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Havatra, 9 dni temu do games w Report: Payday developer Starbreeze is making more layoffs

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.

An article about it.

MilitantAtheist, 9 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

“How to own multiple cool and successful IPs and still fail”

Korhaka, 9 dni temu do games w Report: Payday developer Starbreeze is making more layoffs

I mean the stats speak for themselves tbh…

Payday 2 Peak concurrent players yesterday: 22,338

Payday 3 Peak concurrent players yesterday: 656

pinball_wizard, 10 dni temu (edited 9 dni temu) do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

I’m actually not sure I can afford to keep playing “buy an indie game every time Ubisoft does something evil or stupid”.

But I’m down for a few more rounds, at least.

phoenixz, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

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…

/S needed?

LostWanderer, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

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.

gnutrino, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

Reminds me of when EA decided to go player first

itkovian, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

Maybe Ubisoft should restructure itself out of existence.

Technotica, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

Ha… ha…hahahahaha… Yeah right.

sylver_dragon, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

They are chopping the development teams and titles up into convenient bite-sized chunks. Ubisoft will hang onto the large titles in the Vantage Studios vertical, and the rest will be spun off or sold off. Any spun off studios will be saddled with crippling debt.

Tetsuo, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

The beginning of the end of Ubisoft.

I’m glad the devs of Clair Obscur got out of this and did their own shit.

Agent_Karyo, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

Some much “corporate speak” in the quotes from the Ubisoft CEO. Almost reads like random gibberish.

SnotFlickerman, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

Cancelling Beyond Good & Evil 2 for a 13th time, huh?

Katana314, 10 dni temu do games w Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company

ChatGPT, generate for me a press release that will excuse the firing of another 10,000 employees.

psx_crab, 22 dni temu do games w Two former Polygon editors say they are launching Mothership, a new game publication, on January 26, to analyze games through the lens of gender and identity

So there’s now two tabloid i know of called “Mothership”. If i had a nickel someone named their tabloid “Mothership”, i’d had two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

MurrayL, 22 dni temu

Curious what about this new publication makes you label it a tabloid? Based on the description so far it doesn’t sound sensationalist at all.

You’ll find reviews, criticism, and opinion stories, as well as articles about how games are made and marketed. You’ll get investigative reporting on the people who make games in an era when “DEI” is on the wane. You’ll read historical deep dives on the games and creators that paved the way, especially those that didn’t get due credit way back then.

amino, 22 dni temu

if I had to guess, anything that doesn’t treat women as inferior is a tabloid

psx_crab, 22 dni temu

Yes, anyone that doesn’t sing your tune is your enemy.

november, 22 dni temu

Says the person labeling any publication they dislike a “tabloid”.

psx_crab, 22 dni temu

I don’t like nor dislike them, you’re projecting.

psx_crab, 22 dni temu

Established by two former tabloid editor. They can prove me wrong, and i will stand corrected, but then it’s such a USA centric site, i’m not holding my breath.