chinks didn't make it official on paper because they might trigger some anti-monopoly laws.