Nothing will come of this unless it also concerns Republicans, but it doesn’t, because the President’s son-in-law helped make this deal happen and personally benefited from it.
As if it'd be better run by private interests in the US 😂
The letter was sent on January 22 and suggests the debt-financed $55 billion acquisition, which will purportedly result in PIF holding a 93.4 percent stake in the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher, will incentive layoffs, offshoring, studio closures, and other cost-cutting measures.
"incentive"
Also, isn't this what yanks have been doing for decades? Don't seppo businesses regularly fire a bunch of employees before the end of the financial year to have "record-breaking fourth quarter" and then hire back a bunch of people? Painting the Saudis as worse capitalists than the USAians is just hilarious
Their concern isn’t that people are getting laid off but that they’ll be laid off here and replaced with people abroad; and the executives benefiting from the cost-cutting are no longer Americans in this case.
I think it's really only the latter: if rich yanks benefit = good, if non-yanks benefit = bad. They don't give two shits about USAians non in the C-suite being laid off. They haven't since the beginning and won't start now.
Classic publicly traded company using “reorganisation” (read: layoffs) to trick shareholders into thinking they are turning things around by simultaneously reducing costs and shifting blame for past failures of leadership.
The next step is a super safe release, like a remaster of one of their top selling games, followed by an announcement of a new entry in one of their most popular series. Line goes up. Ubisoft is back! Hire more developers, open a new studio (or buy an established studio), resume enshittifying. Rinse and repeat.
Considering how they completely messed up the launch of Payday 3, and then furthermore saying since (among other things) that they’d work on including an offline mode, only to decide after about 20 months that they’re not gonna do it after all due to “it wasn’t a feasible route for us” (Steam news) proves to me that they’re only thinking about the money, not the player. And fortunately, as with most companies who focus purely on the money, they get dumped by the userbase for it, as evident in the other comment here.
So Ubisoft dumped their entire C suite, starting with their CEO? Well I can only applaud that, that a CEO, known for not giving a shit about gamers, finally decided that he was wrong and decided to do the right thing! Kudos!
The only way he could have done it better was to take the samurai way out, but yeah, that won’t happen…
LMAO The only way they could truly be gamer friendly is jettisoning the inept CEO and Executives, hiring individuals to fill positions of power that ACTUALLY understand what gamers want. One of the core problems that Ubisoft has is they are so out of touch with what gamers want and need from their games! All this restructuring, RTO mandates, and other cost cutting strategies is just going to fuck them up even more. The good news is, we might get more talented former Ubisoft devs making amazing games and Ubisoft itself ceases to exist as a company.
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