News inside jeuxvideo.com The feedback on Star Wars Outlaws is not good at all! – LaPetitePelle draws JeuxiVideo.com N°545
Published on 06/10/2024 at 09:05
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It’s a complicated year for Ubisoft. Players are not kind to Star Wars Outlaws, and our designer illustrates it in this new chapter of LaPetitePelle.
Players are not kind to Ubisoft.
As you know, Star Wars Outlaws was not a great success for Ubisoft (1 million copies sold in one month). The title, released last August, takes place in the universe of the legendary Star Wars cinematic saga, between the period of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. We play an outlaw named Kay Vess who must carry out the heist of the century.
If on paper the game had everything to please, despite everything, it was not unanimous, the fault in particular of an action-infiltration which lacks originality. We can support this by seeing the Metacritic rating, with 76 from the press and a 5.4/10 from the players.
In addition, it should be noted that the title had quite a rival who overshadowed it when it was released: Black Myth: Wukong. In a very short time, the title has won the hearts of players, to the point of becoming the most popular single-player game of 2024. It sold more than 18 million in 2 weeks, where Outlaws only made 1 million.
A failure for the studio
Another hard blow to Ubisoft, the French studio experiencing difficulties: at the start of the year, the company recorded a 60% loss in value on the stock market. This Star Wars Outlaws should have been a game allowing it to gradually climb back up, the studio’s latest titles not having been unanimously acclaimed. We think of Skull and Bones, having been repeatedly postponed Avatar Frontiers of Pandora (although the game was appreciated, it unfortunately did not meet the studio’s expectations). The company’s “last chance” appears to be Assassin’s Creed Shadows which was postponed to 2025.
