Game News Hell is freezing over: Ubisoft's Might & Magic X is actually a blobber

[Regdar]

Someone, somewhere at Ubisoft made the sales pitch of his life to get the development of this game funded.

...And that someone is going to get laid off when this game doesn't sell 2 million copies.

But I salute him nonetheless.

 

[Severian Silk]

March 13, 2012 - Wasteland 2 Kickstarter
March 21, 2013 - M&M X Teaser

It's not a coincidence.

March 16, 2017 - AoD

Indeed.

 

[Kirtai]

Meh, I'm not too excited. Even if the game turns out to be half way good (which I highly doubt), it's still going to have Ubishit DRM which is a no-go for me.

As far as I know their former DRM was removed (even from older titles which had it). Now their games "only" require one-time online activation and UPlay client. Beside uselessness this is basically same system as Steam.

Not all of them use UPlay. e.g. Rayman Origins

 

[commie]

Someone, somewhere at Ubisoft made the sales pitch of his life to get the development of this game funded.

...And that someone is going to get laid off when this game doesn't sell 2 million copies.

But I salute him nonetheless.

Hmm...take one tiny Browser game maker, add a barely used franchise that was collecting dust, reuse MMO engine from mediocre F2P....yeah Ubisoft really are risking millions for this!


Not really...

Looks better than Twitcher 3.



And it probably will play better too.

Nope, looks like browser shit cause it is and will play like it too. Cheap Ubisoft dicksucking plant detected.

 

[Necroscope]

Looks better than Twitcher 3.



And it probably will play better too.

No and doubt it.

I'm agreeing with Roguey...

oh god

Inb4 it looks better than Crysis.

 

[Jaesun]

I'm disgusted at the way bros like Sceptic, Jaesun and the rest are now falling over themselves, sucking each others' and UbiSHIT's dick(s) in ecstasy when all we have gotten so far is a couple of screenshots about a game set in the turd universe of Heroes of Turd and Turgic 6.

Meh. I'll be generous:

 

[Smejki]

Meh, I'm not too excited. Even if the game turns out to be half way good (which I highly doubt), it's still going to have Ubishit DRM which is a no-go for me.

As far as I know their former DRM was removed (even from older titles which had it). Now their games "only" require one-time online activation and UPlay client. Beside uselessness this is basically same system as Steam.

Not all of them use UPlay. e.g. Rayman Origins

Ah true. So there still is hope.

 

[Stabwound]

Dungeon Empires uses Unity... just like seemingly every other CRPG kickstarter that's coming out.

I don't disagree that it looks a little cheesy/cheap, especially with the outline on the enemy. This could suck or it might not. Grid-based alone is enough to make me excited, though.

 

[Infinitron]

I don't see any Ubisoft dicksucking in this thread, just a bunch of people who are shocked that an AAA publisher is financing a blobber and are connecting it to a larger trend of "incline" within gaming as a whole.

 

[Necroscope]

Ubisoft is just probing the niche; low budget, fb devs - they have nothing to lose.

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah. At this point I am pretty much expecting a "streamlined" "Casual" game (as in the magic and skill system will be utterly butchered). Would be great to be wrong though.

And an AAA Publisher funding a Blobber in 2013 is utterly astonishing.

 

[Captain Shrek]

INB4 always online.

 

[Stabwound]

The thing that would kill enthusiasm for me is if it wasn't designed as an open world game. You can't tell much from the trailer obviously, but the one outdoor shot looks like a hallway.

Eh, even if it's a PC version of Etrian Odyssey that would be cool with me, but that isn't really what M&M is like. That's more early Wizardry style.

Oh, I just noticed it looks like there are spots for 2 recruits/hireables on the left and right of the character bar.

 

[Necroscope]

Personally I'm really curious about the European Market potential - if it turns out that AAA devs don't have to release dumb COD shit in order to cash then this is going to be the true revolution.

 

[Black]

Frenchies are up to something and it's rarely something good.

 

[mondblut]

If it will be as bad as MM9, it will still be good enough, as far as I am concerned.

But if Grimrock is their inspiration, I expect the game mechanics to be castrated as hell and the end result being a glorified Monsters Den. Casual as fuck, even in comparison to the older MMs who always were quite on a casual side.

Nonetheless, in between the FPSes with 3 stats, the action-adventures with 3 stats, and the shitty movies with 3 stats, having an alternative is always welcome.

 

[jewboy]

As others have pointed out this is not news because MM10 is going to an awesome new game to fap over. This is not developer news. It's publisher news. The fact that a AAA megapublisher would greenlight this is the incline. It would be incline even if the developer were a homeless guy that Ubi gave a cheap laptop to and who Ubi paid with cheap wine.

Is this game going to succeed? Not likely with Ubisoft DRM and not likely with Limbic who seem worse than a totally unproven dev. Although to be fair look at the games that Guido Henkel was making before his kickstarter pitch. Or look at some of inXile's previous games: Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Line Rider, Choplifter. Just because you've made shit games in the past doesn't necessarily mean that you can't make a decent one if properly funded and guided in the right direction.

As has already been pointed out, when this project fails commercially Ubisoft is not going to blame their choice of developer or their intrusive DRM. What's even worse is that other publishers who might have been dazzled by the recent kickstarter successes and might have been considering the idea of smaller projects with an "old school" theme may draw the same flawed conclusion about old school RPGs. So the incline is temporary at best, but it's still nice to see. Does this mean that there is at least one suit at Ubisoft with at least good intentions? Incompetence is forgivable. Just imagine if Obsidian had been chosen for the project instead of Limbic. Or imagine if Ubi had went searching for the original New World Computing devs and asked them if they wanted it.

 

[Jaesun]

You are such a terrible and un-entertaining troll.

At least TRY.

 

[Lancehead]

Wow, surprising indeed. Seems like that random neogaf poster was right about "incline".

 

[Stinger]

March 13, 2012 - Wasteland 2 Kickstarter
March 21, 2013 - M&M X Teaser

It's not a coincidence.

Ubisoft: "We want Wasteland 2's audience"

 

[Jaesun]

Wow, surprising indeed. Seems like that random neogaf poster was right about "incline".

Until we find out the skill and Magic System is not utterly butchered, It's not incline yet.

 

[evdk]

You are such a terrible and un-entertaining troll.

At least TRY.

Do. Or do not. There is no try.

Ubisoft: "I want to be a Fargo"

Fixed.

 

[BigWeather]

Ok, Ubi, now bring back Wizard's Crown!

 

[jewboy]

Wow, surprising indeed. Seems like that random neogaf poster was right about "incline".

Funny. I forgot about that. I wonder how he knew.

 

[Lancehead]

Wow, surprising indeed. Seems like that random neogaf poster was right about "incline".

Until we find out the skill and Magic System is not utterly butchered, It's not incline yet.

Agree, but I don't think we can deny what we know so far is an incline over what we feared.