Game News 2.0

If I get let go I'll come back and let ye know how handy it was, completely due to mismanagement. I'll never find anything like it again if I'm gone. Not sure I'm able for normal work anymore! Always knew they were snakes. The bonus setup made it obvious, performance and profit based with no guarantee that the extra non-work related BS to get the higher payout would actually be paid. Not very motivating if it's not guaranteed, would sicken me to work hard for "soz, lol".

Then again, maybe I'll still have it. Not sure if not knowing or knowing is worse. As of right now, the ABK, MS and Embracer ex-employees have it worse. Really good article here thay basically sums up what we've all known and been sahing for years, layoffs at Ubi are only starting:

Looks like a new Burnout game may be in development by the company that did the Burnout Paradise remaster.

It's believed to be a Burnout game as it says you're about to be rear ended and they state the boss has issued no "take downs".

Tbh I'd go for a remaster of Burnout 3 now, even moreso if it includes Revenge.

Kojima cooking! New IP that sounds like he's continuing on from MGS. Will start production after Death Stranding 2 releases next year.

Apparently the new Prince of Persia metroidvania hasn't sold too well.

I think the game being on Ubisoft+, not available on Steam, and even though I ended up being very happy with it and got my money's worth it probably is overpriced for the type of game it is and would put people off. Plus Ubisoft games very very quickly go on sale and are then in every sale after that. A real shame though because Ubisoft finally doing something different and was a real joy to play will probably end up a flash in the pan as they'll think this kind of thing doesn't work and will resort back to their usual fare instead.

I think they definitely got their pricing wrong for the game, especially as it had so little hype behind it considering their usual marketing campaigns. Maybe given the base of the game they've built they could churn out a sequel much easier and try again. The trouble is it's Ubisoft. If it doesn't make all the money, it hasn't made enough money.

I'd say this would have been a huge hit if it was shadow dropped on game pass.

I love what i played of it on the demo but it needs to be priced to compete with other similar games like Hollow Knight and guacamelee. Just because a dev is AAA doesn't mean all their games need to be created/released as AAA. I'm waiting for a sale to pick it up but fully feel Ubisoft will take it as a sign that there need to go back to their open world blandness.

I platinumed PoP, enjoyed the hell out of pretty much my entire time with it, and put close to 30 hours into it doing so. For a €50 game, to me that's a bargain.

But nothing about the game before release screamed "You will sink 20+ hours into this, this is worth €50". I took a chance on it mostly out of boredom and positive reviews, and it paid off. But to get the general audience to take a chance on it, Ubisoft would have been better releasing it in that €30-40 range, more people take a risk on it or think they'll hopefully get 10-15 hours from it, and end up being more surprised than not, which would also go a long way to spreading word of mouth about the game. Particularly when their usual AAA open-world 70 hour collectathon games are €70 minimum (base edition of the game, not the Ultra Gold Deluxe Silver Collectors Platinum Lead Magnesium Edition).

Whereas I bought Immortals of Whatevereum on sale at Christmas, put about 3 hours into it, and just couldn't be bothered playing it any more (hence the aforementioned boredom). Nothing about the story, gameplay or setting piqued my interest in any way other than seeing Gina Torres.