Ubisoft Closes Studio, Eliminating 185 Jobs In Latest Round Of Cuts

People don’t want forced politics in video games and these companies should have learned that by now. The focus should be first on making a good game!

Good. Shit studio. Let the industry burn.

they need to make better games i guess

It's time to flush the toilet and let the Ubishit go to where it belongs. :DDD

It shall serve as a warning for every video game company that:

1-) Yeah you do art but we don't have to care about your art. I play games to have fun. I go to museums for art. Learn the difference. If video game is pasta, art in it is no different than ketchup. However they turned video game industry into a nonsense restaurant where you order pasta with ketchup but the plate only has ketchup that looks like pasta. WTF is this BS? If I was rich as much as Elon Musk is I would buy most of video game companies to just destroy them so I can build a better industry in their ashes and call it "Phoenix". Should I assembly Order of the Phoenix just to defeat Volde... *ahem* video game companies and shareholders knows nothing about video game? But we are no wizard but at least we can shoot non-magical bullets. :DDD

2-) Go woke go broke. Video games itself shouldn't be developed for politics. However they ignore what 99% world population wants just to give what 1% of world population wants. Does it make sense? You try to cover your cost to profit and when you do you celebrate yourself but if you chose to develop video games decently you would sell more and the game would be good enough to re-release in any new video game platforms, release as countless remasters and whatnot so you could earn more money. You just care to cover costs by satisfying minority, that you release video games that will be in the part of video game history people want to forget in the near future despite it sold "well" around the time it was released. Think 4th dimensional but you don't even think. You just put makeup on video games and lie to attract attention.

3-) Never forget what a video game is supposed to be. Stop with this interactive Netflix and Hollywood BS. Do you think everyone likes American culture? Do you think only Americans plays video game?

4-) You have failed hard if even a video game released 30 years ago is way better in terms of gameplay. Sometimes it can be because doing better on what you trying to do or it actually understand what players cares about in a similar game.

5-) Video games shouldn't be a movie, or interactive story programs. I'm a gamer. It means I wanna game, play, do fun stuff in a virtual reality. If I play 100 different games in a year I only watch 2 movies in a year and it's not to watch it per se but to learn something interesting from it because the theme it has is interesting. In that regard new generation video game trend is making people read tons of text because they have no idea how to present their BS story better. I read books a lot so I read enough so part of why I play video games is I wanna take a break from reading so do you think I wanna read a book in your video game in the middle of gunfight to read some random file put around so we can experience "the story"? When they don't do this BS they enforce cutscenes dilly-dally. Do you think I wouldn't refund your video game if the cutscene has no significant effect in the video game, characters dilly-dally nonsense BS and cutscene takes more than 1 minute to end? Same for duration of dialogues too. Do you think I wouldn't write a negative review and prevent people from buying your video game when random Playstation 2 video game does what you try to do way better? You focus so much on graphics and making PC hardly process your digital rubbish like these makes your video game an AAA. What a 4K shadow and so great draw distance but everything looks realistically dull without any graphical art sense whatsoever. As a result even Rogue Galaxy and Radiata Stories looks way better than your video game just because there is a stylish style. Your unoptimized video game makes our poor expensive gaming rig cry like a donkey trying to carry a huge block of stone to build a pyramid in a random Egyptian desert but even Max Payne 1 looks way more realistic than your shit. Realism in graphics is in the way how you blend black and white levels by using realistic color palette, shading and visual details. You would know if you where ever educated how Italians made realistic paintings despite you don't have to learn it because art is even not your main subject in university but art is mandatory to understand how human world functions. So realistic graphics is not in the way I can see every cell in your 4K character model that has lots of unnecessary polygons people cannot notice even on their 4K screens as the game requires 8K VRAM. You gamble on your graphics but you don't put contrast, gamma, brightness and saturation settings in your video game. As a result sometimes your game is unplayable for dark is too dark and light is too light despite setting it until I can barely see the visual BS on the screen because my monitor is properly set but your brain is not set for video game 101 lol. This is all the art you should care about in video games to make game playable and cool, not for making political statement. When a video game is properly set in visual arts 101 I don't even have to change anything about brightness and whatnot.

6-) You cannot expect to release same games and make profit. Always do what's significantly better. Assassin's Creed series didn't improve since Syndicate, in fact it deteriorated. Why? Why Ubishit killing itself since Syndicate released? You ruined Prince of Persia. Refusing to release most wanted Ubisoft game Prince of Persia: Redemption. You ruined Far Cry. Why after the 3rd the series gone shit? Even Far Cry: New Dawn is better video game than 4th. Why you didn't stick with realism of 2nd game anyway? Why Splinter Cell turned into action series when it was way better in stealth in the industry, even better than any Metal Gear video game? You did shit into your gold mine. Your golden castle made you forget you would ever go broke lol. Now your golden castle being melted and the soil suck it dry. :DDD

7-) Comprehend video game genres properly and develop the video game according to it. Star Wars Outlaws seems like mindless shooter game so why force nonsense stealth elements that's actually even hardly a stealth? Ditch this "just crouch or stay behind something" BS like it's all there is in stealth. Have you even played hide and seek before?

