Ubisoft Stock Sinks To 10-Year Low As Star Wars Outlaws Underperforms

@joshn80: Yeah you're right. We should all just consume the Ubislop and be happy.

@joshn80: "Younger gamers for the most part these days are toxic and whine about any and everything."

Your whole post is ****ting on other gamers and being upset Outlaws hasn't sold well.

@joshn80: So you're over 40, but you're still so childish that you call people who disagree with you morons. If you're enjoying Star Wars Outlaws, great. I hope you have a blast. But when a franchise as massive as Star Wars is failing to grasp an audience, that should tell you that they did something seriously wrong. Developers who blame gamers for their game flopping are the toxic ones. People have a right to vote with their wallets and support or ignore any developer they want for any reason. It doesn't make them "morons who complain about everything". Grow up, dude.

@dushness: Partly, I think, it's that Cyberpunk was the next big game from the makers for The Witcher 3, while Outlaws is the next big game from a publisher that hasn't had a great rep for a while. Star Wars also hasn't had a great rep for a couple decades.

Gamers generated loads of hype for Cyberpunk in the run up to its launch but have been mostly cynical about Outlaws (and any big Ubisoft game) pretty much since first hearing about it.

@dushness: Did you really seriously ask that question that has a simple answer? :DDD

CyberJunk 2077 benefits a lot from being a cyberpunk genre game that's very rare to see, on top of it it's a video game adaptation of the famous Cyberpunk table-top RPG + it's like FPS GTA which such a game would be loved a lot for how such games are rare too. Another important factor is gender selection and character creation. At first the game was attractive for it's a video game of the Witcher 3 developers, lastly it was attractive because it's the game version of the anime so new generations kids liked to play a game that has anime for being able to see stuff from anime in the game was "interesting" for them.

So why did Star Wars Outlaws obviously failed? Forced woman character to play as + you basically forced to use one gun that's a mere laser pistol, one hoverbike and one ship. Customization only consists of changing mostly the same but different color outfits. This does mean the game cannot relate to most players possible as it limits players to people who are ok to play as a woman who look like that and ok with such weapon and vehicle preference. Because of lack of options cannot really compare these both games at all. A fail in design of Star Wars Outlaws is wasting potential of an open world Star Wars game by not giving what people want. The game is really actually like ordinary action game that works more like Metal Gear Solid V which such a gameplay wasn't fitting for Star Wars Outlaws at all but they used this "open world" aspect to make a sell and they failed miserably to make its open world actually matters. Same lack of vision of how Bethesda advertized Starfield with tons of planets to "explore" like only open world itself what makes the game good lol. Despite the "open world attraction" Star Wars Outlaws way more lifeless than Metal Gear Solid V as the game competes with No Man's Sky's lifeless infinite universes make you question why this game even has open world map design if it will be so empty and basically useless lol.

However Star Wars Outlaws technically works worst than worst version of CyberJunk 2077. I basically played first version of CyberJunk 2077 and sucked it dry 100% that it was sometimes raining cars or your car was launching at the moon but at least there was no game killer bug or anything that actually make you cannot enjoy the game itself. In contrast Star Wars Outlaws has way more bugs and glitches that prevent you from playing the game way more than all Bethesda games and CyberJunk 2077 combined which should be Guinness World Records on the most buggy AAA game ever or something lol. In the game anything you do have a great chance to make some nonsense bug to occur. Even Starfield bugs are nothing compared to Star Wars Outlaws bugs.

One of the prime refunds and cancelling Ubisoft+ subscription reason is just because players has to start a new game when they having bugs in Star Wars Outlaws. Also they say story basically doesn't exist as it's filled with excuse to do something as people are not sure what happens and why it happens. Another aspect is it's actually a stealth game without actually allowing players to play in stealth. Imagine releasing a Metal Gear Solid game without ability to hide. AI is bad and they butcher gameplay on top of it by seeing you behind walls or something failing the mission. Not to mention the game has no ability to save anytime and load the moment you saved the game so since stealth is forced and bad AI and stealth gameplay make people fail people losing hours of progress that includes whatever you collected which is very much like how games were like before Playstation 3-era. For example now I'm playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider, whatever I collect and do separately saved and I can save anytime and load the moment I saved. This shouldn't be hard to implement into Star Wars Outlaws. Not to mention even the first Tomb Raider series reboot game has way better graphics than Star Wars Outlaws that make me question if the game actually use your system for bitcoin mining lol.

In short, the only issue of CyberJunk 2077 was the game was advertised wrongly as it still doesn't have tons of features said the game would have on the release day as they cancelled lots of features, DLCs and game modes. Besides that technical issues were way below of what we expect from every Bethesda game released, especially the games developed on Gamebryo. Otherwise gameplay itself is proper and it has what it should have for players to able to play the game from start to the end.

If you are familiar with emulator gaming, emulators have a list of which games are "playable" from start to the end and they also list which games are "unplayable" for cannot finish the game, so CyberJunk 2077 was always a "playable" game despite how junky it was while Star Wars Outlaws is still "unplayable" mess for randomly you may have to start all over which is main reason why its metacritic score is around 4 right now but there are lots of aforementioned reasons for why it's way way worse game than CyberJunk 2077. The average Star Wars Outlaws gamers just enjoy visuals of planets they explore and/or hunting meme bugs and glitches for lols as these two what the game offers while CyberJunk 2077 offered way more.

@dushness: Cyberpunk 2077 had been in development for so long the hype, trailers, etc. generated 8 million preorders. The game breaking bugs weren't widely known until after launch. The hype train wasn't nearly as big to begin with, then Outlaws had some missteps that may have cost it some preorder sales, in particular the Jabba the Hut mission dust up.

Lastly, investors being unhappy with sales is just in proportion to expectations. For example, according to a report in Nintendo Life, at launch, Outlaws was the top selling game in the UK (physical copies only.) It did 15% better than Ubisoft Massive's last game Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. However, launch sales in the UK were 55% lower than Jedi: Survivor. That (and the fact the game needs to sell more to compensate for its bigger budget) is what investors aren't happy about.

@dushness: Few reasons.

1. Ubisoft games are pretty much by the books. You pick up any of them and 90-95% of the game will play the same as Assassin's creed.

2. No matter what side you're on, Love it or hate it. Disney is doing damage to Star Wars to the point where the name alone has no value.

@plurmp: bruh Star Wars Outlaws is like they reskinned Beyond Good and Evil 2 lol, after all ubishit is known for copy paste codes and assets + use AI to develop a game so cannot expect anything decent from ubishit :DDD

@skritch: exactly! It’s a decent game but most younger gamers are toxic and complain about everything. I have had a good time in my 25 hours so far with only minor issues. Its not goty but personally i have had way more fun with it than wukong