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callouscomic, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations

It’s okay Ubisoft. YOU fell behind our expectations a looooooooong time ago.

Phegan, do games w Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles

Absolutely not. When the board is looking into it, it’s because they are not returning shareholder value and they are pissed about it. This will likely end with the C-suite being butchered.

Carighan,
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Ah yes, I hate being butchered that way, too. It sucks hard to be paid to leave before you get paid extra to start your next job elsewhere.

And don’t get me wrong, if the C-suites actually ever had to take actual responsibility for their fuck-ups, I’d be all for those board investigations. But they don’t. They get paid enough to not care about interims between jobs - just look at the CEO who said people can just spend a year on the beach or so if they’ve been laid off - plus they get paid extra both on the leaving and on the re-hiring.

If they had to pay all non-salary money back on fucking up, even retroactively, no matter how many Porsches they’d have to liquidate to get the money from X years of fucking up the company back, sure. Do it. But that’s just sadly not the case. For a C-suite, this just means changing what name is written under your name, and moving on to the next place you can grift.

obinice, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations
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The fuck is XDefiant…

Ephera,

Apparently, it’s like Smash Bros in the Ubisoft universe, except it’s a first-person shooter.
So, you got different factions from Far Cry, Splinter Cell etc. with which you can play…

Katana314,

If nothing else, it is kind of fun that they’ve merged universes a bit.

In Watch Dogs Legion, DedSec is contacted by the Assassin Order who needs their help taking down Templars that are working with Albion - basically merging protagonists/villains of both series.

Ghost Recon has also previously guest starred Sam Fisher and operators from Siege.

Squizzy,

AC in narrative meeded closure in modern times, where I hoped AC 3 or 4 would be. Cool that happened.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

When I was 15 that would have been the coolest shit!

Not to say it’s not still cool, my capacity for joy and wonder at the novelty of crossovers has just faded over time is all.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

It sounds a little novel if nothing else, I hope it picks up :-)

Man, all business/capitalism/personality-politics stuff aside, it must suck to be a developer, artist, writer, actor etc on something for years, pour your heart into it for a solid percentage chunk of your remaining lifespan on this Earth, and then have it fall flat.

Especially if it’s not so much the thing you made, but stuff outside of your control that’s holding it back. Lacklustre marketing for example - I hadn’t even heard of this.

Ephera,

Yeah, I had to figure out what it really is from Wikipedia and my two reactions were:

  • Ubisoft has a ‘universe’? Huh, I guess, they do have a few franchises there.
  • That actually sounds reasonably interesting. At least it’s not just yet another uninspired shooter.

And like, yeah, lacklustre marketing puts it quite well. I had heard of XDefiant before, but all I got from that was that it’s a shooter, which made me fall asleep immediately.
Had they sold it as “You ever wanted to pit the Splinter Cell guy against the Far Cry bandits?”, I would have at least remembered it.

But to be fair, a lot of games are currently coming out. It is difficult to be seen for pretty much all titles…

slaacaa, (edited )

Ubisoft’s free version of COD. I tried it as a friend was raving about it, tbh it’s a fine game if somebody likes this style. The character’s from the Ubi universe are just a gimmick, most play the same

Bdtrngl, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations

Probably because it’s hot garbage and people can play call of duty instead.

yamanii,
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

70 bucks and still have all the freemium cancer, or just free with the freemium cancer?

CMLVI,
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Yeah, that’s the draw XDef has over CoD. It’s F2P and generally the content is earnable, outside of some cosmetics and additional currency. I think both “locked” factions can be bought through challenge completions, so not really P2W either, paying just unlocks it faster. And it’s not a bad shooter either imo, it’s just…the same as every other shooter. Very average.

dwalin, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations

I guess Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with people not buying their games

PunchingWood,

Ironically XDefiant a free game.

PunchingWood, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations

Didn’t help that the game got next to no promotion. I don’t even remember how I found out about the game, I think it might’ve been a random game one of my Twitch follows was streaming at the time, wasn’t even a promoted stream for all I know.

The game’s alright, just not the type for me anymore.

yamanii, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations
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Not installing your shitty launcher and this game launched with several, basic issues that took too long to fix, they fumbled it so hard! Ubisoft is frustrating, just let your devs cook in peace.

kowanatsi, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations

Sounds like some body spray Lynx would come out with

vxx,

Axe - Defiant

BigBananaDealer, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations
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sad i thought this game was pretty fun

IronKrill, do games w Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations
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I played this when it came out because some people were hyping it up. It’s solid and a fun game, but I didn’t feel it brought anything whatsoever to the table that other shooters hadn’t brought 15 years ago. It isn’t even the first free game to provide a similar experience. Not surprised it isn’t a huge hit.

Sanctus, do games w Lords of the Fallen 2 is coming in 2026; new details revealed
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Hell yeah, it was a good call restarting. That was word the first game should have been. I should go back and get the other endings.

slimerancher, do games w Lords of the Fallen 2 is coming in 2026; new details revealed
@slimerancher@lemmy.world avatar

Ooh, time to play the first two games!

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Jokes aside:

Nobody should ever play the first Lords of the Fallen. Probably one of the worst non-indie Souls games (and I played Code Vein…) with mediocre world building and even worse boss fights. Iron Pineapple has a great video where he basically tears into it and points out why it is bad.

slimerancher,
@slimerancher@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks! I’ll watch the video.

skulblaka,
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I don’t think you even can play it anymore, can you?

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Still available for purchase on steam …steampowered.com/…/Lords_Of_The_Fallen_2014/ and I don’t recall any online mechanics… at all.

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ah, fair enough, suppose I could have checked that myself. For some reason I thought I remembered the old version being delisted and replaced. Suppose I’m just going crazy.

Aielman15, do games w Lords of the Fallen 2 is coming in 2026; new details revealed
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Lords of the Fallen - The Lords of the Fallen: The return of the Fallen Lords, Part 2/368

epicsninja, do games w Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon

Star Citizen has Deadlines? Since when?

Honytawk,

I believe they started 12 years ago

dev_null,

Since the 2014 release date.

InverseParallax,
Carighan, do games w Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

I would have said I can’t be any more disappointed with this company, wow.

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