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Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Re: Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Post by vips7L »

vpribish wrote: post #101
vips7L wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus Christ it’s not a logical fallacy. Ubisoft does have a problem. They’ve lost 95% of their value. Outside of that I was merely commenting about my surprisal that a house hold name like Ubisoft was doing so poorly. Stop taking things in such absolutes.

we're all here to communicate with each other - please hear us : you are using this in a way that is preventing your meaning from getting through because of a technical (the best!) error. we're gently trying to correct the misunderstanding (if that's what it is), or give you the feedback that you're not making sense otherwise.

There is no misunderstanding. I know the difference and have clarified that. I’ve clarified that I was merely surprised at how bad Ubisoft is doing — which they are.

You’re not reading the words I’m typing. Please stop trying to communicate with me.

Re: Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Post by vips7L »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #93
vips7L wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus Christ it’s not a logical fallacy. Ubisoft does have a problem. They’ve lost 95% of their value. Outside of that I was merely commenting about my surprisal that a house hold name like Ubisoft was doing so poorly. Stop taking things in such absolutes.

It's not that people are taking things in absolutes. I think everyone agrees that stock price siding so far is a very bad sign. You specifically made a direct comparison between your employer's and Ubisoft's absolute stock prices. That's what people are calling out, and for good reason. It is fundamentally not possible to compare stock price directly like that. Literally meaningless. Stock prices as lone numbers are…

No I’m fucking not. I have clarified what I meant and you still have disregarded that. Please stop. Learn to evolve a conversation past the first post and leave me alone.

AGAIN: I was merely commenting my surprisal that a household name like Ubisoft was doing so poorly.

Re: Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Post by vpribish »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #93
vips7L wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus Christ it’s not a logical fallacy. Ubisoft does have a problem. They’ve lost 95% of their value. Outside of that I was merely commenting about my surprisal that a house hold name like Ubisoft was doing so poorly. Stop taking things in such absolutes.

It's not that people are taking things in absolutes. I think everyone agrees that stock price siding so far is a very bad sign. You specifically made a direct comparison between your employer's and Ubisoft's absolute stock prices. That's what people are calling out, and for good reason. It is fundamentally not possible to compare stock price directly like that. Literally meaningless. Stock prices as lone numbers are…

he's angry at being misunderstood and is acting rude, but your comment is right on. It's such a commonplace thing to say (even if they don't really mean it literally) that I wish there was a really quick and clear way to reply. mainstream news, for instance always summarizes market moves in number of points on the DOW which is the same sort of thing if you don't all know the denominator.

maybe saying it's comparing +1 Euros to +5 Yen? of losing 1 tablespoon vs 2 teaspoons? or 5/10 to 1/2?

Re: Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Post by j1elo »

pjmlp wrote: post #104

We are close to a 1983 kind of crash, it has never been easier to produce games, the amount of shovelware is non stopping, additionally with emulators and existing working hardware there are plenty of games to play since Pong. Graphics isn't everything, gameplay is. As such there are more games to play than most of us care about in our lifetimes still, and not everyone suffers from FOMO, thus it is unsustainable to k…

MBAs only are capable of performing Excel-driven-Development. Or like I saw the other day on HN, en-sheet-ification.

If the chart doesn't go up, then some execs who have never even played a game start to cry and design labor cuts so the numbers get makeup and start looking better.

Re: Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Post by tibbydudeza »

literallywho wrote: post #100
jeffwask wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When has it been truly alive, is it 10 or 15 years of development hell now?

Pretty sure it's been over 20 years. I actually wonder what makes Ubisoft so committed to the project. Even Michel Ancel himself left in 2020. I'd love to see those original 2008 builds of the game, they had to have made TONS of content over the years that just remains locked away on some file server forever.

Even Duke Nukem Forever came out eventually ;).

Re: Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Post by taskforcegemini »

amarant wrote: post #31
deadbabe wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2019 was basically ten years ago.

Personally I refer to 2025 as "the lost decade". I swear I was a teenager going into it, and now people tell me I'm nearly 40!?!??

+1, I feel exactly the same

Re: Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios

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Post by vips7L »

vpribish wrote: post #113
fc417fc802 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not that people are taking things in absolutes. I think everyone agrees that stock price siding so far is a very bad sign. You specifically made a direct comparison between your employer's and Ubisoft's absolute stock prices. That's what people are calling out, and for good reason. It is fundamentally not possible to compare stock price directly like that. Literally meaningless. Stock prices as lone numbers are…

he's angry at being misunderstood and is acting rude, but your comment is right on. It's such a commonplace thing to say (even if they don't really mean it literally) that I wish there was a really quick and clear way to reply. mainstream news, for instance always summarizes market moves in number of points on the DOW which is the same sort of thing if you don't all know the denominator. maybe saying it's comparing +…

Fuck you. I'm angry you autists can't read or have a conversation outside of trying to always be right.
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