Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot refuses to rule out long-awaited sequel and suggests that game designer Michel Ancel is involved.
Following the closure of XDefiant and its studios, Yves Guillemet sent an internal memo to Ubisoft employees about its future.
Replies(3)
It takes a certain kind of narcissist to be a CEO. It's counterproductive, but there are specific personality types companies seek to be in these roles. People lacking in a certain kind of empathy is common for western companies and damn near a requirement at the very large US companies.
Anyway, I think the real question is... When is the BOARD going to push him out?
Guillemot will ride this wave until he's inconvenienced. We know this.
It really becomes a matter of when will he be reigned in, not when he decides to stop burning money.
And if he does go, very unlikely it's his decision, but he'll frame it that way to save face.
It's estimated that 21% of CEOs are psychopath... Psychopaths in the general prison population is estimated to be 15%-25%.
INMATEofARKHAM,
Yeah, nah. Social research is my wheelhouse and I think it's very much an ice cream and shark attacks situation here (i.e., a study that links two things on the basis of correlation without considering the meditating and moderating variables).
The general prison population is quite different from the white collar crowd, especially when the general prison population tends to be comprised of people incarcerated for nonsense reasons.
I couldn't tell you how many people actually deserve to be in prison, but private prisons do offer a perverse incentive to lock people up for stupid reasons.
I remember back in the day when Ubisoft was actually a great publisher and developer. I mean, not everything were bangers but just for some comparison of the variety to what we get now, they published Drakengard 2, we had Beyond Good and Evil, Cold Fear, the Splinter Cell games, and that’s just some rapid fire stuff off the top of my head.
This guy ruined the company.
The 2000s were Ubisoft peak, I mean look at 2003 - 2004 alone with what they created themselves or published.
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc (March 17, 2003)
Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield (March 2003)
XIII (October 9, 2003)
Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time (October 28, 2003)
Beyond Good And Evil (November 19, 2003)
Ghost Recon 2 (March 2004)
Far Cry (March 23, 2004)
Splinter Cell 2: Pandora Tomorrow (March 23, 2004)
Crazy how much they've fallen from grace
The list is really good aside from Far Cry. This game was made by Crytek and only published by Ubisoft who later bought the IP to hand it over to their studios while Crytek went doing the Crysis series
Omg, he is founder and CEO, he built this company from beginning.. All these games we had is because of him.
@CrimsonWing69
Shareholders seeking infinite growth ruined it, just like everything else the stock market touches. I wouldn't be surprised if he resigned on the shareholders' orders.
Well, gamers were part of the problem here. A lot of the games you cited (and that others cite as the golden age of Ubisoft) didn't really sell that well, aside from the Tom Clancy games, and not even those were sure fire hits. Then in the late PS3/360 to early PS4/Xone era they started basically making all of their singleplayer games feel the same (i.e. the "Ubisoft formula") and gamers massively rewarded them for it for years. Then they turned Rainbow Six from an interesting tactical shooter with singleplayer, multiplayer, and co-op components into a grindy live-service game designed to sell micro transactions (Siege) and gamers flocked to it.
Yes, gamers have woken up to what Ubisoft is, and it has cost Ubisoft substantially. They have continued to make games based on late 2010s expectations of gamer buying habits, and it has hurt them badly; a game like Star Wars Outlaws, regardless of its flaws, would have sold substantially better had it come out circa 2016 than it did this year. But we (maybe not you or me but gamers collectively) did a lot to encourage Ubisoft to become what it is today.
I hate to see this. I mean it was a decent game but I wish there was more to choose from. I know Ubisoft to me hasn’t been the same since the ps2/xbox-ps3/360 era. Ghost Recon was prettier fun along with Splinter Cell and obviously Rainbow Six.
I have a love hate relationship with Call of Duty. I wish there were more games pushing realism instead of what Call of Duty has become. Again I love the movement and have lots of friends who play it, so it’s always going to be compelling at least for now.
I’m optimistic to see what EA will bring with Battlefield bring this coming year. I had a lot of fun with BF3 and BF4 was pretty good.
If we can have a tactical pvp mission/extraction based game. I will be much appreciated..
"If we can have a tactical pvp mission/extraction based game."
What? You want another game chasing the same PvPvE fad? How many extraction shooters do there need to be?
Is it a crime for wanting another one?.. I’ll be honest, DMZ was really fun, fighting off platoons at the final exfil was a blast.. I just wished they would’ve invested into renewing it instead of doing away with it. I honestly haven’t had that much fun in a long time. I made a lot of friends playing it and they all say the same. I don’t really like Warzone as much.
So what is there left on console that is anything remotely similar to that? PC has Delta Force which looks like it’s right up my alley.. and it won’t be out on console until next year.
Helldivers 2 was fun but I get fatigued when I play more than a few rounds.
Shame I don’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. I doubt his employees do either.
“I would like to say that there’s a lot of space for very high quality games," says Yves Guillemot.
" very high quality "
That's only true for one of the two though, and we all know which one that'll be.
I promise, only one of them will.
And it's the one that is the better franchise and respects the historical context of the region.
Dude’s getting the sweat because star wars outlaws underperformed, and that’s with far smaller controversy compared to AC shadows.
As a black man I find the concept of a huge black Samurai in feudal Japan so bad that is funny.
Such a dumb decision.
The people arguing about "historical accuracy" were very quiet when AC Valhalla allowed players to play Eivor Varinsdottir (a real shieldmaiden) as a man.
Well of course, but AC: Shadows will be on more platforms so I would expect it to sell more than Ghost.
Guillemot discusses his vision for Ubisoft’s upcoming slate, the future of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, the good and bad of the games industry, and more.
I'd like an Altair Collection, with Altaïr's Chronicles + Assassin's Creed + Bloodlines. I also wish Discovery would have been included in the Ezio Collection or offered as DLC for it.
Can’t imagine someone whose opinion I care to hear less. Unless it’s a “AAAA” interview, then that changes everything. /s
Damn I know we gone be waiting a while for those remakes, 😫 the classic ac games deserve, it would be dope if more devs did this, get the remembered gems closer to a technical level they pictured back then
Stop talking and start showing.
please be real please be real please be real... this game for me is no2 if not equivalent to the last guardian.. loved the 1st.. the only problem is Ubisoft
Oh hurry up with it¬!!!!!!!!
Seriously?! Less than 2 weeks ago, Ubisoft told IGN that Michael Ancel was no longer involved in this game.
Sorry Ubisoft, but I'll believe it when I see it...