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Assassin's Creed Shadows hits 2 million players, putting it on track to be the series' most successful game yet (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

As much as I would be happy for Ubisoft to have a success, they really need one, I just don't trust unverifiable number. I always want to know metrics and data.

Ubisoft can tell us everything. And what does 2 million players really mean? How many of them refunded the game in the 2h at Steam for example? How many are players who, for an hour or two, looked into the game as part of their Ubisoft gamepass equivalent? 2 million players can mean all kind of things. It doesn't say much really about the success.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Spent all day playing it . It’s great.

Ignore the YouTubers trying to feed off anti Ubisoft vibes. It’s a very beautiful and epic journey, involving slick stealth and very decent combat in Feudal Japan.

Like a juiced Odyssey really, so if that’s your jam, don’t hesitate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have played nearly all AC games until Odyssey then dropping it after about 20h of extremely boring grind just to be able to progress the story. I then decided not to touch these games anymore if they don't change and apparently Valhalla was even worse..? I'm very curious about Shadows but afraid it's the same "pay to progress faster" bullshit. Can you tell me what's it like?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is it RPGy like odyssey or is it like the old games where your knife would kill anyone?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It’s very like odyssey.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

That's fun, conservative friend of mine told me just this morning about how it was a huge failure with a ridiculous amount of simultaneous players.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kinda surprised it's not terrible tbh. Was expecting them to screw it up somehow.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If it were doing well, one might think they'd share sales figures instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To clarify, sales figures don't exist anymore because you have to count the people who take a $20 sub to ubisoft to play this instead of buying it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is not the standard launch metric in the industry, that comes in quarterly earnings calls. Are you one of the go woke go broke brigade?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm part of the "I don't think this game is doing nearly as well as Ubisoft needs it to" "brigade," but thank you very much for slinging baseless accusations.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I thought this was a crippling failure because it was woke or something?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Yeah they put a black samurai in it. Of course the screeching ggamers were screeching about “historical accuracy “….. and then of course there was a story about a black samurai …. So they had to shut up

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On the contrary. The word on the conservative circles is how awful the game is and how it doesn't compare.

I'm serious. They're not shutting up about it (and if you think that's happening you're in a bubble). The actual discussion point is that this game is a failure.