General Ubisoft thread

[MasterHero]

I found an interessting article about Ubisoft Montpellier in general.
But it has very little do with Rayman or BGE.
Also Ancel is just a little mentioned.

Anyway, for some of you it might be interessting:
http://www.develop-online.net/features/ ... y-of-light

[Elite Piranha]

Can this thread be used to talk about Ubisoft in general? (it may have to be moved to the Off-Topic section, though).

Anyway, this is old news, but I wanted to mention the "Great Exodus":
https://kotaku.com/so-many-ubisoft-empl ... 1848248999

[ilovelums27]

Yes. We should, as a community, talk about this. Because it is very concerning what's happening at Ubisoft and we should not support that.

Ubisoft is not the company we used to love. A lot of employees have left because of the decisions (not firing assaulters, no equal pay, NFT's, micro-transactions, games as a service, open worlds that are too big and don't engage) from Yves and other higher-ups. With all the news I'm hearing, it's also no wonder Michel Ancel has left Ubisoft (and gaming in general). He has probably spent half of his life with a company that for 50% of his employment just didn't care about his visions anymore and probably treated him like shit as well (which, without going into rumor territory too much, probably also resulted in him being frustrated).

I don't think current Ubisoft is even going to make a new Rayman game. Look at how the company has treated their IP's (especially Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, heck even Assassins Creed hasn't been the same lately). Think about it, IF it ever were to happen it would probably be an open-world games-as-a-service with sub-par platforming and probably a story and world without any impact. And honestly, I wouldn't want to play or get invested in that. Plus the team that made Rayman 3, has probably also left.

Also, personally, as an assault survivor with PTSD it's also very heartbreaking to see what the company has turned into. I personally can't buy Ubisoft games anymore. Because I also know most of the money is going to the higher-ups and assaulters. So I stand with all the (ex-)employees of Ubisoft who are fighting against the issues and I'm hoping it will turn around some day.

[Tribelle2026]

Ubisoft seems to have no intention on making a proper Rayman game so I'd rather the series be put to rest instead of them reusing Legends' assets over and over to make mobile games.

[Elite Piranha]

I read an article that suggested the idea that Microsoft could adquire Ubisoft.

[dr_st]

They might be hit with anti-trust again, if they do. With the recent Activision/Blizzard acquisition, that might make them too big.

Then again, actual monopolies like Google and Facebook have not been hit with anything meaningful, so who knows...

[Hunchman801]

They might be hit with anti-trust again, if they do. With the recent Activision/Blizzard acquisition, that might make them too big.

Yes, the current deal is undergoing a lot of scrutiny so I doubt a second one is even possible. I think we can expect some consolidation within smaller players though.

Then again, actual monopolies like Google and Facebook have not been hit with anything meaningful, so who knows...

They've mostly achieved their monopoly status through organic growth, they could never reach that size through acquisitions.

[dr_st]

They've mostly achieved their monopoly status through organic growth, they could never reach that size through acquisitions.

Yes and no... The monopoly in the core business has indeed been achieved through organic growth - they were simply very good at what they did. However, what they did later was to leverage their power in one field to achieve domination in another. For instance - Google acquiring Youtube and Waze gave them tremendous power in video hosting and navigation platforms. Facebook acquiring Instagram and Whatsapp did a similar thing, in other fields.

This gives them both power over competitors - a competing video platform is at an inherent huge disadvantage compared to Youtube, because it doesn't have the same tight integration with other Google services, nor the ability to self-promote from within (tweaking the search, internal advertising, etc.), and power over users - if Google or Facebook don't like you - you can be shut off their services everywhere. And that is before we get into the subject of web hosting - the big business and big power.

I recall Microsoft was hit with anti-trust simply for shipping their own browser with their own OS. Acquisitions weren't involved in that case.

[PluMGMK]

I read an article that suggested the idea that Microsoft could adquire Ubisoft.

Funny, I had a dream to that effect over a decade ago, although it might have been the other way round…

I recall Microsoft was hit with anti-trust simply for shipping their own browser with their own OS. Acquisitions weren't involved in that case.

Yup…

[dr_st]

Yes. True and sad.

[Hunchman801]

Yes and no... The monopoly in the core business has indeed been achieved through organic growth - they were simply very good at what they did. However, what they did later was to leverage their power in one field to achieve domination in another. For instance - Google acquiring Youtube and Waze gave them tremendous power in video hosting and navigation platforms. Facebook acquiring Instagram and Whatsapp did a similar thing, in other fields.

That's true, I was referring to horizontal acquisitions only. Vertical acquisitions are much more difficult to analyze with regard to antitrust analysis, and I must say I often find such cases dreadfully far-fetched when I hear about them, but hey, it's not exactly my field of expertise!

[Elite Piranha]

I wonder if this is worth mentioning in the wiki:
https://twitter.com/ThalesAerospace/sta ... 1951297536

[Tribelle2026]

I wish Ubisoft would open source the Ubi Art engine like Michel Ancel wanted.

[Hunchman801]

I wonder if this is worth mentioning in the wiki:
https://twitter.com/ThalesAerospace/sta ... 1951297536

This must be referring to Rayman's Incrediballs Dodge, the game featuring Incrediballs on Ubisoft Nano.

[The Jonster]

So in other news, Ubisoft has set a date for appearing in Gamescom:
https://twitter.com/Ubisoft/status/1541 ... Xyq8a0nDnQ

Great time to either be disappointed with the results, laugh at Ubisoft while slandering them, or pretending to be disappointed while not actually caring.

I'm probably going to do the latter 2 tbh.

[Elite Piranha]

I'll be prepared with some "Rayman is depressed" memes for the occassion .

[arnoldfranklin]

Yeah, well, it's okay to know when it is. Anyways, I saw a Gamexplain video about a leak for Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope of the release date of October 20, 2022 and a new character was leaked. It was Bowser lol.