http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vivendi-agm-strategy-idUSKBN17R0IO
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Reuters: Vivendi takeover of Ubisoft to take place this year
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SliceSabre
Banned
Talk about taking your time doing a takeover. Wonder what effect this will have on their games.
Deft Beck
Member
Full-on Activision. Nothing but sequels, no experimental titles like Grow Home.
Yves Guillemot out, abortion of any risky or innovative titles and every money on huge AAA sequels.
HamsterExAstris
Member
Say goodbye to niche stuff like Child of Light and a return to annual Assassin's Creed games.
Bye bye BG&E2
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Guess it won't happen before e3 so we'll get another awkward Ubisoft event like last year?
GitarooMan
Member
At least we got some good games out of them already this year. Hopefully Far Cry 5 is deep in development and not affected too much.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
Yep.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing, but then, I've felt like Ubi's done a lousy job for the last... almost decade, I guess. I kinda welcome the new corporate overlords.
BengaBenga
Member
They better not kill Rocksmith DLC arriving weekly
Yves will just walk on stage drunk as hell, piss on a Vivendi logo sitting in the middle of the stage and walk off.
michaelius
Banned
Saucycarpdog
Member
I expect civil war in the company once this happens, which will result in delays and cancellations.
Depends on whether BGE2 was cofunded by a third party and the contracts.
Phrozenflame500
Member
I dunno I've liked their recent output so I'd hope none of this effects their output that much.
tiebreaker
Member
Alawys love Ubi's E3.
Lord of Castamere
Member
RIP South Park. I don't expect you to survive the takeover.
JetSetRadio
Banned
Beautiful.
Believe.
Yeah I wonder what embarrassing thing they'll try to do to pretend that Vivendi doesn't have their number.
DomsPlaying
Member
Maybe, but I'm not sure it will end up being a full takeover because of how pricey that will be from both a cost and PR standpoint for Vivendi.
May settle with Vivendi owning around half of Ubisoft shares, but not going all the way. Just my two cents and gut feeling.
Edit: When Vivendi crossed the 25% ownership threshold, it was required under French law to disclose a variety of things. Including whether it will make a bid for full acquisition. It said, at the time in December, that it did NOT intend to do so. Under the same law, this disclosure must be updated *within* 6 months if it changes. So we will hear by around June if that is updated.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161207006109/en/
May settle with Vivendi owning around half of Ubisoft shares, but not going all the way. Just my two cents and gut feeling.
Edit: When Vivendi crossed the 25% ownership threshold, it was required under French law to disclose a variety of things. Including whether it will make a bid for full acquisition. It said, at the time in December, that it did NOT intend to do so. Under the same law, this disclosure must be updated *within* 6 months if it changes. So we will hear by around June if that is updated.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161207006109/en/
So from my understanding Vivendi getting Ubisoft would likely mean a lot of stuff gets canned. Doing so would likely turn people off from Ubisoft. Exactly why does Vivendi even want Ubisoft? Especially if they're likely to make changes that could have a negative result? Buy them, drain them of whatever value and then drop them once they're no longer worth as much and then move on?
AuthenticM
Member
No, that's Activision. Vivendi used to own them, but not anymore.
This is them wanting to get back in the game.
Vinterbird
Member
Not everyone can gamble half of the house income and quit a job because there's a new owner.
TeamLeftMatch
Member
Hope you like Assassin's creed and Assassin's creed like games because that's all they'll ever make.
Granted most of their games are like that with very cookie cutter elements like "climb the lookout" and "collect this random thing 100 times" but at least they experimented with stuff like child of light, grow home and Rayman legends which will all be gone
One scumbag mega corp gets taken over by another scumbag mega corp.
Nothing will change.
Universal was. They merged with Activision under Vivendi but Activision bought their independence a few years ago
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
It'll have to be funded by Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. Vivendi ain't gonna fund it.
Chobel
Member
Like who? Serious question.
