Ubisoft Sellout - Bankruptcy Speedrun Any% Thread

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The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
You can buy off a company and immediately unload massive parts of it. In fact, if you are facing regulatory scrutiny for a merger or acquisition, one of the ways to beat said scrutiny is to do just that. You can even make deals for who to sell off said parts to before your deal to buy them is firmly finalized.
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you still have to pay for it first, or find someone who wants it. either way more time and money people want to bother with when it's not worth the good parts.
usually you just have to wait anyway and at some point they gonna sell off stuff out of desperation. once ubisoft starts to sell off IPs or studios, you know shit's cooking.

Get the rope Macaulay! said:
if we're being honest, with their output the world would have been better off with vivendi owning them, or at least their reputations would have been better. imagine vivendi succeeded and then threw all the rapists out and switched to mobile games. ubisoft would go down as the biggest what-if of all time. all their failures would be put on the other company and capitalism
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ironically the "rapists" (which after the #metoo shit is questionable anyway) were the ones keeping the retards in check. still remember one hitpiece where the journo tried to paint the head honcho as "misogynistic" because he insisted making the asscreed protagonist a male. the horror. it's not like any fucking market data proved him right, especially ubisoft's own after asscreed odyssey. I've also worked with french people, their morning greeting ritual of double-cheek kisses would probably drive some feminists up the wall (and troons who don't get the offer in the first place).

remember all that #metoo shit happened in 2020, just compare the output to before and after. it was also the point where ubisoft went all in on woke to compensate and self-flagellate.
Ubisoft had a shareholders' meeting on 22 July 2020 addressing these more recent issues. Changes in the wake of the departures included a reorganization of both the editorial team and the human resources team. 2 positions, Head of Workplace Culture and Head of Diversity and Inclusion, would be created to oversee the safety and morale of employees going forward. To encourage this, Ubisoft said it would tie the performance bonus of team leaders to how well they "create a positive and inclusive workplace environment" so that these changes are propagated throughout the company.
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Guillemot sent out a company-wide letter in October 2020 summarizing their investigation, finding that nearly 25% of the employees had experienced or witnessed misconduct in the last 2 years, and that the company was implementing a 4-point plan to correct these problems, with a focus to "guarantee a working environment where everyone feels respected and safe".[176] The company hired Raashi Sikka, Uber's former head of diversity and inclusion in Europe and Asia, as vice president of global diversity and inclusion for Ubisoft in December 2020 to follow on to this commitment.[177]
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that's why it's no surprise why ubisoft is even more shit than before.
 
ZMOT said:
the radio in wd1 was better than it had any right to be.


wd1 was comfy on a level I never felt in gta tbh. there was also effort put in with the landmark that gave you info on stuff etc, which always made it fun to run around and see what's around the corner.

as for buying ubisoft, one suspicion is they're simply too big. most other companies are smaller but outsource a lot, ubisoft owns most of them, so they basically do lot of stuff "in house", which any potential buyer would have to pay for, even if he has no use for it, and can't really get rid off easily.
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Fucking right? Driving around a shockingly well rendered Chicago with the radio blaring was a damned vibe. For whatever sins Watch Dogs had, the setting and soundtrack were NEVER one of them.

And they mostly ditched that for dubstep and hipster crap in Watch Dogs 2, and if I recall, generic background music for Watch Dogs Legion.
 
ZMOT said:
you still have to pay for it first, or find someone who wants it. either way more time and money people want to bother with when it's not worth the good parts.
usually you just have to wait anyway and at some point they gonna sell off stuff out of desperation. once ubisoft starts to sell off IPs or studios, you know shit's cooking.
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Waiting for a fire sale risks anything you want getting snapped up by someone else. Anything you don't want you can, at worse, just right off as a loss. At best, sell to someone else and make some money or spin it off into its own business. But most business won't let a few divisions or subsidiaries they don't want stop a buyout if that's what they really want.
 
The Demon Pimp of Razgriz said:
Waiting for a fire sale risks anything you want getting snapped up by someone else. Anything you don't want you can, at worse, just right off as a loss. At best, sell to someone else and make some money or spin it off into its own business. But most business won't let a few divisions or subsidiaries they don't want stop a buyout if that's what they really want.
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true, but they can still offer it to specific parties first.
and it's more than a few divisions and subsidiaries. ubisoft has what, 20k employees? subsidiaries got their own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubisoft_subsidiaries
 
The Division 3 was confirmed:
After joining the team at Massive Entertainment – A Ubisoft Studio and shipping the original in 2016, he moved to Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 as Creative Director, where he and his team crafted a new adventure in the summertime streets of Washington, D.C. Now, he’s setting his sights on Tom Clancy’s The Division 3, as well as the plethora of other projects set in The Division universe, including the mobile game Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence, and the survival-action shooter Tom Clancy’s The Division Heartland.
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I legit love that we are at no less then 3 announced Division games with no idea if/when they are actually going to be released. (With the movie now never, ever going to happen)

Through I do bet that Division: Heartland is gonna be canceled and rolled into Division 3.
 
