What will happen with my Ubisoft games after it goes bankrupt?

[Onyx Rexxar]

I am pretty sure its last, or second to last year Ubisoft still exists as a company. I am wondering what will happen with all my games I have from them after it goes down, since it requires secondary launcher for playing them. Should I start looking to "acquiring" backup installs or Steam will make games I bought still available after inevitable Ubisoft demise?

[Onyx Rexxar]

Tell me you have no knowledge about game industry without telling me that you have no knowledge about game industry.

[Onyx Rexxar]

Aaaaand its the record!
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBI.PA/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEokjMM2it7LT1L9hR12I1SLqHxR8feLR7UpN7mKHr6dbnrTYn5Fz_cnhQrdqpofy8hPInSeYKaYUZep9wWpTlZoxS8YTugEPcNjfQdSQ6BLjtt3xcyqcDOPTsIIXgEaM-uFm1StAZCZS-A4xGsKEUk5WU-TBQhGiHB423GSGJes

[wasabi™]

Ubisoft isn't going to go bankrupt. Most likely they will sell one or two of their franchises to another big company to get themselves out of the massive amount of debt they are in and then will just focus on one or two smaller franchises going forward (although it's rumeroed they are willing to let go of Tom Clancy and possibly Far Cry but they want to hold onto Assassins Creed).

Tencent also wants to buy them out holding a 49% stake in the company although the deal they signed with Ubisoft years ago prevents them buying the company out and taking control of it unless both parties consent to to this, as it was the deal they signed with them years ago, however this may change depending on the circumstances as it may not even be a choice for them not to at this point.

That's why they have been trying to do all these deals behind everyone's back with alleged talks selling off their franchises, the family wants to still have control of the company no matter what cost.

Shareholders aren't happy Ubisoft are trying to make deals behind their backs to sell of franchises to Microsoft and EA (rumoured to have already been in talks) but whatever happens Ubisoft isn't just going to "go bankrupt". It will still be around just may be in a vastly different dynamic and hopefully under better leadership (although in the current climate of this industry that's not always a strong possbility).

If Tencent takes control they will 100% gut the executives out of the company, pretty much all the shareholders despise what they have done with the company and want them out.

[Chika Ogiue]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von D. Flame:

Knowing Ubisoft, they will remove them from your library without offering a refund.

For the record, Ubisoft haven't removed The Crew from libraries on Ubisoft Connect either, it has been moved to a section labelled "inactive games". If the MMO were to magically become playable in the future, it would simply be moved back to the "active" game section.

[J4MESOX4D]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von wasabi™:

Ubisoft isn't going to go bankrupt.

Exactly. A company going bankrupt means they they have more debts than the company's entire market capitalisation and no sales of assets would cover money owed to creditors. Ubisoft may be on a huge downturn but they still make considerable money, still have money on the books and also have a few brands they could offload amounting to billions. Even if they were in a position where they would never make a penny ever again, the company would simply be sold and they already have interested parties.

They will forever remain stagnant with the current board they have and continue to lose money on new releases. The sticking point remains about how much of the company they want to sell but they need to make a decision soon.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Tencent will take over .... what form it takes remains to be seen

[Vamp]

Tencent Launcher

[miakisfan]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Onyx Rexxar:

I am pretty sure its last, or second to last year Ubisoft still exists as a company. I am wondering what will happen with all my games I have from them after it goes down, since it requires secondary launcher for playing them. Should I start looking to "acquiring" backup installs or Steam will make games I bought still available after inevitable Ubisoft demise?

I no longer buy their games nor do I any longer own the small handful I used to so I really don't have to worry about it.

I would be shocked if they didn't get bought out, though. They have good IPs ... they just strayed too far and pissed off too many people this time.

Sorry, but even I have a hard time believing in an African-American Samurai ...

Personally ANY company that followed along what the Democrat party was pushing between 2020-2024 deserves what they get. Especially since some of it ended up punishing people from other countries.

