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[Draugoth]

More industry layoff news: Ubisoft laid off 45 people from its San Francisco and North Carolina (Red Storm) offices this week, Bloomberg has learned. Earlier this year, Red Storm canceled a game based on Tom Clancy's The Division.

 

[Phase]

 

[N30RYU]

Purple haired ppl I hope

 

[ViperZombie]

 

[Paasei]

Purple haired ppl I hope

 

[GigaBowser]

because they are assassins creed deelers and dont care bout nothing else

 

[Spukc]

I hope all the good ones got away.
Fuck ubisoft

 

[Saber]

Skull Bones effect I suppose. Who knows, depending on how well Star Wars go there may be more.

 

[Fake]

Hopes this don't affect Assassin Creed Japan.

 

[geary]

45 out of 21000? is this really news?

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

At least wait until Star Wars tanks first

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[mitch1971]

 

[geary]

I wonder if that is the daily employee turnover for them

 

[Chuck Berry]

It's Ubisoft and you guys think they're tossing out the blue hairs?

They're probably tossing out the rest of whatever modicum of normality is left over there.

 

[Wandering Leopard]

I'll wait for news about how they might change the way they develop AAA games, or take some risks with more AA games.

I get the sense they've been running with the same stale formula for a long while now - granted, it works for the masses but not for me.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Is this really news?

45 people out of a company with 20,000 employees.

 

[Wandering Leopard]

I suppose as far as how the company is run, it must mean they're doing a good job managing profits against losses (because these are minimal losses, although "more" is the keyword).

 

[yazenov]

It's Ubisoft and you guys think they're tossing out the blue hairs?

They're probably tossing out the rest of whatever modicum of normality is left over there.

The Rat mentioned from Ubisoft's San Francisco and North Carolina offices, so the probability it's one of those DEI hires are high

 

[semiconscious]

gotta admit, after enjoying all the og assassin's creed games, the last ubi game i really loved was the division. & it was released 9 years ago (same year as the last og ac game, syndicate). i've played/enjoyed others (ac: origins, gr:breakpoint, wd:legion), but, afa ubi games, those 2 kinda ended an era for me...

 

[Dictattor]