AC: Shadows is a success

[finn]

Despite Asmonbald and the trolls best efforts to bring Ubisoft down the game managed to sell over a million copies in less than a day. Ubisoft stocks are up. The game despite some poor performance is actually a lot of fun and probably the best AC since Odyssey.

3 million copies sold in the first few days - that's gotta be a record?

Haters must be upset that their attempts to undermine the samurai Yasuke fell flat. Tencent see the massive opportunity for the future of Assassin's Creed and have decided to invest over a billion euros into the next game. This is proof that DEI will always outsell hatred.

[MonkehMaster]

false, they said 1 million total players, that includes consoles, so the pc numbers are extremely low.

let's not forget Xbox game pass, ect... where they aren't buying, but renting the game....

ie... they sold horribly and total player count is nothing to write home about, but... if concurrent players were to get that high, that would be something worth hyping.

whomp whomp

[stylish]

Lmao got banned.

[SonofaGlitch]

THIS GAMING PRODUCT IS AN INCREDIBLE SUCCESS AND IT'S SURE TO INCREASE AVERAGE UBISOFT SHARHOLDER STOCK VALUE!

[Naijiro]

Originally posted by Mr2Thumbs:

1 million total players.

That includes the people who got it for 75% off on Ubisoft+. 1M total players across all platforms when they're practically giving the game away is not a good thing.

How much are we going to keep pushing the goal post?

[SciopticChimken]

Pushing what goal post

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by RakataEpsilon:

Pushing what goal post

an imaginary one.... one that debunks their arguments.

[Leomedas]

how did you get banned anyway?

[Dusty]

Hmm. I wonder how many copies actual good games sold in their first day.
Like MH Wilds, KCD2, BG3, Elden Ring, Wukong, etc.

[FuzzyAnimator]

I love AC games, and don't have a dog in this fight, but it's currently prime time, the day after launch, and there's only 35k players. This does not bode well.

[Zoulman.$$$]

no game not good

[Tr0w]

Originally posted by Mr2Thumbs:

1 million total players.

That includes the people who got it for 75% off on Ubisoft+. 1M total players across all platforms when they're practically giving the game away is not a good thing.

Eh? You only get 20% off via Ubisoft Connect, not 75%

[Gabi]

Originally posted by Mr2Thumbs:

1 million total players.

That includes the people who got it for 75% off on Ubisoft+. 1M total players across all platforms when they're practically giving the game away is not a good thing.

They wouldn't offer a subscription service with it included day one if they didn't think there was additional value being generated from it for them. They didn't get it 75% off, you can think of it like that, but they rented access to it and other games for one month. Most players will not finish a game as long as recent assassin's creed games in a month.

Originally posted by Dusty:

Hmm. I wonder how many copies actual good games sold in their first day.
Like MH Wilds, KCD2, BG3, Elden Ring, Wukong, etc.

Plenty of good games have bad launches, plenty of bad games have big launches. Success doesn't equate to quality, especially the initial spike of interest. Now the trend over time is more telling, but initial player counts, and box office for movies has more to do with general sentiment as a result of the marketing. Unless you would like to tell me why Michael Bays Transformer films are masterpieces.

[Gabi]

Originally posted by Tr0w:

Originally posted by Mr2Thumbs:

1 million total players.

That includes the people who got it for 75% off on Ubisoft+. 1M total players across all platforms when they're practically giving the game away is not a good thing.

Eh? You only get 20% off via Ubisoft Connect, not 75%

He is conflating having access via it's subscription with owning the game. Assuming most people will play, finish and be done with the game in a single month. Which will be true for some, but i'd wager a minority of people interested in playing it.

[Katie]

It's definitely not a success. This game's budget is insane - probably cost 500 million to 1 billion dollars in total. AC games will have 1000-2000 people working on them. Look at the number of studios that contributed to this game, and it has been in development for at least 5 years since the last game Quebec worked on was Immortal's Phoenix Rising. And that doesn't factor in voice actors and marketing costs and all the other stuff.

Just claiming the game is a success is gaslighting yourself. 35-40k or even 100k concurrent players on steam would be a terrible indicator. If this game only sells 7-9 million copies, and that looks unrealistic, it will still be a flop. Are they even on track 7-9 million? Maybe 3-4 if we're being generous with Uplay and consoles?

This is the end of an era. Expect Ubisoft to be sold to Tencent in 3-6 months.

I want to be clear, the only way AC Shadows would have been a success was to sell 20-25 million copies to make up for all the other loses Ubi has had the last few years. It is not enough to just break even with this game. And Valhalla's 20 million in sales required the hype of next-gen consoles as well as the conditions of being locked in their homes with nothing to do but play long open world video games to pass the time. Both of those conditions are no longer true.

[Godfire.GG]

Stocks are up because investors are confident that Ubisoft will inevitably be sold to another company that can manage its IPs better. Ubisoft's last hope is not doing well so they will be forced to sell. Maybe I should invest the $70 I saved in Ubisoft stocks.