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Ubisoft Assembles New “Transformation Committee” To Help ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Studio Find “A New Lease On Life”

“We have just passed a monumental moment in Ubisoft’s history which, strengthened by this agreement and the success of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, will benefit from a new lease in life,” wrote Guillemot, as per a machine translation of his company-wide email
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This is obviously a lie, we were told repeatedly that Asscreed was going to sell like hotcakes, the series was secure. It would sell historic numbers around the world. Because we all know after the release of a successful game. You immediately create a subsidiary company to hold most of of your valuable IPs in exchange for a billion in foreign investment. Then a couple months later create a 'transformation committee' to try and fix your company. This sounds more like Tencent forced them to come up with a solution or get dissolved, and this was what they came up with. Its spun like it was both their idea and empowering at the same time 🤣
 
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Interesting choice of words there. A "new lease on life" generally refers to a situation where you damn near bit the dust and just barely survived by the skin of your teeth.

Heywood Floyd said it well in 2010: The Year We Make Contact: "You can tell your children of the day when everyone looked up and realized that we were only tenants of this world. We have been given a new lease and a warning from the landlord."

AC: Shadows must have sold like absolute dogshit.
 
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Hermiöne Granger said:
Ubisoft Assembles New “Transformation Committee” To Help ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Studio Find “A New Lease On Life”



This is obviously a lie, we were told repeatedly that Asscreed was going to sell like hotcakes, the series was secure. It would sell historic numbers around the world. Because we all know after the release of a successful game. You immediately create a subsidiary company to hold most of of your valuable IPs in exchange for a billion in foreign investment. Then a couple months later create a 'transformation committee' to try and fix your company. This sounds more like Tencent forced them to come up with a solution or get dissolved, and this was what they came up with. Its spun like it was both their idea and empowering at the same time 🤣
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You forgot the best part about this committee.
Notably, one of the committee’s members is none other than Yves Guillemot’s son, Charlie Guillemot, who will co-lead the group alongside Ubisoft’s Chief Studios & Portfolio Officer Marie-Sophie de Waubert.

Having previously served as the Studio Manager for Ubisoft subsidiary, Howrse developer Owlient, Charlie exited the company in 2021 after his decision to approve the association of Black Lives Matter imagery with the villainous UMBRA faction in Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad drew massive blowback from the general public.
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Pressed by Cocquemopot for comment on his son’s surprise return, Yves Guillemot assured the reporter that his son was not leading the committee but merely one of its members.

However, according to the internal email reviewed by the reporter, the CEO seems to have contradicted himself, as he explains therein, “To help me bring this new lease of life, I have chosen to propose to my son Charlie Guillemot to participate in the reflections around this transformation of our brands and studios. Together with Marie-Sophie de Waubert, he will be responsible for the Transformation Committee.”
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While Ubisoft leadership seems to be gung-ho on this new project, those below them have questioned the entire endeavor, with Cocquemoport noting that “For employees contacted by BFM Business, the return of his son is indeed seen as a way to pass the torch to the next generation. Employees also note that, as of now, this internal email has not yet been sent to the studios—likely due to concerns that the news might be poorly received given the current uncertain context.”

Likewise, according to a number of Ubisoft employees who reached out to Insider-Gaming’s Tom Henderson regarding the news, those on the ground are unhappy with the news, as they believe “that the majority of the members within the Committee are the one’s responsible for Ubisoft’s current state.”

“Charlie Guillemot in particular got his fair share of criticism from employees,” further relayed Henderson, “who questioned his qualifications and the Guiellmot’s capabilities on leading Ubisoft to a brighter future.”
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So not only did they come up with this stupid committee, they're nepo babies and existing execs/upper management responsible for the current state of Ubisoft to begin with meaning the entire thing will amount to nothing. The only way this accomplishes anything is if the chinks use it as an excuse to clean house upstairs after the next flop because they'll be able to point at the committee that was supposed to have fixed the bullshit.
 
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moocow said:
Either their infrastructure is dogshit or their tech stack is absurdly bloated, or both.
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My guess is it's so poorly stitched together that every time they run maintenance they have to completely rebuild things that haven't been changed because the spaghetti code is too entangled to let them only target areas that are actually being updated, so it's like if Windows had to completely re-install itself every time you update.
 
Hermiöne Granger said:
Ubisoft Assembles New “Transformation Committee” To Help ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Studio Find “A New Lease On Life”
This is obviously a lie, we were told repeatedly that Asscreed was going to sell like hotcakes, the series was secure. It would sell historic numbers around the world. Because we all know after the release of a successful game. You immediately create a subsidiary company to hold most of of your valuable IPs in exchange for a billion in foreign investment. Then a couple months later create a 'transformation committee' to try and fix your company. This sounds more like Tencent forced them to come up with a solution or get dissolved, and this was what they came up with. Its spun like it was both their idea and empowering at the same time 🤣
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Despite the cope from shills and cherrypicked talking points shit out by Ubisoft, it's abundently clear that if Tencent didn't swoop in AC Shadows would've cratered the company after Skull and Bones and Star Wars Outlaws. This emperor has no clothes bullshit isn't flying.

