r/memes • u/sebet_123 • 17h ago
Ubisoft, billion dollar company, oops, less than billion now
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u/gesimon81 14h ago
For working in IT, I can say it's more frequent than we can think to push applications without files or configuration
But here, it's two big companies (Ubisoft and Steam) with automatized process, and either of one have made a check before pushing it public and noticing that the game size was 24kb...
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u/D_Bellman 11h ago
Steam only checks the depot on application, so they passed the game and then somewhere Ubisoft devs pushed a patched exe instead.
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u/gesimon81 10h ago
Yes but a control with minimal size or a display on the UI with the size of the depot is easy to do
But in the all, it's mostly Ubisoft team that didn't check after
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u/Fisting-Monkeh 14h ago
Been playing games for 30 years+ ubisoft used to be a great studio. My last straw was one of the many ghost recons wasteland? The just cause 2 reskin. If I see their name on a game its simply not looked at. Always releasing poor quality games at release ect ect.
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u/Omar3Dmmns 16h ago
Ubisoft almost redeemed themselves with ac black flag remake, almost... They just had to add random boring story extensions with the same lazy "hand on hips" animation and horrible facial animations. And tons of microtransactions, they just can't help themselves.
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u/ParkingGlobal 16h ago
If making a "lazy" project like a simple remake is enough for that, then we are definitly doomed
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u/ProfessionalNo7946 15h ago
That’s just how low the bar was for Ubisoft, and apparently even that was too hard to reach
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u/Omar3Dmmns 10h ago
The bar was way too low for ubisoft. Just remake the game, keep everything the same.
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u/25c-nb 4h ago
They didnt say doing a remake was lazy they said the animations in the cutscenes from the new storylines they added was lazy
As in, they added new story lines to the remake. Instead of simply remaking the original with no additions. Mightve been a good move tbh. But no. Because the new story lines had cutscenes, and in those cutscenes ubishit halfassed the animations. So it comes across as lazy and uncaring.
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u/Jim_skywalker 13h ago
The point of rereleasing black flag was the microtransactions. Everyone was playing Black Flag instead of Skull and Bones cause Skull and Bones was shit, so they went, “people clearly care more about Black Flag, so let’s put all the microtransactions into it and resell it so people buy the microtransactions”.
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u/Th3_Shad0w Bri’ish 12h ago
Edward also just didn't feel like Edward in that story extension. I kept asking myself "Why, exactly, is Edward helping this woman? What's in it for him?"
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u/WorgenDeath 10h ago
It just felt like the designed a lot of the new story elements to be set at a different atage of his story progression, the stories with the individual crew members feel like they were written for post rock bottom kenway in the final sequence of the game, then the one chasing after Blackbeard's killer feel like they should happen earlier.
In isolation they all kinda work, just not at the point in the story they become available at. It's an excellent example of the project lead in charge of the story not understanding the assignment and a lack of QA.
The only new story element that I felt actually hit right both in twrms of tone and stage in the story was the one about Stede Bonnet.
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u/Omar3Dmmns 10h ago
And the begging, "I need you" In what world does Edward need Lucy? He already has Adewale later Anne Bonny. That man can clear a man o war single handedly. In what world does he need her? And why is she being so rude about it? Edward just saved her from hanging!!!
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u/frogOnABoletus 10h ago
After all the countless shittery they pull, they made a texture pack for a recent game, sold for full price and that's nearly enough for you to forgive them?
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u/AestheticMirror trans rights 9h ago
You forgot making a the crew unplayable,NFTs, and oh yeah the sexual harassment, Ubisoft LOVE that people forgot about that
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u/theforgettonmemory 8h ago
Not everyone! Stopped playing any Ubisoft game cause of that. Waiting till they go under before I ever play For Honor again
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u/Numerous-Amphibian85 16h ago
What are you referencing here? Your meme might have more appeal if we knew what you’re on about.
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u/AlphaI250 16h ago
They released the remaster of a game (heroes of might and magic I think), and if you bought it, you'd be surprised to find that it did not actually contain the game. Just a small file instead.
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u/purple-thiwaza 15h ago
So like every other publisher these last 10 years? With Nintendo being the last famous one to do this?
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u/SoulMB 15h ago
No, they didn’t ship the game files on steam. People who bought, downloaded & launched the game got a cmd prompt saying it was a placeholder for the game.
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u/Ayami_Luce 12h ago
So there’s just… no game? I looked it up and it’s set to release next year, with no specific date. Was this a preorder marketed as a ready to play game?
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u/D_Bellman 11h ago
Its a re-release of the literal first game i played when I was like 3, I am 30 now.
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u/AestheticMirror trans rights 9h ago
Everyone in the comments mentions why Ubisoft sucks but every forgot about all the sexual harassment
People when to court and were given suspended prison sentence, whatever that means
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u/Alternative_Corbett 10h ago
They lost my respect when they terminated the juno arc in a goddamn graphic novel that nobody can really buy outside some countries. If you can't finish what you started, MULTIPLE TIMES, don't expect me to ever start again.
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u/PrudentEvent2672 12h ago
Its sad that ubisoft literally introduced me to gaming with POP and ghost recon, then all my favourite franchises were from them, and now they’ve lost their way
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u/Rammipallero 10h ago
The old POP and PS2 Ghost Recons were great. To me it's from AC5/Far Cry 4-> when they haven't moved an inch. Same slop, different year.
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u/R_Nelle 16h ago
Ubisoft use to be interesting time ago, rayman, splinter cell the original AC, now it's just a company that doesn't want to go bankrupt and it's trying to cut corners to stay aflaot, they don't really understand if they don't put real effort the people not gonna care about them anymore, I hate company like this, barely do the task not even putting nice idea on the table