UBIsoft in potential financial trouble

Business is business. You guys are twisting yourselves into knots over all this stuff.
Nah, it's just talking. ;) Different things can be viewed from different perspectives. It is what it is, MS wants ABK and is also cutting jobs, which can be read different ways.
 
Nah, it's just talking. ;) Different things can be viewed from different perspectives. It is what it is, MS wants ABK and is also cutting jobs, which can be read different ways.
Yeah, me too. We'll know soon enough exactly where these cuts are coming from. But regardless, sometimes things have to be cut, moved around, or changed.
 
I don't think that works. ABK acquisition is not analogous to increasing costs of essentials. MS aren't having to shell out $70 billion because their current expenses are increasing. If MS doesn't buy ABK, there's no clear, obvious impact to their operations in this difficult economic environment.

You'll have to convince me that MS spending $70 billion on ABK is as important to them as some household spending 20% more on groceries than they did this time last year because they've no choice but to spend that.

MS could sit on $70b and hope interest brings in more money than what activision could bring in which seems to be $1-3B a quarter or close to $9B a fiscal year. MS can then hope by reducing un- needed parts of blizzard they can pull more profit out of that . Also it could help grow the xbox and game pass business bringing evne more

It be like a family leaving money in the mattress instead of opening up a savings account or a cd.
 
Yeah, me too. We'll know soon enough exactly where these cuts are coming from. But regardless, sometimes things have to be cut, moved around, or changed.

The cuts seem to be coming from all over the company including wmr teams , alt space teams , DSS(ms stores) , bethesda , xbox game studios and so on.
 
Ubisoft's stock price has dropped to €13.82 at the time of writing, with shares continuing to drop over the weekend. Prior to the weekend, Ubisoft was doing slightly better at €15.50 per share. This is the lowest Ubisoft shares have been since 2014 and is a very substantial drop from Ubisoft's pre-pandemic share price.

Ubisoft peaked back in 2018, with shares rising to around €100 per share. That means in the post-pandemic era, Ubisoft has lost over 80% of its market value.

In recent years, Ubisoft has considered selling, but instead opted to stay the course and take on investment from Hedge funds like Blackrock. Ubisoft also took on investment from Tencent in the years prior to avoid a hostile takeover by former Activision parent company, Vivendi.
 
Yves Guillemot has been openly mocked as an out of touch evil corporate stooge by his own employees since 2013 (see the "real world" sections of AC4), but somehow the man convinced banks and investors to prop him up as CEO even as others tried to oust him years back.

This is the guy ultimately responsible for things like very obviously rushing out Watchdogs 3 and killing an entire franchise while Skull and Bones gets an indefinite budget and release date alongside a revolving door of different game directors. At least when someone buys Ubisoft he'll finally be gone. What an absolute 🤡
 
Anyway they could have invented some scifi power gloves to let her kill people with two punches in the helmet.
 
Anecdotal, but all of my friends who are playing Outlaws say they are having a good time. I see what they are trying to show here, but honestly I don't think I'd care if I was playing the game. Ste troopers are supposed to be the trash enemies, right?
 
I'm having a load of fun with it, the enforced stealth sections do suck but then I don't like any enforced elements in games (unless it's intensely story driven). Compared to Starfailed this is a real fun sci fi game. I think that is where some of the hate is coming from to TBH.
 
Do the Stormtroopers shoot you or miss? Is the above a bugged instance?

They, admitedly, do have terrible aim (just like in the films) but they do shoot you and at your location if they see you. And they have un-erringly good aim with grenades.

Though having said that there are times when the AI jsut goes off the rails and that's quite comical. I think they have an issue with how they are building their trees for path finding and object detection.
 
Ubisoft's crisis is an opportunity for MS to buy them, undersell all the ips, close the studios, and nominate Guillemot head of Microsoft Studios.
Wasn't there a clause in the ABK agreement that said they couldn't buy Ubisoft because they licensed the streaming rights to them? Maybe I fever dreamed that.
 
Wasn't there a clause in the ABK agreement that said they couldn't buy Ubisoft because they licensed the streaming rights to them? Maybe I fever dreamed that.

I remember hearing that too, that's why Sony should buy them instead but still make Guillemot Head of MS Studios :D
 
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