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Ubisoft posts record $1.7 billion loss for 2025-26 financial year

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https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ubisoft-reports-record-annual-loss-160040788.html

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So the astroturfing “gaming” press saying that everything was great at Ubisoft and asscreed was selling amazingly well all turned out to be BS. Who would have seen that coming. :rolleyes:

And they’re going to lean into live service, good luck with that. Plus French employment laws will make it hard to fire all the useless DEI hires they’ve accumulated. Probably not as hard to fire all the Canadian ones.
 
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$1.7 billion loss is staggering but honestly not surprising to anyone who has watched them churn out the same open world checklist formula for the past decade. The Splinter Cell point hurts — they had genuinely great IPs and just sat on them. Pivoting to live service at this point feels like exactly the wrong bet when players are already burned out on that model.
 
they really have slacked on any of the tom clancy games lately. I think the only ps5 release is rainbow six?
 
Blade-Runner said:
Just shit stain game journalists and a handful of retards in the gaming subforum who desperately tried to convince everyone that Ubi's latest offerings were anything but trash sprinkled with ideological bullshit.
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Been fun watching someone writhe around acting like it's only 'a loud minority of gamers' and Ubi's games are great.
 
a bit of a timing (almost all the revenues of the latest assassin creed being previous quarter by a week, lot of accountint rules that force them to take the loss of cancelled project this year, a single big game release in Anno, etc...), but still that show they needed that Tencent money going in I imagine
 
There are many talented people at Ubisoft, so I won't celebrate a failure... but it needs to get out of rehashing the same basic open-world formula every year across multiple franchises. It makes Battlefield and Call of Duty releases seem varied by comparison.
 
polonyc2 said:
they have a lot of good ip's: Far Cry, The Division, Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell...not every game has been great but no one should be rooting for Ubisoft to fail
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No, no - we should be rooting for them to fail (as they are doing themselves, rooting for it or not) and for the IPs/assets to get sold off/bought up by a less woke, more competent company

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It would be nice if they'd make another Far Cry Blood Dragon game. It would need to be as large as a regular Far Cry game instead of being the much smaller DLC-sized game we got.

Another game in the Driver series would be nice, too. I liked Driver: San Francisco. I'd just hope that a new Driver game wouldn't have woke garbage in it.
 
When I was getting an accounting degree, our capstone project involved doing financial analysis of activision vs ubisoft. That was like 7 years ago but as I recall, we concluded that Ubisoft had too much debt and was far too reliant on stagnant IP that they just kept releasing sequels to.

I just went back and looked at their stock price when I finished that project vs now. Yeah, we were right.
 
bigdogchris said:
Need good franchises like Might & Magic sold off to someone who will actually do something with it more than once every 10 years.
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I'm not sure how a developer would revive the franchise. Does it go back to the classic RPG approach? Does it pursue the Heroes track? There's actually a new Heroes game ("Olden Era") in early access right now, but you're right in that Might & Magic largely went dark a decade ago.

I'm old enough to have played the very first games as a kid, so I'd love something that captured the sense of wonder from back then... but that would be difficult as the delight was as much in the technical novelty (this was a first-person RPG at a time when they were still rare) as the gameplay.
 
Aurelius said:
There's actually a new Heroes game ("Olden Era") in early access right now,
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I picked that up since they were marketing it as going back to HoMM 3 gameplay (the best version IMO). Haven't had enough free time to play it so I can't say if it's any good or not.
 
M76 said:
They haven't done anything with the Splinter Cell IP since 2013, besides cameos and mobile slop.
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Maybe it is better to let Sam Fisher and Splinter Cell die. Do you really want to play as Samantha Fisher? :ROFLMAO:

polonyc2 said:
they have a lot of good ip's: Far Cry, The Division, Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell...not every game has been great but no one should be rooting for Ubisoft to fail
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And most of those games aren't as good as they used to be. Splinter Cell has been dead for a while. Far Cry 6 was decent, but the story writing was awful, the political messaging out of place, the characters cheesy and dumb, and the dudebro theme is really getting old. They can't write stories, pace games, or make interesting protagonists. Their games are loosing popularity for a reason.
 
