Gamers love it when games are cancelled!
Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company
Submitted 3 weeks ago by TalkingFlower@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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sbbq@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
wioum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget value-creation and growth! It’s what gamers crave!
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only way to get AAAA games. Makes sense!
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love it even more when they force their employees to return to office work, nothing makes me happier as a gamer than knowing the people making the games I love are miserable and the company has a much narrower hiring pool.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
“We know people don’t like how poorly we treat our employees, so we’ve laid off as many as we thought we could get away with to reduce the overall number of people’s lives we make more miserable. We’re the good guys here.”
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
More generative ai & games as a service! It’s what gamers crave!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
Ubisoft founder and CEO, Yves Guillemot, said the company must pursue a “radically new” value-creation model and become a more “gamer-centric” organization to find its footing in an increasingly competitive and selective triple-A market.
Good! Realizing it needs to be about the gamer again not just shareholder value.
“The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group’s strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI,” reads the document.
Oh god damnit nevermind, the boycott continues
mohab@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
“The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group’s strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI,” reads the document.
I can’t 😂😂😂 This is so funny, OMG… I swear I’d retire if my job is to write comedy. There’s no topping this shit… it’s like an absurdist Tim and Eric sketch 😂
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 weeks ago
I honestly don’t know how they’re so disconnected from reality. To in the same statement within 2 paragraphs say they both want to be more focused on the gamer, and immediately then say “More GenAI, more recurring payments, more Games as a Service”. I just, I don’t know man. I don’t want layoffs but man they really just don’t get it do they?
Yeah so, we know gamers have hated our stuff because of these horrible shitty practices - but, and hear me out, what if we did that stuff even more, don’t even mention things like great stories and fun worlds or anything gamers have been asking for, and also laid off most of our staff and forced return to office too?
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah that company is cooked. They likely won’t last another decade and are going to make moves to look enticing for a buyout and pad the CEOs golden parachute. Fuck them and their millionaire management who are disconnected from reality and destroyed the careers of many creative people they fired under their feet.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think this thing with Tencent is the only buyout they’re going to get.
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I guarantee private equity is circling them like a flock of buzzards smelling death. This is why they’re preemptively making the same actions that a private equity company would do after acquisition, layoffs, restructuring “bold new plans” and a bunch of lip-service to inflate value before divvying up any resources of value like licenses and senior programmers to form a new brand, and throwing the rest away.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’m actually cool with this. They really have been ignoring a large swath of Tom Clancy shit, and I feel assassin’s Creed just isn’t as cool and interesting as it used to be. Not to mention Prince of Persia which they seem to have completely abandoned. I would love it if private equity came in and sold all their ips to other houses.
demonsword@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The publisher is restructuring around five ‘creative houses’ by implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.
“We’ll become gamer-centric by fucking our employees even more”
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.
Yes, as a gamer, I cannot count the number of times I’ve thrown the controller down and screamed “WHY WON’T THESE EMPLOYEES RETURN TO THE OFFICE?!”
tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Literally the only way to do this is fire the first 3 or 4 levels of upper management.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This would collapse the company instantly. They need to make sure a good followup is available. Because most are not and are even worse, either through greed or incompetence. And yes, it could be way worse than current leaders. Because if it was that easy to just fire them and replace them randomly with anyone and hope it does better, I am sure every company did that.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
video game company wants to become more gamer friendly
Wait what? Isn’t being gamer centric what making video games is about?
cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope. Konami became gambler centric with pachinko and if I remember correctly Ubisoft previously announced they were going all in on Blockchain.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Gamers want AI, right?
/s
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I want AI in games; Actual Innovation!
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And ten tiers of UPlay subscriptions!!
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Some much “corporate speak” in the quotes from the Ubisoft CEO. Almost reads like random gibberish.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Cancelling Beyond Good & Evil 2 for a 13th time, huh?
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
The beginning of the end of Ubisoft.
I’m glad the devs of Clair Obscur got out of this and did their own shit.
itkovian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe Ubisoft should restructure itself out of existence.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m actually not sure I can afford to keep playing “buy an indie game every tone Ubisoft does something evil or stupid”.
But I’m down for a few more rounds, at least.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
So Ubisoft dumped their entire C suite, starting with their CEO? Well I can only applaud that, that a CEO, known for not giving a shit about gamers, finally decided that he was wrong and decided to do the right thing! Kudos!
The only way he could have done it better was to take the samurai way out, but yeah, that won’t happen…
/S needed?
Technotica@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ha… ha…hahahahaha… Yeah right.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“How to own multiple cool and successful IPs and still fail”
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Classic publicly traded company using “reorganisation” (read: layoffs) to trick shareholders into thinking they are turning things around by simultaneously reducing costs and shifting blame for past failures of leadership.
The next step is a super safe release, like a remaster of one of their top selling games, followed by an announcement of a new entry in one of their most popular series. Line goes up. Ubisoft is back! Hire more developers, open a new studio, resume enshittifying. Rinse and repeat.
I have played these games before.webp
Abundance114@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Farcry 3 remastered incoming
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are chopping the development teams and titles up into convenient bite-sized chunks. Ubisoft will hang onto the large titles in the Vantage Studios vertical, and the rest will be spun off or sold off. Any spun off studios will be saddled with crippling debt.
LostWanderer@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
LMAO The only way they could truly be gamer friendly is jettisoning the inept CEO and Executives, hiring individuals to fill positions of power that ACTUALLY understand what gamers want. One of the core problems that Ubisoft has is they are so out of touch with what gamers want and need from their games! All this restructuring, RTO mandates, and other cost cutting strategies is just going to fuck them up even more. The good news is, we might get more talented former Ubisoft devs making amazing games and Ubisoft itself ceases to exist as a company.
gnutrino@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of when EA decided to go player first
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A gaming company is… Let me read that again… Focusing on games?
MotoAsh@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Nope! They’re focusing on GaaS and generative AI.
They are fully cooked. Now they’re working on being over-done.
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah if that’s the focus they should quit while they still got cash.
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
but i thougt everybody loved ac shadow ? what happened ?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I thought they were boasting about how successful AC Shadows and Star Wars Outlaws were?
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ChatGPT, generate for me a press release that will excuse the firing of another 10,000 employees.