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Assassin's Creed Shadows has already passed 1 million players!
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Astray
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Hype can be rebuilt. The key thing is whether it's rebuilt in time for Ubi to get full price (or close to that) on it.
ValiantInstance
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Some people have low expectations. I wouldn't even play this slop for free even if it didn't have all the culture war baggage. There are so many other better things to play out there.
Heisenberg007
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It seems like AC Shadows did get more hate than it deserved. I haven't played it yet - might get it in a week or so - but if it is a good game, I hope it becomes more successful.
Good work deserves recognition. If it sucks like Valhalla, then it can rot in hell for all I care.
Kacho
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Just my personal observation, I’m seeing a lot of damage control on Twitter. Seems very artificial.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
imo ubisoft is gone.
This would probably have to sell like 10 mil to make a dent.
Yep. It got the enormous hate from day 1 for no reason.
Seems like it's a good AC game. Maybe a bit too late after AC franchise hype but still.
Boss Man
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The sales suffered because the writers treated it like an activism project instead of a product.
LectureMaster
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clarky
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You know exactly what you'll be getting, its a Ubisoft game. Jack of all trades and master of none.
If you like this sort of thing it looks to be one of the better entries, with a added helping of pandering.
Personally this shit bores me to tears but the eye candy looks nice, but not enough for me to bite these days.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
I don't see it.
Everyone was screaming about it since day1 when nothing was known about the game other than black man.
Imo it's more interesting to write the story about black slave becomming a samurai, rather than another stiff samurai story.
Everyone keeps saying about pandering but where is it other than romance choices?
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Aguero9320
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Some real hard coping going on in here from those willing it to fail.
Congrats to Ubisoft on a great start. Will definitely buy this in a few weeks.
Congrats to Ubisoft on a great start. Will definitely buy this in a few weeks.
The Mad Draklor
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Wasn't this game delayed not just once, but twice? It was originally planned to release in November 2024.
Astray
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Ubisoft is not necessarily gone, but they will have to cut a lot in order to get back on track.
There's this weird attempt to make the fake outrage about this game be about stuff Ubisoft did, when to my knowledge, none of this game's staff was ever disrespectful towards players in any way.
Like I can see the Concord people being arrogant towards others being part of its public issues, but this is very clearly not the case here.
The copium is insane, just call it a loss and move on.
Lokaum D+
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Lol, ppl really have potato memory, 6 months ago was this very same story.Rage grifters failed.
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AtomicStarving
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3 months until the big D is coming into this company, if you know you know 
willothedog
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
why tomorrow?tomorrow will be fun on youtube
Skifi28
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I'm still too early in the game for a definitive statement, but it's looking very likely this will be the case for me as well.
Bartski
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you're right, they're usually faster
Zacfoldor
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In a few weeks we may find out it failed. Are you sure you want to post that we are coping? You seem very confident this did well. Why are you so confident.....
People smarter than us that make huge bucks were confident Veilguard succeeded far longer after launch that we are from the launch of this. Also, Veilguard's metrics are better so far than this game.
Truth is I always knew the woke crowd would come out and claim victory on day 1 just like they did with veilguard. Careful though, because they were wrong about that one and it appeared to be doing better than this one.'
I can't say for sure, but I do know this. If the game was a massive success, the pronouncements would be a lot louder and a lot more specific. I know it sucks not to know yet, but I think we have to wait to find out about this one. One thing to note is that this game is a HUGE IP, it needs to create a lot of revenue on a scale most other games do not. If it UNDERPERFORMS even if the total sales are really high, the game will still have failed in Ubisoft's eyes. I think expectations were very high for this with Ubi so I am interested to see if it meets them.
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drganon
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Says gaf's resident corporate bootlicker.Rage grifters failed.
blastprocessor
The Amiga Brotherhood
Beautiful game, just a stunner.
DenchDeckard
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Sold!
Funny how this post shows up right as the narrative on X is that UbiSoft is lying about the numbers and paying to boost them.
Kings Field
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if it cost $200 million to develop and even if they “sold” 1 million copies; after paying the platform their cut, etc etc it’s still in the red by about $150 million. Does the platform take their cut from each copy sold or is it a fixed amount to have their game on the platform?
Don’t celebrate yet.
Don’t celebrate yet.
Aguero9320
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Yes, I’m sure I want to say that. No idea what the fuck you are talking about with ‘woke crowd’. Just play the games or don’t, leave the politics for whatever weird and depressing incel groups, no need to bring it here.
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Negotiator101
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Really?
Dr.Morris79
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You honestly couldn't pay me to play this tripe.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
And black flag is the last one I played.
So this will be interesting tomorrow
GudOlRub
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Well, seems like it's well on its way to pass Veilguard in a couple days so there's that at least.
But still, it's way too early to say whether it's doing well or it's doing badly, please wait until we get actual results and spare yourselves from looking like absolute idiots.
Ask good ol Jason and his now deleted Veilguard tweet
But still, it's way too early to say whether it's doing well or it's doing badly, please wait until we get actual results and spare yourselves from looking like absolute idiots.
Ask good ol Jason and his now deleted Veilguard tweet
MMaRsu
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Its doing badlyWell, seems like it's well on its way to pass Veilguard in a couple days so there's that at least.
But still, it's way too early to say whether it's doing well or it's doing badly, please wait until we get actual results and spare yourselves from looking like absolute idiots.
Ask good ol Jason and his now deleted Veilguard tweet
Bro
RafterXL
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Why do you guys always blow your load instantly and end up looking silly? One million "players", notice the verbiage they didn't say sales, ain't shit for an AC game. Time will tell, and maybe you'll be right, but you're jumping the gun to a ridiculous degree.
rofif
Can’t Git Gud
I don't think the game selling poorly validates yt grifters points of view and "critique" at all.
Poor sales can be a result of this attack but it's not that the grifters were right all along.
If anything, the game turned out surprisingly good. Even if it sold 10 copies, it shouldn't change anything.
Heisenberg007
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That's true. The Ezio trilogy remains one of my favorite games to date - and that says a lot about Ubisoft's decay and lack of progress.
I don't mind the AC games as such. My biggest gripe with modern AC games is how bloated they usually are. I very much enjoyed Origins but did not like Odyssey and, especially, Valhalla.
I doubt Shadows will be a lot of different in this regard.
Hawk The Slayer
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100% the folks that are super defensive are among the mentally insane woke purple crowd.
Like I get there are people that could talk bad on the game I like but I never have a problem with it. If they don't like the game I like than so be it. I'm a huge Bethesda fanboy and I always talk good on FFVII Rebirth, GTA VI, Space Marine 2, and Elder Scrolls/Fallout games on gamefaqs and here if given the chance. But the difference is I won't care if people don't like the games I like, I won't be attacking them or insulting people for not liking what I like even when I see a lot of them on Gamefaqs.
If the game does turn out to be great than the success will speak for itself just like how there's a lot of people talking bad about Elder Scrolls VI but I'm confident it's going to do beyond amazing in sales and reception.
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Kagoshima_Luke
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"1 million players"
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RafterXL
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It changes everything. You can't gloat about something being a success if it's not. I don't even see the point of jumping the gun and claiming some sort of weird victory over a dubious, at best, announcement. Every time a publishers starts talking about "players" it's an immediate red flag. If it were really a success they'd be talking sales. Valhalla doubled up on Odysseys sales in the first day.
Not even close. The game is incredibly beautiful, which keeps people playing, but the gameplay is mostly not good. It's buggy, awkward, disjointed, and every time I've logged in at least one camps AI has completely broken where enemies do absolutely nothing. Odyssey and Valhalla both had smoother combat that flowed better. Also, don't play ANY other games with this setting or type of weapons because they're all so much better it makes this feel even worse.
GudOlRub
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Lmao
How the fuck can people be saying the game flopped on launch day?
Jfc, at least whether it flops or succeeds I'll have someone to laugh at.
We old gamers were much happier bunch back in the day. Before gaming became the mainstream and way before the proliferation of social networks and silly ideological divide. FFS. If you don't like the game or a company, don't buy/play it. Rooting/cheering for someone to fail and people to lose their jobs it f.ng on a whole another level. What happened to this world?
Boss Man
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DEI aside, ubisoft really should just stop trying to make these kinds of games. I do wish we got more historical games like it and KCD though. AC has always been a dream game for me conceptually but unplayable in practice.
Lokaum D+
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Ppl said this about DAV on release and guess what? they were rightLmao
How the fuck can people be saying the game flopped on launch day?
Jfc, at least whether it flops or succeeds I'll have someone to laugh at.
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