Ubisoft has said it’s “fully mobilised to swiftly implement a series of updates to polish and improve” Star Wars Outlaws after it admitted the game had a “softer than expected launch”. While it pointed out that the release had received “solid ratings”, it said that it wants to position the release as a “strong long-term performer”, which will require a series of critical improvements and updates.
In fact, the title’s launch appears to have spooked the French publisher, prompting it to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows until 14th February. “While the game is feature complete,” it said of its upcoming Japanese open world outing, “the learnings from the Star Wars Outlaws release led us to provide additional time to further polish the title.”
Among Star Wars Outlaws’ many launch issues, PS5 players who’d paid extra for Early Access were forced to start the campaign over, after a critical progression breaking bug had to be fixed by the publisher. This rendered the Early Access period pointless – and has resulted in the French publisher nixing the entire idea with Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
[source staticctf.ubisoft.com]
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It seems the old “churn out jank and fix it in post” strategy has finally caught up to them. Ubi’s reputation is such that the genuinely good games they put out suffer.
Ubisoft is one more piece of bad PR away from getting bought by Microsoft
This game is still in my cart on PSN. Hoping it goes on sale soon so I can add it to my backlog. I'm currently like 3 years behind the release schedules. I really hate being a responsible adult sometimes haha
Ubisof...who is surprised.Not buying their game.
@Enuo unlikely to happen. Aa Microsoft already own over 30 franchises , more likely swallowed by EA
Devs are starting to learn that in todays market if you don’t release an acceptable polished product gamers will reject it.
Ubisoft titles are discounted faster and heavier than any other publisher. I fully expect to be able to pick it up on black Friday for less than £30.
I enjoyed the game on my ps5, I know it's not perfect at all. But..when it comes to AC shadows I think I'll wait even longer for that one before I pay up for anything like 😅
The title finally coming back to Steam as well. They should follow suit with EA and remove their stupid launcher requirements. Nobody likes your UPlay, Ubisoft!
@QiaraIris Yup. There's been a few Ubisoft games I almost jumped at until I remembered Ubisoft Connect is a thing. I can wait and play the tens of thousands of other games that don't hassle me with such nonsense in the meantime.
I remember the media was saying Outlaws sales were through the roof.
Also, outside quality, gamers are trained more than ever to not buy day 1 as they are always discounted extremely quickly.
Hahahaha…. What a bunch of clowns
Black friday - 40 bucks.
They should have tried designing a better game.
I enjoyed the hell out of Outlaws but it definitely could have used a delay to polish up like Shadows is getting. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a positive change.
Investors sat them down and gave the the hell's kitchen Ramsay experience that's what happened, pre launch ego has gone now replaced by fear and they should be scared because the response to this game and shadows has been rancid, investors are taking their ball and running away.
I really don't understand what they can do to shadows in a few months it's still gonna have trash valhalla combat, just gonna be a poor man's tsushima.
Meh, I'm passing until a year later at the least. Fix it and I MIGHT add it to my backlog.
Nice, ill grab it @ 30 quid b4 xmas.
I had a few issues at the start but in the end I really enjoyed it. Probably the best game I’ve played this year.
Are they becoming the next SE? Where everything doesn’t meet expectations?
But to drop it in Feb alongside MHwilds, Avowed, even civ7. - obviously different audiences but they are long awaited games for many.
Once I read they fix the performance mode to actually hit 60fps, I'll pick it up.
Probably my most enjoyed game this year alongside Dragon's Dogma 2.
They talk candid about it and change stuff. Both are good things.
A lot of people aren't buying it because of the Disney-picked protagonist.
Underestimated how sick some people are of the Ubisoft formula, overestimated the power of the Star Wars IP (still popular but not loved nearly as much as it once was) and didn't consider that maybe letting execs say stupid stuff like 'get used to not owning your games,' isn't a good idea.
It sounds like a positive impact of the Digital Foundry style (just using them as example not as the origin) of reviews we see a lot of today. While performance is secondary to gameplay it should still be held as a critical pillar by developers.
Pro tip Ubisoft don't make your protagonist ugly
“strong long-term performer”
So does that mean we can't expect this game to be improved any time soon?
When you're releasing a game for £70 with cut content unless you pay extra that requires an internet connection just to install what do you expect
Well, when you crap out "gems" like Skull & Bones, you can't blame people for running the next time you say your stomach hurts...
Try making games people want to buy, it's a revolutionary approach, granted. It might just work though.
Its ubi for crying out loud, none of their games are worth buying anymore. They are just as bad as Playstation and Xbox studios who will buy up everything if they dont go under from being woke or pumping out unfinished jumbled pieces of a game a few hundred people worked on one piece and its all over the place. And their biggest problem is a bloated workforce when making a game only to cut the staff later that mattered the most. Instead on downtime they keep all the radical leftys and hire their friends. And then they all bounce from one company to the next when the P/L meetings hit and they are in the red on a game they spent way too much on that nobody wanted or asked for. And oh course most of them arent customers and they dont care if it fails or there is product to buy, they all got overpaid.
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