AAA game industry today: "Pay us $70 to play our game. Now pay us $10 more to not have to play it."

@umecoalpaw7573

2 ай бұрын

"And then buy this cosmetics pack for 15 dollars. Or every individual item for 5, there's 6 items per set... and 10 cosmetic sets to choose from!"

@Lexi-M

2 ай бұрын

Pay $10 for the intended play through or don’t pay, and grind 50 extra hours to get to the point where you can have a normal play through.

@TtimeXP

2 ай бұрын

Pay $15 for battle pass cosmetics but also not have it unlocked immediately... so you gotta grind within a few weeks to unlock cosmetics. If you don't have time to beat the battle pass.... you're SOL

@cezarstefanseghjucan

2 ай бұрын

Ubisoft+

@TowerWatchTV

2 ай бұрын

Every time they charge extra $10 it makes me wanna get any game less and less. I would rather support indi from now on. I don't think there has been any mainstream game i picked in the last few years, they all just reek so bad and no amount of price tag they choose for them will change their quality, or rather the lack of.

It's called "Skull & Bones" because the game is barely a skeleton of what Black Flag was.

@ChaoticOrder883

2 ай бұрын

"But it will get better" I am sick of the asshats who defend these companies. I am a old school assassin creed player. They ruined my games.

@LPTheGas

2 ай бұрын

They thought when we said wanted a pirate game without the Assassin's Creed stuff, we meant "take out every aspect of gameplay that was ever in any Assassin's Creed game other than Black Flag", not "take out all the meta sci-fi present day/ancient aliens stuff".

@MagicSpartan1992

2 ай бұрын

More like “Skin & Bones”

@kaydog890

2 ай бұрын

Well done for copying someone elses comment

@KnightMinson

2 ай бұрын

​​@@MagicSpartan1992skin & bones implies there is more than just bones

It's called Quadruple-A because it makes you want to shout "AAAA!"

@r3l1csvk

Ай бұрын

at the start of last year,2023,i made a "so,A=20 bucks." joke reflecting upon the base price of the first ever game claiming to be an AAAA-Forspoken.

@HowlingWolf518

Ай бұрын

It's also the sound the junior-level devs are making in the basement.

@JamesDM4

Ай бұрын

Damn I laught a lot reading this comment 😂

@darthkaliath4014

17 күн бұрын

its actually called AAAA because its supposed to be called AAAA(ss), you could also say that they meant the battery size!

@glens2019

11 күн бұрын

The only game I know of that can at least justify itself being a AAAA game is Star Citizen.

Ubisoft talking about using AI to write NPC dialogue shows how much they value both artists and players. They see you as nothing more than a mindless content consumer, one so uninterested in quality that you can be sold randomized gibberish pumped out endlessly by a machine.

@samuellourenco1050

Ай бұрын

You hit the nail in the head there.

@handson4580

Ай бұрын

and the worst part...there not completely wrong if sales has anything to say about it in the past

@Pvemaster2

Ай бұрын

NPCs reacting to what you say dynamically could be very cool, I think you're being a tad too cynical about the idea. The implementation, however... I have 0 faith in ubisoft.

@Platzhalterxy

Ай бұрын

"artists" yea these people shouldnt be valued if you see the crap they produced in the last years. if they use ai instead paying sweet baby inc thats a good thing

@XMysticHerox

Ай бұрын

@@Platzhalterxy If you look into how these things actually come about it has little to nothing to do with the actual devs.

Fun fact: Quadruple A is a term in baseball used to describe someone who was really great at the college level, but crashed and burned hard when they got into the pros. I remember coming across this fact online when reading a review for a bad game that called it a quadruple-A experience.

@greenstarlover1

2 ай бұрын

Lol

@mitchpitch

2 ай бұрын

Ironic lol

@higgsbonbon

2 ай бұрын

It's starting to resemble a scream.

@dorbie

2 ай бұрын

Nice.

@caesurabreak3528

2 ай бұрын

unbelievable the amount of irony that company drips out trying to peddle it as gold

“It’s hard to sink a ship this big” Pretty sure that’s what they said about the Titanic and the Bismarck

@robertschnobert9090

2 ай бұрын

Hindenburg! It's an air ship 🌈

@randomguy-tg7ok

2 ай бұрын

Ubisoft thinks they're taking the Bismarck on the Titanic's voyage when they're actually taking the Titanic on the Bismarck's voyage. Does that about some it up?

@TARINunit9

2 ай бұрын

In fairness, it was genuinely hard to sink the Bismarck But "hard" is not "impossible"

@EmpressSerenityOfBrittany

2 ай бұрын

And the Costa Concordia

@comethiburs2326

2 ай бұрын

the problem with ubi, is that it's french. meaning there's french government money in it. and that means that it'll get bought up the moment that happens.

The ship is sinking. It's keeping itself above water, but sooner or later, its stamina bar will run out. And yes, apparently, ships have stamina bars. According to ubisoft.

@H2ORaccoon

Ай бұрын

Their little sea legs get tired from running around all the time

@Blackdragon271

Ай бұрын

….as someone who was ONLY interested in skull and bones because I specifically love naval combat….what the hell…

@fpsmatthew6107

Ай бұрын

@@Blackdragon271if you are on PC try holdfast, it might be dead now but was a pretty funny indie game

The funniest thing is, a mere 8 days before the release of Skull and Bones, a Live Service game, made by a then nearly unknown company, Helldivers 2, was released, and that one exploded simply by... being a good game.

You tell them Cookie Monster

@KrisRoberts114

2 ай бұрын

HMMM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM 🍪 🍪

@TrevortheTrainFan

Ай бұрын

Arlo reminds me more of Grover than Cookie Monster but without a big nose because they're both slim.

