Star Wars Outlaws Flopped Because the Brand Itself Was 'In Choppy Waters,' Ubisoft CEO Says

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has chalked up Star Wars Outlaws' lackluster show to the "choppy waters" of the sci-fi saga's fandom.

Addressing shareholders astatine a caller Q&A, Guillemot didn't bespeak connected the game's ain show issues, bugs, oregon complaints astir repetitive gameplay, alternatively saying: "Outlaws was released astatine a clip erstwhile the marque that it belonged to was successful a spot of choppy waters."

I's existent that the Star Wars marque has taken a spot of a battering of late, with a middling reception to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and lower-than-hoped viewership of assorted Disney+ spin-offs similar Book of Boba Fett and The Acolyte. But attributing Outlaws' mixed reception to broader issues with the fandom has raised a fewer eyebrows among fans for feeling somewhat reductive.

Guillemot did not marque enactment of the game's ain method problems connected arrival, for example. IGN's ain Star Wars Outlaws reappraisal — successful which we awarded the sci-fi crippled a "Good" 7/10 — highlighted repetitive combat and "a fewer excessively galore bugs astatine launch."

Furthermore, the crippled was mired successful contention erstwhile Ubisoft was accused of "pushing an agenda," resulting successful "polarized comments" astir the developer/publisher and the crippled agelong earlier the crippled released.

Star Wars Outlaws got its archetypal communicative enlargement successful May with the merchandise of the A Pirate’s Fortune DLC connected PlayStation, Xbox and PC. A Pirate's Fortune gives players the accidental to articulation forces with Hondo Ohnaka, caput of the Ohnaka Gang. Hondo volition beryllium a sanction acquainted to Star Wars: The Clone Wars fans and readers of the 2017 comic publication bid Star Wars: Darth Maul, and has adjacent done clip arsenic 1 of the animatronic characters astatine the Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge attraction. This clip astir he'll beryllium Kay's state arsenic she takes connected Stinger Tash and her gang, the Rokana Raiders, checks retired a mysterious tomb and does immoderate smuggling for the Miyuki Trade League.

Star Wars Outlaws is getting a Nintendo Switch 2 merchandise connected September 4.

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