Ubisoft First Half Operating Profit Down By 93%
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fantaskarsef
Whoah.... 93% down... that's a lot of money not coming in.
Undying
Shitty games ubisoft reflects that.
AndyMutz
that's what you get for moving your games off of steam AND releasing messy shit like breakpoint.
-andy-
moo100times
Didn't they also recently spend a lot of money on share buybacks to stop vivendi taking over? I wonder if that has anything to do with this too. I agree games definitely less good but I thought their titles were still selling reasonably?
Netherwind
KissSh0t
Along with the release of Division 2 and the not a real Ghost Recon game could this sharp downturn in profits be related in any way to Ubisoft no longer releasing new video games on Steam / going into a partnership with epic to release new video games outside of the Uplay storefront?
Backstabak
The problem is they have nothing new, so they only sell older titles like AC:O since Ghost Recon didn't pan out. But quite frankly their games are often quite similar with a lot of the unnecessary open world busy work that they try to monetize through their store. Even though I did enjoy latest AC, most of the game you do basically the same mission over and over just with different in game cutscenes in between.
emperorsfist
Undying
You know how they say about Ubisoft game formula. Once you played one you played them all. 😀
FM57
I would be more positive than most of you guys. This is a cyclical business, where the portfolio effect is meant to cover low performing games with a few hits.
This time Ubisoft did not do well BUT they postponed many of future releases to make them better and satisfy their customers.
So I would say they are very good at twhat they do, wise also to make the games right to gain credibility among players. Let's see thei results next year same time.
go4brendon
Yea and they didnt exactly help themselves with the whole rainbow six siege china sensorship issue awahile back. That put me off that game aswell with the constant nerfs.
emperorsfist
KissSh0t
emperorsfist
To be fair, I had some giggles out of the release of both Watch_Dogs and AC: Unity. I guess it wasn't as funny to those who got those games day one...
Undying
emperorsfist
labidas
It is my conviction that the gamingindustry has very low standards, which is fueled by an desire to sell more by keeping the consumers never satisfied.
RealNC
Good. I hope they go down so that the devs can move on and create actually good games, not payment platforms disguised as games.
Dean_Demon
To me this isn't surprising at all, developing AAA games today is very costly and runs into 100's of millions for a single game and it's unsustainable but with some rather bizarre microtransaction practices that exist today gamers will and do right now say enough is enough and will fight back with their wallet. Developers and publishers will at some point have to take a different approach if they want to survive, i'm a programmer and musician and have seen all kind of changes in this industry but only gamers can make that change happen.
AsiJu