Tencent buy Ubisoft IPs after this game, what a success !

[Mouton]

Great restruction incoming, big layoff coming now !!
What a great success this game was !

[XxEyeDragonxX]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Citizen Cook:

Diposting pertama kali oleh longjohn119:

The subsidiary is worth about $4 billion and Tencent has a $1.25 Million stake and the Guillemot family owns the other $2.75 billion. Now that they have protected their 3 best consistently money making IPs they will likely start selling off everything else and eventually liquidate the remaining stock and take the subsidiary private with the Guillemot family owning the majority stake and Tencent the minority stake.

That would be a disaster for the devs. How many would lose their jobs, any idea?

Most of those who aren't working on the IPs the subsidiary now owns? Unless the studios are sold to other developers and they decide to keep the current staff.

[jmac2007]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spectrum Fox:

Diposting pertama kali oleh HiRed_ThuG:

If Asmongold didn't say it, it didn't happen it seems.

People put way too much stock in what YouTubers say. They're all in it for the views and clicks, to the point where they'll even flat out lie to their viewers to keep them engaged. The problem is, most of their viewers believe what they say without question, like they're some sort of authority.

You can see what the Youtubers have to say while keeping a tab open in browser to verify. So if a Youtuber is saying "So and so said THIS on X".. You can literally go to X and check it out for yourself.

You assume nobody verifies what Youtubers say. That is absurd. I verify all the time regardless if it is Youtuber, TV Reporter, or Radio Host saying something.

[[82AD] ♤Stonewall♤]

Asmond is a hippie clown and should be banned from any type of streaming.

[jmac2007]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Citizen Cook:

What do we know about Tencent? I’ve heard the name but i have no idea what kind of company they are.

Tencent is one of the world's biggest video games publishers. They are Chinese and in their early days (maybe still the case?) they would receive gobs of cash from the Chinese Government every quarter. I was an investor of Tencent and listened in on their earnings calls many years ago. My jaw dropped regarding how much money China was stuffing down the pants of their corporations back then to keep their companies afloat... cause Tencent wasn't very profitable back then at all.

[Sninjo]

If the game sold well, this would not have happened.
It's almost like making a bad game loses money.

[Ivy]

Twist the facts however you want, they wouldn't be selling any large shares like this to Tencent if the game was doing well. This is just more proof the game is failing. You don't do this if your company is doing good.

[HiRed_ThuG]

Diposting pertama kali oleh jmac2007:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spectrum Fox:

People put way too much stock in what YouTubers say. They're all in it for the views and clicks, to the point where they'll even flat out lie to their viewers to keep them engaged. The problem is, most of their viewers believe what they say without question, like they're some sort of authority.

You can see what the Youtubers have to say while keeping a tab open in browser to verify. So if a Youtuber is saying "So and so said THIS on X".. You can literally go to X and check it out for yourself.

You assume nobody verifies what Youtubers say. That is absurd. I verify all the time regardless if it is Youtuber, TV Reporter, or Radio Host saying something.

You may do that but this isn't something that is commonly done.

I tend not to waste my time watching YouTubers who frequently lie.

[XxEyeDragonxX]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Sninjo:

If the game sold well, this would not have happened.
It's almost like making a bad game loses money.

only 1? skull & bones and starwars outlaws exist XD

[Ragnar Random]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Citizen Cook:

What do we know about Tencent? I’ve heard the name but i have no idea what kind of company they are.

they made a sh1tload of money by releasing gacha mobile games for the chinese market. they used that money to buy stock in several international game companies, and now own a large chunk of the corporate gamedev industry spread out through several investments, as well as outright buying several other companies.
they inject more microtransactions in everything they touch. ubisoft was already bad with mtx, tencent's involvement will make it even worse.
tencent is bad for gaming, but apparently that's a win to some people.

edit: the only good thing about tencent is they tend to not mess with the creative aspect of the studios they buy out. so long as they make money off of gacha skins and cosmetic weapons, they usually let devs make the games they make.

[jmac2007]

Diposting pertama kali oleh 82AD ♤Stonewall♤:

Asmond is a hippie clown and should be banned from any type of streaming.

And you would be ok if someone called you that name and recommended you were banned from Steam forums? I doubt it. Just because you don't agree with someone... doesn't mean you should be asking for their banning. In fact, you should be happy they can speak because if your opinions are stronger and more right than Asmondgoild's opinions, you should be winning each and every time he speaks.

I don't get while so many want to silence the opinions of people that differ from their own. I for one welcome to hear from opposing opinions all the time.

[agarest1]

Ubisoft is basically gone now, they've moved anything of value to the new company the main company will likely collapse and be sold off, wouldn't be surprised if we see 5-10k layoffs.

[jmac2007]

Diposting pertama kali oleh HiRed_ThuG:

Diposting pertama kali oleh jmac2007:

You can see what the Youtubers have to say while keeping a tab open in browser to verify. So if a Youtuber is saying "So and so said THIS on X".. You can literally go to X and check it out for yourself.

You assume nobody verifies what Youtubers say. That is absurd. I verify all the time regardless if it is Youtuber, TV Reporter, or Radio Host saying something.

You may do that but this isn't something that is commonly done.

I tend not to waste my time watching YouTubers who frequently lie.

Not commonly done? Asmondgold talks an awful lot about the video game business on his channel right? Anyone that pays any attention to Asmondgold is someone we can assume is interested in the video games business or video games period. Therefore... We can assume the viewers know how to do some simple basic things like downloading a video game demo to check it out... Or logging onto a developer's website. Or logging onto a developer's social media account.

Takes just a few clicks of the mouse and you can verify just about anything Asmondgold or anyone else says. I highly doubt you are right here. Viewers verify.. It is too easy to do.

[Pod-3]

A true return to form!

[capablecow]

A return to the unemployment office

[Silent]

There was a group of investors who wanted kick Guillemots out from their chairs for understandable reasons. There were rumours circulating for a while that Guillemots had a discussion with Tencent about splitting the company and giving good chunk of shares to them while Guillemots would save their positions.
For me it looks like:
- For major franchises nothing is going to change. The sludge of cookie-cutter games will continue. Monetisation/mictrotransactions would probably became more aggressive - like building gameplay around a problem just to sell the solution to you.
- There probably would be layoffs. Mostly for teams who worked on minor IPs.
- Minor IPs would be put on ice or, at best, sold to other companies. Which is the most sad point to me, since recently I got a survey from Ubisoft HOMM team asking opinion about how to improve the franchise, so I had an impression that they finally want to fix it.