hey everybody it's IND demion and remember Ubisoft the company that makes the most six out of 10 games ever made so consistently it's almost as if they were designed by committee well they're getting annihilated lately and that's not even the half of it and it's gotten so awful they're being taken to War by their own people pretty much to wrestle control away from them and Star Wars Outlaws is doing poorly and this is not sparking Joy within Ubie either and the lead actor of Outlaws is going down the feminist routes which we'll explore later on
cuz that is not good either and finally we'll talk about Concord at the end cuz for a game that's dead the people who worked on it are really mad that it's over and they just refuse to shut up about it firstly let's talk Ubisoft they are falling apart and that's an understatement after flops of Plenty the company has pretty much been losing value for years at this point and it's gotten quite embarrassing All Things Considered let's start with Parkplace ubis stock price drops 7% as company faces pressure from investors to take company private and Star
Wars Outlaw sales are soft it's actually worse than Parkplace makes it out to seem initially because the actual numbers behind ubisoft's performance have cratered and it's kind of insane so Ubisoft was at their Market High Point in 2020 when Assassin's Creed Valhalla released which to this day is ubisoft's second most profitable game of all time if you can believe it the only other game that beat Valhalla is Rainbow Six Siege and in 2020 because of valhalla's monstrous release ubisoft's market cap was around the $80 per share or so so fast forward to right now this
very instant and Ubisoft is now sitting at $13.67 per share which you don't need to be a math genius to see how badly that's going for them yes the stock price has dropped 7% in 1 day or 16% in the last 5 days and around 41% in the last 3 months taking it all together this equates roughly to Ubisoft losing around 50% of their value in the last year alone however if you compare them to their high in 2020 like I was saying current Ubisoft is sitting at 81% less value than what they were at
4 years ago why is this happening you may be asking well besides cancelling a bunch of games behind the scenes which obviously meant content wise the they didn't have as much to release in order to make back Revenue the other big problem is that ubisoft's gains that they do make they are just not selling like they used to reminder that every game Ubisoft makes pretty much these days outside of some rare anomalies like Prince of Persia the Lost Crown the majority of their games are these open world third person games and they all have cash
shops and live service elements in order to monetize these experiences further of course Ubisoft has success sucessfully in a sense made their core franchises into what they sought out to do with them which are now live service experiences meant to nickel and dime players for all kinds of things but I think for anyone out there who's played Ubisoft games before they do feel homogeneous and safe as well and it's no wonder that stuff like X defiant is failing cuz it's just Call of Duty but it has the Ubisoft flare to it which is not really
flare and more like a stink than anything else there's also the fact that Ubisoft has been drowning in identity politics for a very long time as well and their more recent releases like outlaws they're just not doing great according to one analyst guy on Twitter Outlaws has outperformed Avatar frontiers of Pandora by 15% which is not much of a victory mind you cuz Avatar also did not sell well at all and as someone who tried Avatar last year I can confidently say that that game it was the epitome of Ubisoft game design incomprehensible massive open
worlds for no other reason than that they could a piss poor story with forgettable characters and laughably bad voice acting and bare bone simple combat with barely any unique enemy types so the fact that Outlaws is just barely outselling Avatar in the same period proves that not only is Outlaws doing poorly overall but it's very likely that Avatar bombed as well and to make matters worse Outlaws was able to secure the 25th spot on the most popular games on PSN when it first released which is apparently where most indie games show up when they release
but for a big AAA title this is not the spot you want your game to debut in and even astrobot debuted at eighth so astrobot is outs selling Outlaws in the same period of time that's crazy dude I haven't played astrobot just yet I own it and once I'm done making this video I will be jumping into it and it's clear that a game called Star Wars is just not selling obviously it's a mixture of Ubisoft just having Bland Mission design and refusing to iterate much but also because Disney has clearly ruined that franchise as
well so fan apathy is at an all-time high I would say this has then led to AJ Investments a firm that works with companies like Blackstone and more that are declaring that Ubisoft as it is right now is a crumbling Empire and must be change radically in order for it to survive and become profitable yet again the letter which I'll read part of shortly it directly opposes EAS gilong the CEO of Ubisoft and his family that hold significant shares in the company alongside tensent a Chinese Mega company that also owns Big parts of it too
they said via their very long statement letter sent to investors and I quote Ubisoft at current state is mismanaged and shareholders are hostages of gimont family members and 10cent to take advantage of them management is focused on pleasing investors with beating quarterly results and not focusing on long-term strategy to provide exceptional experiences for the gamers we believe that the gont family and 10 cents are discounting potential value of Ubisoft in order to buy more shares at lower valuation and eventually take full control of the company at heavily discounted valuation we value the great work that
