Ubisoft initiates huge restructure to become more 'gamer-centric'
www.gamedeveloper.com
The publisher is restructuring around five 'creative houses' by implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.
  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    100·
    2 months ago

    ChatGPT, generate for me a press release that will excuse the firing of another 10,000 employees.

  • demonsword@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    2 months 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.worldEnglish
      34·
      2 months 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?!”

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    2 months 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.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Nope. Konami became gambler centric with pachinko and if I remember correctly Ubisoft previously announced they were going all in on Blockchain.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    2 months 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?

  • grueling_spool@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    2 months 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 (or buy an established studio), resume enshittifying. Rinse and repeat.

    I have played these games before.webp

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months 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.