Undoubtedly, there are many people who wish to have an incredible 2025 for personal and emotional reasons. However, there are also some people who wish to have an incredible 2025 for financial and business reasons, with one of the biggest “wishers” being Ubisoft. To say that 2024 was a rough year for them would be an understatement of near cataclysmic proportions. The publisher released multiple games last year, but none “met sales expectations,” one was called out for just being “a Ubisoft skin of a popular franchise,” and then there was Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which was supposed to come out last October, but didn’t.
Instead, it got pushed to February 2025, except it then got pushed a few more weeks to March. Now, we’re just waiting to see if that release date holds or if Ubisoft will push it back again. It should be noted that one of the reasons that Ubisoft pushed it back was because of both quality issues and historical inaccuracies that fans and others pointed out in certain trailers and first looks. In other words, it seemed that Ubisoft was trying to rush things out again, and even its own dev team asked for time to polish things up more but were initially delayed.
That’s what makes it so interesting that insider Tom Henderson is saying that the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows previews that’ll drop soon are apparently pretty positive:
This could mean several different things. First, it could simply be that the parts people were allowed to play were good, which isn’t the most insane thing to hear based on previous gameplay videos Ubisoft dropped before the delays. Or, it could mean that these months of delays were worth it, and that the title might actually be of the quality that gamers expect from entries in this series.
To say that Ubisoft needs to earn back the trust of players is another understatement. In fact, on the tweet above and in Reddit threads about this topic, there are people who either don’t believe what Tom Henderson has heard or are “unmoved” by the fact that people are saying positive things about the upcoming title.
In their minds, Ubisoft has already blown through all its “goodwill,” and some feel that even if the game is “finally of good quality,” it won’t be enough to save anything. That might be true based on recent reports, and thus, this could be the “last hoorah” of Ubisoft as we know it.
