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

Shoganai said:
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.
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They deserve it because they intentionally chose to ignore, if not deride and provoke, a very large segment of potential customers in favour of a small echo chamber of ideologues, tourists and all round dip shits who were never going to buy the games in large enough numbers to make the endeavour profitable. It's a shame that the company responsible for creating so many memorable games like Beyond Good & Evil, Farcry 1 - 3, Splintercell 1 - 3, etc decided to abandon making great games in favour of chasing the mythical 'modern audience', but if it ultimately fails it will be of its own making.
 
Blade-Runner said:
They deserve it because they intentionally chose to ignore, if not deride and provoke, a very large segment of potential customers in favour of a small echo chamber of ideologues, tourists and all round dip shits who were never going to buy the games in large enough numbers to make the endeavour profitable. It's a shame that the company responsible for creating so many memorable games like Beyond Good & Evil, Farcry 1 - 3, Splintercell 1 - 3, etc decided to abandon making great games in favour of chasing the mythical 'modern audience', but if it ultimately fails it will be of its own making.
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It's brilliant marketing. Never cater to your target demographic. Always cater to the loud minority that never buys your product in the first place. We could all learn from Ubisoft.

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M76 said:
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.
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Agreed. I think Far Cry 6 had some good improvements in shooting gameplay and driving mechanics. Mission design could have used some work. But the story was quite bad, and the characters sucked. I would like a better Far Cry 7, but Ubisoft has severe writing and character design issues.
 
Weird to hope your games stop working...
Anyway since no one mentioned them I liked Watchdogs and am currently playing Anno 1800. I hate the launcher/DRM but since I gave up on them sometime last year for a shitty launcher (I have 1 to 2 hours to play games not to play troubleshoot a launcher or play spam the email refresh to try to use 2fa that doesn't send a code in time to be used.) This year the launcher is working.

Edit has anyone played splinter cell in the last 10 years, I tried it and the rose colored glasses were doing a lot of work.
 
I love the Anno games.

Otherwise, I think the last Ubisoft game I bought was FarCry. The first one.
 
CaffeineMan said:
Weird to hope your games stop working...
Anyway since no one mentioned them I liked Watchdogs and am currently playing Anno 1800. I hate the launcher/DRM but since I gave up on them sometime last year for a shitty launcher (I have 1 to 2 hours to play games not to play troubleshoot a launcher or play spam the email refresh to try to use 2fa that doesn't send a code in time to be used.) This year the launcher is working.

Edit has anyone played splinter cell in the last 10 years, I tried it and the rose colored glasses were doing a lot of work.
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I played through the original 3 for the first time a couple years ago and had a good time. Some rough edges and moments where I thought they had improved in later games but still fun.
 
alxlwson said:
I love the Anno games.

Otherwise, I think the last Ubisoft game I bought was FarCry. The first one.
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My wife showed interest in Anno, so I was thinking about buying her a copy. But I don't want what happened to my 2k21 PGA game, where the whole reason I bought it was to play with my friends on line. Then they changed the term of the sale, removed the ability to play with friends. (I know, I know I don't own anything and I am happy), and I know I could have bought 2k23 at a discount when they discontinued the 2k21 game. I am not owning my games even though I "buy" them. Why not put an experation date on games like this, like this way I can see I am paying 20 bucks I will only play it 5 to 10 times before the servers go off-line. I can then make an infromed decision to buy it or not.

I am so happy about not owning anything I really like how I bought a Meta Quest 3 and told it to not do updates, then it update anyway, I can't play my sideloaded game unless I am connected to WiFi, so I can no longer use it at work, if it worked this way when I bought it I would have returned it. I know you can defend that by saying I agreed to the TOS. I did ground it from the internet after the update (so now all my games will need find the tricorner hat and all my games will be sideloaded, so much for buying any more games, play stupid games get stupid results).

BUT lets say I sold you a car.
After you made the final payment, got into your garage and smashed the back door so it no longer opens.
You call the police. I tell the police it is in the TOS that I can update the car. I did the owner a favor at no cost to them I made the car less desirable to steal. I even made it harder (now if they forget to lock the back door it still will not open.)
You point at the fake plastic button on your dash that says update and say it is off and it was never on.
I remind you that you are now safer. If you want to buy a new car without dents I have some on my lot.
You complain on the internet and my fans rip you a new one for even mentioning it. (it is in the TOS are you stupid? Don't you want a secure car?).

Or what if I sold you a car.
After 60 months I take the engine.
The TOS of the purchace redefined the words sell and sold and bought and purchased.
How am I to make any money if you are no longer making monthly payments. Don't you want me to stay in businuess?

I love our timeline.
 
CaffeineMan said:
My wife showed interest in Anno, so I was thinking about buying her a copy. But I don't want what happened to my 2k21 PGA game, where the whole reason I bought it was to play with my friends on line. Then they changed the term of the sale, removed the ability to play with friends. (I know, I know I don't own anything and I am happy), and I know I could have bought 2k23 at a discount when they discontinued the 2k21 game. I am not owning my games even though I "buy" them. Why not put an experation date on games like this, like this way I can see I am paying 20 bucks I will only play it 5 to 10 times before the servers go off-line. I can then make an infromed decision to buy it or not.

I am so happy about not owning anything I really like how I bought a Meta Quest 3 and told it to not do updates, then it update anyway, I can't play my sideloaded game unless I am connected to WiFi, so I can no longer use it at work, if it worked this way when I bought it I would have returned it. I know you can defend that by saying I agreed to the TOS. I did ground it from the internet after the update (so now all my games will need find the tricorner hat and all my games will be sideloaded, so much for buying any more games, play stupid games get stupid results).