@robertallen5091

Ай бұрын

@@TrevortheTrainFan This is Cookie's son, he does not share the same cookie addiction, so he isn't as big

@Rosa_Neco

Ай бұрын

this is video game monster the son of the King.@@robertallen5091

@zachtwilightwindwaker596

Ай бұрын

@@robertallen5091 I thought it was his nephew.

You could say that Ubisoft's unyielding dedication to live service games and microtransactions has become something of a "sunken" cost fallacy

@JJ18355

2 ай бұрын

Case in point: The game Skull and Bones, that's already dead on arrival AND dead in the water, too.

@sackfu7952

2 ай бұрын

@@JJ18355 the cost has sunk so low at this point that in order for the theoretical ship to reach said depths it'd have to be crushed and reduced to sawdust from the overwhelming pressure of the water

@diccchocolate416

2 ай бұрын

​@@sackfu7952because boats

@liammcnicholas918

2 ай бұрын

@@JJ18355That’s the joke

@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo

2 ай бұрын

NFTs

The crew may be bailing water, but the captain is helping by drilling another hole to let the water out.

@oinkitysploink2213

Ай бұрын

nah the crew just became unplayable lmao (forgotten ubisoft racing game)

@DarkElfDiva

Ай бұрын

@@oinkitysploink2213 You know that meme of that kid holding a sandwich and looking like, "HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR!"? That.

Skull & Bones was a good idea when the scope of the game was on par with For Honor. A small game specifically for fans of the naval combat. The problem is that they took this niche concept and decided it would be a AAAA super blockbuster that everyone in the world wanted to play.

Arlo talking down on AAA gaming is becoming one of my favorite genres

@justlorenzos

2 ай бұрын

"AAAA" game you meant 😅

@chiquita683

2 ай бұрын

He literally just had a video about how we need to save the gaming industry jobs and then the next vid is dunking on a gaming company's latest release. Ubisoft going to see this vid and fire 20% of their staff 😖

@fenrirslip

2 ай бұрын

More KZreadrs should start calling these companies out for their practices regardless of whether or not they'll actually have an impact.

@SimuLord

2 ай бұрын

@@fenrirslipThat's why I'm a patron on Second Wind. Yahtzee and Frost are doing the gods' work on that front.

@pilotsayshello1758

2 ай бұрын

Sure, but he's also Nintendo's biggest diehard shill. Not to say he's never scrutinized Nintendo before, definitely not. It's just ironic that he's always willing the give the most anti-consumer company a pass.. but also dunks on other companies like this. Ubisoft certainly deserves it but where is Arlo when Nintendo is coming after preservation and emulation? I feel like THAT is something that deserves his attention more tha.. Ubisoft's frequent blunders. Dude is a Nintendo KZreadr talking about Ubisoft and he is HARSH with his takes, (again, ubisoft deserves it) but where tf is that energy with Nintendo???

Pirate games more fun than skull and bones: 1. Sea of thieves 2. Actually pirating black flag on a PS3 emulator 3. Becoming a pirate irl

@Tolgeros

2 ай бұрын

check out Sid Meier's Pirates! a classic

@TheMultiTasker3

2 ай бұрын

I mean, Black Flag has a PC port, you don't have to go to the trouble of getting a PS3 emulator.

@jordanackland7844

2 ай бұрын

@@TheMultiTasker3 I was thinking more both Hee hoo pirate the pirate game and not really wanting to give uni any more money

@jeyhellixedge8766

2 ай бұрын

4. Sly cooper 3

@jonasking9587

2 ай бұрын

Shadow Gambit...

I interviewed with Ubisoft about 3 years ago to work on the Splinter Cell remake. They gave me a vibe that once the game would be finished that they were going to lay people off. During the interview, I said, don't hire me if you plan on laying me off in one years time. I couldn't get a straight answer from them, so I pretty much knew the deal. I have friends who still work there, and they've told me terrible things about Ubisoft. They try so hard with their whole DEI BS, but its just a front for their toxic culture.

@mrheroprimes

Ай бұрын

Especially with the gatekeeping considering the assassin's creed team have wanted to do a game with just a female protagonist but had to add a male option to appease upper management

@randomlyentertaining8287

Ай бұрын

DEI is toxic in and of itself. It's discrimination based on race and sex.

@Calvin_Coolage

17 күн бұрын

​@@mrheroprimesThat's some good irony right there.

@concept5631

10 күн бұрын

​@@mrheroprimes Sounds about right.

@concept5631

10 күн бұрын

Given you have friends inside Ubisoft, I must ask why on Earth do people work at such a shitty workplace? Its not like gaming is an essential industry.

I thought the people of these comments should know KZreadr Ross Scott (Accursed Farms) the creator of some of the oldest Machinima on the platform has put together a campaign to make governments create laws against Live service games, using the termination of The Crew and Ubisoft as the major focal point but his scope includes all companies that do this. If you would like to get involved there are 3 videos on his channel that cover what you can do depending on what country you live in, the more people get involved the more likely it is to see action.

@oinkitysploink2213

Ай бұрын

YESS!! I was honestly expecting to see more of this in the comments. thanks for spreading the message

We all knew skull and bones was going to be a disaster. All it took was the knowledge that they were being my forced to finish it by the Singapore government

@Openreality

2 ай бұрын

That thing is still releasing? I forgot it existed.

@Dagg3r89

2 ай бұрын

This was never even confirmed. Just a rumor.

@Bababaaaa

2 ай бұрын

@@Openreality It came out a month ago.

@adora_was_taken

2 ай бұрын

impossible! it's a AAAA game!

@Openreality

2 ай бұрын

​​​@@Bababaaaa I still forgot it existed lols. Goes to show how little i care anymore i wasn't holding out that it would be good because greedy soft.

