Ubisoft has revealed its Q3 report for 2017-18. According to the French company, the Tom Clancy communities are almost at 60 million unique players and Ghost Recon Wildlands was industry’s seventh best-seller in EMEA and tenth in NCSA in 2017.
Moreover, The Division’s player engagement more than doubled with the 1.8 update and Assassin’s Creed Origins was the industry’s third best-seller in EMEA in 2017.
However, and what is really important for PC gamers, is that Ubisoft has managed to increase its PC sales. I’m saying this is good because this will motivate the French company to create even better PC versions of its titles.
Ubisoft claims that it has increased its PC sales to 18% by focusing on multi-player and RPGs, creating high-quality PC versions of its titles, and providing great online services. For reference, Ubisoft’s PC sales were around 7% five years ago. And… well… we are pretty sure Ubisoft that those percentages can go higher if you remove Denuvo from your games. Just a thought.
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Sounds about right, too bad that their games are copy paste lately so sales will drop.
“those percentages can go higher if you remove Denuvo from your games. Just a thought.”
Kim Kardashian West and codyzz1234 to be triggered in 3, 2, 1….
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removing denuvo doesn’t guarantee sale while putting it on a game guarantees that those with money who were going to pirate the game will now buy it (although percentage of these people could be as small as those who don’t buy it because of denuvo), i’m sure ubisoft has their own people who analyze sales but if i was in charge i’d silently remove denuvo from very few older tittles to experiment and use a tactic which i’d remove denuvo from random games after two to three years.
at the end though you make good product and demand is going to be high and people will do anything for it so they either have to make really good games or experiment more with drm.
in terms of sales.
No Denuvo = extremely small number of pirates end up pirating cause they cant’ wait.
Denuvo = extremely loud vocal minority boycotting the game.
take your pick.
no denuvo = many will pirate it whether they have interest in the game or not
denuvo = i agree
but still nothing is for sure unless they do sophisticated research on this subject
Whoops I got it mixed up. Late at night and browsing hipster site I meant.
Denuvo = extremely large number of pirates end up pirating.
Please enough. You guys don’t need to keep showing the trolls who is the boss, ignore em.
This is getting pathetic, go anti-Denuvo for the sake of game preservation.
“And… well… we are pretty sure Ubisoft that those percentages can go higher if you remove Denuvo from your games. Just a thought.”
Actually I couldn’t be any more happier. He finally came out of the closet well done John.
Reason is quite simple if you ask me. They now stand behind their games and keep improving them after launch no matter what.
Sure it would be better if they did that BEFORE their launch but hey! It’s something! Give them few more years. They are defi getting better. They used to be good in my eyes! Maybe they will be again.
“Dedicated high quality PC versions”
“good online services through the Ubisoft club platform”
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I also discovered, that they’ve now offloaded their profile pages onto the web, rather than being built into the client like Steam. Both EA and Ubisoft are guilty of this and lazy as hell.
Steam still remains the only client out there with full profile customisation, as well as being built and viewed directly from within the client itself. Steam’s profile implementation should have been the standard for all clients well by now.
Not all games are buggy. Some of the UBI titles are good, at least in my opinion.
Many dislike UBISoft, but I think some of their older titles have originality, and a decent Storyline, mostly the Single player games, IMO.
I’m not taking the full PC performance into consideration right now, but just the story line/Graphics/gameplay, and the in-game voice acting.
Good for UBISoft. Now, only if they could focus more on optimizing their Games a bit.
Hmm as much as i hate denuvo i frankly believe it would hurt them more removing it than having it.
Their games are not witcher 3 quality material most of their sales is because of impatient gamers.
Games like the division on the other hand or even ghost recon wildland dont need denuvo due to those being much more fun and functionable online than offline
And Witcher 3 isn’t the standard which every game should be judged by. For all it’s prowess when it comes to presentation and story telling, it is mechanically weak and unbalanced. The ‘game’ part is thoroughly lacking.
The ‘lacking game part’ as you call it is still one of best of the last decade and definitely better than anything ubisoft made lately
It’s so unbalanced that it’s a joke. If you really think the gameplay is actually well done, I really don’t know what to say to you.
Yes. Carry on suking it as hard as you can. If you must, go educate yourself. I am not obligated to write an article for every argument I make, especially when there is more than enough of them out there which can be accessed with a simple search. For the sake of argument here are your keywords: “Witcher 3 nocturnal rambler”.
IGNI, MOUSE1,ROLL. IGNI, MOUSE1, ROLL. IGNI, MOUSE1, ROLL.
If thats how you played you are such a n00b what about potions and using quen and yrden?
Igni was actually so weak i did not botter using it unless monsters were weak against fire
LOL. No I got bored because of the extremely slow progression of the game. The game bombards you with quests that are leagues above your current level. And it takes forever to level up there.
He is talking about the enviroment and the quests
Because a lot of them are fun? Also not all launch in a buggy state, and if they do, the majority of buyers are at fault for the whole oh day one buy bullshit. Wait a few months, and you get a great game.
AC:Orgins is quite good. Its unoptimized as hell though.
Its almost like different people like different things and your opinion doesn’t speak for everyone. Weird how that works right?
I dont like what you like so you like the wrong things. Very mature.
he called me a kid rofl. and “Not a True Gamer”.
For all the copy pasted openworld and ubi hate, I still love playing every single one of their games. And I will forever commend them for giving us the option to turn off all UI elements in every one of their modern games.
Well they have improved their games i have to say. FC5 has very interesting location. AC:O was very well recived, Watch Dogs 2 -> was better than first. They announced Beyond Good and Evil 2 -> Listening Fans. Last game i played was AC:Black flag and i am thinking giving Ubisoft another chance.
A new “AC black flag 2” could be great .
I would like to see more different Time periods my self. Something Asian, Greece or Rome. I also like concept of WWI at least in my mind. Probably will pick up some older assassins creed soon. Rouge(should be a lot like black flag ?), Unity, Syndicate, Origins when some sales drop.
I usually just ignore Ubisoft games, after they kept on punished me for buying their games with DRM while the pirates were playing a DRM free version.
Have there been any good Ubi games recently? The last one I played was the Division because of the hype and I got it free with a new video card, game seemed like a grind and I didn’t play much of it. I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game since Assassins Creed 2.
So you haven’t played Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, and FAR CRY 4 either ?
I think you can give them a try, as they are pretty decent games, in my opinion.
Even AC: ORIGINS is good, especially the in-game Egypt setting, graphics and the gameplay mechanics. Apart from few technical performance issues, the game could have been much more better, but it’s worth giving a try, IMO.
It’s demanding on the PC though.
I don’t like, or would rather recommend playing GR: Wildlands though, due to the repetitive nature of the missions, and the game’s narrative. Kinda boring game…
Because most gamers looks past the unoptimization and DRM. And actually play the game.
Only the vocal minority are screeching lmao.
Did I say ignore those things?
Kid learn to rid kid, kid kid kid kid kid.
How old are you lmao? Are you 90 years old to call me kid?
You understand what I meant past the typo. Feel free to play semantics if you want.
with unstable framerate? Sure if you use a controller
pretty much why AC:Orgins right now has 85 percent positive review.
Higher sales is due to the idiots on console / mobile upgrading to PC while still accepting console / mobile content and performance.
Well with the Rainbow six and Ghost recon love they keep supporting i’m sure it helps.
I just want them abandon Uplay…that’s all that I want
Ubisoft ruined console gaming to the point where PC sales are up 11% solely due to them? 😉