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

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!

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.

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.

I believe they want to divert all their resources into one huge Fortnite like success story. Something that can bring them a reliable recurring revenue stream.

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".

I feel like this file would be valuable for every company we might purchase from, and also nearly impossible to maintain.

• Cassette Beasts

• Pseudoregalia

• Return of the Obra Dinn

• Chants of Sennar

• Gloomwood

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!)

Monster Train 2 if you like card games. It's got a load of content and replay and they recently released a patch today to add more!

The Last Caretaker and StarRupture are pretty fun if you like the factory survival type game. TLC is something really special IMO. The boat aspect is just so much fun.

I've been waiting for Ubisoft's collapse for years now. Unfortunately, the consumer has proved me wrong time and time again.

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!

Cooperatives and unions are the future!

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

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.

Sadly not everywhere.

Ameeerica