When Ubisoft sinks you can be sure that the people keeping it afloat right now are going to be drowning on the lower decks while the ones who set the bad course will be taking the safety boat that just so happens to be loaded with the remaining treasure.

@jintsuubest9331

Ай бұрын

Sadly it is always people in the bottom felt the bad first and people at the top collect the reward first.

@armorhide406

Ай бұрын

What a great society we have. What, it's always been this way? Wild

@zxt5148

Ай бұрын

@@armorhide406 yep. functional societies oldest foe, nepotism.

@thechosenone2123

Ай бұрын

And capitalism too

@zxt5148

Ай бұрын

@@thechosenone2123 if you think its an issue unique to capitalism..

I really fuckin hate to see it because there are soooo many talented enviromental designers in ubisoft. Its seriously the one thing they always nail 100%

@kirbycooper9496

Ай бұрын

Also I had a lot of fun with breakpoint but, like the video mentioned, the game play loop is just so much of the same

They crippled Black Flag recently too. It's unplayable past a certain point without a mod to fix the once online part of the game and if you use that mod, your newly attached Ubisoft Connect account will get banned and without the ability log-in, the game simply won't launch making it online only... despite the online portion being no longer supported... Basically, I'm not shocked and I just hope Steam/modders can undo their evil nonsense.

@houndofculann1793

Ай бұрын

There was an online portion in Black Flag?

@SammEater

Ай бұрын

​@@houndofculann1793Yeah, it worked like that mode in Metal Gear Solid V where you sent soldiers to fight in missions overseas.

@oinkitysploink2213

Ай бұрын

thats not even the worst thing. The Crew, one of my favorite racing games, just became COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE because it was a constant live service game. despite 90% of the game being playable offline. its funny because fans digging through the code found that there was a beta for a "play offline" mode that never saw the light of day. the modders cant get to it though because its encrypted. all ubisoft has to do to make the game work is essentially flip a switch, but they can't be bothered

@Merble

Ай бұрын

@@houndofculann1793Yeah, like the other bro said... but you didn't used to be required to log in... so they added a required login after removing the only online portion which is just... What.

@user-uv2bd7ee3q

Ай бұрын

To make you buy new games more or less, wouldn't put it past them, definitely up their alley at this moment.

"I used to genuinely think they were a cool company, I didn't really know anything about them." Cut. Print. Beautiful.

@INFILTR8US

Ай бұрын

Why? Because it's a complete sentence?

"I'm not a fan of evil people. It's just...not my thing" Bless you Arlo.

@luluna5228

2 ай бұрын

whn you realize every workplace has abuse

@JGr2000

2 ай бұрын

@@luluna5228that’s an over generalization if I’ve ever seen one

@ionlydrinkjesusmilk7256

2 ай бұрын

the virtue signaling is so obvious 🤪 (I'm not serious)

@Gloomdrake

2 ай бұрын

@@JGr2000it also ignores the fact that abuse is scalable

@BlueEyedVibeChecker

2 ай бұрын

To be fair, some evil deserves fans, the Joker is a great villain, and Megamind was the true hero regardless.

Being french, I think the end of Ubisoft is great news. While we do have smaller cool companies making nice games, Ubisoft is sucking a lot of local talents, and waste their potential. If/when Ubisoft falls appart, a ton of devs will join/build new companies and produce nice stuff.

@yeetiminguspro3438

4 күн бұрын

I want ubisoft to last JUST long enough that legislation can be passed banning the killing of games

I'm new to the channel and I have to say, the conceit of a blue monster pretending to be a man operating a blue monster is just beautiful.

To add to the analogy. Ubisoft is not only run by a captain who is sinking his ship for treasure while hurting his crew. The treasure he finds at the end is "The friends we made along the way." While all the crew lays beaten and dead with the captian unharmed and confused and underwhelmed at their prize.

@jordanhunter3375

2 ай бұрын

Worse yet, he's trapped in a room where the mechanism holding the door shut requires blood, which if he had even half a crew available, they would be able to spare enough blood apiece to satisfy the debt without passing out, but because he has sacrificed them to every trap on the way to the treasure, he will have to pay in full if he wants to leave.

@robertoburkes817

2 ай бұрын

-Now for my personal head cannon- The crew has a mutany but decided to leave the captain to pilot his own ship... eventually the French sailors are picked up by a Japanese Yacht called the Miyazaki and all get employed having successful fulfilling careers in game development designing poison swamps😂😂

@trainknut

2 ай бұрын

@@jordanhunter3375 I think we're really stretching the sinking ship analogy at this point, that's basically 70% of an action-adventure novel you just wrote.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become a Triple-A Game company.

@LevelWithUs

2 ай бұрын

*Quadruple-A

@smokescreen100

Ай бұрын

Or are Valve and switch lanes

@Yomotomen

Ай бұрын

@@smokescreen100i mean, they kinda did die as a game producing company, its all platforms now no?

@wiwysova

Ай бұрын

Ubisoft was always shit, don't pretend they were ever "heroes"

@austinreed7343

Ай бұрын

@@wiwysova Always shit? Rayman’s okay I guess. I’d say back then they were more morally gray than anything else.

Even the Titanic didn't sink as fast as Skull & Bones.

@randomlyentertaining8287

Ай бұрын

The Titanic sank relatively slowly at around 2.5 hours . The Lusitania and Empress of Ireland sank in under 20 minutes.

@dikastederook6380

Ай бұрын

@@randomlyentertaining8287 And yet it had more time to save things than that game.

"Some people are having fun..." There's no accounting for taste...

Honestly kind of an insult to sinking ships

@thekiss2083

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, at least Titanic was entertaining

@pinguman13

2 ай бұрын

Sinking ships actually have the decency of actually sinking 🤷‍♂️

@fity_4696

2 ай бұрын

The longest, slowest sinking in history (I quit ubi years ago)

@autobotstarscream765

2 ай бұрын

​@@pinguman13 Ubisoft the Ghost Ship

@BlueEyedVibeChecker

2 ай бұрын

@@thekiss2083 Depending on whether you mean the movie or the real life event, this could be a 1/10 or a solid 11.

