Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy

Literally all they had to do was make good games

Gamers say that Ubisoft execs need to get comfortable with not being solvent.

they MBA'd themselves into extinction

edit; everyone with an mba is only qualified to be a farm laborer

I guess shareholders got used to not owning their stock?

If only bankruptcy actually meant consequences for those responsible.

I took their advice and got comfortable not owning Ubisoft games.

I entirely stopped playing Ubisoft games because they require me to sign in to play.

I tried Anno 1800 because it was free on PS+ and immediately ran into a login wall.

Same thing when I tried Assassin’s Creed.

They’re not even online games. I get needing to log in to CoD because you’re playing online, but blocking the offline mode is asinine.

So why would I bother buying an Ubisoft title when I know I’m going to open it up and hit that stupid login wall and privacy policy.

Ubisoft executives need to become comfortable with "not being employed."

It's because they're not AAA anymore. They went AAAA so I guess they've had a financial rating overflow and now they've gone negative.

I really enjoyed Driver: San Francisco. Then Ubisoft introduced UPlay and I couldn't play it anymore. That was the last time I installed anything from Ubisoft.

I tried to reinstall it recently and it complained that you can't install 32bit software from Steam anymore. I guess I'll never play another Ubisoft game.

Do better Ubisoft

Stop fucking outsourcing and actually fund your devs, consider firing from the top down as your managers aren't doing shit for the company

Ubisoft needs to get comfortoble with not owning their company

Ubisoft just needs to get comfortable with no longer owning their games. 😈

I stopped buying games that require online login. It's a real pain in the ass when I'm traveling and offline. I stopped buying anything from Ubisoft, EA and Rockstar. They made their choice, so I did too.

Maybe they should just have fewer avocado toasts for a while?

Part of me is sad because some of my favorite games might get shitcanned as a result, but it’s a loss I’m willing to accept if it kills such a parasitic company.

But then who’s going to reskin my favourite open world games every year?

Please die, please die, please die, please die

G*mers have already grown used to not owning their games. It's called Steam.

Oh no.

Anyway

Ubisoft Execs Need To Get Comfortable With "Not Owning My Money".

You love to see it

Eat shit and die motherfucker

Yeah but... You do get that you don't own any of your games on Steam, Epic, whatever either?
Just GOG is DRM free.

I've hated what ubisoft has done to gaming ever since the fc3. Only shining beacons were early siege and rayman games. They have incredible artists and programmers working at it and could make some great games but the directors completely double down on the most generic, most mindeless wide appeal possible. I regret buying wildlands because the setting is unique. The game is as tactical as far cry which is just mindleslly run into camp, use your overpowered character against deaf and dumb enemies and complete the collectable.

No one could have predicted this, no one.

They need to get comfortable with losing their company.

And nothing of value will be lost.

When did we get to the point where a Lemmy post got 1000+ upvotes?

Don't you mean.. AAAA company?

Man Ubisoft could be so great but they just land so meh. Watchdogs, tom Clancy wildlands, the division, farcry. They all have potential but just don't have that last 15%

I find it fascinating that they're supposedly going bankrupt.

Aren't they... big? Don't they have tons of assets? Shouldn't they be, still, sitting on a pile of cash?

insha'Allah

Ubisoft is clearly a tone-deaf company. But that doesn’t change that this comment has been frequently cited in some very out-of-context ways.

For those who don’t know, the not-owning games comment was in reply to an investor asking why people were reticent to try out Ubisoft+, their monthly service that lets people play pretty much all their games. He was suggesting many people are not used to the option of mass rental as opposed to ownership. But, many Game Pass subscribers (at least before their price increase) can attest that when the value proposition is good enough, it is an appealing option, wherein you accept impermanent access to get more games. In that sense, he was right.

So far as I can see, the intent of the comment had nothing to do with people who buy “lifetime” copies of their games. There’s separate criticisms to make about poor online implementations leading games like The Crew to be yoinked, and I’m in favor of that regulation. But Ubisoft is hardly alone in the way they’ve mishandled that, and the quote had nothing to do with it. I feel like most people pointing to it have only a vague idea of what corporate greed it represents, as though CEOs just want a way to delete your library and somehow make money from it.

Ubisoft Executives need to get comfortable not eating food anymore.

It feels tragic. On the one hand, they made some of my most favourite games especially the Splinter Cell series, and it would be sad to see a once great developer to go. But then on the other, the greedy bastards deserve to go under for ruining some of my most favourite games including the Splinter Cell series.

But seriously though, if Ubisoft do go under, I hope that their IP would go into safe hands, like how Baldur's Gate franchise has been handed over from Bioware to the competent team of Larian (and I do hope Larian does not enshittify unlike the fate of other companies, such as Ubisoft and EA).

I don't think i even play Ubisoft games, they can go down for all i care.

ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not existing.

And no one will learn anything from this.

kinda unrelated but I'd love it if valve sold physical copies of their games to use with the successor to the steam deck

I'm a very casual gamer. Where can I find out what Ubisoft is doing to get them so much hate?

Let it die.

That's not my favorite AAA company, it's my favorite AAAA company!

Also, the bit on the right is from a rather shitty looking, "anti woke" site.

Really sad because Ubisoft can make games, good ones even. But with out the freedom or time and now talent best they can do is movie licensed games.

A shame; the way they make their open worlds with lots of little things to collect and do are oddly pleasant to play for that. Definitely something only I really enjoy, I realize, of course.

This true, because no one is buying their steam games on a USB

What kind of bankruptcy?

My steam and backloggd descriptions have been "fuck ubisoft" for a while.

they got some good games, but the uplay shenanigans was really a deal breaker for me.

i wish gog will pick some retro up in a few years so i can get back to playing some.

FFS just get Olden Era released and then go die in a corner somewhere, Ubisoft.

Ubisoft? More like WHObisoft.

Hehe, BoobiSoft ...

I hope someone good gets the Might and Magic license. Ubisoft just used it as a logo.

How much do the Ubisoft executives earn annually? Exactly, f-them. Cliffs Over Dover may have been the last Ubisoft game I purchased.

the recent good game they made they failed to market at all and then split up the developer team - no change in marketing strategy.