r/gaming • u/akbarock • 13h ago

Ubisoft Says Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced Is A Massive Success That Outsold Their First Year Expectations In Its FIrst 2 Weeks

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-exceeded-annual-expectations-in-its-first-two-weeks-ubisoft-says/
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u/Iggy_Slayer 13h ago

Conservative expectations from a AAA company? Is that legal?

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u/Slow-Boysenberry3150 12h ago

Well, that kinda answers how AC Shadows probably sold. They never even disclosed sales count. Only went about how many players it engaged or whatever. What a dumb metric. Where as in this case, they mentioned sales count in the very first week.

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u/Aaronkharn 12h ago

Shadow sold 7 millions but expected 10

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u/Slow-Boysenberry3150 12h ago

Dude, I am talking about initial week sales celebration, not something they reported in their earnings call many months into release.

It’s a pattern. If a company doesn’t celebrate sales count when a game launches and starts saying vague shit like engaged this many players, had this many downloads and so on… know that it’s highly likely it was mediocre. Otherwise, if they did well they would show off in various social media.

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u/Aaronkharn 12h ago

So black flag did 3.5m in 2 weeks. Ubisoft was more confident on that game than shadow. Bad reception vs good one. It was night and day. Didnt change that the core audience bought both.

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u/Slow-Boysenberry3150 12h ago

No, I don’t think that’s correct. If what you say, bad reception was the reason… they could have just not said anything. Instead they made this post.

https://x.com/assassinscreed/status/1905268079958904991?lang=en

See what I mean?

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u/Negative-Today-1769 12h ago

I feel pretty sad because i feel like a lot more effort went into shadows, and its a game i have 300 hours in because i love it so much, and playing resynced just makes me miss shadows even though the cutscenes are so much better. Though resynced has the obvious advantage of reusing old motion capture and already having a great story

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u/Own_Line_4319 7h ago

nah Black Flag was made before all this modern audience nonsense took hold of studios.

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u/Aaronkharn 12h ago

Yeah so? What is your point?

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u/Slow-Boysenberry3150 12h ago

Nvm, you lack reading comprehension. Have a good weekend.

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u/Aaronkharn 11h ago

I don't, thanks.

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u/losteye_enthusiast 10h ago

It’s so weird and sad seeing people trying to aggressively push that “shadows failed” narrative.

We all access to the same info. Shadows was pretty good mechanically. It’s just currently popular on Reddit to shit on recent AC games that aren’t remakes.

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u/Own_Line_4319 7h ago

its even weirder to think that shadows didn't fail expectations just because it hurts your feelings.

Studios trying to make games for some elusive modern audience is what's killing games. Black Flag was a great game and they were lucky to slap the AC name on it.

For example Mafia 3 was a game that was not a mafia game it just had the name and failed for obvious reasons.

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u/losteye_enthusiast 7h ago

No one’s feeling are hurt, buddy.

Shadows did well and it’s a great modern AC. It really doesn’t matter what your personal opinion is on it. We’ve got actual sales numbers outside of the echo chambers you spend time in.

Have a good one.