So their writing is finally catching up to their gameplay? Fantastic!!!

This has to be the worst company out there.

Embarrassing. If it isn't worth putting human thought into then don't bother putting it in the game.

That would make an interesting story tell the wife you were replaced by an AI at work.

The only way this would bring something extra to the game is if the voice acting is also AI so that you could have infinite new dialog on the fly.

Monkeys at typewriters? lol

I understand game development as assistant or backup but writing tf??? Lazy and this begins a new terrible trend sigh.

Ubisoft games should just be called “Video Game” and then in sequential order with the following iterations.

Figured they'd been doing this for a decade already.

Wow, now that AC has lost its soul with the useless gated grind and gear checks, they added salt to the wound by generic soulless writing. The only missing piece is making it a complete live service.

I mean it's not like writing in video games has been any good the past several years, especially in Ubisoft games, it would be hilarious if this improved things lmao

Time is money, so lower the price tag of games back down to $60? No? Hmm

Sounds like legit Ubisoft to me.

Why not just use chatgpt?

- Want games not to take a decade of development?
- Want game worlds to be bigger AND better?
- Want NPCs not to regurgitate the same nonsense everytime you pass by?
- Want open-world tropes and copy-pasta content to go away?
- Want more animations, more dialogue, more quests, more bosses, and more NPCs that are less repetitive?
- Want developers to have enough time to finish their games?
- Want your favourite studios to be more risky and try new ideas/concepts?

None of this is possible without AI.

If there's one field that would greatly benefit from AI, it's game development. Games have grown significantly while development tools haven't evolved as much. Devs have to work for 5 years and crunch for months just to get one game out. Ever occurred to you why? Game development is hard and complex, more complex than any other software except maybe Operating Systems.

In the IT and Software Engineering sector we pity game devs. They get paid entry-level (by IT standards) for full-time work and unusual crunch only to get called lazy by people who literally sit on their arses all day consuming their work.

AI will help creators create more. For example, right now creating a unique asset requires 3D modelling, painting/texturing, optimising polygons, rigging and animating/applying physics if it's movable, all from scratch. AI can do that in seconds and the artist/designer can go in and tweak it to their liking. AI would unleash unprecedented creativity not shackled by physical or resource limitations (it'd enable a lot of trash as well, but I'm talking about professionals).

This will save them tons of cash.

This is only the beginning. As AI gets more and more advanced jobs will slowly get replaced by it, and not just in the gaming industry. There is at the end of the day nothing that a human can do that an AI couldn't do better, if given enough time to develop.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau