Ubisoft is juts one of those companies who followed the trend of some Western Companies with Identity>>>> Quality.

The problem is that gamers and reviewers don't rate or want games because of the identities/genders/political social issues that are included in games but on the quality of the games.

The Toxic Male culture that was a big issue at Ubisoft is now replaced by a new group that solves it in an original way

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Ubi has been the action-adventure genre answer to Call of Duty and yearly sports releases for nearly two decades now.  That sort of thing works for the audience of CoD and 2k and FIFA but for a big scale open world adventure, you fill up on the meal with these things after one or two of them.  Another dig is diminishing returns on games over the years.  A lot of the last gen AC's and FarCrys looks exactly the same as the current gen.  I think it's finally catching up to them.

Also, I think for the casual Andy, why would you play Star Wars Outlaws when Elden Ring exists?

Ubisoft has conditioned the gaming audience to expect big prize drops pretty quickly after release. You'd be mad to buy a Ubisoft game at launch prize.

Prince of Persia earlier this year was right up my ally. I waited 4 months though and bought it for half the money. Great game, but I never considered picking it up day 1.

Pain

Such great franchises and a time where the Tom Clancy name meant you were getting a gritty tactical espionage story that made you actually want to go read the books lol. Now the Tom Clancy name gets drug through the dirt. GRAW was another series I loved the hell out of. Then Ubisoft tried to drag that Clancy franchise through the dirt that Battle Royale BS

The entire Might & Magic series died for me when Ubisoft took over. I tried Heroes V and didn't like what they did with both the story and gameplay. Like AT ALL. I gave them a second chance with Might & Magic X: Legacy and they fumbled it hard (not to mention dropping support after a mere 3 months!). I so wish Jon Van Canegem could get his series back, his mobile endeavour is over since spring this year anyway...

Yeah, same here. The only reasons I'm ever so slightly optimistic is 1) the change of developers. This new title is being made by an indie studio called Unfrozen that has released 1 game previously so far called Iratus: Lord of the Dead. Which from what I've seen, is well enough praised by critics and players alike. And 2) after following the Gamescom coverage of the new release, I was reading a lot of comments from journalists saying that this new game heavily takes inspiration from HoMM 3. Which was very much music to my ears.

So while I'm not holding my breath too much, I'm at least as somewhat hopeful for the series than I have been for a long time.

Wonder if any Ubisoft Devs will point that out a la Days Gone? Its useful to have that for context.

They basically have their Montpelier and Milan studios and other teams that can do creative interesting works like the latest Prince of Persia, the two Mario + Rabbids games and Immortal Fenyx Rising ... but sadly those haven't been the sellers they were looking for despite being some of their best efforts in years.

They've fallen to their own Open world formulas becoming ever more predictable, stale and always increasing in sizes while not exactly respecting the players time by having premium shops to buy your way around the tediousness they intentionally organize.

In the meantime, Star Wars is currently on a downward slope and a mediocre OW is definitely not what most are knowadays looking for in the gaming space when you factually can get experiences that have been far better for years now.

I just want a new Rayman game. That's all.

Without those freaking Rabbids by the way.

I was trying to think back to the last time I actually enjoyed an Ubisoft game and realized it was Rayman Legends... in 2013. I tried to get into games like Watch Dogs and Immortals but they just felt so cookie cutter and empty, and it seems I'm not the only one.

Seems a lot of folks are tiring of their open world formula, plus the Star Wars brand has turned away a lot of its core fanbase in recent years.