Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed to February 14, 2025 | Day 1 Steam Release

John Elden Ring

The Thread Maker
Content Creator
5 Jul 2022
6,250
7,610
United States

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. 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 gameplay styles.
 

Gediminas

Boy...
Founder
21 Jun 2022
7,111
8,736
it means, pre-orders were so great, they extended pre-ordering period
Trying Not To Laugh GIF
 

ethomaz

Rebolation!
21 Jun 2022
11,037
8,997
Brasil 🇧🇷
PSN ID
ethomaz
Seems like they think the Star Wars Outlaws sales were poor because the game was not polished.
For Outlaws they got player feedback and will release " a series of updates to polish and improve the player experience in order to engage a large audience during the holiday season to position Star Wars Outlaws as a strong long-term performer".
So they want to make people buys Outlaws in the holidays to cover the lower than expected initial sales.

At the same time they don't want to make the same mistake with AC plus have two games competing to each other.

BTW there is no change in the protagonists or anything at all if that was what some gamers expected.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ico

Gediminas

Boy...
Founder
21 Jun 2022
7,111
8,736
Seems like they think the Star Wars sales were poor because the game was not polished.
They don't want to make the same mistake with AC.

BTW there is no change in the protagonists or anything at all.
they aren't polishing anything. they just hoping all that shit will pass through, nothing more. sales is in a bin.

they massively disrespected Japan, massively. that's why they fled the TGS
 

ethomaz

Rebolation!
21 Jun 2022
11,037
8,997
Brasil 🇧🇷
PSN ID
ethomaz
they aren't polishing anything. they just hoping all that shit will pass through, nothing more. sales is in a bin.

they massively disrespected Japan, massively. that's why they fled the TGS
Did you read the link with the PR?

They are focusing in increase sales of Outlaws in the holidays with a series of updates to polish and improve player experience.
So it will be their main focus this year... recover Outlaws lower sales.

They don't want to make the same mistake with AC... so they delayed it to polish and improve player experience before release... something they are doing post release with Outlaws.

They are clear that no change in the characters or what you believe disrespected Japan is being done... so it will be there whatever it releases this holiday on two month late 🤷‍♂️
 
  • brain
  • Like
Reactions: The Icon and Ico

quest4441

Veteran
27 Feb 2024
1,817
2,102
Still ain't buying ubi's shit. Feb has dynasty warriors and MH to look forward to. I hope some other big AAA also releases in Feb and puts this shitty company out of its misery.

Remember guys even KCD 2 and the new yakuza releases in Feb, Be better and spend on better games
 

All Might

Newbie
10 Jul 2024
15
23
Pushing it closer to Ghost of Yotai, that doesn't do it any favors.

Ghost will be a far superior game in every conceivable way. You can tell that at a glance.
Some idiots online think GoT is inferior to Ass Creed. They for sure need some help, perhaps some tonic to cure them of their console warrior shit. Now the problem is that we'll have a tossup between Ubisoft shitting on Japan and Sucker Punch going the SBI route. I may bargain bin GoY after a while, since it's got flop written all over it.
 
  • thinking_hard
Reactions: Bryank75

quest4441

Veteran
27 Feb 2024
1,817
2,102
Pushing it closer to Ghost of Yotai, that doesn't do it any favors.

Ghost will be a far superior game in every conceivable way. You can tell that at a glance.
Feb is a bloodbath. KCD 2 , MH wilds, Yakuza pirates, Dynasty warriors, Even that xbox game Avowed :ROFLMAO: . Ubi is done for
 
  • they're_right_you_know
Reactions: Bryank75

Gediminas

Boy...
Founder
21 Jun 2022
7,111
8,736
Did you read the link with the PR?

They are focusing in increase sales of Outlaws in the holidays with a series of updates to polish and improve player experience.
So it will be their main focus this year... recover Outlaws lower sales.

They don't want to make the same mistake with AC... so they delayed it to polish and improve player experience before release... something they are doing post release with Outlaws.

They are clear that no change in the characters or what you believe disrespected Japan is being done.
that is full of cope.

first of all, they said to investors that Outlaws pre-order are great, the same as Shadows.

so sales are low now? this pure snake behaviour, like Philochio did for ages, every week tell a new lies.
 
  • haha
Reactions: Ezekiel

Evilnemesis8

Veteran
19 Dec 2023
1,373
1,168
Still ain't buying ubi's shit. Feb has dynasty warriors and MH to look forward to. I hope some other big AAA also releases in Feb and puts this shitty company out of its misery.

Remember guys even KCD 2 and the new yakuza releases in Feb, Be better and spend on better games

AC fans love the open world template, it's like comfort food.
It's the same buying habit as sports games fan, although sports games are worse, lmao.

Pushing it closer to Ghost of Yotai, that doesn't do it any favors.

Ghost will be a far superior game in every conceivable way. You can tell that at a glance.

As long as the game is first it'll be fine. I don't expect Ghost of Yotei before Q2 2025 at the earliest.

Feb is a bloodbath. KCD 2 , MH wilds, Yakuza pirates, Dynasty warriors, Even that xbox game Avowed :ROFLMAO: . Ubi is done for

An AC game is going to outsell every game on that list comfortably aside from MH Wilds.
 
  • brain
Reactions: The Icon

Gediminas

Boy...
Founder
21 Jun 2022
7,111
8,736
They are clear that no change in the characters or what you believe disrespected Japan is being done... so it will be there whatever it releases this holiday on two month late 🤷‍♂️
yeah, but they hope, all of this will blow over. like people will forget it.
and i am not talking about characters at all, even though there is a merit there too.
 
  • haha
  • Like
Reactions: Ezekiel and ethomaz

Ico

Well-known member
Icon Extra
8 May 2024
467
439
that is full of cope.

first of all, they said to investors that Outlaws pre-order are great, the same as Shadows.

so sales are low now? this pure snake behaviour, like Philochio did for ages, every week tell a new lies.

ethomaz isnt wrong tho, delaying to polish can be a form of coping since it just bit they asses, dont expect any major changes to the game tho, just a rare ocasion where theyre releasing a proper game now, instead of just believing that the IP name alone will carry it like star wars
 

ethomaz

Rebolation!
21 Jun 2022
11,037
8,997
Brasil 🇧🇷
PSN ID
ethomaz
that is full of cope.

first of all, they said to investors that Outlaws pre-order are great, the same as Shadows.

so sales are low now? this pure snake behaviour, like Philochio did for ages, every week tell a new lies.
Outlaws sales were always considered below their expectations since release... Ubisoft even dropped their target to 2 million.
BTW it was the main reason Ubisoft shares price falls to 10-year low... Investors were very disappointed with it sales.

BTW we are not talking about "guesses"... Outlaws already released and sales are indeed bad lol
Ubisoft now is trying to recover it.
 

Kokoloko

Veteran
Icon Extra
21 Jun 2022
5,421
4,266
Pushing it closer to Ghost of Yotai, that doesn't do it any favors.

Ghost will be a far superior game in every conceivable way. You can tell that at a glance.

Yeah that doesnt bode well for them. Sucker Punch actually makes great combat and gameplay lol
 
  • they're_right_you_know
Reactions: Bryank75

Evilnemesis8

Veteran
19 Dec 2023
1,373
1,168
Listening to players' feedback, and as an illustration of our player-centric approach, the following important decisions relative to Assassin's Creed Shadows have been taken:
- 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. 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 gameplay styles.
- 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.
- The game will mark the return of our new releases on Steam Day 1.

They always come crawling back.
I guess the PC sales of their last few games in the last couple years have been fairly bad for them to do this.