Insert overused “if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing”

@hauntorthegiraffebiscuit

2 ай бұрын

Is it truly overused if it keeps being relevant and further being proven valid?

@LordRenegrade

2 ай бұрын

"Piracy" isn't stealing in the first place. If you illegally copy software, the original owner still has their original copy = not stolen. If you take Bob's car, he no longer has that car = you've deprived Bob of that car and any usage of selfsame car = stolen. "Piracy" and "theft" are propaganda/brainwashing from the software industry (started by Gates in the 70s with that "don't copy that floppy" campaign), because nobody gave a rat's ass when they told the truth: "copyright infringement".

@Jupa

2 ай бұрын

@@hauntorthegiraffebiscuitit’s overused. If you’re gonna pirate, pirate. Don’t pretend to moralise. These are video games, not water. Nobody needs to sit around and play video games all day. They just want to. Big difference. So just steal that shit without acting like it’s somehow virtuous.

@HobokerDev

2 ай бұрын

​@@JupaIt's not stealing it's piracy they are different things

@dpackerman4203

2 ай бұрын

Buying is owning but piracy still isn’t stealing.

Skull and Bones' development is reflected in the game. They started going strong(literally just remake Black Flag for next gen), made some bad moves due to poor choices early on(the quest marker was in the wrong spot) then ran out of steam and had to slog for way too long to reach their destination(they ran out of stamina). Then once it was all said and done, they realized that they had spent a ton of money for a pile of poop, just like we did buying the game.

@theboraxbandit9563

4 күн бұрын

maybe we should stop buying these games and check out the reviews first? vote with your wallet

*Man... I missed games like Oblivion... (even if he started with the Horse DLC stuff)* You paid around $10, and get tons of quests, npcs, elements, classes, races, dungeons, loots, spells creation, and all that... While here, you pay 7x more, to just.... travel in an ship...

The Ubisoft that made Rayman 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Assassin's Creed 2 is long gone and I just have to accept that. Sigh.

@sarahchicago

2 ай бұрын

Such a shame /gen

@Gameprojordan

2 ай бұрын

Same with me except for rainbow six vegas series

@jaretco6423

2 ай бұрын

And Mario + Rabbids. And Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.

@AlphaladZXA

2 ай бұрын

At this point I hope they just do remakes and remasters those are most of the only good games they got. Just give me rayman 2 HD and I'll be so happy

@Gloomdrake

2 ай бұрын

@@AlphaladZXAsomewhere, a monkey’s paw curls

Honestly, a pirate game is an idea that writes itself. Spiritual successor to black flag. Customizable player character captain, give em a backstory if you wanna be spicy. Customizable lead ship. Baldur's Gate 3 style of npc crew and crew management. Maybe give it a supernatural potc style undercurrent/subplot as a differentiating 'upgrade' to black flag. Boom done. If it needs multi-player, set that in a secret sea beyond the coral reef or something so you're not trying to make your main ocean both a plot AND a crowded wifi arena.

@sarahwhitmore6951

2 ай бұрын

That sounds really fun actually

@Jaguar21010

2 ай бұрын

Lol literally so many gamers with great ideas. It's like no one at ubisoft plays games and isn't interested in directly asking us what we want.

@lordnelson7524

2 ай бұрын

Hey, wanna play Mount and Blade with a pirate skin? Game is called Carribean: Blood and Gold

@HANKTHEDANKEST

2 ай бұрын

@@Jaguar21010Those that do have no power, and those with power probably haven't touched a game since Pong. Ubisoft is cancer.

@jtperez657

2 ай бұрын

So Sea of Thieves?

A Great man once said, "If it's not fun, why bother"

Someone said, these companies aren't big because they are good, they are big because they are big

"They said we couldn't do it, they said we shouldn't do it, they begged us NOT to do it, but we did it anyway!" - Ubisoft probably

@FlamingAomeba

2 ай бұрын

Thank you Soldier TF2

To be fair: the AAAA moniker is technically accurate. The phrase we associate with big budget titles and superior quality actually originated as a business term describing budget size, and if there's one thing that Skull and Bones has shown us, it's that if you want to build a build a money bonfire, it's gonna take a LOT of cash.

@bretonfabrice

Ай бұрын

AAA has never been about quality. Always been about the budget. Personally I've stopped caring about AAA games 20 years ago because they didn't appeal to me at all.

@abadenoughdude300

Ай бұрын

@@bretonfabrice AAA was always the blockbusters of gaming - big budget, fancy tech, maybe not the deepest piece of art but nonetheless quite fun and a benchmark for what can be achieved with current tech (for the most part). Meanwhile current day AAA is only the outrageously overbloated budgets and barely anything else, not even the tech is all that impressive as it's mostly copy-pastes from whatever they released last year with barebones optimisation (S&B is the first game in years that I said looks actually ugly for what it's trying to be - quadruple A? sure, if it was released in 2016, maybe). Granted, improvements in game graphics aren't anywhere near as massive and noticeable as they were, say, in the 90's but it's still telling when a pixel art indie title feels like it has better graphics than a billion dollar AAAA title.

A large portion of big western devs are sinking ships. Bioware, Bethesda, Sony, Ubisoft, Blizzard - the list goes on~ Meanwhile overseas devs such as Cdprojekt Red, Owlcat, Larian Studios, Atlus and Squeenix are cleaning up.

@Reconforce13

Ай бұрын

CD Project Red sadly isn't what it used to be, I'm afraid. For me they really dropped the Ball on Cyberpunk and most really important Staff that made Witcher 3 what it is has left the studio by now.