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Flogger23m said:
And most of those games aren't as good as they used to be. Splinter Cell has been dead for a while. Far Cry 6 was decent, but the story writing was awful, the political messaging out of place, the characters cheesy and dumb, and the dudebro theme is really getting old. They can't write stories, pace games, or make interesting protagonists. Their games are loosing popularity for a reason.
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Far Cry and Assassin's Creed are mainly about the unique settings/time periods...Ubisoft does deserve credit for some of their unique locations that you don't see in a lot of games- FC2 Africa, FC5 Montana, FC4 Himalayas
 
I haven’t played many games in the last 18 years but when I did it was splinter cell and rainbow six. :LOL:
 
Apparently unpopular opinion but I did (and do enjoy) some of their games, Anno 1800 and 117, The Division 1/2, Ghost Recon Wildlands and some of the Assassin's Creed ones.
And they do have good artists so it is unfortunate for those people.
I can't subscribe to the wanting X company to fail because they make something that I don't like. I can just not buy their stuff and go engage/buy some other content that I do like.
 
Templar_X said:
The Division 1/2
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Div 1 is one of my favorite games - Div 2 sucks IMO - but also mainly because I'm not a looter shooter fan at all (a testament to how good/'lightning in a bottle' 1 was that it became a favorite of mine to overcome that)

I still play 2 from time to time though because the gunplay is alright + one of my main gaming friends plays it a lot (he's a looter shooter addict actually) - while the world/setting/environments of 2 were not as captivating as the world/setting/environments of 1, they were still very good graphics.

You can see ever since the release of the Battle of Brooklyn DLC how Ubi apparently has just 'C team' people on it now as the graphics for new stuff took a noticeable dive (very, very simplistic 'piles of leaves' etc.). I heard there was supposedly some new graphics update for it, but I'm not eager, if not hesitant, to see what that's about because of that.
 
Flogger23m said:
Maybe it is better to let Sam Fisher and Splinter Cell die. Do you really want to play as Samantha Fisher? :ROFLMAO:
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If it was 2010 I'd say yes without hesitation.
Flogger23m said:
And most of those games aren't as good as they used to be. Splinter Cell has been dead for a while. Far Cry 6 was decent, but the story writing was awful, the political messaging out of place, the characters cheesy and dumb, and the dudebro theme is really getting old. They can't write stories, pace games, or make interesting protagonists. Their games are loosing popularity for a reason.
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Exactly, it is a writing issue, not an issue with the gender of the playable character. And this is not limited to Ubisoft because it plagues most of the AAA industry.

I understand that it is trendy to have a hateboner for ubisoft, but despite all of its problems, I had a ton of fun with Far Cry 6, while nobody else gave me anything close to that. So actually, I'd rather they have a leadership change and keep making open world games instead of going out of business entirely.
 
The Ubisoft CEO has a talent for always saying the wrong thing, no matter what. The company is toxic af, and consumers know it.
 
polonyc2 said:
they have a lot of good ip's: Far Cry, The Division, Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Splinter Cell...not every game has been great but no one should be rooting for Ubisoft to fail
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No, I'm rooting for them to fail ... as well as every company that has sucked the soul out of gaming and placed ideology above everything else. They deserve this. I'd rather they not fail ... learn from their mistakes ... and make great games again. But I don't see that happening.
 
kram182 said:
I still play 2 from time to time though because the gunplay is alright + one of my main gaming friends plays it a lot (he's a looter shooter addict actually) - while the world/setting/environments of 2 were not as captivating as the world/setting/environments of 1, they were still very good graphics.
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I totally agree — the atmosphere in Division 1 was very captivating, especially if you played with almost no UI and neutral lighting turned on. It’s still one of my favorites for immersion, and the seamlessness of starting missions was, at the time, very refreshing.
 
M76 said:
So actually, I'd rather they have a leadership change and keep making open world games instead of going out of business entirely.
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Guillemot will become an undead lich king before relinquishing control. Ubisoft needs to be completely obliterated so there's a tiny chance some competent developer will get to work with the IPs.
 
Armenius said:
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PC gamers have been comfortable for many decades with steam training most of us since the mids 00s, I have not bough a game I own in decades, that more a console side of things.

GOG:
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More a physical medium on consoles affair where the concept still exist a bit

Steam is quite clear:
The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services.

Here they mean Xbox gamepass a la netflix model not just not owned (which has been the norm for a long time with everyone well comfortable already about not owning their games), which a lot of people are already quite comfortable with by now.
 
jfreund said:
Guillemot will become an undead lich king before relinquishing control. Ubisoft needs to be completely obliterated so there's a tiny chance some competent developer will get to work with the IPs.
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It's more likely to end up at a company like Embracer, who are guaranteed to shelve it and try to pass on for a profit. At least while ubisoft is around there is a chance for games to be made.
 
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