From GI.biz: ""We want to ensure an inclusive, rewarding and respectful workplace for all. Yes, we stumbled and we have acknowledged that. We learned a lot along the way and have made meaningful progress."
Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, is talking to journalists from around the world at the publisher's headquarters in Paris. His is the first of five presentations at this corporate event designed to paint a picture of the firm's goals for the years to come: improving its proprietary game engines, investing in cloud computing, better collaboration between its studios, growing its subscription service, and making Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy into billion-dollar multimedia franchises."
Wccftech interviewed Nathan Yu from Inworld AI to discuss the dynamic NPC tech's applications to games as well as potential issues like costs.
Saad from eXputer: "After Arkane Austin & Tango were shutdown, Xbox President Sarah Bond spoke with Bloomberg in what I believe to be utter corporate fakery."
im not really surprised by that, shes always been more a "let me talk about something else than what u want to know" kinda gal
Yea, it was and it’s insulting that they think we’re dumb enough to fall for this. Look, the truth was you took a gamble on these studios and while they released some games to critical praise and great reception they just aren’t bringing in a ROI. Be transparent, you’re not a politician.
Just tell everyone you spend money on projects big and small and when money isn’t being made you go over the potential of revenue a studio can bring in vs those that can’t and make the hard decision to chop them.
She says this whole thing about “success” doesn’t fit one meaning for each studio. Well yea, a small budget production isn’t going to expect to sell the same as a large budget production.
One thing I wish they did though was let Tango be an independent studio.
disheartening to see no regard for the human cost of business anymore
the bad decisions and judgements of these CEOs severely impact the frontliners
these fake responses are just salt on wounds
imagine havin the audacity to say "we need more games like hifi rush" right after closing the studio that made it lol
followin up with this show of "deflecting every question" was in poor taste
Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon hasn't seen mass layoffs like this in his whole 25-year career.
Alot’s changed in 25 years. We have games with $300 mill budgets, people not interested in games other than Fortnite and Minecraft, the older generation of gamers giving up the hobby or dying off, a period of super bad inflation where the industry decided to hike up prices on games, Gamepass harming game sales, GaaS games being pushed left and right with obnoxious monetization and worse looking/playing (Suicide Squad vs Arkham Knight).
The industry is just shite right now. Games ain’t selling, games cost massive amounts, businesses can’t bleed money and this is what happens. Part of it is on them and part of it is on consumers not buying.
Aha
…no
Its shameful how far they've fallen... and the neglect of SC fans continue.
Absolute embarrassment of the industry.
When people gave up to give money for the same recycled games...
They sold half the company to Tencent.
Ohh
I forgot about the horrible toxic working environment and harassment cases.
In the past - sure. When you had games like Rayman, Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon Prince of Persia, Far Cry 2-3-4, Beyond Good & Evil, even Heroes of Might and Magic V and published games like Cold Fear, Warlords and so on. Be proud of that, your legacy is great.
But what you're doing right now? No. And the fact that you don't see any problems with that is very sad.
The good:
Historic locations and most accurate recreations in the AC games.
Far Cry 3
AC 1 and 2
Immortals Fenyx
Divison 1
Splinter Cell Series and older games.
The bad: Ubi worldification of everything.