@user-mw2ww6pi5x

Ай бұрын

@@Reconforce13 Cyberpunk at luanch was a mess. But, I give them brownie points for continuing to work on it years after they had made their initial sales. There are plenty of devs/publishers that will drop something into the market and wipe their hands clean asap, regardless of the state of the game~

@r3l1csvk

Ай бұрын

@@user-mw2ww6pi5x @Reconforce13 : "Cyberpunk at luanch was a mess." actually,such a mess that a czech music band took one of the legendary songs from that country and using its tunes and rhytms they turned it by their own lyrics into a cp77 release state mockery song

@Reconforce13

Ай бұрын

@@r3l1csvk Didn't know that, will definitivly look that up later

@r3l1csvk

Ай бұрын

@@Reconforce13 unfortunatelly i do not know if there are any translations of the lyrics on google for they deffo are not on youtube

So wait... you're telling me UBISOFT... of all devs do not know what the definition of insanity is? Oh the irony.

There’s a part of me that wants Ubisoft Milan (or whichever division does the Mario Rabbids game) just breaks off from Ubisoft taking the Rayman Rabbids IP with them to save them from Ubisoft’s clutches 😭

@peachymiku6432

2 ай бұрын

Yes, agreed. Protect Mario + Rabbids from Ubisoft!

@davebob4973

2 ай бұрын

Let them have rayman too

@natnew32

2 ай бұрын

Ubisoft Milan + Ubisoft Paris

@nerdtuga9180

2 ай бұрын

And have Ubisoft Montepellier do the same with Prince of Persia

@Alorso_

2 ай бұрын

@@peachymiku6432 Nintendo wouldn't let Ubisoft tarnish the Mario brand in that way, they heavily monitored that to make sure they released them in a good state

It's crazy how Kingdom Hearts III is like 10% pirate simulator, and that's the most fun part of the game, and Ubisoft makes an entire pirate simulator that's a flaming disaster. How do you get shown up by a fraction of another game that isn't even the same genre?!

@carpeXnoctem12

2 ай бұрын

KH3 has a million problems but that Pirates level is perfection on all fronts.

@skyrunnerblake1481

2 ай бұрын

Totally! And Ubisoft has done it successfully in the past too haha

@PhysicsGamer

2 ай бұрын

Assassin's Creed 4 is literally already a better pirate game than this, and that one's from Ubisoft! All they needed to do was swap out the assassination bits with more ship customization and some fleet control, yet somehow they managed to fail in every possible way...

@tomforge614

2 ай бұрын

I mean, Sly Cooper 3 'bout perfected simple pirate simulation, and that was more than ten years ago.

@comyuse9103

2 ай бұрын

@@tomforge614 hell yeah glad to see someone else bring it up!

I love that instead of a drawn avatar you use a puppet. Its adorable

7:33 I don't think I've ever seen Arlo be so unapologetically blunt before. 😂

22:20 'companies don't want a lot of money... companies want ALL THE MONEY' Arlo just encapsulated corporate greed at its core

@PsychoDiesel48

2 ай бұрын

I thank James Stephanie Sterling for enlightening us with that knowledge all those years ago. THEY WERE RIGHT!!!!

@ReddKnight10

2 ай бұрын

@@PsychoDiesel48We love Steph

@MrSpartan993

2 ай бұрын

Evil

@gorillazfan3

2 ай бұрын

@@PsychoDiesel48hwnbaw

@PhysicsGamer

2 ай бұрын

The bizarre thing is that they're _not_ getting more money doing it like this. Almost every single one of Ubisoft's recent games have been major commercial "failures" according to their "expectations". The biggest exception I can think of was the first Mario+Rabbids game!

My friend worked at Ubisoft. When he said that he had a friend who loved Starlink in a meeting one of his bosses laughed and said "you found the entire audience who is enthusiastic about Starlink!"

@dRac_XII

2 ай бұрын

haha i was there i laughed when he said that he’s right btw

@Arkhestra

2 ай бұрын

ngl that’s a pretty funny line lol

15:42 I will NEVER unhear the foghorn association with Skull and Bones. Thank you, Arlo!

Ubisoft really turned into Abstergo Interactive Entertainment

Ubisoft has also destroyed Just Dance. They turned it into a live service, stripped out many functions, made so many features behind their Just Dance+ subscription, a service that has less than half the songs in their previous Unlimited service. They deleted customized playlists. They put the previously free kids mode behind a paywall. They turned a party game into a single player game by only allowing one player's scores to be retained. They removed the World Dancefloor multiplayer mode. They stopped porting over songs from Unlimited into JD+. They made new season maps available only to JD+ despite saying they will add free content all year long. Most people I know that play Just Dance are sticking with 2022+Unlimited, but Ubisoft will turn off Unlimited soon. I know most gaming sites and channels blow Just Dance off, but it is probably Ubisoft's biggest cash cow and now they are chasing that game's loyal players away. The developers say most changes came from the execs. They said they know the current live service game is majorly lacking but they can't do anything about it. It seems like Ubisoft execs are determined to destroy all of their successful franchises.

@Roggor

Ай бұрын

Sounds like JD needs it's own version of the spiritual successor to Guitar Hero, Clone Hero. I'd be surprised if there wasn't some form of fan effort to open source JD.

Sly Cooper 3 walked so that Black Flag could run. Meanwhile, Skull n Bones is trying to fly, but is looking to have as much lift as a lemming.

@okkon8106

2 ай бұрын

lmao i played through sly 3 last week. I was thinking about the ship section aswell 😂

@jonasking9587

2 ай бұрын

No Sly 3 is a good game...BF has some good pirate sections on your ship. That's all.

@nullpoint3346

2 ай бұрын

You mean Dodo.

