Ubisoft Stock Crashes After Assassin's Creed: Unity's Launch

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#1  Edited By deactivated-5d6bb9cb2ee20
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Ubisoft’s stock got crushed over 9% today in Europe after an abysmal new game launch of its most important franchise Assassin’s Creed. Not only are the reviews coming in poor with a current Metacritic score of 76 on the Xbox One version, which is only 1 point higher than the critically panned Activision’s Destiny, the game’s bugs and poor performance is becoming a laughing-stock right now on the Internet. There are thousands of posts flooding message boards and Youtube showing graphical glitches, crashes, and frame-rate problems.

Assassin’s Creed Unity is reminding gamers of EA’s Battlefield 4 launch problems last year, which was so bad the developers of the next Battlefield game had to literally promise their game “will work” when it comes out.

Ubisoft would have been better off to delay Unity like Take-Two does frequently with their Grand Theft Auto games than to release it in this state. The market has noticed the poor response today and punished the company for it.

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God damn.

I almost want to say this is well deserved- you can't take the market for a ride forever, Ubisoft. You just can't do it and expect to get away with it.

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#2 clyde46
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Hit them where it hurt!

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#3 parkurtommo
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They should have delayed it.

I wonder what these devs are thinking when they know their game is launching and there are still many visible issues? Like, does Ubisoft have any dignity?

Whatevs, pre loading right now, will play tomorrow. :D

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#4  Edited By DEadliNE-Zero0
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Boy, Char doesn't like Ubisoft i guess.

Still, this means very little. Unless Unity sells bellow expectations, along with FC4, Ubishit will be fine.

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#5 clyde46
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@parkurtommo said:

They should have delayed it.

I wonder what these devs are thinking when they know their game is launching and there are still many visible issues? Like, does Ubisoft have any dignity?

Whatevs, pre loading right now, will play tomorrow. :D

Seems to run OK'ish on PC. Thats all you need to worry about.

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@deadline-zero0 said:

Boy, Char doesn't like Ubisoft i guess.

You kidding me, I (used to) love Ubisoft!

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#8 freedomfreak
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They'll have it patched soon.

AC3 was also buggy beyond belief when it came out..

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#9  Edited By Stevo_the_gamer  Moderator
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That's odd since they're going to sell a lot of them irregardless, especially with the Unity BF bundles.

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#10 chikenfriedrice
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That's the only way these greedy companies will learn.

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#11  Edited By ReadingRainbow4
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My thread was ten times better, what the **** chaz.

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#12 parkurtommo
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@clyde46 said:

@parkurtommo said:

They should have delayed it.

I wonder what these devs are thinking when they know their game is launching and there are still many visible issues? Like, does Ubisoft have any dignity?

Whatevs, pre loading right now, will play tomorrow. :D

Seems to run OK'ish on PC. Thats all you need to worry about.

Yeah, but what about all hte glitches being reported?

I guess I'll get to see tomorrow lol.

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#13  Edited By RR360DD
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Don't plan on picking Unity up until christmas, hopefully its patched by then.

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@charizard1605 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

Boy, Char doesn't like Ubisoft i guess.

You kidding me, I (used to) love Ubisoft!

Same. To be fair, they can make aweosme. Black Flag just 1 year ago was awesome.

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#15  Edited By deactivated-5d6bb9cb2ee20
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@deadline-zero0 said:

@charizard1605 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

Boy, Char doesn't like Ubisoft i guess.

You kidding me, I (used to) love Ubisoft!

Same. To be fair, they can make aweosme. Black Flag just 1 year ago was awesome.

Black Flag was great, but it was great in spite of being an Assassin's Creed game, rather than because of being one, if that makes any sense.

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I just hope this doesn't negatively effect Rainbow 6 Siege! That is all

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@ReadingRainbow4 said:

My thread was ten times better, what the **** chaz.

U mad bro?

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#18  Edited By DEadliNE-Zero0
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@charizard1605 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

@charizard1605 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

Boy, Char doesn't like Ubisoft i guess.

You kidding me, I (used to) love Ubisoft!

Same. To be fair, they can make aweosme. Black Flag just 1 year ago was awesome.

Black Flag was great, but it was great in spite of being an Assassin's Creed game, rather than because of being one, if that makes any sense.

No i agree. Which is why i keep saying they should make a new IP focused on pirating and sailing. The AC stuff in AC 4 was ok. It was the Black Flag stuff that was cool.

