Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed Shadows, already delayed out of 2024 to February 2025, would be delayed another month
, and nine days into 2025 well, it’s not exactly starting off with good news. In one announcement to shareholders and one to fans, , now arriving on March 20, 2025.: “This additional time will allow the team to better incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months and help create the best conditions for launch by continuing to engage with the increasingly positive Assassin’s Creed community.”“Each week has brought valuable feedback from our community.
The commonality there is “community feedback” but it raises questions about just how much feedback you can implement in a massive game like this in a single month. Such small delays are generally used for polish or bug fixing .Google’s Gmail Upgrade—Do Not Lose Your Account There’s something about “create the best conditions for launch” that may hint at what is more likely to be the larger reason that Ubisoft cannot say outright, it doesn’t want to release in the same month as a bunch of other big games, hence the move to March.
I get that Ubisoft is not going to say “We don’t want Shadows to drown in a bunch of other games people will probably like,” but clearly that is a huge factor here, not purely just an extra month for “player feedback,” whatever that might be. As for Shadows, there’s a good amount of pessimism about it, but updated previews have shown improvement, and I would not count out Assassin’s Creed. Despite supposed “fatigue” of the franchise, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was a massive seller back in 2020. But five years later? Is the market the same? Is this the game AC fans, existing, new or lapsed, actually want? I guess we’ll find out. In March.Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations.
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