@GoodlyPenguin

2 ай бұрын

The Sly Cooper 3 ship section is INSANELY GREAT. I love the game, and the pirate section of that game felt so short since the ship combat was only a few missions, but damn was it making me wanting more

@Elenrai

2 ай бұрын

@@GoodlyPenguin Not to mention the bossfight on the ship! It absolutely slaps! Mechanically annoying but the whole scene was just a great experience

30 minute videos of Arlo roasting corpo gaming companies are amongst my favorite kind of Arlo videos.

I'm a 35 year old man that just received a lecture on evil business practices from a muppet and I'm here for it.

The Singaporean government deserves a round of applause for managing to force Ubisoft to reap what they sew

@ainternet239

2 ай бұрын

*sow

@GirthCheck

2 ай бұрын

​@@ainternet239nah, he means they have to wear the shitty clothes they made 😂

@frankiecedeno3724

Ай бұрын

I’m sure the Singaporean government is very happy their investment that undoubtedly went absurdly over budget was also a massive flop

@kumo34sans

Ай бұрын

@@GirthChecki dont get it

@YOUNGPADAWON

Ай бұрын

@@frankiecedeno3724I think your getting the Government mistaken with Ubisoft there fantastically happy that it went over budget that money went back in to there economy and all those people where able to have a Job for nearly a decade for a country that’s a win you think they gave a damn about that shitty game selling well?

*This is important:* I'm surprised you didn't talk about *The Crew.* Ubisoft is not simply stopping support, not simply delisting the game from stores, but Ubisoft is *intentionally breaking the game.* Meaning that *every single person who purchased this game will not be allowed to play it anymore because Ubisoft simply decided this to be the case.*

@n1lknarf

2 ай бұрын

they own the ip, players own a license to their ip. I don't understand why people don't understand that a license is not ownership of the product. You agreed to their terms when you bought the game, they warned you you would not own the ip, and that they could do whatever they wanted with their ip regardless of your purchase.

@NotTheGaslighter

2 ай бұрын

​@@n1lknarf And for the people that bought discs of The Crew, what do they get but a useless piece of e-waste? I know licensing is the reality of games ownership right now and the industry is more digital than ever, but it would take them a day or two to flip a switch that allows offline play for the rest of time. No amount of "you accepted the terms" will ail the waters of the pure dissent Ubisoft shows for game owners. You should have standards for this bullshit, as should everyone else.

@VGLounge

2 ай бұрын

That refuted *zero* things I said. I don't care if Ubisoft is taking people's games away because they "said so." What Ubisoft is doing here is undeniably scummy and deserves to be called out. Whether or not Ubisoft gets the picture other not, companies need to understand that this is *not okay.* @@n1lknarf

@SYLRMHA

2 ай бұрын

Found the bootlicker

@PhysicsGamer

2 ай бұрын

@@n1lknarf I'm sure that's how Ubisoft likes to think of it.

I squealed aloud when you mentioned Beyond Good And Evil, I played that game and became obsessed with it back when I rented it for the GameCube, and that alone should date how long I've wanted some answers for the after-credits cliffhanger. I lost faith when the style changed to hyper realistic. The game had a strong aestetic that contributed to its overall tone. Also making Jade's uncle super gross, eating flies and shit, like... yes he's a pig man but he was never like *that.* He had enough shame to swear Jade to secrecy about how the jet boots are fueled, I can barely imagine the guy hawking a lougie. This is my first video of yours but I'm subbed now. 😊

You're pretty spot on. I think the bigger picture you are missing here is this: Ubisoft is not really a games company. It is a games-focused investment portfolio. This is generally true of all businesses at the macro-level. Beyond a certain point, owners and investors are only interested in a company as an investment. They have no understanding or regard for what the company makes or how they do it. What they want is to sell their stock for more than they paid for it.

@austinreed7343

5 күн бұрын

Case in point, Iger stopped caring about Disney after 2019 or so (if he ever did care), and now sees the company as nothing more than an investment to pay off.

It's amazing, given the time it's taken to make Skull & Bones, that another company didn't look at the reveal, see the fan outcry, make the game people were asking for themselves, and release it BEFORE Skull & Bones.

@jadedflames

2 ай бұрын

Oh you mean Sea of Theives?

@mmmario8004

2 ай бұрын

Sea of Thieves: "Am I a joke to you?"

@silentdrew7636

2 ай бұрын

​@@mmmario8004 yes. At this point I can't see any reference to that game and not immediately think of Lazerpigs video.

@-lord1754

2 ай бұрын

​@@jadedflamesi like sea of thieves but its still pretty mediocre sometimes and it was way worse when it came out

@whatswiththisnewhandlesthing

2 ай бұрын

​@-lord1754 Is every game since updates became a thing not better than when it came out?

Absolutely love this trend of content of Arlo not pulling punches on exposing this screwed up industry. Keep it coming, good stuff.

@lckfan3696

2 ай бұрын

He literally pulls his punches on nintendo

@AgentMS

2 ай бұрын

​@@lckfan3696 So you weren't around for the "okayest direct ever" drama

@SherlocksLeftNipple

2 ай бұрын

You want more of this, go give The Jimquisition a watch. Stephanie's been on the AAA industry's ass like this since the days of horse armor and the dawn of DLC. 😂

@Elenrai

2 ай бұрын

@@SherlocksLeftNipple Oh fuck no, its 20% wrestling and watching a shadow of JIM FUCKING STERLING, SON! I miss Total Biscuit :(

The way you talk and emote your puppet is so similar to shows like Sesame Street and Elmo's World, I love the effort and dedication to the craft!

