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[Grildon Tundy]

I've never heard of stock being taken away before. I'd been watching Ubi stock wondering if I should buy some because they looked like they were in acquisition territory, and there's usually a stock price bump when acquired.

Think it'll be open for trade again before we know if they're bought out?

 

[Badlucktroll]

 

[consoul]

Ubisoft presents Tom Clancy's The Revision: Are we the baddies?

 

[Mister Wolf]

Yeah I'm sure the Chinese would totally not meddle with Tom Clancy IP lol...probably half the reason they'd buy it is to rewrite the scripts.

Chinese Sam Fisher sneaking into America to steal secrets. That shit would be fire. One of the stages can be Nvidia's headquarters.

 

[Draugoth]

The Guillermo brothers would rather tank the company than sell it.

If anyone bought them it's Tencent

 

[lmimmfn]

Poor "someone"

 

[Unknown Soldier]

From Reddit: "He says its tencent in the replies btw"

The Chinese are super unwoke so the result will hopefully be the same

 

[lh032]

nothing was lost.

 

[Moses85]

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Yeah I'm sure the Chinese would totally not meddle with Tom Clancy IP lol...probably half the reason they'd buy it is to rewrite the scripts.

They don't need the Chinese to shit on it.

 

[Mr Moose]

It wouldn't be MicroSoft, they can't buy them (nor would they want to).

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Chinese Sam Fisher sneaking into America to steal secrets. That shit would be fire.

Sam Phisher

 

[DevilHunterX0]

Maybe now they won't be scared to release Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6: Patriots

 

[DragonNCM]

Allahu Ubisoft !!!

 

[Deerock71]

A patch might improve Star Wars: Outlaws.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

 

[mhirano]

Now watch the next Assassin's Creed being good muslim guys versus bad christians…
OH WAIT

 

[whyman]

Another developer that will lose sales because of Saudi owners?

 

[IntentionalPun]

His tweet right under that one implies he doesn't know.

 

[Robot Carnival]

consider who they had been dealing with, probably





but of course it could also be

 

[Holammer]

Remember when they fought tooth and nail to avoid getting acquired in a hostile takeover by Vivendi back in 2018?
In retrospect it might have been the better option, maybe.

 

[Tg89]

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[IAmRei]

however bought them, i only interested in another ghost recon similar to wildland, i see nothing of value was lost if not : p

 

[Hector Hall]

Someone Halal?

I hope Japanese publishers don't sell up like western ones are doing.

 

[Haint]

AFAIK Tencent and Guillmonts combined only own like 20% - 30% of Ubisoft. Not sure about French business laws, but I would assume they'd need at least 51% approval to sell, and maybe even 2/3rds or more (67%+). Good luck convincing the pension funds and employees who are down like 90% to sell at deep all time lows for an 87% loss.

 

[Audiophile]

If the Arabs buy part of Ubisoft and bring Assassin's Creed back to the good 'ol days I'll start wearing robes, kneeling towards mecca and washing my feet multiple times a day.

If they bring back Jesper Kyd to score then my future wife will wear a Hijab!

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Yep it was me. Next Assassin Creed is anime style and you play as a loli.

 

[DragonNCM]

I have prefect name for new Assassin creed game......The Two towers

 

[jshackles]

 

[bender]

Here is a little top secret, inside information for my fellow GAFHeads; something will happen this week.

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

 

[Kilau]

I would be really funny seeing the result of Arab money buying the wokest company in the market.

This ain't about PlayStation.

 

[AmuroChan]

I think the potential silver lining in this is that whoever buys Ubisoft might force them to get back on track to making better games which appeal to more people. Ubisoft hasn't had a good track record lately but they still own a ton of great IPs. They just need better management and direction.

That's great and all, but they're going to have to replace most of their personnel that cared more about "the message" than actually making good games.

 

[MayauMiao]

I wonder what the purple forum reaction to this.

*Using imagination*

 

[IAmNotFromDelaware]

Who cares about who owns ubisoft. All that matters is that they make good games or better games moving forward. I need Splitner Cell remake to see the light of day, same with PoP.

All the talented developers are gone. All that's left in the Montreal office are talentless DEI hacks.

 

[yurinka]

AFAIK Tencent and Guillmonts combined only own like 20% - 30% of Ubisoft. Not sure about French business laws, but I would assume they'd need at least 51% approval to sell, and maybe even 2/3rds or more (67%+). Good luck convincing the pension funds and employees who are down like 90% to sell at deep all time lows for an 87% loss.

You have to add to what the Guillemots have the percentage the company itself has, the percentage the workers have, plus the percentage of the external investors like French banks/close friends of the Guillemots or Tencent, who back the Guillemots to keep them in charge.

They together have a majority of the voting rights and don't want to sell. In fact, some time ago before investing in the new subsidiary Tencent gave money to the Guillemots to help them buy more shares and reach the point where they would be protected enough from hostile takeovers.

If the Arabs buy part of Ubisoft and bring Assassin's Creed back to the good 'ol days I'll start wearing robes, kneeling towards mecca and washing my feet multiple times a day.

If they bring back Jesper Kyd to score then my future wife will wear a Hijab!

As far as I know, the only relationship with the Saudis is that they funded a free AC Mirage DLC set in Saudi Arabia.

Ubisoft has now a lot of woke people in key positions which combined with the past controversies I assume they won't want to have nothing to do with the Saudis.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

Just now, Assassin's Creed has landed on 26 new types of screens it wasn't on before. Get ready to slice through the past on an MRI display!

 

[Pejo]

Just like when EA got bought out, I have the same reaction: it can only go up from here.

 

[L*][*N*K]

this feels so THQ btw

 

[genesisblock]

Most likely Tencent and we will finally have a Wuxia themed Assassin's Creed.

There was a mobile phone version called Jade which should be rebuilt into a full AAA release instead as an apology to Shadows.

 

[PlayStaytion]

So that's basically how you get rid of DEI and other bs without touching corporate values.

 

[playbignbox]

I just want a sequel to Rayman Legends.

 

[DoktorCoktor]

Hopefully the new owners see the potential held by the Beyond Good and Evil IP. Get in touch with Michel Ancel and the original core team members, rope them back in and then bank roll a AAA seamless open world remake of the original featuring an artstyle similar to Overwatch's CG cinematics.



Then they can pick up where they left off some years back.

 

[Windle Poons]

It's not me. Get that out there now to stop the speculation.

 

[Mozza]

It would be very strange that this buyout if true, would not have had the same scrutiny as the Activision deal... Funny that.

 

[Bernkastel]

This ain't about PlayStation.

So woke

 

[calico]

50k Steam peak for Anno 117. More than Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed combined. 15k less than AC Shadows.

And yes they managed to make a Roman city builder incredibly woke btw.

 

[Radical_3d]

It would be very strange that this buyout if true, would not have had the same scrutiny as the Activision deal... Funny that.

Well, they are hardly in a monopolistic situation and are not an strategic enterprise. Also it'll reflect the new reality of the Central Europe Caliphate.

 

[Roufianos]

I wonder what the purple forum reaction to this.

*Using imagination*

As long as the Muslim owners try and claim asylum status in Europe, they'll love them.