TD Cowen analyst estimates Ubisoft expected Star Wars Outlaws to sell 5-6 million copies but now Ubisoft expects to sell 2.5 – 3 million copies
TD Cowen analyst estimates Ubisoft expected Star Wars Outlaws to sell 5-6 million copies but now Ubisoft expects to sell 2.5 – 3 million copies
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You mean people were not interested in bugged 130$ games from company famous for making boring bugged games with copy-pasted mechanics?
Even if Outlaws do not fit this description fully – how people can know this when for years Ubisoft were just making one boring game after another that looks and plays the same no matter the title.
Reminds me of the Prince of Persia game. I did not even look at it because it was Ubisoft titles and now people are telling me it was actually fun.
Dear Ubisoft – you fucked up so much that people simply assume you will deliver crap and move on.
The power of star wars that they’re still expecting to sell 3 million copies
Star Wars needs to take a good decade or two off. No franchise has ever been milked and beat to death like it.
I understand that the game is flawed, but I’d suspect lots of people are also exhausted with the same Star Wars schtick and burnt out aesthetic, tired theme song, over and over and over again.
lol and they now plan to launch it on Steam in November its too late now the hype is dead and the game is shit
They hope to sell 2.5 – 3 million.
I think within the next 3 years Ubisoft will have mass layoffs, be bought by someone likely Saudi/Tencent, and/or go bankrupt, they have over 19,000 employees and have been putting out mediocrity for far to long, and honestly don’t seem to be getting any better, regressing in most cases.
I remember growing up how important Star Wars was to me: ROTJ was the earliest cinema experience I have, I dreamed about getting the Millennium Falcon my entire adolescence, X-Wing was my favorite PC game… I could go on and on and on…
But Disney over the last decade has beaten every last inch of excitement out of my Joel with how much they have pushed this franchise. The commoditization and soullessness has been bad for what is essentially the most commercialized piece of art ever in the first place.
Most games would kill to have 3 million copies sold but for Star wars it just can’t be enough.
EDIT: I’m just going to leave this as is.
I am a huge Ubisoft open world fan (there are three of us on Reddit I think) and I was excited when Outlaws was announced. When people said it sucked I thought this was just people hating on Ubisoft.
I had imagined running around the SW universe like Ghost Recon Wildlands or the Division or AC Origins. Exploring, tackling random POIs, upgrading skills, searching for legendary upgrades and unique weapons, enjoying the gameplay, mastering different weapons, adding some unique force abilities to the Ubisoft formula.
I just finished the game and I have to say.
**This game sucks.**
It’s all storyline missions and side missions. All you do is chase the next waypoint. There is absolutely no gameplay. No weapons. No skills. No build trees or paths. No force abilities. Useless loot you can’t use. No reason to explore the open-world. It’s just ridiculously linear levels with the same boring ‘puzzles’ repeated ad nauseum. Zero difficulty from the first to last level, you can make any NPC’s go wherever you want with whistles and Nix. There is absolutely no reason to explore this “open world” to find the next POI because there is nothing to do.
Literally, Ubisoft could have just reskinned Ghost Recon with Star Wars themed art and I would have been happy as a clam.
Very dissapointed.
Probably won’t even break even with the significant chunk of revenue Disney will take for the licensing.
I checked the game out through ubisoft Connect, and it is absolutely a mid ass game. Lame ass stealth with almost jack shit options to expand to your approach. Little to no variety for gameplay, combat is more janky than usual, and the story is incredibly predictable. Plus, the character is generic as hell, and her skills that she unlocks through their “expert”(contact) system is a horrible replacement for a basic ass skill tree.
The only thing that I really liked from that game was your pet Nix, the best little companion mascot I’ve seen in a while, and the droid, ND-5 was pretty cool. Even though he was heavily under utilized imo.
Star Wars as an IP is too cookie cutter now. It’s impossible to be a bad guy. Let alone make serious choices that feel impactful.
Taking a page from Square Enix book when it comes to ridiculous expectations I see
It’s the same game you’ve all played for 15 years now, but with a Star Wars skin.
The real problem is a couple million always buy these games and go “it’s pretty good! I like it.” But really the gaming industry should be doing so much better with how much more money is spent these days.
Ten times, a hundred times the money goes in, the same exact game we played last time comes out.
I enjoy it. Played it on PC using Ubisoft+ subscription.
I didn’t want to buy Outlaw but will be buying their AC Shadow Ultimate Edition.
This one is a “when it’s $20 for the ultimate edition maybe” for me.
For reference, Jedi Fallen Order sold 10 mill copies by 2020. Perhaps an open world Star War games without a playable Jedi was simply not appealing enough for most players?
Maybe they’ll hit that number when the game is inevitably marked down for Black Friday and/or the holiday season.
I took a redditor’s advice and subscribed to Ubi+ for $15 or however much it was. Finished the game in like 2 weeks. Have little to no interest in continuing to play.
What bothers be about this game is that the team clearly spent a huge amount of time and effort building these stunning locations to play in and then they make a campaign that you can finish in one day. It’s insane. There was like one story mission on Tatooine?!
There’s nothing interesting to do in these awesome environments.
Oh and the cartel system is an absolute joke. It got so much praise in game media but it’s so easy to max out your reputation with all the organizations then you can just forget about it…
The marketing sucked on this game. I seriously heard about it two days before it came out and I play a lot of games.
They will never accept that the Solo type characters are simply not fun to play. They are fun to watch.
I’ve never even heard of the game
Andor, acolyte, Jedi survivor. You guys are cooling the head for equating all these shows to the book of boba fett or outlaws.
Having an early access launch (which many people hate already) that was full of bugs surely helped their sales right?
Damn that’s a huge triple a single player flop. Would’ve assumed it at least sold 2-2.8 million. But I just assumed it failed as it didn’t makes it budget back at all. But not only did not make the budget back it hasn’t even sold 2.5 million
I played the game, but was hesitant to pay full price. So I paid for a month of Ubisoft+ ($18) and finished the game in around 30 hours. I mostly enjoyed it, but there’s no point after finishing it to stick around, so I’m glad I didn’t pay $70+ for it.
Games are too expensive now to keep buying them. It’s that simple.