Well, let's be honest ... some of those countries were just waiting for the U.S. to pull that crap so they could get away with it as well. Plenty of ignorant Liberal countries out there, too.

[Chika Ogiue]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von miakisfan:

Sorry, but even I have a hard time believing in an African-American Samurai ...

Because there wasn't one. As historical documents go, a person by the name of Yasuke is only referenced in 6 or so documents. None call him a samurai. He didn't even have a last name, which recognised samurai did, even the foreign ones (of which there were a fair number).

I find it very telling that Ubisoft altered the Japanese text on store pages to remove references to Yasuke being a samurai several months before release. And that they won't even acknowledge or explain why they made this change.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Chika Ogiue:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von D. Flame:

Knowing Ubisoft, they will remove them from your library without offering a refund.

For the record, Ubisoft haven't removed The Crew from libraries on Ubisoft Connect either, it has been moved to a section labelled "inactive games". If the MMO were to magically become playable in the future, it would simply be moved back to the "active" game section.

Ubisoft actually tried to do that, and met with backlash, keep in mind this only happen to Ubisoft client, not Steam so no one lost anything via Steam, and AFAIK can't just remove games without a reason on Steam so they had no way to take anyone games via steam.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Chika Ogiue:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von miakisfan:

Sorry, but even I have a hard time believing in an African-American Samurai ...

Because there wasn't one. As historical documents go, a person by the name of Yasuke is only referenced in 6 or so documents. None call him a samurai. He didn't even have a last name, which recognised samurai did, even the foreign ones (of which there were a fair number).

I find it very telling that Ubisoft altered the Japanese text on store pages to remove references to Yasuke being a samurai several months before release. And that they won't even acknowledge or explain why they made this change.

Honestly they could've picked any other time lines, or used other famous people well known with history, and since the game more fiction honestly they could've done better. But yeah they went with him making story up for him basically with little such information about him.

[Chika Ogiue]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Ubisoft actually tried to do that, and met with backlash, keep in mind this only happen to Ubisoft client, not Steam so no one lost anything via Steam, and AFAIK can't just remove games without a reason on Steam so they had no way to take anyone games via steam.

Shutdown games have been removed from people's accounts on Steam before. It happens rarely because people complain about it. Ubisoft never once removed the game from their own client, it was simply moved to the inactive category. You can even still see all the registered CD keys for it and any DLC. Meaning that, as I said before, if the game was ever revived, previous owners would still have access.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Honestly they could've picked any other time lines, or used other famous people well known with history, and since the game more fiction honestly they could've done better. But yeah they went with him making story up for him basically with little such information about him.

Yes, they could have. Instead, they opted to believe Thomas Lockley's work of fiction, which he pushed as historical fact in his English language versions and as slightly less factually in his Japanese language one. There's a lot of information about this on his Japanese language Wikipedia page, it has all been removed from the English language version of the same page.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Chika Ogiue:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

Honestly they could've picked any other time lines, or used other famous people well known with history, and since the game more fiction honestly they could've done better. But yeah they went with him making story up for him basically with little such information about him.

Yes, they could have. Instead, they opted to believe Thomas Lockley's work of fiction, which he pushed as historical fact in his English language versions and as slightly less factually in his Japanese language one. There's a lot of information about this on his Japanese language Wikipedia page, it has all been removed from the English language version of the same page.

Not really shock tbh, but yeah the fate of ubisoft is riding on this game with investors, before making the next move, which not sure what they do.

[Subsonic]

Did you not read the all the TOS's, they are not you games, you have no ownership, shadows and dust !

[RPG Gamer Man]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Pierre_The_Scumbag:

Did you not read the all the TOS's, they are not you games, you have no ownership, shadows and dust !

And this is why i am a active avocate for physical media.

[⭐Rodent⭐]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Thiesen:

Capitalism...

An already capitalistic and greedy company will get bought by an even moore capitalistic and greedy entity...

Why not a merger between N00bieSuck, ActiveShittard and Eleflonic Arse...

Capitalism is great, in fact it was woke communism that bankrupted Ubisoft