RTOs are most often a “one free layoff”-card that businesses play, so firing someone for criticizing it is very much in line with the underlying intent of the policy.
I am so thankful that the executives took a productivity and happiness survey when we went full time remote.
Any time a new manager brings up maybe we should return to the office, our offcial remote manual begins with data: we are far more productive remote working. There is the data, the proof.
The second part about being overall happier reminds us that we didn’t really like being in the office either.
We also have two more metrics: amount of time saved by a company in commute reduction, and the increase in safety.
But the first two are the most important.
Is there a company that’s trying to destroy itself as much as Ubisoft? The CEO and board that’s running this company are genuinely some of the dumbest motherfuckers in the world. These idiots are still dedicating significant resources to make NFT games, they’re still trying to insist that microtransactions are fun, they refuse to do anything to make their games more enjoyable to players, and they’re trying everything in their power to squeeze out their talent. At this point, Ubisoft deserves to collapse.
They released one game last year that I’d expect to make money (Assassin’s Creed 14).
Not sure how they’re actually in business right now. Surely they need more than that to stay afloat. None of their microtransaction games are whale milking machines like EA’s FIFA/Madden or Activision’s COD series.
I’ll kind of miss them when they’re gone. They’ve always been the least evil of the big publishers.
Ubisoft is one of the least evil? I guess to a point, but I’d argue they haven’t made a truly great game in about a decade.
No real loss in my opinion.
Assassin’s Creed 14
What the fuck there’s 14 Assassin’s Creed games? Surely they’re gonna run out of historical periods soon. It’s only a matter of time before the announce Assassin’s Creed: Unga Bunga where you just sneak around the forest as a cave man
They already did that in Far Cry Primal…
They got a cash injection from their parent company
I’ve been waiting for Ubisoft’s collapse for years now. Unfortunately, the consumer has proved me wrong time and time again.
And yet there are still a lot of players who buy their games lol.
He didn’t even insult them, how is this legal?
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He was attached to Ubi’s office Montreal, QC, Canada.
If there isn’t anything more than what is mentioned in the article, it’s highly that the CDPDJ would rule against Ubi if the dismissal is challenged; this would likely be protected as Freedom of Expression, as nothing negative was said about Ubi besides the implication that Ubi thought that their employees wouldn’t see their motives.Curious: Does Montreal allow “employment at will” like most states in the US do? If it does, I can’t imagine an UbiSoft contract not including it. The article definitely makes it sound like a termination for cause, but what’s written on his termination paperwork may be entirely different.
QC has stronger protections than neighboring ON does, actually. If the employee has more than 2 years of service they simply cannot be dismissed without just cause. Even under 2 years there are a bunch of protections, but at 2+ it gets harder.
Yeah, that kind of worker protection pretty much died in 'murica 25+ years ago.
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I stopped buying Unisoft games decades ago. Because they suck. The owners suck. The management sucks. The corporate culture sucks. I feel bad for the coders working for them.
Stop. Buying. Ubisoft. Games.
I tried to uninstall a game but was blocked because I didn’t remember my ubisoft launcher password. Wtf, its my PC get the fuck out
Probably wanna check
BulkCrapUninstaller for windows. https://www.bcuninstaller.com/
It’s pretty good.
Or just drop Winblows and finally move to freedom by installing a good Linux distro.
A Linux native version might even be worse. At least in windows you can usually just delete the directory out of \program files or wherever. Linux applications tend to insert themselves into every corner of your filesystem
I think expecting a company that’s this hostile towards uninstalling to distribute as a flat pack is asking a lot. Also maybe this is nitpicking but idk if I’d call containerized “native”
Revo Uninstaller is really good too.
Or as someone else mentioned, just ditch windows. It’s a sinking ship. I’ll end my spiel there.irunarchbtw
very nice, thanks for the link.
The last Ubisoft games I played to the end were AC: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, which were both like 12-13 years ago. Neither game was GOOD, but they seemed decent to me at the time. I’ve play tested a few titles since then since then, all of which were hot garbage. Ubisoft is as dead to me as EA these days.
siege was pretty cool for the first two years
Ubislop. I stopped buying them after AC2.
You just sail the high seas and never pay a single cent.
And you should! But most of them still aren’t worth the download.
Ubisoft, they are still alive. Wow. Well not much longer we can hope.
This is why I’m so happy I’m 3000 miles away from my office. No way I’m getting a call back to office. Never was and never will be.
The company I worked for (late stage startup) was bought by a giant mega corp, which has an office nearby. Literally my first month there and they announced a return to office policy.
We technically have a space in a city by me. But it’s like 12 random desks and some video conferences rooms. No way we could actually go back to the office. That sucks for you guys tho. My old man lost his long time remote role and is back on the road again every day.
So Ubisoft, that failed hard on their own launcher. Made several mistakes when it comes to the games they’ve released, made the wrong kind of news with “The Crew 2”, cancelled a bunch of games (but don’t worry, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is definitely coming out…), goes and fired a lead designer.
Let me break out my magnifying glass to check on their stocks. Oh, they made a slight “comeback” from earlier this week, they’re up to 92 cents a share.
Mgmt at that place is making bold decisions for a company; when if their stock gains a penny, it’s worth celebrating.
shouldve came out with better propaganda than using apple tv+ show to make your company look good(mythic quest)
Wth it was supposed to make them look good???
I (begrudgingly) enjoyed the first season of Mythic Quest. Knowing that it’s meant to be a fluff piece to improve the image of Unisoft boggles my mind. It’s in no way flattering to the industry, and I question the intelligence of anyone who thought it would be.
Merde alors.
I wonder who will get the Tom Clancy name?
Just sell Splinter Cell to a company that knows what the hell to do with it already.
Publish the code of conduct Ubisoft! Meh it not, dying company anyway.
yeah, that’ll make him show up to the office!
I get the impression Ubisoft wants to lay off as many people as possible anyway. They don‘t care who so as long as they can meet some quota. I’m guessing they‘re trying to push operating costs down while they‘re looking for buyers of their IPs.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
It’s big brain moves like this that’ll surely return the like … 20x? … value they’ve lost over the last few years.
I’m sure the publicity of it I’ll land this guy a higher paying job anyways