It made THE SECOND MOST LAUNCH REVENUE IN SERIES HISTORY!!11!1 (and yet couldn't even break even) and TOPPED THE STEAM SALE CHART!!!1!! (for like 2 days then was immediately overtaken by other games and currently has less players than AC Odyssey, a game from 7 years ago).

Not to mention every statement from Ubisoft after the fact made the stockprice drop off a cliff, so clearly the stocktraders aren't being fooled. They still outright refuse to disclose copies sold, even to their own shareholders. That literally makes no sense unless they're obfuscating poor performance. If it actually sold a billion copies like they're pretending it did, showing the sales numbers would only benefit them. It's like Boogie2988 hiding his "cancer diagnosis" even when people offered him like 50 grand just to show a screenshot of a doctors note.
 
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Outside of YouTubers shilling it I've literally not heard a single word about Shadows post launch.

Not even one of my bros who's like the biggest Assassin's Creed fan ever talked about it.
 
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Jace on ice said:
Outside of YouTubers shilling it I've literally not heard a single word about Shadows post launch.

Not even one of my bros who's like the biggest Assassin's Creed fan ever talked about it.
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The only people really talking about it would be the Japanese, I bet, and only to mercilessly mock it.
BunchaBabyDucks said:
Are they cooking up Far Cry 7? I can’t wait to see what kind of abortion it is this time!
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The only thing I remember about it is that it's supposed to have some sort of time main story, like in say Dead Rising or original Fallout. If so, I'm intrigued, but not enough to even bother pirating it unless it's the best game in the franchise.
 
BunchaBabyDucks said:
Are they cooking up Far Cry 7? I can’t wait to see what kind of abortion it is this time!
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In 2023, Insider Gaming had several reports on the Far Cry series throughout the year. Notably, the Far Cry series currently has two games in development, which were both originally under the same game and codenamed Talisker. Its next mainline title is now under the codename Blackbird, and an extraction-based shooter is under the codename Maverick. Both games are still in development at the time of writing, but their release dates have been pushed back internally from 2025 to 2026 due to complexities in development.

Moving from Dunia to Snowdrop and under development at Ubisoft Montreal, both games are set to move away from the ‘Far Cry formula’. Maverick, which takes place in the Alaskan wilderness, will see players fight one another, animals, and the harsh weather to survive. On the flip side, Blackbird will now see the player have to rescue his family (NOT played by Cillian Murphy), who have been kidnapped by a conspiracy cult who have been performing hallucinogenic experiments on animals and children. It’s said that the player has 24 real-life hours (72 hours in-game) to rescue their family, and the timer is reflected in-game by the player wearing a watch on his wrist.

But it isn’t just the gameplay loop of both games changing. It’s understood that both games have had a significant overhaul to their movement systems, too, including the addition of tactical spriting, sliding, vaulting, and more. Seemingly, this is due to both projects originating from the same game and sharing similar movement mechanics, with the similarities of both games bleeding into one another. Other aspects, including the inventory system and looting, also appear to bleed from the extraction-based shooter into Blackbird, too, with sources outlining that it doesn’t affect the mainline entry. “I’d argue it makes a lot of sense given your desperation to rescue your family,” said one source when asked.
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Because a timer is what people want in an open world game?
 
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Because a timer is what people want in an open world game?
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Yes, unironically. If done right, it can lead to an amazing experience, hence why Dead Rising games were so beloved before they casualized the timer and it became just another open world zombie game. Will Ubisoft do it correctly? Very doubtful, but I am never the less interested in seeing them trying, at least.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
The only thing I remember about it is that it's supposed to have some sort of time main story, like in say Dead Rising or original Fallout. If so, I'm intrigued, but not enough to even bother pirating it unless it's the best game in the franchise.
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Super no thanks then, Ubishit has too many quests for me to ever wanna do that on a timer.
Besides when I play ‘open world’ I’m taking my time.
 
After Far Cry 6 I simply don't trust them with the series anymore. 5 at least had an interesting villain even if the rest of the game was bland, but 6's villain was shallow and boring and barely interacted with the actual cast, he just makes disney villain speeches to his son 5 times then kills himself.

The unironic sucking off of communist revolutionary analogues was also cringy as fuck. At least Far Cry 4 was honest about how shit le glorious revolutions actually are.
 
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Jace on ice said:
Outside of YouTubers shilling it I've literally not heard a single word about Shadows post launch.
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I think the most damning appraisal of Shadows is the fact I've not even seen people make memes on the game any more.

Even Concord is still being joked about and it's been completely unplayable for 8 months.
gaysexenjoyer said:
After Far Cry 6 I simply don't trust them with the series anymore.
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It was so obvious that entire game was riding on having Giancarlo Esposito as the villain, only for them to somehow make him the worst antagonist since the series rebooted with 3. Vaas had more charisma, Pagan Min was strangely endearing and Joseph Seed ended up being completely fucking right; I can't even remember what Esposito's character was called, never mind what he actually did in the game.

I would like them to make FC7 just to see where they go after 6.
 
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