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[LectureMaster]

 

[Astray]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

 

[Zacfoldor]

That means it hasn't passed 1 million sales and isn't it out today? If the game hasn't passed 1 million sales by now, how many did the other AC sell? Remember this on is also available via their sub, correct? Engagement metrics from a non-gamepass game is not something to brag on. This news to me makes it more likely in my mind that the game didn't meet their probably rather lofty sales expectations.

 

[adamsapple]

Another rare incel W.

 

[Loomy]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

South of Midnight comes out in 2 weeks. Plenty of time to reload for the next outrage.

 

[tTHANOSs]

Players not sales.

 

[Zacfoldor]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

Don't celebrate too early, remember, remember "go woke go to the top of the charts."

It took us a long time to verify that Wokeguard failed.

 

[GHG]

It's doing so well that they need to give away keys for the Ubislop store.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Edit: I'm still not buying or recommending it to anyone

 

[IDKFA]

Good. Glad to see it's a success.

 

[Scrawnton]

1 mil on day one is not enough to keep Ubisoft going, I reckon. Need to pump those numbers up.

 

[LectureMaster]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

I imagine a good portion is on Ubi plus subscription service that's why they talk about reaching 1M players rather than copies sold. It's hard to tell whether this is a success or not just for now.

 

[ManaByte]

Best AC since Black Flag.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Saying 1M players instead of 1M sales tells me all i need to know.

 

[Embearded]

Looks like a good game, good for them. Congratulations to the team.

 

[mdkirby]

People need to stop celebrating when games hit “okay” initial numbers. Sales are always front loaded and often fall off a cliff. The budget are so wildly out of control that it’ll need a good 10 mil sales. If it gets 3 mil in the first few weeks people will shout about its success, then we find out a few months later it was a massive financial failure as it stalled at 4 mil.

 

[Certinty]

Well deserved.

Not only is the game great, they actually listened to all the complaints about Valhalla and more or less fixed it all.

 

[ElFenomeno]

When all its said and done the series has a big fanbase ...it's always guaranteed to sell a few million copies.
Is that enough for Ubi? I don't think so.
Plus , as GAF shows, you just need to put some shiny graphics on your usual slop and most people will be impressed and eat it up.

 

[adamsapple]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

Don't worry, they'll be back with zingers like "if it's doing so well why are they giving codes for their ubislop store"

 

[LectureMaster]

Don't worry, they'll be back with zingers like "if it's doing so well why are they giving codes for their ubislop store"

GHG

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Don't worry, they'll be back with zingers like "if it's doing so well why are they giving codes for their ubislop store"

Yea as much as I dislike the game it doesn't mean anything; giving codes away is always a cool move

 

[GHG]

Don't worry, they'll be back with zingers like "if it's doing so well why are they giving codes for their ubislop store"

They don't call me the grifter king for nothing.

It all started with this night in Vegas...

 

[ManaByte]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

They’re recording their South of Midnight outrage videos right now.

 

[damidu]

damn first kcd2 now this, chuds are quickly getting exposed as the wet farts they are.
choose your targets wisely fools

let me go disrespect some more shrines

 

[Arsic]

Game is mad good so far. My favorite AC since odyssey.

 

[ByWatterson]

I mean it probably needs to sell 10 million

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I imagine a good portion is on Ubi plus subscription service that's why they talk about reaching 1M players rather than copies sold. It's hard to tell whether this is a success or not just for now.

Yeah way too early to tell.

The budget has to be on at least FFXVI's caliber and that game gotten over 3 million actual copies sold within 1 week. Right now AC isn't even at 1 million copies sold just 1 mil player which include those of gamepass.

Even if it was 1 million copies, that still wouldn't be a great first news for this budget level of a game. A 1 million copy sold news is better off with much lower budget games like Granblue Fantasy Relink, Stellar Blade, Silent Hill 2 Remake. If I was them I would have waited for a 3 million actual copies sold news within a week and actual copies sold like FFXVI and not just players.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Looking over the responses and yep, come to expect the usual suspects.

 

[Astray]

Don't celebrate too early, remember, remember "go woke go to the top of the charts."

It took us a long time to verify that Wokeguard failed.

