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.
Fewer of your games, maybe.
Yep. Indie games are boomin as usual :D
Someone needs to tell Ubisoft to git gud.
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.
No, people are playing other games. Ones that aren’t half-assed, overpriced, and infected with DRM malware. This is a U problem, Ubisoft.
Ubisoft? The sex crimes company? Huh, didn’t know they published games. Thought they mostly did sexual harassment tbh.
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.
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?!?!
Of course it had to happen to the best game to come out of the AC franchise. I freaking love black flag.
They should try making good games and putting them on Steam and GOG and not their shitty launcher.
It’s so satisfying watching one of the worst actors in the gaming industry eat shit and die. I hope Activision, EA, and the other purveyors of overpriced, malware-laden, microtransaction slopware can meet the same fate one day too.
Download our shitty launcher, make an account, connect to the internet, buy the ultimate gold deluxe premium spunky cock edition, give us kernel level access to your computer! Now you can play the 1000th game we’ve released this year, and it will be vapid shit like every other one.
Even if their games were better, I still wouldn’t buy them. They are corrupt and disgusting.
Valid :) I wouldn’t either.
Wonder if Ubi will eventually collapse and get bought up by UAE as well.
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.
“Consumers are playing fewer games, playing them for longer, and as a result, outside of a few notable exceptions, many new games are struggling to stand out and achieve the sales they may once have had, whilst the market is more volatile and the potential for any specific title less predictable as a result,”
Really, this is about buying fewer Ubisoft games.
Edit: also someone is trying to get out ahead of the next quarterly report, especially since we’re in x-mas buying season right now.
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?
Maybe you could try putting some more money into great writers and storytellers instead of GRAPHICS GRAPHICS GRAPHICS, but no.
And then the graphics are still shit anyway, except the game now performs at <30fps on the GPU that replaced one of your kidneys
“Graphics are good enough now that literally anything in your imagination can be brought to life”
“Ok, lets make everything look as close to reality as possible :D”That reminds me, I saw some Pac Man collection the other day, the old 2600/7800/arcade games, it was a few games and some history stuff, it was 17 GIGABYTES, FOR PACMAN.
I’m guessing all the old games were most likely less than 50mb, if you include everything up to SNES, guess if you make AI upscaled images you can bloat that space.
Capital needs to pay people more if they want people to spend money. Sadly, food shelter and health come before video games.
No earn, only spend.
I haven’t slowed down on gaming, I just don’t buy ubisoft bullshit
