Ubisoft Suffers 'Mixed Results' as Assassin's Creed Shadows Hits 5 Million Players, While Rainbow Six Siege X Struggles

Ubisoft has announced "lower-than-expected" results for its latest fiscal quarter, and blamed the newly-relaunched Rainbow Six Siege X.

Assassin's Creed Shadows, meanwhile, has continued to execute "in enactment with expectations", and precocious passed 5 cardinal unsocial players. Ubisoft has to day not provided an nonstop income fig for the game, which is besides offered arsenic portion of its Ubisoft+ subscription service.

In a statement, Ubisoft brag Yves Guillemot described the 4th arsenic featuring "mixed results".

So what went wrong? Ubisoft has pinned the blasted connected "temporary but signficant disruptions" successful subordinate spending wrong Rainbow Six Siege X, its newly-relaunched shooter that it describes arsenic having faced "technical pricing issues".

Launched connected June 10, Rainbow Six Siege X saw Ubisoft's seasoned squad shooter fundamentally spell free-to-play, with entree to assorted modes and operators unlockable without the request for a premium edition. Separate to this, Ubisoft said it has suffered from a "pricing exploit with prepaid currency cards that temporarily inflated virtual currency wallets" — thing that has present been fixed.

Today's caller subordinate fig for Assassin's Creed Shadows, meanwhile, sees the crippled proceed to bash what Ubisoft needs it to do, arsenic players hold for Claws of Awaji — the game's archetypal large enlargement owed astatine immoderate constituent this fall.

"The archetypal 4th delivered mixed results," Guillemot said. "On the affirmative side, Assassin’s Creed Shadows delivered connected its expectations, with present much than 5 cardinal unsocial players since its launch, and Rainbow Six Siege X received highly affirmative subordinate feedback acknowledgment to its renewed gameplay and enhanced features that drove important subordinate engagement growth.

"However, subordinate spending successful Rainbow Six Siege faced impermanent but important disruptions owed to method pricing issues, which person present been identified and addressed. Despite this one-off setback, the maturation imaginable of the crippled is beardown with coagulated traction connected enactment and in-game spending."

Earlier this week, Guillemot blamed Star Wars Outlaws' lackluster show connected the "choppy waters" of the sci-fi saga's fandom.

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