Ubisoft being Ubisoft again

Idiots. I was really looking forward to the Prince of Persia remake :(

I mean, looking at how Ubisoft went this last decade, even if this sounds bad it is more likely a good thing or attempt at least to try and clean up their mess and start over again, otherwise the path will only be downwards.

Splinter Cell Remake 😭

Genuinely the only upcoming Ubisoft game I was remotely interested in.

It was supposed to release in 2024

If they canceled it now, that means that there wasn't anything fully playable yet What the hell were they doing? Nobody was checking they were working?

They haven't released a single huge hit since Valhalla

My precious, live serviceseseseseseses - Ubisoft

I mean sorry what the actual fuck is this

It's the Guillemot family trying to save their studio from the ravenous claws of the Chinese "silent partner" they stupidly let into their house a couple of years ago.
And by "trying to save" I mean failing ofc since their "strategy" is to "refocus" on things that have been failing for years so the general translation is "Message to shareholders: we still haven't figured out how to make money off games anymore so in the meantime we're going to cut spendings by firing people and... not making games I guess?"

I have no idea what they mean by "open world games" though. If they mean crap not-really-multiplayer multiplayer games like Skull & Bugs, they can keep them.

Hm, maybe I'll finally catch up with my Assassin's Creed backlog before they make more, at this rate.

Live services though? Ew.

We're never gonna see a new Rayman game are we?

I feel like Ubisoft will partner with EA with the stupid decisions

i mean from what i saw from the remake they completely overhauled the visual style so it didnt even look like the same game, but at least we have the old game with community mods to make it look good

Well, that's what happens when you hire diversity instead of talent.
And continue to force your garbage ubisoft connect even when buying a game on steam

Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still not dead somehow and the original trailer was released in 2008. The sequel is old enough to attend a university.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nh6qcfSEg4

Yet another corpo decision which only makes sense on paper "less employees, more live services, mooooore moneeeeeey" - how the CEO probably sounds like in their management meetings.

I am split on these restructures though. I agree that the AAA dev companies really need to get their shit together. Same as big IT corpos in general - they certainly dont need 100 devs on one feature... or 100 analysts ... or 100 marketing gurus ... our of which everyone earns twice the average salary but can physically do 3 full time jobs doing it.

But I just cant get my head around how incompetent they are at doing these restructures. How I see it - they probably hire outside consulting company for shitloads of money, they simulate some bullshit statistics that management wants to see and then they simply cut off bunch of departments without rerally taking a look at the big picture.This is whats happening in my company right now - we have 4 lawyers, but when I need one, none of those shitheads can help with anything. Now we have outside consulting company to do audit on us, making every employee feel like they are committing a crime, hiding behind "we are just trying to increase efficiency and optimise workflows" while they mean "we are trying to find anyone who to fire", so everyone just fakes their results and adjusts them so it looks as needed for audit. They will eventually cut budget anyway and fire some random people irregardless of their usefullness.

Anyway, its not like Ubisoft surprises anyone with this. Its in their style.