Yeah, I hadn't really thought through all the problems with it all. That really is a killing machine right there and PVC, carbon fibre and other common things will no doubt be finding their way into its mechanisms.
Still seems really cool and I imagine in about 10 or so years when refills can be homebrewed onto it and communication with the mothership isn't needed it could be really useful for lots of things :)
Alinea Analytics doing the work that "Games journos" can't!
Great article Auroch!
It would have been nice if they'd put the figures in for Valhalla and Mirage as Shadows is doing better than those at launch according to SteamDB which shows that Twitch has more people interested in Shadows too.
That all said it's a dud. 40K players right now (Apparently) but the game is anything but a game. And calling your potential customer base racist while actually flogging the most racist shit since Gayniggers from Outer Space* takes some doing. Canadians eh?
I'm not sure if this will hurt Ubisoft as much as I want it to but I think it's clear to many more now that games journalists are nothing more than crap adverts for rubbish products.
* That short movie was made with heavy irony. Ass Shadows is not.
So far the pilot is unnamed but some outlets are reporting that it's a "He" based on someone's X comment.
Transparency and accountability don't seem to be present with anything verifiable at the moment.
I called it quits with them at XIII - great game but they were going completely different as a company.
Bethesda did Morrowmind with them around the same time. You can clearly see how they changed as a company and it has only gotten stronger over time.
2 million players means the same as Disney+ subscriptions that comes with cellphone and other subscription packages.
Ubisoft Connect and its little cousin Ubisoft+ have teamed up with StarHub on its GameHub plan which inflates 'player' numbers over purchases of product and is the sneakiest way to hoodwink the average Joe as to how successful the game is.
I don't care about, nor dislike, Ubisoft normally but this marketing strategy of literally calling me a racist has me wanting them metaphorically burned to the ground.
Plus the game looks like a joke!
I think Trump should send a 'few' to help out in Ukraine. You know, to show support and stuff. Maybe even send some over to help out the Palestinians for a bit too.
Cleaner streets and sending a message of support for the world to see.
If you think that's weird wait until you check out the Unicode symbol for ﬩
U+FB29
FB is Facebook (Obviously) and 2+9=11. 9/11, Twin Towers!
And that's before we get into Neo's passport expiry date in The Matrix or that The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers was being released to celebrate the first SARS virus outbreak as prophesised in the Friends episode 'The One After the Superbowl'.
And what religion is Ross???
I'm with you!
But on this occasion it's Ireland, the Ireland that isn't part of the UK. So this lies with the European courts as Ireland is in the EU.
But the UK has been known to do things like this too. Government overreach has gone too far when someone's takings from their taxed earnings is withheld from them without notice. At least jail him if he's not capable of his own livelihood by himself.
But then they'd have to do that to everyone not capable and that would put them up the creek without a paddle in no time!
“Who’s going to want Joe Biden back in the game?” said a major Biden supporter, speaking on condition of anonymity to talk candidly about him.
That's NBC in a nutshell right there.
At least they used to create a quick Twitter eggshell account and post that so they could quote someone, now they just assume Biden's gender and don't disclose a source who says 'water is wet'.
Fake news indeed!
Monetization experts
LOL! You are perfectly right. But these 'Monetization experts' were also 'SEO experts' back in the day or 'Encyclopaedia salesmen' before that.
Some investors want a quick buck, nothing wrong with that. But the sage investor knows the risk with that and would rather take a longer larger gain spread over a solid return across a longer period.
But 'Monetization experts' think a couple of drinks and a bowl of ramen for their local next 'Great American Novel' writer who is just bussing as a games journo just now can get them the returns they want right now.
That's before they bed them though :)
DA:V went from 70k players at launch on a Thursday to 90k on that Sunday.
Granted 5 months later it's down to around 3% of that figure with 2.6k people playing every day but let's take that as the standard for this.
AC:S started at 41k, that will bring them up to a peak of 53.5k players on Sunday and in 5 months that will be 1.6k people playing everyday in 5 months.
On the other hand The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt peaked at 92k people playing when it launched 10 years ago, peaking at 103k people five years later. It currently has 15k people in game.
15% a decade later or 3% 5 months later?
Investors want to know where the money is, gamers want to put theirs somewhere; what seems to be the problem?
Seems Oopsiesoft is a bit lacist.
Perhaps they inherited it from their ex Prime Minister's peoplesplaining it to them while bumming an illegal Vietnamese masseuse with their ladycock.
The French do love to fuck up Vietnam after all, and they look a bit Japo.
I'm sure that they'll find it was a Biden/Obama contingency plan that Hillary was going to implement but Trump stole it via Elon hacking her destroyed email server.
And to believe them, because they know and do all the hard work so we don't have to. In fact we should be thanking them!
We, the members of America’s entertainment industry — blah, blah, blah – submit this unified statement...
Yeah, it's as if AI wrote that for them.
A unified statement. So if one of them can be shown to be non-essential they all go down.
The outcome writes itself.
ILM already have Ruffalo down to his fingerprints and pores, a voice actor could dub him, an AI could dub them, the writing, music and camera work are already in the can and so we're now onto agents and they can be automated easily.
Seems like S1m0n3 was 23 years ahead of the game.
Best they can do just now if get outta Dodge before the Diddy trial starts up.
Incoming from Left Wing Media...Toyotaface!