Ubisoft's latest masterpiece "Assassin's Creed: Shadow" delivered a brilliant report card at the beginning of its release. Metacritic's 82-point evaluation and the Steam platform's first-time success confirm its quality.However, after setting a record number of online users with nearly 70,000 at the same time, players continued to lose. As of press time, the average number of online users in this game has dropped to 7,727, and the number of players has dropped by more than 90%.

Not only PC platform, but also on console platforms, such as PS platform, "Assassin's Creed: Shadow" has now dropped to 19th place. According to TrueAchievements, its ranking on Xbox platform has also dropped to 22nd place, which is comparable to "Red Dead Redemption 2" which has been released for nearly 7 years.

It is also worth noting that "Assassin's Creed: Shadow" has just released a major version update, adding the free story mission "Louis Freuth's Heart and Dedication" and updating the character database.However, overall, the popularity of this work has shown a significant downward trend.

Although the player loss is obvious, the total number of players in Assassin's Creed: Shadow has exceeded 3 million, and has set the second highest first-day sales record in the history of the series, becoming the second-placed sales runner-up in the United States in 2025.Now Ubisoft will release its annual financial report on May 14. Whether this game can become a life-saving straw to save Ubisoft should be clear at that time.

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