A new rumor claims that Ubisoft delayed Assassin’s Creed Shadows three months from its original planned release date in November 2024 to February 2025 because the game is “buggy.”
Ubisoft announced it was delaying Assassin’s Creed Shadows to February 14, 2025 earlier this week ahead of a trading call updating its financial targets for FY2024-25.
In a press release the company announced, “Assassin’s Creed Shadows will now be released on 14 February 2025. While the game is feature complete, the learnings from the Star Wars Outlaws release led us to provide additional time to further polish the title.
It added, “This will enable the biggest entry in the franchise to fully deliver on its ambition, notably by fulfilling the promise of our dual protagonist adventure, with Naoe and Yasuke bringing two very different game playstyles.”
Furthermore, it shared, “We are departing from the traditional Season Pass model. All players will be able to enjoy the game at the same time on February 14 and those who preorder the game will be granted the first expansion for free.”
It concluded, “The game will mark the return of our new releases on Steam Day 1.”
Now, a new rumor from Brazilian YouTuber tvPH claims the reason the game was delayed is because it was “buggy.”
In the above video, he explains using Google’s auto-translate function, “The problem that is going on inside is a very simple one. The game is buggy, which is something that is traditional to the Assassin’s Creed series, right? Especially when they are making this transition and internal technology. Assassin’s Creed Unity was very dramatic. Assassin’s Creed Origins also had a lot of problems at the time of launch.”
“And Assassin’s Creed Shadows also offers a change of internal technology within the game that was most likely causing these bugs,” he continued. “So it’s not a completely new thing, right, a buggy launch of Assassin’s Creed. But there’s a very marked difference in the days of Unity, in the days of Origins, Ubisoft was safer. Ubisoft was calm.”
“But in September 2024 Ubisoft had just launched and seen Star Wars Outlaws flop, which was a game that they expected would completely explode into being one of the biggest titles of the year and from the looks of it, it sold just OK. It sold like the least a Star Wars game should sell when there is no public interest in it, right? And part of the problem was that the game was completely bugged at launch. Ubisoft even had to apologize to the fans and promise that they are working on urgent fixes for performance problems on all platforms,” he added.
While his inside sources at Ubisoft claim the reason for the delay is due to the game being buggy, financial analyst Valliant Renegade speculates the delay has to do with the company attempting to break even before the end of its fiscal year.
He explained, “Once Ubisoft cancelled their worldwide press events, even pulling out the massive Tokyo Game Show, the writing was on the wall that AC Shadows was going to get pushed back. UBISOFT obviously saw what was coming, and that was likely a serious underperformance of sales upon the games initial release date target of Nov 15th.”
“Ubisoft says the next 90 days will afford them time to “polish the game” but they also seem desperate to release it BEFORE the end of their fiscal year on March 31st 2025 as profitability guidance has concurrently been adjusted DOWN with the game maker basically hoping to just maybe break-even on the year,” Valliant Renegade added.
He concluded, “It’s a total mess right now.”
What do you make of this latest rumor that Assassin’s Creed Shadows is full of bugs and that is the reason for the delay?
News
Ghost of Yotei: Erika Ishii Had Enough of the Unjust Hate Over Female Lead Atsu as She Takes Bold Step Against Toxic Fans
Erika Ishii just could not bear the unnecessary hate against them anymore and decided to take a drastic step that led to further criticism. Ghost of Yōtei Female Lead Atsu is getting unjust hate due to their personal life. Erika Ishii,…
Game of The Year Or Not, Black Myth: Wukong’s Confirmed Sale Numbers Are Enough To Know Which Game Absolutely Dominated 2024
2024 has been a monumental game with some record breaking successes. But none have been as big and unprecedented like Black Myth: Wukong. Gamers have witnessed some colossal titles in 2024, but none of them have become as big as Black…
Is Tencent the Blackrock of the Gaming Industry? A €15 Million Loan Agreement to Control and Alan Wake Makers Says It All Is Tencent the Blackrock of the Gaming Industry? A €15 Million Loan Agreement to Control and Alan Wake Makers Says It All
Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment has entered into a loan agreement with Tencent, proving how influential the Chinese giant is in the gaming industry. Tencent Games stands as the gaming division of the Chinese multinational conglomerate of the same name, which…
Space Marine 2 is Unintentionally Starting to Champion Space Racism: Fans Who Agree Have Never Read the Lore
Space Marine 2 and Saber Interactive needs to take on its biggest threat yet – rampant racism within the game’s massive community. Space Marine 2 continues to ride the high wave, with people showering heaps of praise on the game’s various…
Assassin’s Creed: Invictus Will Be a Concord Level Mistake: Except Ubisoft Will Not Come out of It Alive Like Sony Did
Ubisoft might be digging its own grave by spending millions of dollars on the development of Assassin’s Creed: Codename Invictus. Assassin’s Creed: Codename Invictus is an upcoming multiplayer installment in the Assassin’s Creed series. A multiplayer Assassin’s Creed game indeed sounds exciting but given how Assassin’s…
Microsoft Reportedly Spends $1 Billion to Keep Third-Party Games on Xbox Game Pass And Yet Still Couldn’t Fix Starfield
Microsoft spends $1B annually to secure third-party games for Xbox Game Pass, but even that couldn’t save Starfield from falling flat spectacularly . In a surprising revelation, a recent report has shed light on Microsoft’s massive spending to secure third-party…
End of content
No more pages to load