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Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Beep@lemmus.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://aftermath.site/ubisoft-montreal-fires-suspends-leader/

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am so thankful that the executives took a productivity and happiness survey when we went full time remote.

    Any time a new manager brings up maybe we should return to the office, our offcial remote manual begins with data: we are far more productive remote working. There is the data, the proof.

    The second part about being overall happier reminds us that we didn’t really like being in the office either.

    We also have two more metrics: amount of time saved by a company in commute reduction, and the increase in safety.

    But the first two are the most important.

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  • Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I stopped buying Unisoft games decades ago. Because they suck. The owners suck. The management sucks. The corporate culture sucks. I feel bad for the coders working for them.

    Stop. Buying. Ubisoft. Games.

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    • funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I tried to uninstall a game but was blocked because I didn’t remember my ubisoft launcher password. Wtf, its my PC get the fuck out

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      • LunaChocken@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Probably wanna check

        BulkCrapUninstaller for windows. www.bcuninstaller.com

        It’s pretty good.

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    • scala@lemmy.ml ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Ubislop. I stopped buying them after AC2.

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    • consumptionone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The last Ubisoft games I played to the end were AC: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, which we both like 12-13 years ago. Neither game was GOOD, but they seemed decent to me at the time. I’ve play tested a few titles since then since then, all of which were hot garbage. Ubisoft is as dead to me as EA these days.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah, that’ll make him show up to the office!

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I get the impression Ubisoft wants to lay off as many people as possible anyway. They don‘t care who so as long as they can meet some quota. I’m guessing they‘re trying to push operating costs down while they‘re looking for buyers of their IPs.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s big brain moves like this that’ll surely return the like … 20x? … value they’ve lost over the last few years.

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      • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m sure the publicity of it I’ll land this guy a higher paying job anyways

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    • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The bearings will continue until morale improves!

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  • rozodru@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they’re axing people left right and center.

    And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it’s still alive in 2026 is in it’s own right quite the achievement. I can’t even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.

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    • Akh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Management have over inflated egos. They think, oh, fuck John, John’s division only did $25m. They only see bottom lines. But they fail to realize they killed off John’s ideas that would have brought in $500m. So John leaves, gets to develop his own ideas, then shocked peakachu face.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The goal of companies mandating RTO is attrition. They want people to quit without firing or laying them off.

      Their goal is to hire younger, hungrier (both literally and figuratively) coders who are cheaper and less experienced and will use “AI” to clean up their code.

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    • red_tomato@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I believe they want to divert all their resources into one huge Fortnite like success story. Something that can bring them a reliable recurring revenue stream.

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      • Breezy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        All they have to do is make the best game of the year. Yet they have a severe case of skill issue

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ubisoft, they are still alive. Wow. Well not much longer we can hope.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    bad-companies.adoc Ubisoft 2026:: full-in on gen-AI after shares plummeting fires team lead after return-to-office critique closes Halifax studio 1 month after Union formed 2025:: EULA demands deleting delisted games NOYB sues because of covert user tracking Ubisoft wants to monitor your RAM (🏴‍☠️) 2024:: adds Denuvo after reviews were made deletes inactive customer accounts with purchased games “Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games” 2023:: ads in games

    To be fair, they also want to be bought up (rebranding), after multiple buy-outs and lay-offs.

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    • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For things before 2023, there was sexual harassment (multiple) bullying and hostile workplace and their excitement over NFT. They had a boys club and made it a really toxic atmosphere, where the CCO literally said “Women don’t sell”.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I feel like this file would be valuable for every company we might purchase from, and also nearly impossible to maintain.

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      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The website that pulls this off would get the $2.75 I keep not giving Wikipedia.

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  • elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s not hard to understand why their stock is down 95% over the last 5 years…

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Okay. I’m keeping my commitment, but I’m going to need help.

    Everytime Ubisoft makes the news for being idiots, I buy another Indie game.

    I’m going to need your recommendations for great indie games.

    Because Ubisoft has recently gotten me through my wishlist.

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    • avav2y1rs@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pulled from my Top Playtime on Steam (so you know you’ll get your money’s worth if you like them!)

      • Factorio (Even though the DLC is pricey, it at least doubles the playtime. Though, like RW below, it takes a lot of content/concepts from fan-mad mods.)
      • RimWorld (Though I dislike how many DLCs they’re pumping out and how much is basically taken from mods.)
      • Terraria
      • Mount & Blade (Warband 1 & 2 are prime)
      • Kerbal Space Program (NOT the sequel)
      • TerraTech (The original is a better experience)
      • Both the Pathfinder games
      • Grim Dawn
      • The Riftbreaker
      • UnderRail
      • Mindustry (Open source/free, but deserves the support from buying it on Steam.)
      • No Man’s Sky (They’ve gone above and beyond in shaping up since the clusterf release.)
      • The Long Dark
      • Rise to Ruins
      • Space Pirates and Zombies (1 and 2 are both great, in their own ways.)
      • Caves of Qud
      • Tales of Maj’Eyal
      • STALKER (I’ve heard bad things about #2, but the rest are great, high replayability with Anomaly.)
      • Astroneer
      • War for the Overworld
      • Autonauts (and Autonauts vs Piratebots!)
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      • Killer57@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I’d like to add Satisfactory to this list.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lets be real here… Factorio probably has more time played than all the others combined right? lol

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Amazing. Thank you!

