alt Hacker News>Ubisoft will now focus on developing open world adventure games - which let players freely navigate vast environments - and live service games which seek regular payments from players.
Isn’t that what they’ve been doing for a decade that got them to today?
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My number 1 complaint with Ubi games is that they all feel the same. Sure, in this one you stab, and in that one you shoot, and in that one over there you stab AND shoot, but it's all fundamentally the same. You've got a drone or a bird or a droid to tag enemies for you, and there's a straightforward shopping-list style crafting mechanic. There's also some vehicle combat, but its very limited, and its pretty rare that you're part of a larger group of vehicles attacking together - at best its a group of enemy vehicles coming after you (and the comedy of errors of those enemy vehicles crashing into each other trying to get to you, because apparently they didn't turn on pathfinding while in "alert" mode...). The whole thing looks like its chasing the annual-release pattern of Call of Duty, and the major sports franchises.
"we're going to cut all the other stuff and make assasins creed games and far cry, the stuff that we can leverage our studios on and make money"
If it's obviously broke, don't fix it!
The problem with reorgs can be that the same management that got you into this situation is the one trying to fix everything. Apparently, Ubisoft management only knows one trick.