Every time Ubisoft releases a game now, the only thing that runs through my head is, "And the crowd has gone mild"

ubisoft makes the highest budget shovelware ive ever seen

Anyone remember Ubisoft's NFT attempt? They were only two companies to really jump in on that craze, along with Squeenix

@A1stardan

2 ай бұрын

I thought people will Gobble it up, just like they Gobble everything else, but I laughed so much when I read only few ppl bought it

@Vanished584

2 ай бұрын

Square is still very much invested in NFT's but Ubisoft has pulled out

@ThePandaSupreme

Ай бұрын

They still are doing NFT stuff… the new launch they did a month or so ago went well

@calidara3236

4 күн бұрын

Publicly that is, pretty sure the other 'AAA" companies checked but saw no easy way to implement it so they didn't announce it. Can't tell me i.e. Blizzard didn't at least studied ways to implementing NFT's in shit like hearthstone or WOW. (ie 'nft' mounts). If they could have they would have but imo the NFT craze died before they could.

I once heard a joke that whenever a game is in development Hidetaka Miyazaki the CEO of FromSoftware spends the entire time adding poison swamps. The rest of the company’s job is to remove those swamps before the game comes out. Anything they don’t get to stays in the game. I feel like Ubisoft is like that. All the developers are trying their best to make good games without the suits noticing, if any of the suits do notice they ruin it however they can. Good Ubisoft games are good in spite of Ubisoft’s best efforts.

This vid was randomly recommended to me, and you would not believe how loud i cackled when this puppet fella came on screen

This video was hilarious and insightful but let's not sleep on how impressive Arlo's puppeteering is. Between the AAAA moment and the cell phone bit at the end I thought it was as professional as the Muppets. Super impressive work. I don't know what training Arlo has with puppets but I so wish I could do that!

@ChristopherSadlowski

2 ай бұрын

It's funny you say that. I literally thought while watching this, "I wonder if they work on Sesame Street for their day job?" The puppeteering looks that professional!

I'm reminded of an old Doctor Who quote. "Everything has its time and everything dies" (2005).

@BlueEyedVibeChecker

2 ай бұрын

Everything dies, except Rayman, Rayman is eternal. GIVE US RAYMAN 4!!

@Fraxzor

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately that includes Doctor Who

@chrishilton3626

2 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@Fraxzor doctor who died the Capaldi regenerated

@tomwantshelp

2 ай бұрын

Doctor Who is famously the only thing that doesn’t die, lol. Just churns out insane amounts of great content every year.

@D3xterJettster

2 ай бұрын

Memento mori

There's a really cool video by Friendly Space Ninja called 'The inevitable fall of blockbusters', and I think some of its points might apply to AAA games as well. Basically the film market is imploding on itself, because super expensive blockbusters used to be rare once/twice in a year events. However, now every studio wants to put out their bigass big budget franchise, but ppl just don't have the time/money/energy to buy tickets for all of them, so they are flopping left and right. Full disclosure I am no expert, but it would make sense to me why the game dev workspace is so toxic and frustrating rn. Big budgets, fast releases, grinding their artists to the bone, mediocre gameplay and sales. You just can't keep up a system that's destined to eat itself alive o.o

Hey Arlo, I'm a new viewer and I love your vids! I noticed that the captions are missing some lines spoken - is it based on an older version of the script? I was a part-time captioner and a rule that was really hammered in is that captions should follow everything being said in the final cut. Many Deaf people and others that rely on captions are missing some of the flavor and character that you bring! It may not seem like a big deal but it greatly enhances the experience for those who need it.

Fromsoftware's ship: sailing over the waves through the power of slow, steady, well done work, pioneering and exploring new lands with extreme success and bravery Pokémon Company: A tiny boat full of holes with a rope tied to Nintendo's mother ship. Capcom's: full of fans rowing with the power of friendship

@yeez13

2 ай бұрын

I’m convinced GameFreak gave up when they realized that they’re just Nintendo’s Pokémon broodmare after each and every single one of their non-Poké-projects were total DUDS I’d refuse to finish a complete game too if I knew people would still buy it and actively defend it as if it were their own life *cough* Scarlet & Violet *cough*

@_Tzer

2 ай бұрын

capcom made 1 hole with their weird stance on pc gaming recently but otherwise yeah mostly fine surprisingly.

@SillyVaporeon

2 ай бұрын

And then there’s Toby Fox with his crew of 10 and First Mate Temmy.

@inoob26

2 ай бұрын

@@yeez13 I completely lost any and all hope I ever had after Little Town Hero became a thing

@zayzafy6969

2 ай бұрын

​@yeez13 My friend keeps defending Scarlet and Violet because he didn't encounter any bugs. Knowing him, he also probably didn't put more than a few hours into it tbh.

Every time I've heard Ubisoft refer to the idea of a "AAAA Game," all I can think is Spinal Tap. "....This one goes to 11."

@Geeksquad59

2 ай бұрын

Same lol

@TheItalianTrash

2 ай бұрын

I'm 43 and nearly my whole life I believed that Spinal Tap was a real band until last year when my friend told me they are a parody band. I didn't believe it until I checked Wikipedia.

@WobblesandBean

2 ай бұрын

​@@TheItalianTrash Oh. Oh, you sweet summer child. It's ok though, "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" still slaps.

*Fires an extra cannon ball into their sinking ship* "... Byebye!"

Love the metroid prime music in the background. Automatically a great video!

Vaas: Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change...

@WobblesandBean

2 ай бұрын

Man, I miss the days when I could use that language without youtube deleting my comment.

@jasonashley9853

16 күн бұрын

​@@WobblesandBeanyou know you've lost the plot when you have people like myself. Who are left leaning. Telling you that shit is too PC. KZread and Facebook are run by pansy ass AI algorithms.

