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Just sell Splinter Cell to a company that knows what the hell to do with it already.

yeah, that'll make him show up to the office!

I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they're axing people left right and center.

And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it's still alive in 2026 is in it's own right quite the achievement. I can't even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.

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Ubisoft

2026:

• fires team lead after return-to-office critique
• closes Halifax studio 1 month after Union formed

2025:

• full-in on gen-AI after shares plummeting
• NOYB sues because of covert user tracking
• Ubisoft wants to monitor your RAM (🏴‍☠️)
• EULA demands deleting delisted games

2024:

• deletes inactive customer accounts with purchased games
• "Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games"
• adds Denuvo after reviews were made

2023:

• ads in games
• started that list here

To be fair, they also want to be bought up (rebranding), after multiple buy-outs and mass-layoffs.

I am so thankful that the executives took a productivity and happiness survey when we went full time remote.

Any time a new manager brings up maybe we should return to the office, our offcial remote manual begins with data: we are far more productive remote working. There is the data, the proof.

The second part about being overall happier reminds us that we didn't really like being in the office either.

We also have two more metrics: amount of time saved by a company in commute reduction, and the increase in safety.

But the first two are the most important.

Okay. I'm keeping my commitment, but I'm going to need help.

Everytime Ubisoft makes the news for being idiots, I buy another Indie game.

I'm going to need your recommendations for great indie games.

Because Ubisoft has recently gotten me through my wishlist.

I mean, it's not hard to understand why their stock is down 95% over the last 5 years...

RTOs are most often a "one free layoff"-card that businesses play, so firing someone for criticizing it is very much in line with the underlying intent of the policy.

Is there a company that's trying to destroy itself as much as Ubisoft? The CEO and board that's running this company are genuinely some of the dumbest motherfuckers in the world. These idiots are still dedicating significant resources to make NFT games, they're still trying to insist that microtransactions are fun, they refuse to do anything to make their games more enjoyable to players, and they're trying everything in their power to squeeze out their talent. At this point, Ubisoft deserves to collapse.

We need socialism

I stopped buying Unisoft games decades ago. Because they suck. The owners suck. The management sucks. The corporate culture sucks. I feel bad for the coders working for them.

Stop. Buying. Ubisoft. Games.

Is this sort of thing not protected by labour laws?

Ubisoft, they are still alive. Wow. Well not much longer we can hope.

I think people at Ubisoft should just quit and start their own competing game studio.

If this type of leading results to profits then almost any does.

This is why I’m so happy I’m 3000 miles away from my office. No way I’m getting a call back to office. Never was and never will be.

He didn't even insult them, how is this legal?

What a shitty company, glad I've been boycotting the hell out of them!

TIL ubisoft is a french company. didn't know an european company can be this anti-worker.