these arrogant assholes.

just like movies and TV, the waning interest in the franchise is only because you keep making shitty games with it.

If you people start making GOOD star wars stuff again, we WILL eat it up.

There is waning interest in Star Wars franchise. And Assassin's Creed franchise. And Far Cry Franchise. Hmmm, there seems to be a pattern here...

I thought the game looked ok, but why would I pay $70 for a game that can disappear from my library whenever Ubisoft feels like it? They've demonstrated that they're willing to permanently take games away from paying customers, so I'm not willing to spend more than the cost of a rental on one of their games.

Not waning interest in Ubisoft?

Because, ooh boy, did my interest in Ubisoft wane year after year of overproduced cookie cutter crap. And I'm not expecting a change of phase.

Also, Guillemot, you're talking publicly a lot for someone with (now convicted) sexual harrasser friends you've protected all of your career.

It just boggles my mind how execs can learn the wrong lesson 100% of the time. It seems impossible.

Regardless, they keep canning games like 1313 that get fans hyped and give us generic trash instead.

A) And yet, not long after, Andor was massively successful.

B) Then stop making games exclusively based off of third party IPs.

Waning interest in Ubisoft. Everything they touch is painfully generic and uninteresting. On top of that, they infect the games with Denuvo malware while charging top dollar. But sure, blame the consumers for your lack of vision, passion, business sense, and technical acumen. See how that pays off, Yves.

Disney killed the franchise by releasing slop year after year. Also by letting Ubisoft make a Star Wars game.

It's almost like if I'm constantly fed slop I avoid it

Could it be waning interest in the Ubislop formula?

No, it's the gamers who are wrong!

I love Star Wars and usually have a half decent time with Ubi games. You can usually pick them up for 50% off physical like a month after release.

I have never put down a game quicker than Outlaws. It’s Ubisoft open world map icon slop at its worst. The first 4 hours of story are boring and repetitive. Every mission was “sneak into an Imperial base, oh shit something went wrong! Now escape!” Progression and abilities might as well not be there.

Interest in SW isn’t waning. Companies keep making bad SW content.

There is a waning interest, but it wasn't the singular reason the game flopped. It's because it was a painfully mediocre game at an extremely inflated price.

Mass-produced corporate sludge like Outlaws is exactly why interest is waning. It sucks the soul out of the franchise and makes people lose interest.

This statement in the same week as Yves installs his son as Co-CEO in charge of their biggest franchises. A man who entered the industry as a CEO of a mobile company and then founded a AI/NFT/crypto game company that is being liquidated now.

Pure nepotism. The Guillemont family is the parasite that is killing Ubisoft.

If they would've stuck with the old 'gritty' Star Wars game that was supposed to be like GTA style adult oriented Star Wars instead of this stupid shit. It would have been massively successful.

It‘s no brand thing. It‘s just a reaction on the way Ubisoft releases games these days and yes, the game could have been better but without the Star Wars-tag, it wouldn‘t have been noticed at all.

Make boring shit, get no love from the community. It's as easy as that.

I think the turnoff for me was they wanted like $90 or something. No thanks.

That's part of it for sure. It's grimdark. Read: boring.

Forever locked in a Jedi vs Sith binary. And it is the highest of heresy to dare imagine anything beyond it.

Idk, I liked Jedi: Survivor even though that one was EA.

What? I thought Ubisoft was saying sales were really strong and how Outlaws was such a big success?

I'm going to guess this is the exact same case with Assassins Creed. An AC game set in feudal Japan should have been a Grand Slam. Literally everyone wanted it. But leave it up to Ubisoft to find ways to make money from a printer drop right into the shredder.

It's more than just bugs and "blandness." Clearly people aren't buying what Ubisoft is making, and they keep changing stuff but none of the things they change are the reasons people aren't buying their games. It is crazy to me that executives continue to learn the wrong lesson from failed games 100% of the time. And then they ignore gamers when we straight up tell them what they should have changed. Crazy.

I actually really liked this game.

This was another, though, that launched with a bunch of bugs on pc. And while I didn’t run into a ton on PS5, the game crashed for me here or there. And that sucks.

But I played and beat this game. And I quite enjoyed it. But I wouldn’t say it’s a masterpiece or anything.

It's been like 4-5 years since I've purchased a Ubisoft game. There's too many games out there to be spending money on a trash publishers games. Along with how slp on the wrist it seemed with their workplace sexual harassment/bullying/assault, always remember that they pioneered always online DRM for single player games. They've been a trash company publicly for almost 20 years. Culturally probably longer

Classic skill issue

I tried it in May/June and it was very meh. At the start I had an urge to play it, but after a day or two I had no urge to open it. A lot of it felt repetitive to a point of why bother.

I loved the acolyte and was sad to hear it was cancelled. Jason Mendoza, a badass sith? Sign me up!

Wasn't it more that the game was a buggy mess? No that can't have been it it was clearly the fans fault.