has been done by the gimont over the decades in Ubisoft but now is the time to move on and restart the business with new shareholder approach and new management and CEOs in order to improve we suggest to allow the company to address its issues away from the public market pressures and make necessary changes without harming minority shareholders retail investors and Pension funds that are victims of these efficiency problems and mismanagement by current leadership Ubisoft should consider selling its Studios that possess talent but are focused on non-core games thereby allowing Ubisoft to streamline operations and focus
on its main IPS we will use the French minority law to collect enough shareholders to start proxy fights and initiate sale process of Ubisoft to increase shareholder value for all shareholders end quote damn so the investment firms and the investors themselves who employ them are pissed to say the least at Ubisoft because they are burning money right now with all of their moronic decisions and now they're willing to go scorched Earth into a proxy war in order to Strong Arm Control away from East gilon and his family the end result here is a few things
based on this firstly is let's say best case scenario that Ubisoft is taken away from the gimon family and then investors are able to push the studios to make profitable games again and then rise back to prominence which to be real with you guys I sincerely doubt that this will ever happen the other is of course hostile takeovers which could be crazy to see and EES will be pushed out and then things could maybe be fixed but if none of this ends up working the endgame result here is pretty clear if none of this works
like the things I mentioned that would then ultimately Ubisoft will just go into fire sale mode and they will just start selling their IPs like Assassin's Creed or Far Cry to whoever is interested in buying them for millions or maybe even billions of dollars I don't know the executives will leave with golden parachutes of course that will save them and then everyone else will be laid off and then Ubisoft will just cease to exist personal out of all of these this seems like the most likely scenario in my opinion because Ubisoft is a sinking ship
already and I don't really see them being able to fix things because they're so riddled with poor business decisions and woke identity politics already for God's sake sweet baby Inc was founded by two former Ubisoft employees to begin with this is a company that breeds the sort of mentality into the industry just make identity politically driven save homogeneous content monetize it the hell in back and then hopefully you survive this to say that Ubisoft is cooked that would be an understatement and obviously Assassin's Creed Shadows isn't even out yet and once that game's release comes
I think we're about to see the biggest fumble in Ubisoft history very likely cuz sure Valhalla broke over 10 million units sold but I don't see Shadows breaking anywhere near that with all the stories of how Ubisoft has stolen art from Japanese creators and put lots of assets into the game for free without paying anybody and then the whole yasuke thing is very obviously not going over well at all either I guess we'll see but for now this is where Ubisoft is at fellas the journalist websites may not tell you exactly what's happening so I'll
just say it plainly for you Ubisoft is cooked like a Thanksgiving turkey and the executives are getting ready to slice that sucker open and devour it for all that it's worth but if it does happen who would you want to see buy those IPS what's a good Studio or publisher for something like Assassin's Creed or Far Cry who could Splinter Cell Justice if it was sold off let me know what you think about that in the comments below but enough about ubisoft's wrongs it's time to move on to an equally volatile topic that brings out
a lot of disdain depending on who you're talking to and that topic dear viewer is women and in this case humberly Gonzalez who plays K vs and outlaws which brings us to this article titled Star Wars Outlaws actress humberly Gonzalez says video game industry has a lot of misogyny and Praises game for only having a female point of to view ah yes because in the sight of seeing your game starring your ugly nerfed heroin it's always a good idea to Double Down isn't it this article references another where humberly Gonzalez who plays kvest was interviewed
by cgm.pl whether that's the creative team or the fans what's it like to lead the charge on this both as the creative team and as the voice and the body of Star Wars Outlaws to lead this male-dominated universe and have it be women first right now to which humberly Gonzalez said and I quote I just cried very hard the whole time because it was just like this brand meant so much to me and I didn't have someone like K to really see myself in I loved Princess Leia but I wanted to be Han Solo right
and I think getting to bring that to life is so special and our whole team really that's been the goal from the beginning it's been really special yes to be a leading woman not just in a Star Wars story but in the video game industry which also tends to have a lot of limitations and misogyny and kind of in and out of politics of who can be part of it and who you want to play as I am incredibly proud of the team having chosen someone like me but also only me that there isn't a
