Real impressive stuff. Even with no new Assassin's Creed game this year, Ubisoft are still making bank off the Tom Clancy games.
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The Division 2 is the best-selling game of 2019 so far
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Real impressive stuff. Even with no new Assassin's Creed game this year, Ubisoft are still making bank off the Tom Clancy games.
Ubi really came out on top with this strategy, didn't they XD
Tim making Uplay great again.
Ubisoft got a truckload of money and now doesn't have to pay any cut.
Holy shit. Not sure if scathing indictment of the performance of the Epic Games Store, or genius-level decision making by Ubisoft to cash that Epic cheque and increase sales on their own digital storefront.
Or...both.
Always figured this game low-key did mad numbers, kinda like Wildlands did when it first came out
Mmm... yeah, since on Uplay they made 100% of the cut, so it's better for them then Epic (88%) and especially Steam (70%).
Nice strategy indeed ^^
[and they got free money from Epic too, so in one move they pushed ppl away from Steam to their store getting a ton of sells by using Epic store hate]
I enjoyed the game quite a bit.
It was super smooth and the looter shooter done right. I always felt like it was time well spent when I logged off.
It was super smooth and the looter shooter done right. I always felt like it was time well spent when I logged off.
Its a real shame the endgame basically didnt exist when it launched and the loot drop scale was all over the place at max level.
Yeah, I mean what idiot gets it on the Epic Store? Ubisoft essentially got paid by Epic to have everyone buy it on Uplay.
As much as I wanted to play this on Steam, that's almost a 4D chess level move. I'm more impressed than upset.
More than 5 mln if it's selling better than Kingdom Hearts 3
while the gameplay is fun, the endgame gearing is abysmal. I stopped playing once I hit max level.
I was going to say something similar to this. Whatever Ubisoft's figured out, other AAA publishers need to do the same. They're releasing quality titles on a reasonable time table, while everyone else is still telling us "It's Coming Out When It's Ready" like it's a free project or some shit.
Title Update 5 releases next week which makes changes to skills and the crafting bench (Allowing you to upgrade the bench to vraft 500 GS items and recalibrate crafted items)
Oh, and Episode 1 releases next week as well for Year 1 Pass Owners. Comes with two story missions, 3 new weapons, and expedition mode
Also TU5 adds matchmaking to the raid.
It's tough. Other big publishers have tried similar and it usually becomes a problem with management being able to corral multiple studios to follow similar workflows on the same project. I mean just look at how much of a nightmare Anthem was for EA working across only two studios. Even Activision has run into issues with it on CoD as we saw with Treyarch getting moved up to next year.
Ubisoft just seems to have really airtight and solid management and team structure that allows them to swap projects between multiple studios with little issue, at least externally.
People are realizing that buying an Ubisoft game outside of the Uplay store is stupid as hell, who TF wants two launchers when you are playing one game? I don't.
I've seen people claim Ubisoft has problems internally, but it's not affected their work of the last...I'd say three years now. Since Watch Dogs 2 they've just been firing on all cylinders. In EA's case they allowed egos to get in the way of letting people with experience help. But the bigger problem is they seemed to have no idea wtf they were doing in pre-production, something which supposedly happens a lot with Bioware.
It just sucks, because this was right when Ubisoft was adding achievements and other Steam features to their games.
Yeah, I feel like the environment was just better in the first one. I don't know, maybe there was just too much going on in this one for it to feel like an apocalypse.
And yet, people were willing to buy a game that used two launchers (often paying more, since retail/cd key websites sold Uplay versions and would usually have pre-launch discounts) as long as they could have it on Steam with the extra stuff you get from that. This only shows that, not that "People are realizing that buying an Ubisoft game outside of the Uplay store is stupid as hell"
It's genius. Steam takes a 30 percent cut, right? Well every game on Uplay we have to imagine nets Ubi a 100 percent take. This means that they could sell a significantly less amount of copies but still either break even or make more money. This doesn't even consider whatever upfront money they got from Epic, in addition to the Epic store's standard more developer friendly cut.
Ubisoft is absolutely winning with this decision.
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Its 6 months after outbreak, so naturally it's be less apocalyptic and more focused on rebuilding society and hostile factions who have their own agenda over what must be achieved to rebirth society and vice versa
Actually on steam they would be getting 80% of the money. Given they generate >50m revenue
