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[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 1 points 37 minutes ago

Publish the code of conduct Ubisoft! Meh it not, dying company anyway.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 38 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 22 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] funksoulkitchen@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] LunaChocken@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Probably wanna check

BulkCrapUninstaller for windows. https://www.bcuninstaller.com/

It's pretty good.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 59 minutes ago

Or just drop Winblows and finally move to freedom by installing a good Linux distro.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Ubislop. I stopped buying them after AC2.

[–] consumptionone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 hours ago
[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Merde alors.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 26 points 6 hours ago

Ubisoft, they are still alive. Wow. Well not much longer we can hope.

[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 56 points 9 hours ago

I mean, it's not hard to understand why their stock is down 95% over the last 5 years...

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 9 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 minutes ago

Cooperatives and unions are the future!

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Always.

But we need to get this huge problem away that always a power hungry dictator gets to power and then it turns into just any dictatorship!!! And not socialism!

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 92 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

bad-companies.md:

Ubisoft

2026:

  • fires team lead after return-to-office critique
  • closes Halifax studio 1 month after Union formed

2025:

  • full-in on gen-AI after shares plummeting
  • NOYB sues because of covert user tracking
  • Ubisoft wants to monitor your RAM (🏴‍☠️)
  • EULA demands deleting delisted games

2024:

  • deletes inactive customer accounts with purchased games
  • "Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games"
  • adds Denuvo after reviews were made

2023:

  • ads in games
  • started that list here

To be fair, they also want to be bought up (rebranding), after multiple buy-outs and mass-layoffs.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 22 points 9 hours ago

For things before 2023, there was sexual harassment (multiple) bullying and hostile workplace and their excitement over NFT. They had a boys club and made it a really toxic atmosphere, where the CCO literally said "Women don't sell".

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[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 80 points 12 hours ago (41 children)

Okay. I'm keeping my commitment, but I'm going to need help.

Everytime Ubisoft makes the news for being idiots, I buy another Indie game.

I'm going to need your recommendations for great indie games.

Because Ubisoft has recently gotten me through my wishlist.

[–] fuzzyfirefox@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

Zero Sievert - single player extraction shooter and you can customize the difficulty with granular controls

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Little Rocket Lab is like Stardew + Factorio. It's chill and fun.

[–] avav2y1rs@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Pulled from my Top Playtime on Steam (so you know you'll get your money's worth if you like them!)

  • Factorio (Even though the DLC is pricey, it at least doubles the playtime. Though, like RW below, it takes a lot of content/concepts from fan-made mods.)
  • RimWorld (Though I dislike how many DLCs they're pumping out and how much is basically taken from mods.)
  • Terraria
  • Mount & Blade (Warband 1 & 2 are prime)
  • Kerbal Space Program (NOT the sequel)
  • TerraTech (The original is a better experience)
  • Both the Pathfinder games
  • Grim Dawn
  • The Riftbreaker
  • UnderRail
  • Mindustry (Open source/free, but deserves the support from buying it on Steam.)
  • No Man's Sky (They've gone above and beyond in shaping up since the clusterf release.)
  • The Long Dark
  • Rise to Ruins
  • Space Pirates and Zombies (1 and 2 are both great, in their own ways.)
  • Caves of Qud
  • Tales of Maj'Eyal
  • STALKER (I've heard bad things about #2, but the rest are great, high replayability with Anomaly.)
  • Astroneer
  • War for the Overworld
  • Autonauts (and Autonauts vs Piratebots!)
[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

I'd like to add Satisfactory to this list.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Lets be real here... Factorio probably has more time played than all the others combined right? lol

[–] avav2y1rs@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

All combined? No. Top in playtime by a very large margin over #2? You betcha! 😁

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

The Riftbreaker is fun and graphcally nice to look at. For city builders, I'd also like to suggest:

  • Manor Lords
  • Timberborn
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

Amazing. Thank you!

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[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 174 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

yeah, that'll make him show up to the office!

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 40 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's big brain moves like this that'll surely return the like ... 20x? ... value they've lost over the last few years.

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 hours ago

I’m sure the publicity of it I’ll land this guy a higher paying job anyways

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 130 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they're axing people left right and center.

And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it's still alive in 2026 is in it's own right quite the achievement. I can't even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.

[–] fuzzyfirefox@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

Last Ubisoft game I purchased was Rainbow Six Vegas. Great game, but nothing else after that has interested me.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 12 hours ago

The goal of companies mandating RTO is attrition. They want people to quit without firing or laying them off.

Their goal is to hire younger, hungrier (both literally and figuratively) coders who are cheaper and less experienced and will use "AI" to clean up their code.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 65 points 12 hours ago

Management have over inflated egos. They think, oh, fuck John, John’s division only did $25m. They only see bottom lines. But they fail to realize they killed off John’s ideas that would have brought in $500m. So John leaves, gets to develop his own ideas, then shocked peakachu face.

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