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March 2024 games (available on March 5th):

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March 2024 games (available on March 19th):

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Demos with carryovers are always welcome. I will install and play that today.

gotta see if the $149.99 collector's edition is worth my money. real fence sitters on this one. It's the type of thing people instantly get remorse if it stays in stock and immediately drops to $120 or < in two months. But if the game gets great ratings (it probably will) and it sells out then the CE is instantly $300+, and everyone pretends they wanted it really badly.

$150 is A LOT. But it's a very good set too, with everything I want. Which is always: steelbook + CD soundtrack, art materials. It's exactly how I would design a CE to sell to the market.

card is about to charge for that one in two weeks.
 
I think their thought process is that star wars outlaws will have longer legs and sell better as the holidays roll around, which would be competing for assassins creed sales so spreading them out may be more beneficial for both as well as polishing up AC would be wise after the buggy launch of outlaws.
 
They are for once, and they learned it from Nintendo, who recommended that they wait longer between releasing Mario Rabbids games. The last installment underperformed, and they said they wished they heeded the advice.
 
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Perhaps try being a good publisher?
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Wha!?!? You mean being notoriously known for slashing the price of your games 50-66% off just months after release has consequences on future sales?

Let’s be real, Star Wars Outlaws, regardless of quality, is gonna be a $20-30 game because that’s what Ubisoft does. They’ve been on this pattern for probably close to 20 years now and people have finally wised up to them so they wait for a sale.

Everyone’s always on Nintendo’s case about never dropping the price of their game but Ubisoft’s pricing and immediate discounts is exactly why they’re so staunchly against price drops and stingy with sales. It hurts future game sales, regardless of quality.
 
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Wha!?!? You mean being notoriously known for slashing the price of your games 50-66% off just months after release has consequences on future sales?

Let’s be real, Star Wars Outlaws, regardless of quality, is gonna be a $20-30 game because that’s what Ubisoft does. They’ve been on this pattern for probably close to 20 years now and people have finally wised up to them so they wait for a sale.

Everyone’s always on Nintendo’s case about never dropping the price of their game but Ubisoft’s pricing and immediate discounts is exactly why they’re so staunchly against price drops and stingy with sales. It hurts future game sales, regardless of quality.
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yeah no kidding. I just don't get how it took 20 years for people to wisen up. Or for the market barometer and stock prices to catch up.

I can't imagine how badly execs have cooked the books during these years. It makes absolutely no sense. Ubisoft should have imploded long ago. They've had so many published games that were unprofitable, or giant busts. Spending all those game development resources and budget on massive open worlds that were nothing but a thin veneer. Everything from Watch Dogs to Farcry. even some decent games in there that simply did not sell very well.

I honestly have no idea why or how customers buy Ubisoft games at launch. They consistently have the most overrated games in the entire industry. Perhaps they are fun to play for ~20 or so hours during the review period. Yet OTTH, the company is very capable of developing games. They must be very efficient at their work. Maybe the best in the business at copy-pasting environments? I don't get it. It's all so strange to me.
 
Right after posting that, I open up my Twitter feed and see this:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1838984736066126053

It seems like the chickens have finally come home to roost, at Ubisoft. Stock is down -50% in one year. The board and shareholders are launching an internal investigation into the company.

That link near the bottom really identifies the main problem though. I just can't believe no one was talking about it until now.
Time and again, Ubisoft has continued to have “misses” with its launches these past few years. Despite incredible games like Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, player sentiment toward the publisher has seemingly been so tainted that fantastic games are not getting the sales they need to turn the company’s fortunes around.
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It seems like the market FINALLY caught up to them a couple years ago. People stopped buying titles (Star Wars) even though some were great games, and well received. Same with Prince of Persia, Mario & Rabbids. Then those all became $20 again just like everything else.

Just like at Bungie. You fleece customers for years and years, with few pitfalls. They get away with it for 5+ years. But then it all eventually catches up to them and there's not even anything they can do to fix the company. Customers are OUT. The same thing is going on at Activision-Blizzard and EA. Tainted brands, and games no one wants to pay for. All propped up by weird service profits or a flagship title.
 