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@deadline-zero0 said:

@charizard1605 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

@charizard1605 said:

@deadline-zero0 said:

Boy, Char doesn't like Ubisoft i guess.

You kidding me, I (used to) love Ubisoft!

Same. To be fair, they can make aweosme. Black Flag just 1 year ago was awesome.

Black Flag was great, but it was great in spite of being an Assassin's Creed game, rather than because of being one, if that makes any sense.

No i agree. Which is why i keep saying they should make a new IP focused on pirating and sailing. The AC stuff in AC 4 was ok. It was the Black Flag stuff that was cool.

Yeah, they should have just spun it off into its own IP.

Although at that point in time, we would have had Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Black Flag, and presumably The Division, all cut from the same Ubi standard open world cloth, and that would have been slightly intolerable.

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#20  Edited By LJS9502_basic
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Wow more stock wars. This place is getting boring.

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#21 BldgIrsh
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That reviewer that gave the game a 10/10 must feel as a fool right now.

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AC3 all over again, called it!

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#23 Heil68
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@deadline-zero0 said:

Boy, Char doesn't like Ubisoft i guess.

Still, this means very little. Unless Unity sells bellow expectations, along with FC4, Ubishit will be fine.

Yup and honestly didn't know 9% was considered a crash. I'll help UbiSoft and buy Fc4 + Season pass.

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#24  Edited By deactivated-5d6bb9cb2ee20
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@bldgirsh said:

That reviewer that gave the game a 10/10 must feel as a fool right now.

It's by PlayStation Lifestyle, they're the same guys who gave Destiny and DriveClub a high score. I think they're used to feeling like fools at this point.

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@parkurtommo said:

@clyde46 said:

@parkurtommo said:

They should have delayed it.

I wonder what these devs are thinking when they know their game is launching and there are still many visible issues? Like, does Ubisoft have any dignity?

Whatevs, pre loading right now, will play tomorrow. :D

Seems to run OK'ish on PC. Thats all you need to worry about.

Yeah, but what about all hte glitches being reported?

I guess I'll get to see tomorrow lol.

It runs like shit on PC, don't listen to clyde

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@charizard1605: Ahh, I see... shame that metacritic allows them to affect the overall score.

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#28 Shewgenja
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This is why game delays are not the end of the world. Sometimes, a game really does need some extra polish.

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#29 LJS9502_basic
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K I went to metacritic to see what the reviews skewed as....on PS4 Unity has 81 and on X1 it has 76. Not terrible....

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#30 deactivated-5d6bb9cb2ee20
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@LJS9502_basic said:

K I went to metacritic to see what the reviews skewed as....on PS4 Unity has 81 and on X1 it has 76. Not terrible....

How many reviewers reviewed the game on PS4?

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@charizard1605 said:

@LJS9502_basic said:

K I went to metacritic to see what the reviews skewed as....on PS4 Unity has 81 and on X1 it has 76. Not terrible....

How many reviewers reviewed the game on PS4?

38 Xbone and 13 PS4 reviews. I still still it in the mid 70's, so it's not a terrible as he said.

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#32 LJS9502_basic
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@charizard1605 said:

@LJS9502_basic said:

K I went to metacritic to see what the reviews skewed as....on PS4 Unity has 81 and on X1 it has 76. Not terrible....

How many reviewers reviewed the game on PS4?

Don't know. But I know GI gave it a score of 8....not sure that it differed between consoles. Users gave it 7.5. Really really not horrible scores.

Checked 13 critics.

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#34  Edited By Bread_or_Decide
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I don't buy annual games. But it doesn't matter many others obviously do.

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#35 R4gn4r0k
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Good, they push games out totally broken because of greed anyway.

So them losing money is the only way they'll learn not to treat gamers like simple cash cows.

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"reviews coming in poor with a current Metacritic score of 76"

The ridiculous thing is that this is completely sincere when it could easily pass for parody.

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meh, im happy with advanced warfare for now and will pick this up when it hits 30$ on steam during christmas and probably fc4 next week

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#39  Edited By R4gn4r0k
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@Floppy_Jim said:

"reviews coming in poor with a current Metacritic score of 76"

The ridiculous thing is that this is completely sincere when it could easily pass for parody.

Hmmm, you're right. I even missed that part.

