They seem to be very caught off guard by Star Wars: Outlaws’ underperformance, and after investor pressure, are trying to massively course correct. This is what happens when you vote with your dollars!
The fact that users wanting a “feature complete” product at launch is seemingly news to them is absurd.
CEOs and other higher-ups being completely out of touch is nothing new though.
It’s sort of new though-
In the past an executive couldn’t really keep a pulse on the market themselves, they needed real world connections, they needed information that wasn’t just available at their fingertips and the only way to readily get it was relying on people under them to feed truthful and useful information and not just be ‘yes men’.
Information is readily available at their fingertips now though, there is no excuse for being so disconnected and out of touch.
It was so bad Epic dropped their exclusivity deal?
Epic’s exclusivity deals haven’t been working for anyone, so they’re dropping them across the board, other than for games they publish themselves.
Thanks christ. I’m sure whatever games were slated for exclusivity are thankful they’ll get some actual players on day 1
it will be like $5 6 months after launch anyway. Fuck em
These idiots could just release a high quality story expansion for Black Flag every year for ten years and make a billion dollars. Instead they do… This.
It would be hilarious if Ghost of Yotei released in Feb too, though unlikely.
But Monster Hunter Wilds will be released close to this.
I was a prime demographic for Star Wars Outlaws, as I like Star Wars and the more recent RPG style Assassin’s Creeds. I chose to skip it after the initial impressions, and I’m glad I did. Nice to see that enough other people did the same to make a difference. I’m down for more of the same with a Japanese skin, so hopefully they won’t manage to mess this one up to the point that I won’t enjoy it.
Same, I couldn’t even finish watching a 10 min review, it was so boring. When I went to pick up Space Marines 2 in a big store, it was full of SW Outlaws discs. I picked up the last SM2, and Astro Bot was already sold out, so people were happy to buy games, just not this one.
Same here. Their thing with removing the crew though made me finally give up on Ubisoft. I could deal with the stupid pricing given that I at least got 50 hours out of a game, had an okayish story, and was a time occupier. Removing games so I can’t play them again? Fuuuuck that. Cost is all of a sudden a massive issue for me, I’m not going to pay 60 bucks for what is essentially a rental. I’ll wait and pay rental prices for it if they’re just going to yank it as soon as it’s not profitable.
I liked Jedi Survivor.
I know it’s like totally unrelated, but that game was fun.
Well I’m prime demographic for Outlaws too and I had an incredible blast with the game. It’s not a GOTY but it was very enjoyable to me. Very immersive and the story was alright too.
Good, I’m glad you liked it! I may try it sometime in the future when Ubisoft does their usual deep discount.
I’m never going to play this game but this is all great news
Seems like they watched the new Ghost of Yotei trailer
