As a company pushes people away it gets harder to pull them back, so that doesnt take away from their complaints. Also, I'm not sure that the same crowd who plays other ubisoft titles is the crowd that's interested in a 2d platformer.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, it's the same crowd that plays a bunch of games that did better. The game is on the same platforms, Ubisoft or not. And all their GaaS games did much, much better on those same platforms, so yeah, it absolutely takes away from their complaints.

Outlaws may have been a bit of a disappointment and Mirage may have struggled, but Mirage had 5x the player count on its Steam relaunch than Lost Crown did. People want AssCreed and they're gonna get AssCreed forever.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think there is some confusion here. The game genre is "2d platformer," I wasn't referring to where people can play it. It isn't the most popular genre of gaming, and it's quite different from ubisofts' other titles.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What do you even mean? Hollow Knight was a massive success, so was Bloodstained, Ori, Metroid Dread, etc. People can't stop memeing that Silk song is not releasing because they refuse to forget about it, Ubi's reputation is just in the gutter so to capture the audience that enjoys these games again they have to do multiple good things, not just one and give up.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

Those games did well, it doesn't mean the genre is among the most popular and i bet they didn't approach those level of sales. I wasn't throwing shade, that's just facts. I also mentioned ubis or reputation adding to this.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io -2 points 6 days ago

Yeah, no, I understood it. I'm saying that there are similar 2d platformers on those same platforms (look, it's not my fault language recycles words for things) that did much, much better.