I mean Veilguard had a smaller but more enthusiastic fanbase that was very starved, and thus came in droves for the 1st week or so. Once these guys got done with it it was all over for the title really.

Assassin's Creed is far, FAR bigger with normies than Dragon Age or any Bioware title. Like I think the only bigger titles to normies are your CODs, GTAs and FIFAs.

I imagine a good portion is on Ubi plus subscription service that's why they talk about reaching 1M players rather than copies sold. It's hard to tell whether this is a success or not just for now.

I don't think that's such a big portion, the Ubisoft subscription numbers aren't THAT big. Though I would question their judgment if they put this on there day 1.

My brother was just telling me today that he bought it.

They’re recording their South of Midnight outrage videos right now.

It's honestly a bad state of affairs when one can predict the rage bait coming out.

 

[DryvBy]

I've seen this episode before:

Hi-Fi Rush was a huge success for Xbox and Microsoft

Xbox’s VP of Marketing revealed on Twitter how Hi-Fi Rush was such an incredible success for the entire gaming division, pointing at things to come.

en.as.com

 

[Boneless]

Euphemising the sales performance is a standard strategy to get non-buyers more likely to hop aboard.

If this sells poorly or mediocre at best that is a good thing for the industry, as Ubisoft promotes monetisation tactics that should not be welcomed.

 

[TheRedRiders]

Playing it as we speak and I’m loving every second of it.

 

[Roufianos]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

I mean, this game was always going to sell a few million. Question is will it be the mega hit that it needs to be.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Best AC since Black Flag.

 

[Astray]

I mean, this game was always going to sell a few million. Question is will it be the mega hit that it needs to be.

A few million is going to be an underestimation imo. I don't think it's gonna do MonHun numbers, but it's gonna do very well.

The concept of Assassin's Creed in Japan has been long-sought after by fans.

 

[ManaByte]

It’s the title of AC4. Released before you were born.

 

[Madflavor]

Lol so a year’s worth of intense noise and controversy, and it’s looking like the fastest selling AC game. Bravo.

 

[Heisenberg007]

It's doing so well that they need to give away keys for the Ubislop store.

Disgusting.

Where?

 

[LectureMaster]

I mean Veilguard had a smaller but more enthusiastic fanbase that was very starved, and thus came in droves for the 1st week or so. Once these guys got done with it it was all over for the title really.

Assassin's Creed is far, FAR bigger with normies than Dragon Age or any Bioware title. Like I think the only bigger titles to normies are your CODs, GTAs and FIFAs.


I don't think that's such a big portion, the Ubisoft subscription numbers aren't THAT big. Though I would question their judgment if they put this on there day 1.

My brother was just telling me today that he bought it.

It's honestly a bad state of affairs when one can predict the rage bait coming out.

If it's trivial then there is no need to say pass 1m players rather than sold 1m copies.

That's why I hate those wording "reach" "engagement", etc. It does not provide a clear picture of the metric. It would be much easier to judge the game's performance if they just confirm how many copies they sold.

 

[ManaByte]

Lol so a year’s worth of intense noise and controversy, and it’s looking like the fastest selling AC game. Bravo.

Rage grifters failed.

 

[Heisenberg007]

It’s the title of AC4. Released before you were born.

Calm down, son. I played that on launch day, just like I played Assassin's Creed 1 on launch day

 

[Spitfire098]

 

[Vlodril]

Those are rookie numbers..

 

[Madflavor]

Rage grifters failed.

I’m taking no sides on this. On one side, you have the usual band of anti-woke rage grifters, and on the other side you have people cheering for an average formulaic game made by a notoriously shitty company. Let them fight.

 

[Saber]

This sounds more like engagement numbers than actual sales.
Would be better to wait and see, but I guess they need every bit of good vibe to the game.

 

[reinking]

 

[adamsapple]

Calm down, son. I played that on launch day, just like I played Assassin's Creed 1 on launch day

Ah, dementia then

 

[clarky]

Are they counting they/them as 2?

 

[Kacho]

1 million players…

Taking that engagement approach.

 

[rofif]

All those ragebaiting youtubers have to go back to the drawing board now huh?

it was so tiresome for the past months. The sales probably suffered a lot because of this anyway. It killed a lot of hype.