ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Well there ain't gonna be any room for greenlighting small projects under Vivendi. None of these were meant to be huge franchises to replace the current structure. You also forgot about Trials.
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Reuters: Vivendi takeover of Ubisoft to take place this year
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The sequel to Grow Home came out last year so thats fairly new.
Kilau
Member
Ubi bought Redlynx so it's not like they were behind Trials.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
They're apart of the Ubi family which means they'll be effected in all this.
same for me I love a lot of ubi soft games and I'd be a shame if they went the wrong way
Kilau
Member
I agree. Perhaps I misunderstood your point for including Trials in that list.
Big Green Anus
Member
I hope Yves Guillemot remains CEO. He is such a great CEO 
Gentleman Jack
Member
UPlay might gradually stop sucking. Maybe.
Kiss single-player games goodbye.
Lootbox roulette for every Ubisoft game going forward.
That would be pretty interesting actually.
But then what do you call them, Square Enix Ubisoft?
tiebreaker
Member
Squaresoft
Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
TetraGenesis
Member
Fuck, I wish there were something we could do to help fight this. I'm not head over heels for Ubisoft but I'd certainly prefer them independent to the Vivendi alternative.
Green Yoshi
Member
Why is Electronic Arts not interested in buying Ubisoft? Too expensive?
They had a contentious relationship. EA use to own a stake in Ubi which they sold about 6 or seven years ago. Probably no longer interested.
CrAzY FiNgErS
Member
Nintendo, but they would never do it. Plus that would piss off all the fanboys except the Nintendo ones;-)
lol
PuppetMaster
Member
There is not a single current ubi franchise game I care about. So maybe this is a good thing. If it causes devs to bail out and move to other companies or new projects.
Tumle
Member
Speaking of South Park.. when will they release a new release day?😕
Kilau
Member
It would be really interesting to see what would come out of that. I would like to see it.
Any of the big three could do it but it would be very, very hard to recoup the initial investment. Especially since most of their games are huge AAA open world games. They are also a very large studio/publisher. IIRC they have more employees than EA and a bit more than double the employees of Activision Blizzard. Not really a lean business per se.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
The new South Park will still come out, if it stops getting delayed.
Real_Madrid
Member
A few years ago I really would have cared about Ubisoft, but nowadays with their mostly online focused games, I couldn't care less.
That said, it's a risky investment imo. Ubisoft has a massive workforce with over 10.000 people and many many studios all over the world, but their software output isn't that numerous with easy hitters like EA has.
That said, it's a risky investment imo. Ubisoft has a massive workforce with over 10.000 people and many many studios all over the world, but their software output isn't that numerous with easy hitters like EA has.
Yeah Watch_Dogs 2, Steep, For Honor, Rainbow Six Siege, Ghost Recon Wildlands, South Park are same open-world crap.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Vivendi doesn't want a downsized Ubisoft that experiments and has an identity.
archreaper93
Member
Oh boy. Assassin's Creed, Far Cry,Tom Clancy's ______, and Watch Dogs exclusive to Nintendo? People would riot. Stealing Our Games 2.0.
Irishonion
Member
While I'm not sure what this will all mean down the line. Still don't like it, feels bad.
Come out south park!
Come out south park!
Last_colossi
Member
For the love of God please release Beyond Good & Evil 2 first or it'll be lost forever.
Edit: Wait, what if Ubisoft gave their IP rights to some of their current employees, wouldn't that make the takeover pointless for Vivendi?
Edit: Wait, what if Ubisoft gave their IP rights to some of their current employees, wouldn't that make the takeover pointless for Vivendi?
Maple-Tech
Banned
Why would you buy a company, than immediately downsize them?
Ubisoft is worth a significant chunk of change. It isn't in impulse buy territory for Nintendo (theoretically affordable, but a BIG investment for them) and Microsoft doesn't seem in the mood to buy new gaming studios.
If any white knight for Ubi emerged, it'd have to be EA or Sony. EA ad Ubi merging would be hilarious and borderline monopolistic.
If any white knight for Ubi emerged, it'd have to be EA or Sony. EA ad Ubi merging would be hilarious and borderline monopolistic.
I disagree with the assessment that Ubi only really puts out open-world crap, but Wildlands is like the definition of open-world crap.
Overall though yeah, they have a fair amount of diversity in their titles that people refuse to see.
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Get rid of redundancies. You don't need two CEOs, two CFOs, etc.
TimeEffect
Member
I keep reading back and forth if this is good or bad, but now everyone seems to say its bad.
I don't want Rainbow 6 Siege 2 to be full of weapon DLC or paying to get new operators only, or paying for maps.
I don't care about anything else of Ubisofts, but I can't believe one of my favourite new IPs could be destroyed within a single iteration. Will Siege be okay under Vivendi?
I don't want Rainbow 6 Siege 2 to be full of weapon DLC or paying to get new operators only, or paying for maps.
I don't care about anything else of Ubisofts, but I can't believe one of my favourite new IPs could be destroyed within a single iteration. Will Siege be okay under Vivendi?
We do not know if it is good or bad. You are asking us to predict the future. For all we know, Vivendi could just let them keep on doing what they do now, doubtful but it could happen. My guess is that like most companies out there we will see a push for GaaS.
semiconscious
Gold Member
so they should probably try to finish up development of wild asap? ...
...If the hostile takeover was done by a non-French company (especially non-Western), I'm convince the French and Quebec governments would step in. Now it's still a possibility, but it's less likely.
Primethius
Banned
As a fan of R6: Siege (best FPS this gen), I don't find this news to be remotely good in the slightest.
so they should probably try to finish up development of wild asap?
Wild is not Ubisoft it is Ancels game developed by indie studio.
They have had to top two games in the NPD the last two months
TimeEffect
Member
Yeah well, isn't Siege already GaaS?
icecold1983
Member
that nothing changes. this is ubisoft we are talking about
Maple-Tech
Banned
That makes sense, but if you want a smaller company, why go after Ubi in the first place? Vivendi have enough money to make their own studios. Is Assassins Creed really that valuable?
