yeah, that’ll make him show up to the office!
It’s big brain moves like this that’ll surely return the like … 20x? … value they’ve lost over the last few years.
I’m sure the publicity of it I’ll land this guy a higher paying job anyways
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they’re axing people left right and center.
And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it’s still alive in 2026 is in it’s own right quite the achievement. I can’t even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.
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.
All they have to do is make the best game of the year. Yet they have a severe case of skill issue
bad-companies.md:Ubisoft
2026:
- fires team lead after return-to-office critique
- closes Halifax studio 1 month after Union formed
2025:
- full-in on gen-AI after shares plummeting
- NOYB sues because of covert user tracking
- Ubisoft wants to monitor your RAM (🏴☠️)
- EULA demands deleting delisted games
2024:
- deletes inactive customer accounts with purchased games
- “Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games”
- adds Denuvo after reviews were made
2023:
- ads in games
- started that list here
To be fair, they also want to be bought up (rebranding), after multiple buy-outs and mass-layoffs.
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.
The website that pulls this off would get the $2.75 I keep not giving Wikipedia.
Okay. I’m keeping my commitment, but I’m going to need help.
Everytime Ubisoft makes the news for being idiots, I buy another Indie game.
I’m going to need your recommendations for great indie games.
Because Ubisoft has recently gotten me through my wishlist.
Cassette Beasts Pseudoregalia Return of the Obra Dinn Chants of Sennar Gloomwood
…what kind of game is that?!
In case you haven’t deciphered where the cut off points are:
- Cassette Beasts
- Pseudoregalia
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Chants of Sennar
- Gloomwood
Yeah, I was just poking at what I assumed was a day off the cuff response. Didn’t occur to me they might have tried formatting it, and failed.
Thanks for breaking them out!
There’s like 4 games without separation in there
Commas are a premium feature now.
Microtransaction based single purchase
I think the formatting is a markdown thing… try using double line breaks if you edit or just next time
+1 to Cassette Beasts
Thank you!
Gloomwood is great. It feels a lot like classic Thief in the best of ways.
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!
Oh, good call. I loved the first Monster Train. Thank you for the recommendation!
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!)
Lets be real here… Factorio probably has more time played than all the others combined right? lol
All combined? No. Top in playtime by a very large margin over #2? You betcha! 😁
Amazing. Thank you!
The Riftbreaker is fun and graphcally nice to look at. For city builders, I’d also like to suggest:
- Manor Lords
- Timberborn
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.
Thank you!
TLC is so good
Sayonara Wild Hearts if you want a short but very cool musical game
Thanks!
Awesome game
Brotato
Thanks!
signalis if you haven’t got it
Thanks!
Here are my recommendations then:
CrossCode is a personal favorite of mine. An action RPG heavily inspired by retro games.
Library of Ruina is a great non-roguelike deckbuilder. Technically it’s a sequel, but it’s not necessary to know anything about Lobotomy Corporation to get the full enjoyment of its story. At most you can just look up LC’s true ending if you aren’t interested in brutally hard management sims.
Tactical Breach Wizards is a really intertesting mix between a turn-based tactical game and a puzzle game.
Thanks!
Bloodthief is great, fast paced with an extremely high skill ceiling. Unlockables give you something to strive for and the level based structure makes it easy to quickly pick up and put down. Some other games I see people recommended here that I love are Signalis, Pseudoregalia, and Sayonara Wild Hearts.
Signalis is the best modern take on the old Resident Evil formula I’ve ever played, hands down. Pseudoregalia is a blast to play, the movement and tech in that game are unrivaled. I thought about comparing it to some Mario games, but that wouldn’t do it justice. Sayonara Wild Hearts is short but beautiful, there is nothing out there like it and it probably has some deeper meaning to read into.
Thank you!
Senua’s Sacrifice
Thanks!
Terra Invicta is amazing. It’s as if Paradox made an X-Com grand strategy game. The developers were clearly passionate about their game.
Thanks!
Lethal Company is a fantastic game imo.
Thanks!
Derail Valley Simulator and Vintage Story have gotten me through the last year or so.
Thank you!
Little Rocket Lab is like Stardew + Factorio. It’s chill and fun.
I mean, it’s not hard to understand why their stock is down 95% over the last 5 years…
We need socialism
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!
This huge problem stems from “we need”. Collectivism leads to hierarchy, because a collective isn’t semantically compatible to one person. A collective can’t be responsible, a collective can’t make a decision, a collective can’t think, a collective can’t speak in one voice. But collectivism means trying to treat a collective like one person. Leading to dictatorships.
You talk as if with corporations a single person can be held responsible…
You can have syndicates and get close to socialism
shit, the average public corporation is a more representative democracy than the US actual government is.
Then you have to fight for it.
Is this sort of thing not protected by labour laws?
Sadly not everywhere.
Not anywhere in America.
I’m pretty sure France is one of those places where it is indeed.
I’m pretty sure Montreal is one of those places not in France indeed.
Ah, my bad. Didn’t realize this is Ubisoft Montreal specifically.
I think people at Ubisoft should just quit and start their own competing game studio.
If this type of leading results to profits then almost any does.
Blackjack and hookers is more Obsidian’s thing.
Ubisoft, they are still alive. Wow. Well not much longer we can hope.
This is why I’m so happy I’m 3000 miles away from my office. No way I’m getting a call back to office. Never was and never will be.
What a shitty company, glad I’ve been boycotting the hell out of them!
TIL ubisoft is a french company. didn’t know an european company can be this anti-worker.
America creates the blueprint. As they say, we are #1 (at speedrunning towards a cyberpunk dystopia)
If this is NOT another reason to study and read socialist theory, then I DON’T know what is. Seriously! https://redsails.org/
Tankie warning 🚩🚩🚩
Definitely not a message being sent to the remaining employees…
So what happens if everyone shares the video? Are they gonna just fire everyone? I’m sure that’ll do great for your stock price eh executives?
It’s not like the stock price can get much lower anyway! Best to brawl when you’re at rock bottom already anyway. That said, I don’t think there will be an Ubisoft in 2 years, or only in name.
They want to be bought up (rebranded), yes.
