Ubisoft is So Successful, They Don’t Need to Make a New Assassin’s Creed Anytime Soon
By Jonathan on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 9:22 PM PST In Game Companies, Games Industry, Ubisoft
Ubisoft is doing pretty well for itself these days, to say the very very least. In the past year they’ve more than doubled it’s net income, thanks mainly to their hit stealth game, Assassin’s Creed. These days, they’re on their way to becoming the world’s third largest video game publisher after EA and Activision.
The downside to all this success, at least for gamers? They don’t even need to worry about putting out a follow-up to Assassin’s Creed anytime soon. They’re following the same approach as with the Prince of Persia series, according to Laurent Detoc, by slowing down it’s production so that anticipation for it will build. Of course, this will probably all be worth it in the end, since that will give the developers much more time to get the game right (and hopefully iron out some of its shortcomings).
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So they got so much cash that they don’t wanna work anymore more? That sucks I was hoping for a new Assassins creed game that wasn’t so repetitive and short sometime in the next year lol…
It was a great game and all but I felt ripped off buying the Collectors/Limited Edition.
I agree with G. Too short and repetitive. As soon as that was the word on the streets, people just started borrowing the game from friends because most of them could finish the game in less than a week. If they can fix the shortness and repetition, EVERYONE will buy a copy.
I think they need to add an online multiplayer “Assassinate each other” multiplayer pirk… god I’d love to see something cool like that.
Haha that would be quite cool assassins creed online sword fighting as well ..
I thought the real power in AC was the detail… all the pieces of the story, every little detail from Vidic’s emails to the last subject’s writings all fit together. It seemed that there was so much thought put into the part that most gamers would never bother with. I loved the philosophical and intellectual nature of the game, and deep down, the whole atmosphere blended everything together perfectly. Now all they need to do is tweak animations/transitions so they’re a lot smoother and come up with better info missions. “Altair, my back is sore. Please collect 100 flags for me in 30 seconds for a useless tidbit of information you already know.” I’ll show you back pain!
They could easily “borrow” The Ship Online’s main goal and convert it for Assassin’s Creed!
You would be trying to assassinate a target in a big city with crowds and other players, one of which is also on the hunt for you! The Assassin’s Online!
i liked the game pretty much, but there we’re some things in it that didn’t work very good. (pc version btw).
the climbing on walls and stuff was cool but it didnt work sometimes. sometimes it just went the wrong way. and especialy: the gaurds sometimes attack me, while i didnt kill anyone, and i was just walking.
What do they think, people are going to build anticipation after Ubisoft provides a heap of shit? (Assassin’s Creed)
I think Ubisoft needs to slow down games so they can actually make some good games, because lately they’ve really been letting they’re fans down.
with the kind of hype created before the game it is not surprising that the game felt short of expectations
they were touting it as the best game ever when it thoroughly lacked in variety…..and also i dont think at this stage money is a factor , they would rather seee their game being wholesome and complete and admired by the critics …..4 years of hardwork u are really looking for a grand success and not the kind of response it generated …….hoping for a much better second coming