BUT lets say I sold you a car.
After you made the final payment, got into your garage and smashed the back door so it no longer opens.
You call the police. I tell the police it is in the TOS that I can update the car. I did the owner a favor at no cost to them I made the car less desirable to steal. I even made it harder (now if they forget to lock the back door it still will not open.)
You point at the fake plastic button on your dash that says update and say it is off and it was never on.
I remind you that you are now safer. If you want to buy a new car without dents I have some on my lot.
You complain on the internet and my fans rip you a new one for even mentioning it. (it is in the TOS are you stupid? Don't you want a secure car?).

Or what if I sold you a car.
After 60 months I take the engine.
The TOS of the purchace redefined the words sell and sold and bought and purchased.
How am I to make any money if you are no longer making monthly payments. Don't you want me to stay in businuess?

I love our timeline.
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Brunch, I feel your pain.

How sure are we that you haven’t turned into CrackMan?
 
alxlwson said:
Brunch, I feel your pain.

How sure are we that you haven’t turned into CrackMan?
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No, I am just tired. I am tired of my perfectly working stuff break because a company decided they want me to buy a new one. I am tired of my hardware not working because it was cheaper to make it connect to a proprietary cloud. I am tired of people defending this behavior. Steam killed the gamer pirate. Early Netflix killed the video pirate.
 
CaffeineMan said:
No, I am just tired. I am tired of my perfectly working stuff break because a company decided they want me to buy a new one. I am tired of my hardware not working because it was cheaper to make it connect to a proprietary cloud. I am tired of people defending this behavior. Steam killed the gamer pirate. Early Netflix killed the video pirate.
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Steam gave us a way to not really need to pirate. We got a trial to see if a game was worth a count or not.
 
alxlwson said:
I love the Anno games.

Otherwise, I think the last Ubisoft game I bought was FarCry. The first one.
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That's like saying Doom 3 was an Activision game, or Half-Life was a Sierra game. The first one was a Crytek game published by Ubisoft. The sequels were all Ubisoft games, though.
 
Armenius said:
That's like saying Doom 3 was an Activision game, or Half-Life was a Sierra game. The first one was a Crytek game published by Ubisoft. The sequels were all Ubisoft games, though.
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Well sure. Getting a little into semantics at this point in the game though.
 
Armenius said:
That's like saying Doom 3 was an Activision game, or Half-Life was a Sierra game. The first one was a Crytek game published by Ubisoft. The sequels were all Ubisoft games, though.
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This is a good point to bring up though. Ubisoft's good IPs are were derived from other studios who they bought out. They still put out some good games but once everything was brought in house and they started making their own games is when everything started to feel the same and quality started to drop.
 
Flogger23m said:
This is a good point to bring up though. Ubisoft's good IPs are were derived from other studios who they bought out. They still put out some good games but once everything was brought in house and they started making their own games is when everything started to feel the same and quality started to drop.
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Assassin's Creed was developed in house. Outside of Far Cry I can't think of another IP still on Ubisoft's portfolio that wasn't developed in house. Anno, TrackMania, and Monopoly I guess.
 
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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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Why not?
Maybe I don't want to play only games with numbers in their title.

Sometimes you have to let the past die. Ubisoft got to big to take any risk. They stopped making interesting new games. All they do is make number go up.

Let it die. The talented people there will go to new things or better start their own studios. Massive multi billion dollar game companies is not good for games. It's no different then Hollywood. No one funds art and new interesting things cause it's too risky. Just keep making product people know. You liked that one here is the same thing for a 8th time.... Its a franchise. Piss off make something new. I think I'm done buying and wasting my time with anything franchise or IP. Go away... New title or I don't care.
 
ChadD said:
Why not?
Maybe I don't want to play only games with numbers in their title.

Sometimes you have to let the past die. Ubisoft got to big to take any risk. They stopped making interesting new games. All they do is make number go up.

Let it die. The talented people there will go to new things or better start their own studios. Massive multi billion dollar game companies is not good for games. It's no different then Hollywood. No one funds art and new interesting things cause it's too risky. Just keep making product people know. You liked that one here is the same thing for a 8th time.... Its a franchise. Piss off make something new. I think I'm done buying and wasting my time with anything franchise or IP. Go away... New title or I don't care.
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I don't want my games to stop working. I don't care who made them. I don't care if it is the 1800th anno, I bought it, I enjoy playing it more than other annos.
 
CaffeineMan said:
I don't want my games to stop working. I don't care who made them. I don't care if it is the 1800th anno, I bought it, I enjoy playing it more than other annos.
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Ahhh you bring up another good point.
Perhaps it's on us to NOT buy games we have to login or pass some online check to play.
Perhaps it's our own damn fault if that 10 year old creed game won't boot anymore cause we allowed a game publisher to require us to check in with them.
 
ChadD said:
Ahhh you bring up another good point.
Perhaps it's on us to NOT buy games we have to login or pass some online check to play.
Perhaps it's our own damn fault if that 10 year old creed game won't boot anymore cause we allowed a game publisher to require us to check in with them.
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My fault for not reading a 80 page TOS the redefines the words like purchase and buy and to find out the game requires a launcher. (Looks at my steam library nervously with all the games I don't own, but paid in a store with a cart that used to use buy).
I know, I will play only buy GOG games with all the new huge selection of AAA titles. /s
I know I could buy her 1404 from GOG. But she saw 1800 and that is the one she showed interest in. (to be clear I am not buying her 1800 with a potential expiration date. I am also, like I said before never buying a 2k game again. When they wanted me to buy the PGA 2k03 because the 01 version is no longer going to be online. I did the math and I figured 03 will stop working in 2 years or sooner, and it is not worth it to me, but all my 01 friends rewarded the behavior and bought 03. The tragic thing is one of them was creating new content for 01 by making maps and publishing them, for free.
 
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