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Topic	Do you think people simp too hard for Japan?
adjl 01/12/25 4:51:35 PM #10:	ParanoidObsessive posted... Even if you completely ignore that (like Ubisoft did, ba-bum-tish), it's also worth remembering that a few months back their employees went on strike to complain about multiple contractual and working condition issues, and Ubisoft did absolutely nothing to address any of them. Ubisoft is basically just a terrible company in nearly every way a company can be terrible. Yep. I made the choice years ago to stop buying their games, and they've done nothing to dissuade me of that choice. I'm not about to pretend that their mistreatment of their employees is directly responsible for their current struggles (though it's almost certainly played a role, mostly by driving talented, experienced developers out and forcing their replacements/the remaining people to work on projects that don't line up with their talents for the sake of chasing a bandwagon), since gamers are pretty notorious for deliberately ignoring bad things studios do so they can consume their media in peace, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel that this was well-deserved. Or rather, I'd feel that this was well-deserved if those responsible for the company's struggles actually faced meaningful consequences for their failures. If Ubisoft goes under, the ones getting hurt will be a very large number of bottom-rung employees who did everything within their power right, screwed over by inept management that will just be grabbing their golden parachutes and moving on to a new multi-million dollar salary somewhere else. ParanoidObsessive posted... As some people have also pointed out, it kind of doesn't help that we basically already got Assassin's Creed: Japan about five years ago. It was called Ghost of Tsushima. Yep. It also doesn't help that - in no small part thanks to Ubisoft - the market's kind of flooded with open-world games like Assassin's Creed, so demand for any given new one is inevitably going to be pretty lukewarm unless it does a whole lot more than "hey you guys like samurai, right?". Even if GoT hadn't already filled that niche very recently and very well, not many people are getting excited for a new AC game just because of the setting. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:983637082] in Do you thi... [t:80916550]...</cite> <quote>ParanoidObsessive posted... </cite><quote>Even if you completely ignore that (like Ubisoft did, ba-bum-tish), it's also worth remembering that a few months back their employees went on strike to complain about multiple contractual and working condition issues, and Ubisoft did absolutely nothing to address any of them. Ubisoft is basically just a terrible company in nearly every way a company can be terrible.</quote>Yep. I made the choice years ago to stop buying their games, and they've done nothing to dissuade me of that choice. I'm not about to pretend that their mistreatment of their employees is directly responsible for their current struggles (though it's almost certainly played a role, mostly by driving talented, experienced developers out and forcing their replacements/the remaining people to work on projects that don't line up with their talents for the sake of chasing a bandwagon), since gamers are pretty notorious for deliberately ignoring bad things studios do so they can consume their media in peace, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't feel that this was well-deserved.Or rather, I'd feel that this was well-deserved if those responsible for the company's struggles actually faced meaningful consequences for their failures. If Ubisoft goes under, the ones getting hurt will be a very large number of bottom-rung employees who did everything within their power right, screwed over by inept management that will just be grabbing their golden parachutes and moving on to a new multi-million dollar salary somewhere else.ParanoidObsessive posted... </cite><quote>As some people have also pointed out, it kind of doesn't help that we basically already got Assassin's Creed: Japan about five years ago. It was called Ghost of Tsushima.</quote>Yep. It also doesn't help that - in no small part thanks to Ubisoft - the market's kind of flooded with open-world games like Assassin's Creed, so demand for any given new one is inevitably going to be pretty lukewarm unless it does a whole lot more than "hey you guys like samurai, right?". Even if GoT hadn't already filled that niche very recently and very well, not many people are getting excited for a new AC game just because of the setting. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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