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Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delayed Again as Ubisoft Takes "Decisive Steps to Reshape" the Company - Simulation Daily

Today Ubisoft announced that it's hitting the brakes on the release of Assassin's Creed Shadows once again.
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Today Ubisoft announced that it’s hitting the brakes on the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows once again.

The game was originally supposed to launch on November 15, 2024, for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, but Star Wars Outlaws happened, and its underperformance likely sounded like a warning, convincing the company to delay its Assassin’s Creed game to February 14, 2025, to give it more time in the oven.

Now, Ubisoft has decided “to provide an additional month of development” according to a document shared with investors, to “better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months and help create the best conditions for launch by continuing to engage closely with the increasingly positive Assassin’s Creed community.”

As a result, the new release date is March 20, just before the end of the company’s fiscal year. This is part of a “renewed focus on gameplay quality and engaging Day-1 experiences.”
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Versez said:
I saw the news earlier … they reallly don’t want that game to blow up, if they miss it will be over for Ubisoft
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I really don't know what they think delaying it will do. I even find some of the criticism unfair(Gay romance options have been a thing in AC since Odyssey, for instance), but the damage is done. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle. People are not gonna all of sudden forget because it's been delayed a few months. Just put it out there and see what happens. They can't run and hide forever, and they're just burning more money the more they tinker with it, and try to make it something that it isn't. Unless they're willing to just pull the plug and cancel it, there's no real point in delaying the inevitable. They just gotta pray that all the hate is from a loud minority on the internet, and throw it out there. No amount of delays are gonna change what happens on release day.
 
Man…. I wasn’t going to get this at launch anyway but this new date is even worse for me. It’s sandwiched between The First Berserker and Monster Hunter Wilds now. I’ll probably pick it winter holiday at the end of the year. Should be like 30 bucks by then
 
HereticBD said:
I really don't know what they think delaying it will do. I even find some of the criticism unfair(Gay romance options have been a thing in AC since Odyssey, for instance), but the damage is done. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle. People are not gonna all of sudden forget because it's been delayed a few months. Just put it out there and see what happens. They can't run and hide forever, and they're just burning more money the more they tinker with it, and try to make it something that it isn't. Unless they're willing to just pull the plug and cancel it, there's no real point in delaying the inevitable. They just gotta pray that all the hate is from a loud minority on the internet, and throw it out there. No amount of delays are gonna change what happens on release day.
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The delay is invaluable for QA and those kind of fixes. Whether they'll be able to take full advantage or overcome whatever other weaknesses the title has is another story though.
 
avenue94 said:
The delay is invaluable for QA and those kind of fixes.
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Sure, but this is what? The third time they've delayed a basically completed game? I think they're just scared and hoping for a miracle that the hate will die down. I don't even think they should be afraid, as long as the complaints remain a bit superficial(black samurai, gay romances, etc). I played the last three games and they were good and sold well, and they all had similar elements that could've easily been harped on. I don't think this is a "Dragon Age" scenario, where woke activists were clearly infusing modern social political themes into the game. It's probably just another open world AC RPG, with all the trimmings. There's nothing I've seen from the game that makes it particularly "woke" or whatever.

It's time that they just bite the bullet. It's "Assassin's Creed". It will probably do okay, regardless of the noise on the internet. As a fan of these games, it doesn't take much to please us. Unless the black samurai is gonna go around and lecture everyone on the evils of colonialism or some shit, I think it will be fine. I think they really fucked up by giving all the complaints oxygen, by showing that they're worried about it with all these delays. I think they're worried over nothing.
 
HereticBD said:
Sure, but this is what? The third time they've delayed a basically completed game? I think they're just scared and hoping for a miracle that the hate will die down. I don't even think they should be afraid, as long as the complaints remain a bit superficial(black samurai, gay romances, etc). I played the last three games and they were good and sold well, and they all had similar elements that could've easily been harped on. I don't think this is a "Dragon Age" scenario, where woke activists were clearly infusing modern social political themes into the game. It's probably just another open world AC RPG, with all the trimmings. There's nothing I've seen from the game that makes it particularly "woke" or whatever.

It's time that they just bite the bullet. It's "Assassin's Creed". It will probably do okay, regardless of the noise on the internet. As a fan of these games, it doesn't take much to please us. Unless the black samurai is gonna go around and lecture everyone on the evils of colonialism or some shit, I think it will be fine. I think they really fucked up by giving all the complaints oxygen, by showing that they're worried about it with all these delays. I think they're worried over nothing.
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QA is an endless process for open world titles, it's almost certainly that more than PR. It has to land in the FY, and they've moved it as far as they can.
 
avenue94 said:
QA is an endless process for open world titles, it's almost certainly that more than PR.
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I think it's both. They've been hit with a mountain of criticism and I think they're trying to delay the game long enough, in hopes that people will memory hole it. That's never going to happen, so I'd say it's time to just rip the band-aid off. This was a complete game ready for release a year ago. It wasn't until they started eating shit over it, that they started to panic and delay it. If they're fixing some serious shit, that's great, but I have a feeling that they're simply afraid to release it.

