Has Ubisoft published anything worth playing in the last decade?
Correction to title:
People are playing less slop games, and new slop releases are “struggling”, says slop-peddler Ubisoft UK, whilst peeing their pants
Games are just as popular as ever, if anything the market has widened significantly, people are just more savvy now too
No longer willing to slap down £50 on Day Zero for a game that they’ve not seen any reviews for and/or not seen any gameplay footage for.
As well as Indie Studios having a renaissance after their struggle era.
Ubisoft? The sex crimes company? Huh, didn’t know they published games. Thought they mostly did sexual harassment tbh.
Wonder if Ubi will eventually collapse and get bought up by UAE as well.
Maybe it’s just a ubisoft problem. Maybe they should just try making it good game.
I played over 200 hours of crab champions. Where would i find time to play shitty overprices ubisoft games?
Because new games come with micro transactions in fucking single player games. Actual good games still get bought like the indiana jones game was amazing and felt like a classic old school game
No, people are playing other games. Ones that aren’t half-assed, overpriced, and infected with DRM malware. This is a U problem, Ubisoft.
Turn out a bunch of copy paste shit, rush releases and make everything a fucking “live service” and sales go down. “Wow what happened???”
I dunno why so many people are dunkin on Ubisoft here. Sure, they make shit, but they’re commenting on an industry wide issue.
and it’s not just their industry. People are also going out to the movies less. Restaurant profits are down as people are staying in more often. I haven’t checked, but I imagine bars are likely struggling right now as well. It’s almost like Western economies are reaching a breaking point, and people are unable to afford anything beyond the bare necessities.
Do you want to know why? Read what people are saying. Ubi’s DRM policies have caused many, many people to lose access to their games. I have at least 4 Ubi games in my Steam Library that I can’t play. So … what’s that? A good $150 they owe me that I’ll never see? Gee. Why would I dislike them? Because they personallyh fuked me.
okay, but that’s not really what this story is about. it’s about an industry that is seeing the opening salvo of an impending economic collapse.
Read what people are saying. We disagree with your perspective and feel that this issue is justly deserved by Ubi’s behavior. Everyone was very, very clear about this. Our take is this is Ubi trying to hide their failure and blame it on an industry slump. So there ya go. Now you understand the article.
Ubisofts full releases this year:
- AC: Shadows
- Just Dance 2026
- Anno 117
So literally all sequels. They’re just hoping people will dish out their annual franchise spending.
But the bar is so high these days. Spending millions on graphics just isn’t sufficient.
I don’t have time playing games right now, let alone modern games which need few gigabytes of updates, load for a couple of minutes each time, and where I need to remember what I did last time.
Fewer of your games, maybe.
Yep. Indie games are boomin as usual :D
TBH the story with indies seems to be “a few hits have it really good, but the vast majority of indie devs are struggling”
…So I wouldn’t generalized too much just because Hades 2 and Silksong are doing well.
The more accurate picture is “A/AA games are doing great in terms of creative&cultural output with many mainstream successes despite being completely choked out by out-of-touch AAA studios capturing most capital investment”. 2025 has objectively been a great year for (semi-)indie games and a humiliating slap in the face for AAA studios.
But yeah I would still strongly advise against switching to a gamedev career regardless of whether the industry eventually sees reason and shifts away from AAA to AA. As with the rest of the entertainment industry, it’s ontologically exploitative and is famously a dream-crushing machine. Too many starry-eyed kids to be a healthy job market.
Someone needs to tell Ubisoft to git gud.
That’s what years of screwing customers over does. Ubisoft is no longer a brand people associate with quality products.
This has been the case for as long as i can remember (since the early 2000s)
The reputation carried them for a while because they still sell older games, plus the occasional good new game.
These people have made a bajillion Assassin’s Creed games. I guess sequels usually excite the existing player base, but I always felt that was a double edge sword because they often fail to engage new players. I personally missed Assassin’s Creed 1 through 8636292, so it’s hard to see why I should start at 8636293. Also, I think existing players do get tired of a franchise some times.
I’ll keep telling this story as long as it remains relevant:
A few years back, I picked up AC: Black Flag in a steam sale but never got around to playing it. Well, recently I’ve been trying to clear my backlog so I decided to install it and give it a play through, because honestly the game seems like it would be right up my alley.
Unfortunately, if you have not played the game on Steam before, there was an update at some point that makes the game unplayable. And I don’t mean it’s lagging, or there are graphical issues, I mean the game won’t fucking launch. It will ask you to log into your Ubisoft account, and then once you do, nothing happens. If you launch the game again… It will ask you to log in to your Ubisoft account, and the issue repeats. Apparently this is a known issue with no fix. If you’ve previously played the game on the PC you’re using, it will remember some settings and launch. But if it’s your first time? You are SOL.
Thanks Ubisoft!
You should ask for a refund, chances are you’ll get it after explaining this ridiculous situation to Steam support
It’s this bloat and DRM that keeps me from playing any of their games now.
Why does someone have to sign in to a single player game?!?!
Control. Duh.
Of course it had to happen to the best game to come out of the AC franchise. I freaking love black flag.
