The truth is that the Assassin’s Creed Shadows is being an almost horror story, because not only did its protagonist raise blisters around the world shortly after being announced, but as we have gotten closer to the original release date, the title of Ubisoft It has been losing strength and content at a forced pace. It is as if the French have decided to go back on many of the promises they have been making over the last few months.
Furthermore, in these cases of such large games, it is essential that the developer not go overboard promising everything. Additional content, DLC, season passes… all of this is work that must be completed and, above all, important resources dedicated to a game that is already in stores and that if it does not work as expected, can only cause more losses. and it is not Ubisoft to continue throwing away the bills as if it were worthless. That is, if we do not have problems optimizing the game, graphics or any other bug.
Assassin’s Creed shadows goes on a diet of everything
Thus, we must take into account the panorama from which we come: Ubisoft cutting jobs at random, titles that have not succeeded (Star Wars Outlaws or Prince of Persia…) and have failed, on expectations, in addition to a growing deterioration of the company’s image that does not allow many users to trust in what is to come. Although few of us here have doubts that Assassin’s Creed Shadows It will be a good game. Don’t you believe it?
Still, even though Assassin’s Creed Shadows could be left out of that fear of failure, the French are taking defensive positions and in the last few hours we have seen some cuts that you may not like. Especially if you have already reserved any of the editions of the game. More specifically, what has caught the attention of users has been the elimination of early access to the game, so there will be no one who can play before that February 14, 2025 stipulated for its release.
It must be said that there are many voices (especially developers) who have cried foul about these early accesses, who do not believe they are beneficial for the industry, which is why they advocate leaving things for when it has been said. that a game will come. As always, there is a division of opinion but it is obvious that for the physical format (and those who sell these games) it is a dagger that practically wounds them to death.
Don’t leave yet, there’s still more
If you think that with early access everything has already been said, nothing at all. Ubisoft The season pass has also been removed from the way, which is somewhat strange if we take into account that, after Assassin’s Creed Miragethis shadows It was going to be the one to recover the habit of receiving new story arcs, more missions and characters to deepen the experience. So no, at the moment Ubisoft He doesn’t want any scares: first we have to sell the game and when we see that it’s doing a lot and well, then we’ll consider whether we confirm the expansion plans or not.
These are bad times for the French. Let’s hope they come out successful and don’t cut more editions like the collector one you have above.
