Hearing: According to the internal letter, the affairs of Ubisoft are completely bad - the company may not survive the 2025th year
Smashjt blogger shared information that according to Ubisoft’s internal letter, the company's top management believes that further dismissal of employees is inevitable, and the publisher may not survive at all.
Clarification: Smashjt not It is a reliable insider, so its information should be perceived with the share of skepticism. Nevertheless, he recently first announced the upcoming dismissals in the ranks of BioWare, including spoke about Corin Bushe's departure:
the last few years were quite poor for Ubisoft, since almost every release of this publisher was a failure. The largest players of the publisher: Skull and Bones, Star Wars: Outlaws, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Some other projects such as XDEFiant were also closed, and recently UBISoft fired 185 developers and closed several studios. After this, an internal email leak occurred.
The email says that Ubisoft is not the best condition:
although the top management explains to the employees why the dismissal was necessary, it was necessary It also made it clear to understand the intention to continue such decisions, which means that in the future there would be more layoffs. And this is not at all surprising, given the current state of the company. Ubisoft has high hopes for Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, but far from the fact that even good games of the game will be able to stretch the publisher from the bottom.