Their old games were groundbreaking back then! AC2 was best of what they were tying to archive in AC1They don't need to reinvent the wheel, their old games like AC2 or Black Flag were good cause they made you care for the stuff you did in the game, why you climbed that tower or killed those enemies. I played Watch Dogs 3 for a good 7 hours, nice premise but the story was just boring and told through characters which were literal cardboard cutouts, it just didn't grab me at all. It's like they need to capture the soul of their old games again somehow. That's why their games feel like they come fresh off a factory assembly line.
There’s no hope for games to be more diverse and creative. Nobody wants to risk new ideas or break from the formula! It’s now all about big IPs and repetition
I was saying repetition as in the formula! Same thing being made but with little differences like main character etc to make it “different” from the previous game.Repetition runs counter to "longer playing time". When gamers start feeling that tasks are becoming repetitive, they tend to grow bored and quit.
So they straight admit that bloats the games with boring, tedious and mundane stuff only to make people waste more of their precious time, because the more time you waste the more likely you are to spend money on it.
And the quality go all the way down.
No, they're not saying this at all.
They're saying they identify when gamers quit their games due to boredom, and they fix the issue for their next game.
Bloat, repetition, tediousness etc are all feelings that make gamers quit games. Ubisoft is literally identifying these negative characteristics in their games and removing them.
The company’s thinking: the longer people play, the more likely they are to spend more in the game.
While some fans and critics have complained about the bigger games (and while some love it), the company seems to have benefitted.
During a call with investors Thursday, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, already 130+ hours long and repeatedly expanded with more free and paid content, passed the $1 billion “consumer revenue” mark in December. He said it's a first for the top-selling franchise.
From the OP
The first important part is that they discovered that the longer their customers play, the more are the chances of they spend real money into the game. No indication of fixing the boredom aspects. The second line supports this, as they don't seem to be bothered by bigger and repetitive negative traits(as it looks like it benefits them financially, even though it has criticism).
The third line confirms this way they gonna move foward(meaning will be ACV all over again).
Yeah I don't see how this is a bad thing. Can't rememeber the number of times I have come to a game months after release and gotten an achievement like 'completed level 4 - 40% of gamers have this achievement'Your assumption is wrong from the start.
People don't play boring games. Boring = bad for all gamers.
It's obviously easier to monetize fun games rather than boring games because people play games to have fun.
For some reason anytime a game is around 10-20 hours long there's always tons of whiners who complain that the game is "too short". I'd rather have a 10-20 hour game that is consistently good than the bloated shit companies like Ubisoft put out.I’m honestly getting tired of larger and longer games.
But i love Ubisoft games. As an open world game fan Ubi IMO make the best.
In fact when i was doing my Top 10 games of last gen, like 5 or 6 of the places were taken by Ubisoft games.
My Playtimes (when available) for the Ubisoft games i played last gen -
Assassins Creed Origins - 122 hours
Assassins Creed Odyssey - 367 hours
Assassins Creed Valhalla - 92 hours
The Division - 89 hours
The Division 2 - 157 hours
Ghost Recon Wildlands - 66 hours
Ghost Recon Breakpoint - 92 hours
Far Cry Primal - 72 hours
Far Cry 5 - 82 hoiurs
Far Cry New Dawn - 18 hours (it sucked)
The Crew 2 - 49 hours
Played WatchDogs 1 and 2 but its not giving my playtime for them on Uplay for some reason.
Dont really get the hate for Ubi games, never have.
Please stop buying Ubisoft games.
It’s really not worth it.