It‘s no brand thing. It‘s just a reaction on the way Ubisoft releases games these days and yes, the game could have been better but without the Star Wars-tag, it wouldn‘t have been noticed at all.
Agree. I played the shit out of this game and it was good. But it could have been so much better. All the ships and weapons and planets in the star wars universe and we get 1 ship and 1 weapon and 4 meh planets. So many missed opportunities that could have made this game great.
- Remaster Kotor 1 or 2.
- Watch it sell like crazy.
- Never give ubi starwars licensing again.
Could it be waning interest in the Ubislop formula?
No, it’s the gamers who are wrong!
I don’t even hate the Ubisoft formula, but it’s, like, dawg…. Try something new. I go years without being interested in the schlog, then I get really into one. But it’s astounding that they’re still putting out the same game for over a decade now. The trimmings might be a little spruced and fluffed here and there but the core loop is still the same fucking game, again and again and again.
Yeah, I played AC Odyssey and the DLC a while back, and I’m still burnt out on Assassin’s Creed about 4 years later.
It just seems designed to sap as much of your time as possible. Like an MMO but without any tangible benefit for them doing so.
And then they have the balls to sell items in game that speed up the gameplay.
I was level capped before I even touched the DLC. I ignored everything that was generated rather than having some story to it. There’s just a lot of game there. Too much, in fact.
I just don’t know who the funbucks shop is even for. It’s not like you can even show it off online because it’s single player…
Maybe there’s a lot of rich kids out there who’s parents say yes to any request. I can’t imagine there are single player purchase “whales” like in multiplayer games.
Not waning interest in Ubisoft?
Because, ooh boy, did my interest in Ubisoft wane year after year of overproduced cookie cutter crap. And I’m not expecting a change of phase.
Also, Guillemot, you’re talking publicly a lot for someone with (now convicted) sexual harrasser friends you’ve protected all of your career.
I don’t know how it has taken people so long to realize something I realized around AssCreed3, that all Ubisoft does is release the same game with a different skin over and over again.
Even Call Of Duty tends to introduce new mechanics in each version.
If you stopped playing after 3, and who could blame you, than you did miss out on Black Flag which was probably the high point of the series. But your general point still stands, Black Flag is kind of the exception that proves the rule.
If they would’ve stuck with the old ‘gritty’ Star Wars game that was supposed to be like GTA style adult oriented Star Wars instead of this stupid shit. It would have been massively successful.
Make boring shit, get no love from the community. It’s as easy as that.
This is perfect.
Yeah, like beating a dead horse, it has no giddy-up and go. What the hell were they thinking when they decided to do Star Wars Outlaws?
Classic skill issue
Star wars should be in the public domain by now
Wasn’t it more that the game was a buggy mess? No that can’t have been it it was clearly the fans fault.
No it’s because it was shite,poorly written and lousy with weird polical shit and terrble gameplay.
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Difference between analogies to real or fictional politics.
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The original trilogy is all about Vietnam, or guerilla resistance to imperialism in general, weird take to call a New Hope WW2 but you got the spirit.
The way starfighter combat works is definitely WW2. There’s some hand wavy explanations in-universe for why it works that way, but it clearly comes from WW2 fighter and bomber turret footage.
Politically, the empire is pretty clearly Nazi-coded, but I don’t think Lucas ever had more than a surface level understanding of fascism.
I think the turnoff for me was they wanted like $90 or something. No thanks.
Same here. It actually looks decent. But I’m in no hurry. I’ll wait on it until the ultimate edition is $20 and it’s been patched up.
I believe it ws $70 USD at launch.
I got it for free and I still didn’t finish it. It had some interesting ideas but a lot of the gameplay elements were extremely shallow, the main character was annoying, the story was boring and I couldn’t get it running on Linux and I wasn’t going to boot into Windows just to play this game.
I probably would’ve been disappointed had I paid any money for it.
I actually really liked this game.
This was another, though, that launched with a bunch of bugs on pc. And while I didn’t run into a ton on PS5, the game crashed for me here or there. And that sucks.
But I played and beat this game. And I quite enjoyed it. But I wouldn’t say it’s a masterpiece or anything.