male counterpart to the story of Star Wars Outlaws that we are focusing on a female point of view of a scoundrel story because we've only really ever seen males in a scoundrel position so the representation is incredible for me as an immigrant Latina in Canada to bring to even get to speak about my country about Venezuela about what it means to me as an artist that I followed this dream not having any of my family here not having a lot of mentors in my family or anyone to look up to or content to look up
to even in Star Wars you know there aren't a lot of Latinas in the space and so for me I knew that this was going to mean a lot not just to me and my community and my family but to everybody else who's watching it too and playing it when they go oh this is a cool character I wonder where they're from and then they do their research I just want people to feel seen and if I can be in any of those categories as a woman a woman of color as an immigrant as a
Latina any of those are so meaningful for someone who enters a franchise as big as Star Wars so for the Next Generation for those little girls in Galaxy's Edge for the little girls watching for anyone back home for me if they just simply get to see someone like them on screen it means something to them feel inspired feel strong feel seen feel represented that to me is the goal it's incred ible because it really is beyond just me end quote so clearly humberly is thankful for the part which I mean you can't blame her it
is a big opportunity because if this character gets embraced worldwide the cross brand potential is massive she could show up in a TV show or even a movie as KS as well but unfortunately like I said earlier in this video already Outlaws is not selling well or meeting ubisoft's expectations in fact in a lot of ways it's sort of bombing and I think players have become disinterested in supporting stuff when their creatives just call them stuff like misogynistic and I was recently on valy and Renegade stream and we talked about Outlaws there too and there
was one part where Valiant said in a way that just makes a lot of sense so Disney obviously owns Star Wars we know that and Ubisoft paid to use a license to make a Star Wars game which means that Ubisoft technically could access any character they really wanted to which means if Ubisoft wanted they could have made an Outlaws game that starred a younger Han Solo and Chewbacca going on adventures or even their Adventures post return to the Jedi or something too the point here is that making a game with a female scoundrel where your
lead actor literally says that she wants to be Han Solo not a scoundrel mind you but Han Solo specifically it just kind of proves that this whole game was just pitched as what if we made an open world Han Solo game but made him a woman instead I mean instead of Chewbacca you have Nick the weird dog Axel alien thing you fly a ship you shoot people and you do scoundrel things it's just clear that they didn't want to do Han Solo cuz he's obviously a straight white male character which is a big no no
for Ubisoft and others I guess too never mind the fact the last time they made a game with a white male character as their lead at Ubisoft they sold over 10 million units and had a market share of $85 per share just ignore that friends cuz apparently pointing out the obvious is now misogynistic too but this also proves that Valhalla sold as well as it did that obviously more than just White white players were showing up to support the game which makes you wonder why does a game starring a white guy sell well even to
demographics who aren't white but games where you play as a Latina space scoundrel lady don't sell well at all could it be that fans are misogynistic or could it be that the game just Stars an archetype that fan bases worldwide are just kind of getting tired of cuz obviously Star Wars has had a lot of female characters in it since Disney bought it almost to the point where every single main character they introduced outside of Cal kestus and Mando they're all pretty much women now I guess you could also say Andor but he did debut
in Rogue one which yet again had a female main character as well and as if this wasn't bad enough things got unintentionally hilarious as well because over on the gamer.com which is a website full of brain dead takes written by people who should have to do IQ tests in order to be given access to the internet they decided to release this article titled okay let's talk about k ves's face yeah this is a real article which makes it even funnier is that the journalist here Tessa cor who routinely has tried to protect wook identity politics
and gaming has this in their highlight section of the article which reads the chuds are right kvest does look weird it's not for the reasons they tell you though it could be because of technical issues and limitations or just because she was supposed to look like that whatever it is it's not because of a conspiracy against Gamers to make women in video games more ugly not not everything is a conspiracy against you sometimes games just look weird stop sending people abuse on the internet oh boy to say this article is stupid would be a disservice
to people with low IQs this is unironically being written by someone who clearly agrees with the players out there that Outlaws protagonist was made ugly on purpose I'll read you some of what they said but good Lord is this dumb and I quote long before Star Wars Outlaws launched a very loud and very annoying subsection of the general gaming population had been kicking up a fuss about the protagonist the scoundrel K vest looking weird and ugly this was compounded by the fact that the actress who plac her humberly Gonzalez is very beautiful and glamorous countless
