Ubisoft Cancels Four Games Including Splinter Cell VR & Ghost Recon Frontline

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Ubisoft has recently announced during their quarterly earnings report that four games had been canceled including Splinter Cell VR & Ghost Recon Frontline while Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will be delayed until late 2023. Ubisoft's Red Storm studio and Meta had been jointly developing Splinter Cell VR before the game was canceled due to the "uncertain economic environment". The free-to-play battle royale Ghost Recon Frontline title that was being made at Ubisoft Bucharest was also scrapped after a previous delay and significant fan backlash. The open-world Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora game has been delayed until FY2023 with indications that the launch could occur towards the end of the year.



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[Space Lynx]

Splinter Cell VR would have been a good hit I think, that is a shame.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Splinter Cell VR would have been a good hit I think, that is a shame.

heck it COULD have been amazing.....but 25 years of gaming industry has told me that I wouldnt have been

 

[Vayra86]

Good. Anything with a Meta sticker on it must die horrible deaths. Slowly, painfully, and hopefully costing shareholders a metric ton of cash. Its good that Ubisoft is stacking failure upon failure with their newfound zeal in business practices. They, too, deserve this.

Its called karma.

Tis too bad for VR, but that wasn't going places anyway.

Pro tip @ Ubi: start making decent games again, maybe hire some new talent that brings new ideas in, something without a bunch of map markers and watch towers. Strangely, the market wants good content before good marketing and advertising everywhere they look.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Good. Anything with a Meta sticker on it must die horrible deaths. Slowly, painfully, and hopefully costing shareholders a metric ton of cash. Its good that Ubisoft is stacking failure upon failure with their newfound zeal in business practices. They, too, deserve this.

Its called karma.

Tis too bad for VR, but that wasn't going places anyway.

Pro tip @ Ubi: start making decent games again, maybe hire some new talent that brings new ideas in, something without a bunch of map markers and watch towers. Strangely, the market wants good content before good marketing and advertising everywhere they look.

Whatever happened to that Beyond Good and Evil 2?
I mean they made reaaaally stupid promises akin to Bethesda's new space game but still.....

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Whatever happened to that Beyond Good and Evil 2?

Still coming, I hope.

 

[spnidel]

Splinter Cell VR would have been a good hit I think, that is a shame.

made by modern ubisoft? don't kid yourself lol

 

[Robin Seina]

Does anyone have any news on that delayed Settlers reboot (from this winter)?

 

[tomc100]

I would love to see a Dead Space in VR.

 

[zlobby]

If they made a 'Ghost Raccoon' I'd buy it.

 

[Deleted member 177333]

Ya no sympathy from me. I used to look forward to Ubisoft games and was a big Assassin's Creed fanboy about 10 years back, pre-ordering a good chunk of the earlier ones.

Nowadays...not so much. Haven't bought a Ubisoft game for almost 5 years. From stale gameplay to making stealth games like AC into open world combat games, to injecting woke trash / feminist nonsense into the stories of AC & Far Cry, not selling games on Steam or GOG, I don't get my wallet out for Ubisoft games anymore. Hope the company goes under completely.

 

[RegaeRevaeb]

If they made a 'Ghost Raccoon' I'd buy it.

Partner with Stray's makers for DLC synergy.

 

[zlobby]

Partner with Stray's makers for DLC synergy.

This infers cat>coon, which is not true! Raccoons deserve their own franchises!

 

[Assimilator]

Four fewer turds not being pushed out onto the gaming public, good.

 

[Luminescent]

Years of "silicon shortages" and exaggerated prices ruined some plans.
Now we enter years of GPU game bundles and slowly cheaper and cheaper prices.
While people on this forum is educated to build a computer, I'm afraid the new generation of tik-tokers and pubg mobile gamers can't even install windows, selling a discrete GPU to these people so they can play the lates Ubisoft, EA or other game publisher game is out of the question, so PC gaming is finally fu..ed.

 

[Vayra86]

Years of "silicon shortages" and exaggerated prices ruined some plans.
Now we enter years of GPU game bundles and slowly cheaper and cheaper prices.
While people on this forum is educated to build a computer, I'm afraid the new generation of tik-tokers and pubg mobile gamers can't even install windows, selling a discrete GPU to these people so they can play the lates Ubisoft, EA or other game publisher game is out of the question, so PC gaming is finally fu..ed.

Bwahaha right, all those 'content creators' dont have PCs. They do all their stuff on mobile!

Yet another post in the ever expanding gallery of 'PC is dead' comments. Here is news; the market is bigger than what popular media cover, in fact, the sheep in that segment just get drawn to another niche once this one wears out. And the funny thing is, almost every niche originates from the PC and it still does. Consoles even are looking like PCs more so every gen, and even content wise the PC offers more now as it gets everything ported to it. Its too big to ignore. Even indie gaming is moving to consoles (ported from PC) because everyone with two brain cells discovered it has more to offer than your average title priced twice as high.

The smartphone content consumer is the pawn. But a lot of people play chess. So sure if all you ever do is consume in total apathy of your 5 inch screen, yes, PC is dead and you likely cant even install Windows. But Darwin isnt going to favor that group Its already happening - haves and have nots applies also to the information you get deluded by. Its all more of the same: those who still understand the world, and those who run away from it in self confirmation bias. IF the latter group wins the battle for truth and 'this is reality', we will have complete anarchy. Probably wont happen. Rather, this group will be outcasts in society. Again, an event that is already occurring.

 

[Luminescent]

Consoles even are looking like PCs more so every gen, and even content wise the PC offers more now as it gets everything ported to it. Its too big to ignore. Even indie gaming is moving to consoles (ported from PC) because everyone with two brain cells discovered it has more to offer than your average title priced twice as high.

There is one key difference between consoles and PC gaming, one is turn on and start playing, the other is build a computer, install operating system, drivers, eventually deal with some unexpected error and google the problem and at some point you can play games.
New kids on the block have no time for this crap, time will prove me right about this.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Partner with Stray's makers for DLC synergy.

Then Co-Op with Capcom for Operation Racoon City.

 

[Vayra86]

There is one key difference between consoles and PC gaming, one is turn on and start playing, the other is build a computer, install operating system, drivers, eventually deal with some unexpected error and google the problem and at some point you can play games.

New kids on the block have no time for this crap, time will prove me right about this.

Back when I was 13 the situation wasn't different. I had access to consoles, got a SNES when I was 6... and honestly just got interested in PCs because they were there, everywhere you looked. Dad had a laptop. School had PCs. Etc.

That still holds true today, we just have more devices, and using a PC doesn't deny us access to any of the other ones. It just sticks with some people and doesn't with others. These differences between people haven't changed either. New generations have already proven this, otherwise events such as indie gaming, tons of new studios with young talent and the emergence of E-sports would not have happened. Those are all PC-first.

And look at gaming PCs these days. The scene exploded, more money goes around in it than ever before, every brand has a whole BU dedicated to it with its own product lines. You have to appreciate the fact that back when I was 13 (36 now ) gaming was for nerds, now everyone has access to it.