You are correct, it's been on a downward slope since about 2021 but had a another sharp dip this morning probaly following the news they were delaying Asassins Creed
A rushed game is usually pretty bad, a delayed game is eventually good. While I dont hold AC in very high regard, im glad they told people that it needs more time to cook instead of throwing it out there half-baked.
I don't know, the first one was cobbled up together from early access by programmers at a marketing firm and while janky (part of the charm some would say), it was quite an achievement.
The approach which should have delivered better results was wrecked with takeovers and company drama then dumped to the public in a bad state.
they made a japanese game that insulted Japan and japanese people and japanese culture and wasn't even close to historical accuracy blending too many disjointed japanese eras including marketing Nuclear-bombing of Nagasaki ....
:smh: Ubisoft is a "good" gamestudio from top-to-bottom.
Im in favour of execution. The entire Ubisoft should be executed. i.e. fired from their jobs and company closed so that other game studios get the money to make better games than Ubisoft.
Edit3: Even Ubisoft Announcement states that they do poor "execution" of releasing their "products". My comment seems very prophetic since I wrote it without even knowing Ubisoft were cancelling/delaying AC:S. Sad but I told y'all so :'D
It's not much of a delay. It was supposed to come out in 2 months, but delayed another 2 months. Doesn't seem like much time to get any real work done.
They also cancelled their premier at the Tokyo game show days before schedule. I have to wonder if they're worried about the backlash that a lot of games are getting lately (Dustborn, Concord, etc) and just trying to push the game a little bit further out to avoid controversy?