Ubisoft Stock Plummets 15% After 'Assassin's Creed Shadows Trailer Debut And Company Failed To Meet Forecasted Sales Figures
Ubisoft stock plummeted over 15% after the company released its first trailer for Assassin's Creed Shadows and reported it missed forecasted sales figures.
Who knew that blackwashing Japanese history and then gaslighting people about it would be poorly recieved.
It’s baffling how bad they fucked this up. This is Netflix levels of hilarity. Finally make a Samurai game set in Japan? Great. Main character’s black.
The only explanation is the existence of hard and fast written rules against traditional entertainment. These big companies absolutely refuse to just make the obvious correct decisions. Not even the profit motive can guide them. So what gives? Is it really just a combination of ideological possession and ESG bucks?
In general I think it’s mostly ideological possession and social media. If you do rely on the MSM and general legacy news sources even in digital form, black people are being gunned down in the streets daily by the millions and all other nonsensical things. They kind of do believe there’s a war going on and they’re doing their part to counter it. Meanwhile they mostly need to touch grass.
There’s also the fact that many girls are more progressive now and plenty of guys go with it to get laid. I’m not even very conservative in most senses, but if I see a girl at this point talking about social justice or mentioning political things in a dating profile or casually, I just zone out. Not worth it. Plenty of guys are still trying though and hoping if they appease the feminist types enough they’ll get a pitty BJ or something.
Stock fluctuations, microtrading AIs, insider knowledge, lack of consequences, lobbyists, homo politicians.
Profits? Who cares.
The internet algorithms show you two things. 1) what you already agree with, 2) what will get you riled up by the other side.
Everyone lives in a bubble. Socially, geographically, digitally, idealistically, it's all in self-reinforcing bubbles.
No no, they just didnt make him gay enough. Maybe if they made it clear he was trans the fans would come flocking back. /dei
Eh, I wouldn't be so optimistic. It's still higher than in March and has already recovered 1/3 of those 15%.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBI.PA/
Considering how Disney would buy out entire movie theater rooms to make their ticket sales numbers seem higher than they really were, the practice you're talking about isn't unheard of.
This is what is hilarious to me. Going full digital made it so game companies can’t guarantee a revenue stream from physical stores. Big companies have pretty much dug their own grave through removal of a reliable revenue stream. It does allow the companies to fudge the numbers (especially through streaming services) but it’ll only last as long as the investors don’t ask questions.
Only for investors that are giving them money directly like Blackrock with their ESG loans. Investors can pump up the stock price as much as they want. Ubi doesn't get any of that money. Without money coming in from sales, a high stock price just means a harder crash for those ignorant investors.
And like Disney stockholders, they will deserve every bit of it.
Physical copies are essentially guaranteed revenue, since most retailers would rather mark down a shitty game than go through the hassle of returning them to the distributor.
That said, there's always the risk that big fish like Walmart will ram a spiky dildo up a publisher's ass if it's shitty enough.
pretty close to correct. if they don't go full DEI and globalist liberal propaganda they'll be put out of business. the rates on their loans will be jacked up and they'll have difficulty funding any future game.
gaming companies are propaganda outlets now. that's just how it is. once they overshadowed movies in terms of viewers/players and yearly revenue it was going to happen.
15% is far too low for me to start believing that is happening. Maybe 30% would get me excited
My bet is when this game flops along with that Star Wars game, they'll lean heavily into R6 which is still being played and fuck it up by actually micromanaging.
All the big studios are slowly or in some cases quickly bleeding out and it's only just this year they realise that ESG safety net is actually gone so this is the year of losses across the board.
I asked my 16 yr old nephew what he plays and he said R6. I was like: I also played R6 when I was 16.... I'm, like, 40
The difference is, your R6 is probably A LOT LESS sweaty to play than his.
Livestreaming and voice chat especially in a game like that with a focus on team work can bring the worst out on people when things don't go to plan..
Oh he is way more srs than I ever was about a game. Correct.
I don't know about that... playing against former SWAT members in the original Rainbow Six PvP on TEN or MPlayer was peak sweaty.
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They couldve had a male japanese main character and yasuke as a major supporting npc. And then have a really fleshed out and long dlc for a playable yasuke.
Also.. the female japanese character looks weird. Not exaclty ugly, but something is off. Cant tell what it is.
She definitely has .. a look. I wonder who the face model actress is.
Even ignoring Yasuke, Japanese viewers have been pointing out the architecture in the trailer is Chinese, not Japanese. It's all the same squinty ching-chong shit to the "multicultural" hivemind.
I think blackwashing the only Ass Creed set in east Asia is fucked up, but the stock fell because "it missed forecasted sales figures."
Investors (even retail) generally don't care about ESG and woke politics and shit. They care about whether you beat expectations or missed them; if you miss, it goes down, simple as.
They deserve it
it's the smugness with which they do everything.