8-) Video games shouldn't only offer what everyone does in their daily life. I don't wanna watch, listen to people and just walk in video games, I do it half of my day enough.

9-) Yes, video games are a reality that has the illusion of whatever theme it has, however, player expectation shouldn't be diminished by dead-end illusions that add nothing significant to the game. For example they add dialogues but making choices has no impact in the game whatsoever. You listen to characters, they talk a lot but saying nothing. If you think about it there is no logical connection on why they even say it or what they even trying to convey. Stop using pointless conversations to increase duration of the game, especially to make people cannot get how bad the game is so they cannot refund it after watching 3 hours long cutscenes and dialogues after 2 minutes of walking.

10-) Stick with your formula. Assassin's Creed series ended for me when they ruined good old formula and made the series pseudo-JRPG. It supposed to stay as generic action game that has the most simple stealth element in the series that was optional and wasn't ruining the fun.

11-) Don't try to make your video game "appealing" to everyone. Again Assassin's Creed series ruined for a French company started to have a nonsense notion of whole world loves Japanese video games. I don't wanna play Japanese video games. I don't want level system. I don't want to grind better gear. I don't want EXP system to unlock skill and whatnot BS. I don't want too much focus on character drama. I don't want dialogue options. Assassin's Creed is an action game series so stick with it. But I do play Japanese video games but not because how Japanese it's, it's just because they have interesting theme or a fun aspect in gameplay that can make me endure Japanese video game style.

12-) I don't care about how much money you lose to sell your game on Steam comparing to selling it on your platform. I don't want DRM, Denuvo is enough pain as it's but you think people should be okay with double-DRM, making people login to many systems and even confirm the validity of their identity on smartphones and whatnot BS.

13-) You release so bad video game you trust Denuvo to secure your profit, however ironically I don't buy your Denuvo game because after you and/or Denuvo goes even Jesus cannot help me on playing the game I paid money for again. He can only turn my tears into wine so I can drink it without making it go waste crying river of wine. :DDD

14-) You sold the Crew 1, a pretty much a singleplayer game that didn't have to be forced as online game. I understand you used this system to prevent piracy, arrrr. But why you don't offer any way to allow people playing the game offline but instead remove the existence of the game? You did the same BS on the whole Crew series. What you expected it to happen when you force games and features onto online system but then you shut down servers? Do you think we would let you do this BS again? I still don't see offline Crew 2 mode. Good thing your company is open for public so we can economically ruin you as how you felt entitled to waste our money by preventing us from playing your video games in the way we paid the money for. Be that BS and I won't hesitate to waste money in your destruction for it's better to waste money on it instead of wasting it on most new video games in existence.

15-) Thanks to internet your past cannot stay as past. So when you develop digital trash video games do you think you can still make money in the industry? People check who works in the game and when they see people worked on hated video games they simply don't buy the video games. Yes, simple as that. Why you believe people would spend their money on you no matter what you do? Customers are always right. As how countries cannot exist without citizens, companies cannot exist without customers. This 4 aspect rule can be your 4 friends or when the rule broken this 4 means "death" for you. Countries cannot stop citizens from existing, companies cannot stop customers from existing but citizens can destroy countries and rebuild a new one, customers can destroy any company and can build their own companies. Learn your place but you don't even know what's a video game. Your games may sell but it's mostly because rich people wanna waste money on whatever is popular, it also means any negativity about you makes you go. There were many great civilizations and companies are dust now for they broke this rule so what makes you think you can run your wild horses free, shit on video game industry more and more but still make money and exist? Gamers prefer to have fun in virtual realities but when they are bored enough they play in real life. Don't become a toy of a gamer ever because once you become a toy your destiny is being broken. :DDD

I hereby declare these 15 propositions as "15 Theses of Video Game 101" and nail this message onto the virtual wood of Gamespot. I'm not Martin Luther and the year is not 1517 but enough is enough. If video games are not fun I will have fun playing with video game companies. #HoldTheLine :DDD

"We are deeply grateful for their contributions...", so we'll reward them with a lifetime non-paid vacation.

I don't think they understand the meaning of being "deeply grateful".

TenCent has been everywhere, and we still don’t know how much stake they will really buy in Ubisoft.

Also, TenCent owns a large stake in Epic, which makes Unreal Engine software. Many gaming companies on Microsoft and Sony use this software for their new and upcoming games.

TenCent has been known as an aggressive, silent investor and owns financial stakes worth millions of dollars in gaming studios across Asia, Europe, and North America.

I just don't understand them... They have caused their own undoing through a plethora of immoral choices

Ubisoft has felt like they are out of ideas for a while now.