Ubisoft is the latest company to lay off employees, with the French publisher's Montreal studio (Assassin's Creed) reportedly hit the hardest, cutting 98 jobs. In total though, Ubisoft is axing 124 jobs as part of a global company restructure.
Some of the positions impacted include administration and IT jobs, along with Ubisoft's IT and SFX teams. It's doing this to streamline operations and enhance the company's overall collective efficiency. Notably, production teams won't be impacted by this restructure:
"These are not decisions taken lightly and we are providing comprehensive support for our colleagues who will be leaving Ubisoft during this transition. We also want to share our utmost gratitude and respect for their many contributions to the company. This restructuring does not affect our production teams."
Apart from Assassin's Creed, the Canada-based studio Ubisoft Montreal has previously worked on series like Far Cry, and is Ubisoft's biggest team and is also one of the biggest studios in the world. Unfortunately, this isn't the first time there have been layoffs at Ubisoft this year, and it's also had to deal with some delays and cancellations of certain projects.
If there are any developments, we'll let you know.
[source kotaku.com]
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Not a shocker. Ubisoft has been rumored for years to be in financial uncertainty. Poor leadership with a lack of vision and creativity is to blame. They even cancelled original ideas being developed so they can double-down on more Assassin's Creed games. They need to learn that Assassin's Creed is not as strong of a series as they think it may be.
Hope everyone lands on their feet.
@Erigen I got burned out by Black Flag. They really milked AC hard. To the point where games became more and more bloated with stuff.
I just couldn't anymore once I played Syndicate. It was just stuff upon stuff.
Anyone else actually surprised it's... Much smaller than you'd expect out of Ubisoft?
Yet another reason for mass strikes. They don’t respect workers in the slightest.
@Savage_Joe I saw this comment out of context and thought you meant rayman origins at first, haha.
Never played an AC game. Never will
@Poco_Lypso The first few entries were pretty good. But as time went on, Ubisoft milked it to the point of stale. I'm not kidding either.
Within the span of 5 years since the first game, You had 5 entries. An extra 9 if you include the spin-off games. And each entry just became more and more bloated.
Ubisoft are probably my least favourite developer. Other than Rayman 2, I haven't played a single game from them I can really say I enjoyed. I don't like EA either but I could list many games from them that I've loved. In my view, if Ubisoft were to never make another game, nothing would be lost.
well look who just had to go and pull a destiny JUST BECAUSE YOUR FRIENDS JUMPED OFF THE BRIDGE DOESNT MEAN YOU SHOULD EITHER UBISOFT
@Quiet2down oh I'm aware. I played some Ubisoft games on the very first Xbox. If a game was successful it got a sequel a year later, splinter cell for example. Pretty much why I prefer Nintendo and them not realeasing clones every year.
Many IT companies are making layoffs this year. Mostly in the HR departments because they are expecting much less hirings dues to the world economy.
The one thing that bothers me is laying off QA, DEV and artists. It is literally sacrificing the quality of the product
I don't know Ubisoft's situation exactly, but based on the comments here it seems to be the usual combination of growing too much (don't know if also too fast in this case unlike Epic for example), bad business decision like going all in on their bigger franchises like Assassin's Creed - although I'd argue they're at least trying to make games in other series nowadays, let's not forget the Mario Rabbids games and especially the upcoming Prince of Persia -, etc.
They (Ubisoft) should let Microsoft to buy them.
Everyone slams Ubisoft for AC but it is what sells for them. None of their other ventures have (maybe farcry) really matched the sales of AC. Folks gotta put their money where their mouth is.
@Vexx234 For me, Black Flag was amazing, and when I tried Assassins Creed 3, I didn't like it like I did for Black Flag. (I might be trying the 3rd game again soon though.)
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