Call the ambulance

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To be slightly more specific

1. If AC Shadows underperformed and accounting of its loss was not properly maintained, it can force them to re-evaluate. Since loses on Star Wars and Avatar were measured long ago.

2. The split into several companies makes evaluation much harder too, since it's unclear who owns what and who can do what with resources.

Those are the two most possible scenarios.

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According to Dispatch creators, they were working on the new stealth action for Ubisoft and quit because the company shifted into xDefiant.

Yes, the company didn't want a good solo Splinter Cell, they wanted Call of Duty. And now we've also seen what happened to the original Call of Duty.

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Not buying it!

- Revenue is okay
- Profits are in decline
- They fired even more people

But none of it was worth such a delay minutes before the originally planned announcement.

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Now we know more specific numbers: Call of Duty Black Ops 7 sales in Europe are horrible, despite the extremely high production costs (according to Game Sales Data).

Meanwhile, Anno 117: Pax Romana from Ubisoft has sold around 2.5x more at launch than 2019’s Anno 1800. The game is doing much better than expected.

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A good part of Ubisoft is making these documentaries with historians, this time about Syndicate and London:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EjiW7hu-VI
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Certified Ubisoft moment: we can't send your crash report, it just crashed too...

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If you felt that the new cutscenes feel artificial, you were right (and it's not a secret):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkD6ui59ff8
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Rainbow Six Siege has been hacked in several attempts by different groups.

First ones got access to the game server admin panel: they banned people and gave away $300m+ worth of goods for free. It seems that hackers banned Ubisoft employees while Ubisoft banned "people with suspicious amounts of currency". Most of these bans are rolled back now.

Then a few more groups seemingly got the full access to all the sources of the game. This still has to be confirmed, since Ubisoft is only discussing the admin access. They temporarily shut down the marketplace and secondary ban system that has been breached.

The security issue is not coming from Ubisoft, it's MongoBleed: MongoDB Zlib Vulnerability (CVE-2025-14847), affecting millions of servers worldwide.

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Folks, I swear, this is an unedited Black Flag screenshot!

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Reliable plan...

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Ubisoft sold Assassins Creed brand for promotional campaign of RAID: Shadow Legends — a pay 2 win hero-battler that became the synonymous of greed.

A few years ago RAID bought every major YouTube channel and was more annoying than Honey scam. But the trick paid off and the game made billions by being only playable if you pay tons of $$ every month.

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The new Avatar DLC is probably the best thing Ubisoft delivered in ages. They made it 3rd person, removed fillers, created a worthy story, and fixed gameplay features.

One year after the original game and they turned it into a very impressive journey, that people actually liked.

Now the team behind it is being cut days after the release and after The Division 10th anniversary.

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That's curious: one of the key people behind The Division wasn't waiting for layoffs and moved to EA DICE in advance.

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You have been Ubisofted!

Prince of Persia remake is now officially cancelled, studios in Halifax and Stockholm are closed.

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Okay 👌

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Investors are kinda sad about Ubisoft moves: when you cancel half of your games and move release dates of others by a year or two, it somehow NOT MAKING IT LOOK LIKE A PROFIT.

Shares lost over 30% today, 60% in one year and 95% in 5 years. Yes, kids, they are 95% less valuable than they used to be!

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It seems that HQ of Ubisoft is also facing job cuts!

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Fun fact: Vaas Montenegro did not exist in Far Cry 3 before they met Michael Mando and he messed up the required role...

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Ubisoft is raising the team of AI sloperators: the goal is to "find where AI is the most usable in the whole pipeline" (LN).

And I feel a bit of a pain here: Ubisoft were among first who built neural networks over a decade ago. They were used to bake cloth physics (and run it 1000 times faster), merge animations (and make characters switch between them smoother in a changing environment). In general they were pioneers in a very good use cases of what now can be called AI.

And now they are looking to use it in Data, Programing, Game and Narrative Design, and more. Which is not what players want. They do not want games be written by AI, ok?

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