Today, Ubisoft is the current programmer to sign up with 2023’s wave of discharges. According to IGN, the firm let go a total amount of 124 staff members. 98 of them were based in Canada, which IGN computes as about 2% of the firm’s Canadian labor force. The cuts consisted of management and IT employees, several of whom were utilized at the Hybride VFX workshop, a firm that has actually serviced programs like Ahsoka and The Mandalorian.
“These are not decisions taken lightly and we are providing comprehensive support for our colleagues who will be leaving Ubisoft during this transition,” the firm informed both IGN and Kotaku. “We also want to share our utmost gratitude and respect for their many contributions to the company. This restructuring does not affect our production teams.” Another quote gotten by Kotaku asserts that the discharges are to enable Ubisoft to “to optimize its resources to be more sustainable in the long term.”
This information follows a year of numerous large Ubisoft launches, consisting of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, The Crew: Motorfest, and Just Dance 2024, however that remains in spite of the reality that they canceled several games this year and postponed Skull and Bones… once more. Unrest at the firm has actually been continuous too: back in September, IGN reported widespread frustration after staff members were unexpectedly phoned call to go back to in-person working problems.
Ubisoft currently signs up with Bungie, Media Molecule, Telltale Games, Team17, Epic Games, Naughty Dog, Microsoft, and a lot more on the sadly lengthy listing of firms that have actually laid individuals off in the previous year.
[Sources: IGN, Kotaku]