Might be warranted, though. Of all the talk of AC potentially sinking UBI, it's that stupid live service pirate game that really fucked them over. They just might need this game to be a success at any costs, but I think they might be over thinking it, and looking at games like "Concord" n' shit, thinking they're next. It's AC. It'll sell.
 
HereticBD said:
I think it's both. They've been hit with a mountain of criticism and I think they're trying to delay the game long enough, in hopes that people will memory hole it. That's never going to happen, so I'd say it's time to just rip the band-aid off. This was a complete game ready for release a year ago. It wasn't until they started eating shit over it, that they started to panic and delay it. If they're fixing some serious shit, that's great, but I have a feeling that they're simply afraid to release it.

Might be warranted, though. Of all the talk of AC potentially sinking UBI, it's that stupid live service pirate game that really fucked them over. They just might need this game to be a success at any costs, but I think they might be over thinking it, and looking at games like "Concord" n' shit, thinking they're next. It's AC. It'll sell.
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It's a game that's 3 or 4 years in development, there's no way it was a finished product a year ago. At least not finished in the sense of a good launch, finished means many things to different departments (for example, going gold no longer means a finished product). Keep in mind that Ubisoft's delays have a negative impact on its investors, hence there's no way the delays are just PR. Each delay makes your investors worry more, and at the end of the day that's who Ubisoft answers to. These delays also pushed it out of the holiday windows, which is a flat downgrade in sales performance.
 
avenue94 said:
It's a game that's 3 or 4 years in development, there's no way it was a finished product a year ago.
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Dude, I'm pretty sure it was primed for launch a year ago before all the backlash. Once the backlash hit, it was delayed and then delayed again...and again. I doubt those delays happen without the internet gaming community going ape shit and shitting all over it, while predicting the company's immediate doom once it does release.
avenue94 said:
At least not finished in the sense of a good launch, finished means many things to different departments (for example, going gold no longer means a finished product). Keep in mind that Ubisoft's delays have a negative impact on its investors, hence there's no way the delays are just PR. Each delay makes your investors worry more, and at the end of the day that's who Ubisoft answers to. These delays also pushed it out of the holiday windows, which is a flat downgrade in sales performance.
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Well, sure, I get all that. Thing is, UBI has never cared about releasing a product that was "unfinished". They pump these games out like a side of fries. Why did that all of a sudden change with this particular game? I think the answer is obvious. They're terrified to release it due to all the backlash. Doubly so now that the culture has made a big shift, and anything resembling "woke" is being rejected en masse. Like I said, I don't think all the complaints are fair, but they have that stamp on this game regardless, and they're desperately trying to change that.
 
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HereticBD said:
Dude, I'm pretty sure it was primed for launch a year ago before all the backlash. Once the backlash hit, it was delayed and then delayed again...and again. I doubt those delays happen without the internet gaming community going ape shit and shitting all over it, while predicting the company's immediate doom once it does release.
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It was not, the first game play trailer came out a year ago. Ubisoft absolutely can't afford to idle an entire studio and have them doing nothing for a year, hence the game was clearly not finished.

Your theory would mean that either the developers have been furloughed, getting paid to do nothing, or working on a new project. If it was two of those options, we'd have heard, and the third option Ubisoft can't afford given they're on the ropes already.

I'm sure social media sentiment had something to do with the delays, but more in the sense of we're already under the microscope, we can't afford backlash due to quality or bugs. It's not the community predicting Ubisoft's doom, its the market at this point, that's what matters.
HereticBD said:
Why did that all of a sudden change with this particular game? I think the answer is obvious.
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They're worried because they've had a long stretch of middling at best releases and shaky financial performance. They're ripe for a hostile takeover at this point, that's why they're scared. They don't give a shit about internet whining at this point, it's either the game performs and they enter Merger or sales talks with a stronger hand, or it misses the target and they're even more screwed in those discussions.
 
Winston Wolf said:
To be fair, I don't mind the black samurai as much as I do the forced female ninja. So unrealistic and completely blue balling long standing MALE fans who've waited for an AC game set in feudal japan for over a decade.

Also, "sorry, japanese men, no representation for you".
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Tenchu?
 
ssBaldy said:
The new release date is 30 year anniversary of zarine attack in Tokyo subway.
The hell Japan did to Ubisoft they cant stop disresecting the poor twice nuked country?
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I doubt they knew that. I also doubt Japan is even the market for this. They’re Nintendo land now. PlayStation a distant second and Xbox not even relevant. Not sure how PC numbers are but probably not much better
 
Just checked my YouTube subscriptions at 11am Central, and half a dozen videos just dropped about first impressions from those who have played the game.
 
GearSolidMetal said:
Just checked my YouTube subscriptions at 11am Central, and half a dozen videos just dropped about first impressions from those who have played the game.
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What was the consensus?
 
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