I have never seen Arlo go in so ruthlessly on a company before and I am absolutely here for it

I remember watching the release during E3 and was so excited by it. I signed up for the beta as soon as the trailer finished. And then, after all this time, this is what they came up with. Heartbreak cant even begin to describe how it feels

I can't even imagine how soul-crushing it must've been to be a game dev working on Skull & Bones.

Just gotta say, your puppetry is just so good in this video. The frustration motions feel so damn genuine.

@jacobradabaugh6241

2 ай бұрын

That's because he is literally just a blue guy

@WobblesandBean

2 ай бұрын

Arlo is just some guy, you know?

As someone who played the original beta and then the new ones I can say that my interest in S&B sank so fast there were no survivors. It was like my interest was HMS HOOD and Ubisoft delivered a direct hit to my magazine.

@ninjaswordtothehead

2 ай бұрын

I don't think enough people appreciate the greatness of that reference.

@bladewind0verlord

Ай бұрын

Drachinifel where are you??

I have 8 consoles set up in my living room. The newest of these is the 360. I am happy with this arrangement.

I’ll never forget when we forgot to buy something in town, so the summoner (pathfinder 1st Ed) teleported us back to the tavern we stayed at a week before. And then back to out camp site as he then knew the location. We where pretty high level, approaching the last book for rise of the runelords.

Ubisoft shot themselves in the Foot after they blatantly said Gamers should feel comfortable not owning the Games they paid for, so...

@Coconut-219

2 ай бұрын

"We are no longer selling products." ... "Why isn't anyone buying our products?"

The saddest part about beyond good and evil 2 taking the vaporware crown duke nukem forever is that at least duke nukem had the excuses of going through thr hands of multiple different developers.

@BrunodeSouzaLino

2 ай бұрын

And the game was redone from the ground up multiple times as technology and graphics changed over the years.

Red Steel is now a cult classic. One of those games that got hate when released, but now are seen as great titles. Try playing it again.

Glad I found you , I subscribed!!!! Thank you for the content and time

I wish games went back to the old PS2/GC/XBOX era mindset, just make a good game under a reasonable budget and ship it out, they don't need to be AAAA games or live services, just good games that people want to buy

@JorgeGomez-hx5uu

2 ай бұрын

This. I don’t mind most recent games being cinematic and cutscene heavy (well almost) but just give me some style and gameplay variety. No one wants 20 different walking simulators with the same boring objectives. God, I could boot up San Andreas on my ps2 and instantly fuck around and do anything I want. Doesn’t bog me down with anything. Don’t get me wrong, some old games were cutscene heavy as well, but the creativity was off the charts. Nowadays games try to be like films and it’s getting stale.

@skibidi.G

2 ай бұрын

Fully agree on this 💯

@Viper-ft3tk

2 ай бұрын

Hi-Fi Rush was a game that felt like it worked under that mindset and it feels like a game you'd find in the PS2 library.

@JorgeGomez-hx5uu

2 ай бұрын

@@Viper-ft3tk Hif Fi rush is great exception

@arthurgamerpro6585

2 ай бұрын

@@skibidi.G no

What will happen first? (a) Arlo gets curtains for the weird window. (b) The Switch 2 is released.

@jordanhunter3375

2 ай бұрын

A

@labrynianrebel

2 ай бұрын

C. He uses the Switch 2 AS a curtain

I love that the video game monster watches Stephanie Sterling. Yall are awesome.

This reminds me of the Bismark.... Great video, thanks for your work Edit: that "Ugh" at the end. I feel ya, bro.

I bailed on Ubisoft years ago. Truth be known, it is very challenging to find a AAA game you really want to play, enjoy playing - that does not get yeeted. In the side bar videos to this one, there's a video asking, "Is 2024 the Year the Game Industry Collapses?". You know, it just might be for these AAA producers.

@drunkenmessiah

Ай бұрын

Good riddance. There's enough great content from smaller publishers to support a gaming hobby of any size, even if you play thousands of hours a year.

@clutchbleach2057

Ай бұрын

Too many rtards buying this stuff for that to happen. I haven't bought a ubisoft game since Creed 2.Haven't purchased a cod game since ghosts. Borderlands 3 was the nail in the coffin for 2k, and I won't be buying their games either. You may ask me what game is there to play then? My answer almost fcking nothing it's all old stuff. Even Kingdom hearts 3 was a huge letdown for me. Squareenix was supposed to not go down that path, but they did. Everything in our lives is MONEY MONEY MONEY it's annoying asf

The company sure is a Farcry from what it once was.

@MortonVincent-sd5un

2 ай бұрын

Bud dum tiss

@WobblesandBean

2 ай бұрын

They do everything to Just Dance around the obvious elephant in the room.

Meanwhile... Assassin's Creed Shadows is revealed. Stocks crash. AAAA publisher sinks in a day's time.

2:30 the law of everything good must come to an end doesn’t apply to my 1993 toyota pickup. Try relying on that, it will never let you down

My prediction for the future of Ubisoft CEO: "It's just...good business..." VP: "Abandon ship! All hands, abandon ship!"

The great thing is gaming culture doesn’t need the gaming industry. Because entry to the market is lower than ever. Even if the infrastructure of the old guard completely evaporates, games can and will still be made

I like to think of the rising trend of "1 year later" game reviews as the true day one reviews because actual day one games feel like beta tests for the sole purpose of bringing in money to fund their sinking ship until they can potentially release a hopefully finished product a year later (other wise known as the "no mans sky effect")

first time watching your videos. this one was awesome. subbed

And the funny thing is, Rare produced Sea of Thieves. Practically, announced at the same time, and released far sooner.

Arlo: I used to like Ubisoft. **paper mario music fades in**

@Charnutboy

Ай бұрын

The Arlo special

Really well done commentary!!

With Ubisoft claiming that we're not "owning" their games by buying them in the first place, I'm officially waiting for my reimbursement from them for the money I've spent on games and DLC.