Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again as Ubisoft explores company sale options
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Ubisoft has said it is delaying Assassin's Creed Shadows again, as the company explores sale options.

It was previously releasing Feb 14. Does not look good for Ubisoft.

  • pycorax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    Are delays not good? It’s preferable to being broken on launch, not to say that it couldn’t be, but it’s likely that it would be more broken if not delayed.

    • UprisingVoltage@feddit.itEnglish
      82·
      2 months ago

      When a game gets delayed it’s not a good sign in general. It means “the game is broken and we can’t release it as it is”.

      Of course a delayed game will be better than a game that needed to be delayed and released anyways instead, but realistically speaking you can’t fix a broken AAA sized game in one or two months.

      Add this to the fact that Ubisoft (rightfully so) earned a bad reputation among players as time went on, and that devs can’t work at their best when they are crunching and they fear to be laid off, and you’ll understand why non-casual gamers don’t have faith in the game.

  • LovingHippieCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    2 months ago

    They’re not saying it but I think it’s likely this is because of all the big games coming out in February. Civ 7, Avowed, and Monster Hunter Wilds are the three big ones and those take up a lot of time. Shadows would get lost in the weeds. Meanwhile there isn’t really a big game coming out in March. So perfect time.

  • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Assassin’s creed died with 2 when they fired the creator and decided to milk it as much as possible.

    So sad what this series has become, considering its counter-culture influences.

      • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Me too.

        Personally, I thought the series would’ve ended with getting to play as Desmond for most of the game, actually being an assassin in the modern day.

        • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          It could have gone anywhere, the rumour was modern day third to close out the story.

          It could have gone to settlements in space, templar industry types creating advanced cities to escape a doomed earth allowing for a cryogenically frozen Desmond to believeably do some of the stunt in space conditions.

          Instead they picked random times and shoehorned in a rethread story barely expanding on the lore by walking all over it.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I feel more sorry for the Assasins Creed fans. Started by being a stealth parkour game, and its now just trying to be The Witcher