Disney killed the franchise by releasing slop year after year. Also by letting Ubisoft make a Star Wars game.
I loved the acolyte and was sad to hear it was cancelled. Jason Mendoza, a badass sith? Sign me up!
Agree. Racist misogynists ruining the fun for everyone. As usual.
I enjoy Andor, but the acolyte went in a direction that was just so juicy to me. I can’t get enough of alternative approaches to the force!
EDIT: Ok, I remembered the witch singing… It wasn’t perfect. But still, I was hooked so hard.
all of SW isn’t perfect. it fit right in! XD
I don’t think Acolyte failed due to racist misogynists. I think it had to do with over saturation and a story that wasn’t that interesting. There’s around 50 Star Wars titles on Disney+ now (7 live-action shows), and its almost a burden to watch them now like how Marvel movies/shows are. And people loved Asoka enough that its getting a season 2 and it had a vocal minority complain its main characters were all women, too. But it was a well written show.
Marvel is the best example of how Disney ruins things by over-saturating. There are over 50 Marvel movies and over 30 Marvel TV shows. Most are garbage and exist solely to advertise/push the next multi-billion dollar movie. They need to slow the hell down and just make decent content.
Or, perhaps a lot of people just didn’t think it was a very good show.
Could be - or, you know, all that documented racist misogyni.
this is nothing new, yet clearly it isn’t stopping execs from (rightfully) casting diverse actors. they aren’t cancelling a $200m mediocre show because of a few noisy bigots.
Yeah I think in this case the few noisy ones managed to create an atmosphere online early on where people assumed the series was bad and gave up on it - causing low numbers for the episodes that followed.
That’s probably an aspect, but likely there weren’t enough people talking about it because most who did though it was mediocre at best.
For a franchise this popular, a few noisy bigots won’t stop people from seeing it. If anything, it draws more attention to the show. You can see this with shows that are actually good.
Are we really still pushing this narrative in late 2025? Andor is a modern star wars show that has diverse characters and a queen relationship and had little to no backlash because of it. Just because you like an objectively bad show doesn’t mean that everyone else that didn’t like it are suddenly racist/ sexist/ misogynistic/ whatever other term you have for trying to justify why you like the show.
You are allowed to like bad content, I don’t think there’s a single person out there that doesn’t have at least one thing that they know is bad but still enjoy the only difference is that they’re not angry at other people for not liking it too.
Why is it important for you to claim that the well documented racism and misogyni that started well before the show premiered didn’t exist?
Oh please, I doubt a loud minority of people on twitter is going to make a show flop if it was actually good. What was said about the Acolyte that was bigoted?
Seriously? No examples? This is just an article claiming that there where racist and misogynistic comments without any screenshot or quotations of any of them. Not even bleeped out videos that they claim existed. It feels like it’s a pr stunt because they knew it would be a bad show. Again, why hasn’t Andor received the same hate? It has diverse characters and the lead actor is Mexican.
It’s very important to you that the claims about racism and misogyni aren’t true, correct? Why?
How big is this conspiracy of yours?
https://medium.com/@sakamper/sexism-and-racism-among-star-wars-fans-aefb5dd32ca6
No, it just wasn’t a very good show
omg yes! i’m SO pissed it’s not being followed up on.
tighten up the reins if it’s a money issue, but omg it was a great exploration of Force traditions in a cool new era!
uuuggghhhh
There is waning interest in Star Wars franchise. And Assassin’s Creed franchise. And Far Cry Franchise. Hmmm, there seems to be a pattern here…
Meanwhile games like Marvel Rivals are doing great.
Conclusion: People are only interested in live-service games and we’re not pumping out our slop fast enough!
Wasn’t AC Shadows one of their best selling games? People still like Ubisoft games despite what people here want to believe. AC and FC fans play them precisely because they don’t rock the boat too much, you get what you expect with these games. The problem is that Star Wars fans probably aren’t looking for the same fix that Ubisoft’s usual audience is looking for.
Are any of the Far Cry’s remarkable? Not particularly but it’s a good co-op game where I can mess around with a friend and shoot the shit with. And it consistently gives me a good experience if that’s what I’m looking for.
