After ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Delay, Ubisoft Acknowledges ‘Outlaws’ Issues, Anti-Woke Pushback

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Ubisoft is in an extremely rough spot right now with its stock at a ten year low, a self-investigation into the company beginning to sort out its issues and the announcement that its imminent large-scale Assassin’s Creed game, Shadows, will now be delayed three months, out of 2024 to February 14, 2025.

Ubisoft was…unusually candid about the reasons for this, even to the point of admitting its last game had issues they needed to learn from:

“While [Assassin’s Creed Shadows] is feature complete, the learnings from the Star Wars Outlaws release led us to provide additional time to further polish the title.”

Outlaws arrived with somewhat middling scores, which put it in the bottom half of all Ubisoft’s major releases over the last 10-15 years. The idea was that an open world Star Wars game was almost a can’t-miss, but between bugs and criticism of its heavy stealth focus, it just didn’t do as well as they wanted, and that includes sales-wise. Now,…

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