Ubisoft was banking on Star Wars Outlaws to be a massive, multi-platform hit that would earn the company plenty of money, especially with the expensive Gold and Ultimate editions and season pass.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    12 hours ago

    "The game received an unusual number of user reviews with a clear negative bias (including a large percentage of "zero" reviews), despite seeing acceptable review scores from reputable review sites," Wedbush analysts Michael Pachter, Alicia Reese and Kade Bar wrote in a note last week. "This is a case of a rare incel victory that led to Ubisoft having to take down its numbers," they added.

    Oh kindly fuck the hell off. Whenever people have legitimate criticisms of something like this they always downplay it as trolls, or review bombing. NO. It's a boring game, that's it. Ubisoft tries to make games for "everybody" and so they take zero risks, and because of that their games are boring.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    11 hours ago

    "This is a case of a rare incel victory that led to Ubisoft having to take down its numbers," they added.

    Some analysts point to sheer number of games available today, their high prices, and the cost of living crisis for a slowdown in the gaming market. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot himself admitted that gamers now expect extraordinary experiences, and that "delivering solid quality is no longer enough."

    The lesson learned is pander even more and make the hog slop an even more finely liquefied puree of fanservice shit! cap-think