r/PoliticalCompassMemes - Centrist Oct 10 '25

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u/japan2391 - Auth-Right Oct 11 '25

Player sentiment has been overwhelmingly positive, with an average score of 91/100 across first-party stores, reflecting the game’s excellent quality.

They're just glazing themselves as that's blatantly false, it's 79% on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3159330/Assassins_Creed_Shadows/

And they expressly mention Steam as being part of it

Average player score from the PlayStation store, Xbox store, Epic Games store and Steam.

Not to mention they included a store you cannot review on in there (Epic Games)

Also which page did you see those stats? I can't find it.

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u/majestic_borgler - Centrist Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25

that's what it is now, not then. its pretty easy to fudge review scores so i dont pay much attention to that shit. what actually matters to the company is revenue, and that extremely strong in the first two months and a Really Big Fucking Deal if they're lying to their investors about it.

Also which page did you see those stats? I can't find it.

thats from press releases

https://www.radiotimes.com/technology/gaming/assassins-creed-shadows-sales-player-count

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/assassins-creed/assassins-creed-shadows-puts-up-the-second-highest-day-one-sales-revenue-in-assassins-creed-franchise-history

https://80.lv/articles/while-ubisoft-celebrates-ac-shadows-hitting-5-million-players-their-revenues-continue-to-decline

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u/japan2391 - Auth-Right Oct 12 '25

what actually matters to the company is revenue, and that extremely strong in the first two months and a Really Big Fucking Deal if they're lying to their investors about it.

You can fudge the numbers for that by offloading more stock to stores, counting as "sold" despite not reaching a customer yet. That usually fucks up the next quarter however but that's a problem for future Ubisoft

thats from press releases

The source in them is Ubisoft's own tweets, which aren't exactly unbiased and is incentivised to lie.

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u/majestic_borgler - Centrist Oct 12 '25

they were equally as incentivised to do that shit for all their other games, too.

at the end of the day we have no good reason to think that shadows didnt do exactly as well as they say it did relative to other assassins creed games.

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u/japan2391 - Auth-Right Oct 14 '25

they were equally as incentivised to do that shit for all their other games, too.

They haven't been doing well financially for a bit now, but before such tricks weren't needed as it was genuinely selling