people posted side-by-side comparisons of the character and her actress and complain that they didn't look alike there's also been a significant number of Gamers pushing back against this wave of hate and abuse directed towards the developers many say that the screenshots where K looks weird are cherry pinked from particularly bad angles that she just looks like a scruffier humberly without makeup or that these people are otherwise kicking up a fuss about a perfectly normal looking character here's the thing it's not wrong to say that K looks weird especially in the game I've played about 20
hours of Outlaws and several times I've noticed some strange facial modeling K very often looks bug-like kind of like the Guardians of the Galaxy's mantis with big dark irises there are also times where she looks fine but the facial animations more or broadly aren't amazing for any of the characters and both things contribute to making her look a little odd in some cutscenes despite what grifter on the internet will tell you Kay's face is not the product of a culture War there are a lot of reasons why she might look like that and none of
them are that developers and journalists are working in tandem to take hot women away from you maybe the facial M cap just was enough to par most of the characters don't look super realistic which AAA Games should be moving away from anyway Outlaws also runs on the snow drop engine known for running games like the division 2 and Mario plus rabids both games which are not exactly geared towards depicting cinematic narrative Adventures like this end quote ah yes this journalist spends the entire article saying that it's very hard to model female faces which apparently only
seem to be a problem if you're a western studio just ignore the plentiful of asian-made games where they prove that this is clearly not an issue at all and in fact it's being done deliberately by these studios in order to desexualize their character so journalists like tessore and more don't get mad about it and write articles after all this same Journal has written other articles like Assassin's Creed Shadows was always going to be queer or this one titled no one hates Star Wars like Star Wars fans and another one where they admit Outlaws is not
a good game titled Star Wars Outlaws might be worth playing but a year from now I actually think that this journalist is secretly based and is trying hard to fight their emotions to not come to the realization that they low-key actually agree with me and many others on a lot of things probably because if they do the gamer will fire them and then the entire industry will Blacklist them for having even the slightest change in thought cuz like I've said for years now the Western games industry is definitely an echo chamber this entire Saga surrounding
Ubisoft and outlaws just proves just how poorly this is all going for the wokies in the industry their games keep failing man across the board and then there's stuff like Space Marine 2 which has surpassed 2 million units sold already when will these Publishers and Studios realize that you got to stop pushing slop onto players and just give them what they want and I guarantee you if Outlaws was about Han Solo it would have sold way way way more copies than it would have with KVs and I guarantee you if they put Han's face in
the game if they made that game the way it would have been it would have looked exactly like him too they always lie and say it's so hard to model women's faces in games yet men are fine to do apparently and then there's plenty of examples proving them otherwise it's not that it's hard to do it's that they don't want to do it at all of course some places like firewalk are seething cuz Concord has also failed and then there was that one Concord character artist who has me blocked even though we've never interacted who
went on a tiate about how people celebrating concord's failure is causing them all kinds of mental anguish but it's the same thing as outlaw you all decided to make your characters uglier than sin and nobody else did that or wanted you to do that the players didn't want that and then that same artist of course responded to another in the form of Mighty Keef and then said this via Twitter pretty soon these weirdos will have no games to buy at all oh really Amanda no games at all that's weird cuz all year I've been playing
bangers pretty much all the time and I got so many new games in my backlog not to mention new things that are coming out that I think I'll be plenty okay with what's on offer it just seems like to me that the only things we won't have to play are awful made for the modern audience slop like Concord anymore which is a net positive for everyone involved in my opinion the industry is healing I'm sure they'll try to fight back and I welcome the challenge but they still won't win anyways these games will continue to
fail every single release that has been identity politically driven this year has died every single one so I think the more correct way of putting it pretty soon these players will have no woke crap being pushed in their faces instead which is awesome and that sounds like a net positive and I'm sure you all agree too we're winning friends they can call us weirdos misogynists racists whatever they want at this point it's a badge of honor they're giving you cuz it just means they know that they can't beat you and we're all too United now
to stop ever again we're going to crush the Mind virus we're going to change the industry so go ahead and make more slop because I'll be here to expose you for the frauds that you are cuz we're going to change gaming whether you want us to or not but I think that's enough for now so I thank you for watching subscribing such thanks to my members and patrons have a wonderful day everyone and I'll see you in the next one
