We don't know what's going on, but something is definitely happening.
Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading of the company’s shares and bonds from November 14 until the publication of its results.
The usual cycle. They get good, get big, get shit, get insolvent or bought up until there’s no bigger fish anymore (in which case you have to live with shit until they get insolvent after a long time).
That’s what you get when you don’t want to pay people for their work and try to keep teams together. The newbies aren’t going to care about the rich history of the games they’re banging out code for at 3 AM on a Saturday.
I mean, they claim there’s one, but evidence says otherwise. Them spending a lot on their shitty arena shooter with boats didn’t make it any higher quality.
Yes because stocks are a straight up scam. It should be able to swing up and down as the market demands, but it doesn’t because every time there’s a potentially life changing movement up or down they halt it. They’ve done it many, many times before.
Professional (as in they earn money, not skill level) Xers fuck everything up. (here, X is an arbitrary verb or a brand name)
My anecdotes:
Youtube was good before professional youtubers became a thing (systemic problem, people are not the issue but the environment which breeds them), now it’s attention economy and or one topic discussed for 50 minutes (a video explaining the same topic with the same intensity from 10 years ago is 2 minutes long)
Gamers were problematic but harmless, professional gamers caused betting pandemic (sponsored content).
Streamers were funny, professional streamers are sexy/deadly-sells-to-children.
I liked it when people were sharing stuff online because they were bored, and not because they were hungry.
Most likely they fucked up their report and they’re using the rules of the exchange to suspend trading until they fix the mistake. But Ubisoft has been running on fumes for some time now, shitting out the same 3 or 4 games over and over again so I doubt their financials are that great.
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Advice after my own heart. Freaking out and speculating are always the best move.
get fucked.
Man, they have had some really good IP over the years and somehow managed to ruin all of it.
The usual cycle. They get good, get big, get shit, get insolvent or bought up until there’s no bigger fish anymore (in which case you have to live with shit until they get insolvent after a long time).
That’s what you get when you don’t want to pay people for their work and try to keep teams together. The newbies aren’t going to care about the rich history of the games they’re banging out code for at 3 AM on a Saturday.
Yikes bikes. Obviously the writing has been on the wall for a minute. But I didn’t realize it would happen in one minute.
Uh-oh! Wait, you already said that.
Ruh-roh!
Well deserved. Who’s next?
There’s nothing left. They’ve basically all merged into like a mega corporation at this point.
They know. They’re done, and that’s that.
There AAA games.
Then there’s one AAAA game.
Next must be the AAAAA game they’re working on. It’s an extraction shooter.
I mean, they claim there’s one, but evidence says otherwise. Them spending a lot on their shitty arena shooter with boats didn’t make it any higher quality.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_amicale_des_amateurs_d'andouillette_authentique
Sorry, the page doesn’t exist in English :(
Roguelike Deckbuilder Extraction Shooter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaahh!!!Real_Monsters(video_game)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/15520/AaAaAA__A_Reckless_Disregard_for_Gravity/
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‘A AA AAA AAAA’
Wait, I thought they won the battle against evil, or whatever that fuckhead Assassin’s Creed dude said the other day 😂
What did they screw up recently?
Well starwars outlaws was supposed to sell 5.5 million copies to break even and they sold 1 million.
The CEO told people to get used to not owning the games they pay for
And overall every game they have made lately is soulless corporate suits driven slop.
They lost what made them special and unique and doubled down on it for years.
What didn’t they screw up?
Doesn’t really answer the question for people like me who didn’t follow their every action
No, sorry. Sometimes I don’t want to answer a question and just feel like being a smartass to hopefully get a chuckle from a handful of people.
Xotic56 has you covered.
Wait…you can just do that?
You can do whatever you want there, as long as you are ok with the penalties.
You… can…
But its… kind of a really bad move, from the perspective of anyone with money, involved in Ubisoft.
This is roughly the equivalent of an unannounced, sudden bank holiday, you know, right before everything over the FDIC insured 250k gets cleaned out.
Yes because stocks are a straight up scam. It should be able to swing up and down as the market demands, but it doesn’t because every time there’s a potentially life changing movement up or down they halt it. They’ve done it many, many times before.
I don’t think video game companies should have gotten this big and/or complex……
Professional (as in they earn money, not skill level) Xers fuck everything up. (here, X is an arbitrary verb or a brand name)
My anecdotes: Youtube was good before professional youtubers became a thing (systemic problem, people are not the issue but the environment which breeds them), now it’s attention economy and or one topic discussed for 50 minutes (a video explaining the same topic with the same intensity from 10 years ago is 2 minutes long)
Gamers were problematic but harmless, professional gamers caused betting pandemic (sponsored content).
Streamers were funny, professional streamers are sexy/deadly-sells-to-children.
I liked it when people were sharing stuff online because they were bored, and not because they were hungry.
The last line you said is top notch and sums it up well.
This is good news for everyone who is not an ubisoft shareholder
how so?
Why? What relevance is Ubisofts poor record keeping to non-shareholders?
This exactly what happens when you rely on rhetoric, instead of you know, making games that people like.
Most likely they fucked up their report and they’re using the rules of the exchange to suspend trading until they fix the mistake. But Ubisoft has been running on fumes for some time now, shitting out the same 3 or 4 games over and over again so I doubt their financials are that great.