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      • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The Riftbreaker is fun and graphcally nice to look at. For city builders, I’d also like to suggest:

        • Manor Lords
        • Timberborn
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    • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Little Rocket Lab is like Stardew + Factorio. It’s chill and fun.

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    • federated_toast@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cassette Beasts Pseudoregalia Return of the Obra Dinn Chants of Sennar Gloomwood

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      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Psuedoregalia I think has some of the best movement in any game. I was sad for it to be over, I needed more. I love games that leave room for “breaking” the intended path if you can find the right places to push the movement tech to its limits. Not many games do it.

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      • felixwhynot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think the formatting is a markdown thing… try using double line breaks if you edit or just next time

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      • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        …what kind of game is that?!

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      • roude@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        +1 to Cassette Beasts

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      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gloomwood is great. It feels a lot like classic Thief in the best of ways.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Last Caretaker and StarRupture are pretty fun if you like the factory survival type game. TLC is something really special IMO. The boat aspect is just so much fun.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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      • BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        TLC is so good

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    • Schal330@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Monster Train 2 if you like card games. It’s got a load of content and replay and they recently released a patch today to add more!

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh, good call. I loved the first Monster Train. Thank you for the recommendation!

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    • DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Here are my recommendations then:

      CrossCode is a personal favorite of mine. An action RPG heavily inspired by retro games.

      Library of Ruina is a great non-roguelike deckbuilder. Technically it’s a sequel, but it’s not necessary to know anything about Lobotomy Corporation to get the full enjoyment of its story. At most you can just look up LC’s true ending if you aren’t interested in brutally hard management sims.

      Tactical Breach Wizards is a really intertesting mix between a turn-based tactical game and a puzzle game.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sayonara Wild Hearts

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Awesome game

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    • Buffy@libretechni.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bloodthief is great, fast paced with an extremely high skill ceiling. Unlockables give you something to strive for and the level based structure makes it easy to quickly pick up and put down. Some other games I see people recommended here that I love are Signalis, Pseudoregalia, and Sayonara Wild Hearts.

      Signalis is the best modern take on the old Resident Evil formula I’ve ever played, hands down. Pseudoregalia is a blast to play, the movement and tech in that game are unrivaled. I thought about comparing it to some Mario games, but that wouldn’t do it justice. Sayonara Wild Hearts is short but beautiful, there is nothing out there like it and it probably has some deeper meaning to read into.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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    • deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Senua’s Sacrifice

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Brotato

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      signalis if you haven’t got it

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Terra Invicta is amazing. It’s as if Paradox made an X-Com grand strategy game. The developers were clearly passionate about their game.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • Badabinski@kbin.earth ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lethal Company is a fantastic game imo.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thanks!

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Derail Valley Simulator and Vintage Story have gotten me through the last year or so.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Merde alors.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We need socialism

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    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Always.

      But we need to get this huge problem away that always a power hungry dictator gets to power and then it turns into just any dictatorship!!! And not socialism!

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This huge problem stems from “we need”. Collectivism leads to hierarchy, because a collective isn’t semantically compatible to one person. A collective can’t be responsible, a collective can’t make a decision, a collective can’t think, a collective can’t speak in one voice. But collectivism means trying to treat a collective like one person. Leading to dictatorships.

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    • minorkeys@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then you have to fight for it.

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  • PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is why I’m so happy I’m 3000 miles away from my office. No way I’m getting a call back to office. Never was and never will be.

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  • Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this sort of thing not protected by labour laws?

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    • xyro@morbier.foo ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sadly not everywhere.

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      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not anywhere in America.

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      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure France is one of those places where it is indeed.

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  • kalapala@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think people at Ubisoft should just quit and start their own competing game studio.

    If this type of leading results to profits then almost any does.

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    • arockinyourshoe@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Blackjack and hookers is more Obsidian’s thing.

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  • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What a shitty company, glad I've been boycotting the hell out of them!

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If this is NOT another reason to study and read socialist theory, then I DON’T know what is. Seriously! redsails.org

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    • qevlarr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tankie warning 🚩🚩🚩

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TIL ubisoft is a french company. didn’t know an european company can be this anti-worker.

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Picking fights with French workers seems an especially bad idea

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Time to organize

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  • xyro@morbier.foo ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Definitely not a message being sent to the remaining employees…

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  • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do what happens if everyone shares the video? Are they gonna just fire everyone? I’m sure that’ll do great for your stock price eh executives?

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  • melfie@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been waiting since 2013 for a new Splinter Cell, but I won’t be willing to boot Windows to or run anything with malware (a.k.a., DRM, spyware, kernel root kits), so I suppose it’s probably a lost cause altogether.

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  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In most companies, your contract forbids you from talking about your employer on social platforms or in the media if it’s going to affect the company’s reputation.

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  • FreddiesLantern@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So that’s why they just sent me an updated policy, good for reminding me I still gotta delete that account.

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Time to study theory

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about Valve?

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  • DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gee, would’ve been a shame if a bunch of Ubisoft employees quit the company and start a worker-owned video game cooperative. Seriously!

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  • OshagHennessey@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a real shame the first amendment only applies to congress.

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  • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still don’t understand why the general public continues to buy games from this group of morons. I can’t count on one hand the quantity of Ubisoft titles that appealed to me or my friends enough to purchase

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sharing feedback or opinions respectfully does not lead to a dismissal. We have a clear Code of Conduct that outlines our shared expectations for working together safely and respectfully, which employees review and sign each year.

    It’s shaming them publicly that did it.

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