• @mrfriki
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    Problem is that folks at Steam have already seen the reviews and they know what they’re getting into.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m not a Star Wars fan and this game has no redeeming quality for me to get it because it’s pretty mid gameplay wise too, but I feel like Star Wars fans would bite no? I think dragon ball z kakarot is mid, but I just love db so much that I bought and played the game anyway.

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      Maybe I’m missing something, but what does Steam care? All it is is another game they’ll get some additional revenue on. It’s not like they’re betting the farm on it.

      • n1ckn4m3
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        I think OP meant Steam users have already seen the reviews, so the bigger market probably isn’t going to cause as big of a sales boost as Ubi was hoping.

        • @[email protected]
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          Ah that makes sense i read “at Steam” as the company, not “at Steam” as users who use the platform.

  • @108
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    I don’t buy Ubi games anymore. I am also a bit Star War’s out.

    Edit: spelling

  • trevor
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    Say “no” to Ubislop! You’ll be happy you did :)

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m “soft boycotting” Ubisoft. By which I mean they haven’t made a game I’m willing to buy in years…

    • Kerb
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      i took ubis advice.
      i am now very comfortable with not owning ubisoft games 😂

    • Jo Miran
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      I loved Steep, so when Rider’s Republic joined GamePass I installed it immediately. Once I saw the interface, the monetization and how almost everything was paywalled, I uninstalled. Not even getting their shit for free makes it a good experience.

    • Altima NEO
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      I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game since the division. And even then I regret getting that.

  • Neshura
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    A) funny how that works with Steam everytime. “We don’t need Steam” > sales plummet > “Release on Steam in 60 days”

    B) I don’t think releasing the game on Steam will save them here, from what I’ve seen it’s just a bad game plain and simple. It will maybe fill the gap a bit but probably not by enough to actually achieve the sales numbers they would like to see.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      This is probably why they pumped the brakes so hard on Assassin’s Creed Shadows. The state they released Star Wars Outlaws in was absolutely abysmal. Something tells me they figured if they did the same thing with assassin’s Creed shadows, they were fucked. They’re also now releasing that one day one on steam. I really get the distinct feeling that if assassin’s Creed’s shadows doesn’t sell for Ubisoft, they’re in serious trouble.

      • @VelvetStorm
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        Outlaws could have been released 100% bug free and it still would have flopped

      • Altima NEO
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        They’ve had too many flops and investors are getting pretty pissed at their stupid decisions.

        • @CleoTheWizard
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          They’re trying to sell the company and have been for awhile. The problem is that without a win, no one wants to buy.

          • @MotoAsh
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            All they have is their IP, which they keep shitting on. The unique Ubisoft “innovations” are a shittier launcher and removing games from people who paid for them if they don’t play.

            Nobody should want to buy that shitshow except to gut it for IP.

    • @[email protected]
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      From what I’ve seen and heard it’s an okay game, just seems like it could be so much more.

      Ubisoft is basically a franchise at this point, so companies with IPs can give them to Ubisoft and they’ll make it fit their game formula.

      Problem is, even though they might try and tweak it occasionally, that formula is now 12 years old.

      • Altima NEO
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        I mean by November they’ll be releasing it around the time of the steam sale event, when everything sells.

        Assuming they put the game on sale, and not just try to charge full price.

      • @zecg
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        It is a good game IMO, but they will have completely missed the hype train by November.

        Interesting, I’d say it’s incredibly badly designed and executed given Ubisoft’s resources and the open world games they can make. The lack of danger and enemy awareness, the perfunctory stealth that barely works, the mostly empty open world and floaty speeder, the formulaic story…

        Now, the one thing we learned from Ubi’s mistakes is that there’s no second chance for a first impression. They added a completely new and rather good campaign to try and fix Breakpoint, making all the looter tropes optional and it works great, it’s a good open world game after that, but I haven’t seen an influx of new players.

        • @maniii
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          It is far far worse. Check LegendaryDrops video about what Ubi developers have told him in private.

          Ubisoft as a company no longer exists as it did back when they made good games.

          It is all a shitshow right now.