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yeah no kidding. I just don't get how it took 20 years for people to wisen up. Or for the market barometer and stock prices to catch up.

I can't imagine how badly execs have cooked the books during these years. It makes absolutely no sense. Ubisoft should have imploded long ago. They've had so many published games that were unprofitable, or giant busts. Spending all those game development resources and budget on massive open worlds that were nothing but a thin veneer. Everything from Watch Dogs to Farcry. even some decent games in there that simply did not sell very well.

I honestly have no idea why or how customers buy Ubisoft games at launch. They consistently have the most overrated games in the entire industry. Perhaps they are fun to play for ~20 or so hours during the review period. Yet OTTH, the company is very capable of developing games. They must be very efficient at their work. Maybe the best in the business at copy-pasting environments? I don't get it. It's all so strange to me.
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I still remember the critical acclaim for the 2003 Prince of Persia and people losing their minds over how great it was. But sales were really soft on it, “hidden gem” “don’t miss out on this game” etc is all you heard, then they dropped the price to $20 within just a couple months.

They’re never gonna change, they don’t make bad games, some might be middle of the road or whatever, but they’ve absolutely trained customers to just wait for the inevitable pricedrop.
 
To continue with that, Ubi Soft always announces DLC before the games are even out. I have to assume some people are just like, "whelp, forget it. I'll play something else that's doesn't take a million hours of busy work."

And I love the Assassin's Creed series, BTW, but yeah, I still haven't gotten around to anything Odyssey or later because they're so big.
 
Are the “games under $20” sales just the main sale with a price filter applied, or are they different? It seems like it, but confirmation would be nice. There are a couple thousand items in each sale and it can be a bit overwhelming to scroll through. I usually skip over the under $20 sales under the assumption it’s repeats of the main
 
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Are the “games under $20” sales just the main sale with a price filter applied, or are they different? It seems like it, but confirmation would be nice. There are a couple thousand items in each sale and it can be a bit overwhelming to scroll through. I usually skip over the under $20 sales under the assumption it’s repeats of the main
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It's almost always a very close overlap. I hate that they do that because it likely generates more sales overall. I look over all the sales, and they're almost always the same and the same prices too rarely ever dropping much.
 
Sony should have made them exclusive to PlayStation stars members that have reached a certain level. The program is free, and I think the highest level requires 128 trophies earned in a year, and 4 games bought. Maybe thats too steep, and unfair for some, doesn’t have to be that highest level, but the alternative is they mostly all go to botters. This would stop that, the systems would just go to the most loyal of the fanbase, be a genuine reward for that, compared to the pointless ”digital shelf rewards“ they currently offer, and it would encourage more game sales and attachment rate. Some would be mad, and there would probably be sensational stories about unfair gatekeeping, but compared to how it’s going to play out instead, with no one at Sony giving a shit, I think that would have been better still.
 
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Wha!?!? You mean being notoriously known for slashing the price of your games 50-66% off just months after release has consequences on future sales?

Let’s be real, Star Wars Outlaws, regardless of quality, is gonna be a $20-30 game because that’s what Ubisoft does. They’ve been on this pattern for probably close to 20 years now and people have finally wised up to them so they wait for a sale.

Everyone’s always on Nintendo’s case about never dropping the price of their game but Ubisoft’s pricing and immediate discounts is exactly why they’re so staunchly against price drops and stingy with sales. It hurts future game sales, regardless of quality.
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This might be the smartest thing posted in this thread today.
 
I'm in! I bought all of the Pros. Sorry.

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I signed in ahead of time for the 30th anniversary PS5 Pro bundle etc.. tried to add a cheap item to cart & buy then cancel so I would have CC info saved on file to check out fast when this goes live at 10 a.m. but won't let me add to cart so yay already I'm screwed lol
 
I remember when the PS5 dropped and there was a way to bypass the queue. It had something to do with a ad blocker. I wonder if it still works. You could also hit escape as the page loaded and it would skip the queue. I feel like even if you see 2 minutes in the queue, most of it 30th stuff will be gone.
 
is the 30th Anniversary exclusive stuff like console and controllers only available to just Sony website? Or will B&M stores like BB, Target, etc... will be eventually getting them as well?
 
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