What I found funny was when I read on:

"The game’s bugs and poor performance is becoming a laughing-stock right now on the Internet. There are thousands of posts flooding message boards and Youtube showing graphical glitches, crashes, and frame-rate problems."

Barely any review I read mentioning that :/

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It's sad that the game is actually fun IMO.

That it's hampered by technical glitches.

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@princeofshapeir said:

@parkurtommo said:

@clyde46 said:

@parkurtommo said:

They should have delayed it.

I wonder what these devs are thinking when they know their game is launching and there are still many visible issues? Like, does Ubisoft have any dignity?

Whatevs, pre loading right now, will play tomorrow. :D

Seems to run OK'ish on PC. Thats all you need to worry about.

Yeah, but what about all hte glitches being reported?

I guess I'll get to see tomorrow lol.

It runs like shit on PC, don't listen to clyde

Yeah but I haz a 970, as long as it stays above 30 fps I'll be happy.

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#43  Edited By GhoX
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  • 10th place on Steam top sales. 7 places behind Valkyria Chronicles from 2008 released on the same day.
  • Regional pricing so it appears to be 40% more expensive than all the other full-priced new releases.
  • 62% of Steam users reviewed the game as negative.

So no, not gonna get it.

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#44  Edited By tormentos
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@ReadingRainbow4 said:

My thread was ten times better, what the **** chaz.

I agree chaz why was hes thread close and you make the exact same one..

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Btw, Chaz. Your signature makes me wanna vomit over Ebola patients.


Mucho betteros.

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I don't think this really makes a lick of difference. It's not going to hurt their cash flow from game sales, and during a quarter with the highest returns. Currently the game stands as the highest pre-ordered title at the moment. And most consumers who buy such games aren't the ones to come to gaming websites, read Digital Foundry analysis.

@2Chalupas: (sorry, other thread got locked), you said:

Uhhhh, it's one of their biggest and most important products at this point - and they are also turning it into an "annual franchise". Not stupid at all for the stock to drop when cracks start to show in one of their top franchises. If it dropped like 50% or something I would say yeah, that is an insane over-reaction. But 9%? That seems like a reasonable drop from a game that might damage the reputation of the franchise, or put it's "annual release cash-cow" status is serious jeopardy.

Such damage can change their financial forecasts in the future, and hence the value of the company.

I should point out the series has been an annual series since AC2 onward, AC2 (2009), Brotherhood (2010), Revelations (2011), AC3 & Liberation (2012), AC4 (2013), Unity & Rogue (2014)... hell, this is the second year they'll have two releases. Anyhow, I do think there's evidence of some sort of franchise fatigue in that the unconditional love that allowed gamers to overlook the series obvious flaws is no longer there. I'm not defending the series, hell I've though the series was getting a free pass from AC2 onward. But yeah, a 9% drop is probably an indication of negative attention toward the company and it's product.

Ignoring recent turn of events for the series, I feel the series is likely going to take somewhat of a decline just off the fact that they've been heavily promoting Unity on a smaller userbase on PS4 and XBO, and with no attention going to AC: Rogue I wouldn't be surprised if that didn't sell well at all with all eyes on Unity. Though, I'm sure people and the gaming journalist media will interpret such data that the series popularity is falling off, and conflate that with this recent reaction toward the performance issues. I don't think that'll necessarily be the case, I think it'll be just a natural generational transition issue.

AC2 and AC3 were both 10 million+ sellers, Revelations, Brotherhood, Black Flag are between 7-8 million, it's still been a high selling series but I don't think it's going to be able to sustain those numbers during this generational transition. But, I don't think it's going to be because of this news on the series. Though, it wouldn't surprise me if people interpret sales data that way.

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@bldgirsh said:

That reviewer that gave the game a 10/10 must feel as a fool right now.

He is allowed to love the game, despite all the negativity surrounding Unity

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@speedfreak48t5p said:

@ReadingRainbow4 said:

My thread was ten times better, what the **** chaz.

U mad bro?

http://niceme.me/

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@GhoX said:
  • 10th place on Steam top sales. 7 places behind Valkyria Chronicles from 2008 released on the same day.
  • Regional pricing so it appears to be 40% more expensive than all the other full-priced new releases.
  • 62% of Steam users reviewed the game as negative.

So no, not gonna get it.

  • removed from steam uk/europe
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#50 parkurtommo
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People take high profile games so personally... Man, if the game is good the game is good. Why get mad/boycott shit just because it gets a bad launch? So much overreaction.