It's time for some history!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnR_gnzb0bI
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Bringing back The Crew is impossible, according to Ubisoft... here's the offline patch, according to fans of the game: https://thecrewunlimited.com/

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The Crew 2 just received the hybrid-offline mode! Same as they promised after the scandal with The Crew being delisted.

You have 2 choices:
• Start an entirely new game save purely in offline mode.
• Import your online save to an offline/local save.

• Only one local save is supported, so a new one will re-write the previous one (for example, if you export online one again)

• When launching the game, if your console or PC is connected to the internet, you'll be able to select whether to play online or offline.

• If no internet connection is detected, the game will automatically launch in Offline Mode.

BUT the game still boots up BattleEye for some reason.

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There are massive layoffs at MASSIVE ENTERTAINMENT, that you may know for Star Wars Outlaws, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and The Division.

But they haven't fired people... THEY ARE HELPING WITH THEIR CAREER TRANSITION!

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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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