Ubisoft shares drop 33% following its ‘major company reset’ announcement - The company’s share price has dropped 95% in total over the past eight years

Could try pachinko like konami

I do think they should actually downsize. Stop pushing out a new Assassins Creed every year or 2. Reduce the magnitude of the games a bit. First few Assassins Creeds were special. Far Cry games used to be great too. Now they just feel like a grindfest. As do the AC games.

But I don't think Ubisoft leadership would be capable of doing it right. They'd probably just lay off everyone who actually does work, and expect a similar amount of games.

There are industries where that works. In business software, that's incredibly common, in part because people buy the same software every year, or on a subscription. So the company makes a half decent product, hires an insane amount of people to market it while firing the vast majority of the developers, sells a ton of subscriptions, then coasts for a decade or two. Any time a competitor starts forming, buy them, lay off the staff, and coast on that too.

It's the business model of the vast majority of business to business software/service products out there.

More microtransactions into the slop they are putting out soon.

Those are good ideas, but their advisors will probably have them take out a massive loan and use it to buy another game studio, then lay off the staff at that game studio, to briefly appear profitable, before crashing into bankruptcy to be bought by Microsoft.

Sadly it usually does result in a stock price increase, because less expenses

Beyond that, to GET to their rehashed derivative stuff you need a separate launcher with a separate and annoying login.

Maybe AI will save them.

The fact that they have shareholders means that they’re likely to keep rehashing old stuff.

Shareholders love “guaranteed” money, which is why movie studios keep making the same crap over and over again. It’s more stable.

They also need to allow games to be more focused. Not every game needs to be an open world, crafter, rpg, treasure hunt.

How you gonna make Rayman legends, one of the best 2d platformers ever and then just put all your focus on Assassin’s creed after that.

Executive pay is mostly stock so… 95% over 8 years?

Current evaluation is about 720M USD I believe. At 20 USD per person, that implies there are 36M persons in this thread.

Lemmy had gotten BIG!

But this isnt what enshittification is

They said they want to focus on open world and live service games, so it sounds like the ones they canceled were the actual good ones.

What about Mirage was shit? As much as I loved Shadows, the story kind of went nowhere towards the end. On the other hand, Mirage despite having a simple story, is the best AC game I have played in ages. That said, I've always been a fan of the original pre-RPG AC games.

Far Cry 7 is rumored to add a 24-hour time limit (similar to Dead Rising's mechanic) and lean heavily into multiplayer

It won't be.

Seven? Jesus. How about a fresh new IP instead?

Descenders has mountainbiking and snowboarding

Tell me about it. The division is one of my favorite franchises, I've felt like they've kept one of my favorite games hostage for over a decade now.

Shredders is one of the best snowboard games I've played. I feel like it captures the feeling of snowboarding really well.

Well, Valve funds Linux development and other than GOG, they run the only passable online game store. Idk if you remember, but you used to have to find a shop that stocked the game you wanted and then buy it from there. Steam and EGS have more or less everything, but since EGS is a Chrome instance running inside Unreal Engine 4, it's extremely slow. Yes, they managed to invent something worse than Electron.

Ubisoft, on the other hand, went from creating some of the most iconic games ever made, to pumping out repetitive garbage. Any individual newish Assassin's Creed game isn't bad, but once you've played Origins, Odyssey, Valhalla... You no longer feel like buying Mirage and Shadows.

I may be wrong, but there's sources saying Valve pays game and steam developers roughly 1 million dollars a year, hardware developers about 400k a year. Likely much of it in the form of profit sharing. They could hire 10x as many people and still be profitable, but what's the point of adding bloat to something that works? Over-hiring during good times tends not to end well for the people hired, nor the company's actual productivity.

PPL just want a good guy, steam charges the same 30% everyone does and it's why companies want their own stores/launchers, so they don't have to gove steam a cut, not crazy on their part. Steam fr started loot crates, paid mods, skin gambling, etc.

Ubisoft is run by sexual predators for a start