ChatGPT, generate for me a press release that will excuse the firing of another 10,000 employees.

Gamers love it when games are cancelled!

Ubisoft founder and CEO, Yves Guillemot, said the company must pursue a "radically new" value-creation model and become a more "gamer-centric" organization to find its footing in an increasingly competitive and selective triple-A market.

Good! Realizing it needs to be about the gamer again not just shareholder value.

"The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group's strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI," reads the document.

Oh god damnit nevermind, the boycott continues

Yeah that company is cooked. They likely won't last another decade and are going to make moves to look enticing for a buyout and pad the CEOs golden parachute. Fuck them and their millionaire management who are disconnected from reality and destroyed the careers of many creative people they fired under their feet.

The publisher is restructuring around five 'creative houses' by implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.

"We'll become gamer-centric by fucking our employees even more"

Literally the only way to do this is fire the first 3 or 4 levels of upper management.

video game company wants to become more gamer friendly

Wait what? Isn't being gamer centric what making video games is about?

Gamers want AI, right?

/s

Some much "corporate speak" in the quotes from the Ubisoft CEO. Almost reads like random gibberish.

The beginning of the end of Ubisoft.

I'm glad the devs of Clair Obscur got out of this and did their own shit.

Cancelling Beyond Good & Evil 2 for a 13th time, huh?

Maybe Ubisoft should restructure itself out of existence.

I'm actually not sure I can afford to keep playing "buy an indie game every time Ubisoft does something evil or stupid".

But I'm down for a few more rounds, at least.

So Ubisoft dumped their entire C suite, starting with their CEO? Well I can only applaud that, that a CEO, known for not giving a shit about gamers, finally decided that he was wrong and decided to do the right thing! Kudos!

The only way he could have done it better was to take the samurai way out, but yeah, that won't happen...

/S needed?

Ha.. ha...hahahahaha... Yeah right.

Classic publicly traded company using "reorganisation" (read: layoffs) to trick shareholders into thinking they are turning things around by simultaneously reducing costs and shifting blame for past failures of leadership.

The next step is a super safe release, like a remaster of one of their top selling games, followed by an announcement of a new entry in one of their most popular series. Line goes up. Ubisoft is back! Hire more developers, open a new studio (or buy an established studio), resume enshittifying. Rinse and repeat.

I have played these games before.webp

"How to own multiple cool and successful IPs and still fail"

They are chopping the development teams and titles up into convenient bite-sized chunks. Ubisoft will hang onto the large titles in the Vantage Studios vertical, and the rest will be spun off or sold off. Any spun off studios will be saddled with crippling debt.

Reminds me of when EA decided to go player first

A gaming company is... Let me read that again... Focusing on games?

but i thougt everybody loved ac shadow ? what happened ?