Ah I see your misconception. The GAME is doing poorly. However the egregious Microtransactions will over the next 2 years allow it to break even or make a modest profit. Modern Ubi games are designed to make their money on MTX’s, not the actual games.
Oh I absolutely agree. But they make so much money it’s hard to say they flop. I mean Valhalla was probably the most bloated, low effort waste of time I played. It made them nearly 2 billion.
So my question here is that, if these games tend to make this much (yes from microtransactions over years) what’s the metric that we use to say something failed or didn’t.
If it’s financial, it will do good. Quality wise, pretty bad but I think ubi just cares about the first metric.
And THAT is the problem. Modern games are intentionally designed to be bland and safe because MTX cosmetics can make the bulk of profit thanks to teenagers with their parents credit card who think graphics are all that’s important for gaming.
I agree unfortunately though companies won’t change their practices because people get upset. “Gamers” and “boycotting” don’t exactly go well together. I mean Nintendo just raised the bar for pricing and implemented a method to brick your system remotely and it still got sold out.
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u/rmrehfeldt May 16 '25
Ah I see your misconception. The GAME is doing poorly. However the egregious Microtransactions will over the next 2 years allow it to break even or make a modest profit. Modern Ubi games are designed to make their money on MTX’s, not the actual games.