I guess Riders Republic is the Fortnite of Ubisoft:
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Ubisoft believes Africa will adopt Ubisoft+:
Guillemot added that Ubisoft's acquisition of streaming rights for Activision games such as Call of Duty over the next 15 years, combined with increasingly powerful mobile gaming devices such as the iPhone 15 Pro, will help it gain a foothold in locations outside of the US and Europe where consoles and PCs aren't as prevalent. He pointed to the African adoption of mobile payments as an example of countries that jump on new technologies and skip older systems. "So we think that [these regions] will move more quickly to streaming and the cloud than others."
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Sparky Lurker said:
The Division 3 was confirmed:
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Sort of, it was more of a confirmation of his intention to build a team to eventually make Division 3. Which means we're probably ~4 years out at best, and assuming shit doesn't get changed before then, which it very well might depending on how Outlaws performs.

Back me up! said:
Through I do bet that Division: Heartland is gonna be canceled and rolled into Division 3.
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It's possible they'll shitcan it for sure, but almost no chance they'll roll it into Div 3 imo. Mostly because from what we've seen/know about the game there's not nearly enough to make it worth it. Especially since the base of Heartlands is a PvEvP mode, which given the vocal reactions of regular Division players to the DZ, would make for a disaster if they increase focus on it for a mainline Division game.

Sparky Lurker said:
Ubisoft believes Africa will adopt Ubisoft+:
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I like how he looks at the popularity of mobile payments in Africa and concludes it's them "jumping on new technologies and skipping older systems" and not a symptom of the fact the entire place is such a backwards shithole they don't have the infrastructure necessary for those older systems . It also ignores the fact that mobile payments take significantly less bandwidth than something like gaming, which is a good thing considering Africa's internet is absolute fucking dogshit in general:
Not even the country with Africa’s top mobile internet speed is close to the global average. This is according to the 2022 Speedtest Global Index published by US-based internet speed analysis firm Ookla. South Africa, the continent’s internet speed leader—with an average mobile internet download speed of 68.9 megabits per second (mbps) is way below the global average mobile download speed of 77.7 mbps.
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Miller said:
I guess Riders Republic is the Fortnite of Ubisoft:
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Ahh, Rider's Republic. The peak Ubisoft title, in that it's broken, unpolished and sanitized to all hell, but by god that microtransaction store always works!
I don't need to preach to the choir, but if you want to see how much of a disaster the actual game is, there is a good video on it(surprisingly hard to find one since most reviews are bought out ubisoft shills telling you it's a 10/10)

I think I might hate Ubisoft more than I hate many other big boys like EA or Acti-Blizzard. My relationship with Ubisoft soured back when Rayman 4 was cancelled for a Wii Minigame Compilation in the form of "Raving Rabbids", and it only got worse when they cancelled Splinter Cell: Conviction due to Hobo Sam "Not being interesting", only to reboot it as the safest, most mind numbing 3rd person shooter with zero stealth later on.
Oh, and don't get me started on Rainbow Six Patriots, that ended up becoming Rainbow Six Siege once they removed all the interesting single player stuff and a setting where you had homegrown terror and the game had you asking if you were the actual baddies. Nope, just gut all that out and turn it into Call of Duty live service multiplayer title with 100 cringy operators. Tom Clancy? Who's that?? Don't care, let's piss on his grave, he likely had (((UNSOLICITED OPINIONS ON THE CURRENT THING))) so fuck him!
That's likely only the tip of the iceberg, suffice it to say I do take very petty pleasure from seeing Ubisoft fail so I hope that happens as much as possible.
 
12GameOvers said:
I don't need to preach to the choir, but if you want to see how much of a disaster the actual game is, there is a good video on it(surprisingly hard to find one since most reviews are bought out ubisoft shills telling you it's a 10/10)
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21 Kiloton is one of the best reviewers out there.
I'm surprised that he didn't get to play that shitty Ubisoft F2P roller game.
 
12GameOvers said:
I think I might hate Ubisoft more than I hate many other big boys like EA or Acti-Blizzard.
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Ubisoft is especially annoying to me because they make games with the kind of settings I really like. Riders Republic and the Far Cry games have lush outdoor environments, but the games themselves are bad, buggy, and broken. It's so annoying.
 
There's an open beta/test for XDefiant right now, if you guys want to try it. (not an ad)
 
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