In retrospect, what could they have done to avoid being bought by Tencent?

>>716288590 (OP)
Made good games.

>>716288590 (OP)
they could have just not sucked, and released good games instead
>>716288629
fpbp

>>716288590 (OP)
They dipped too much into Larry Fink's bag of "infinite" money, and once it ran out they were left with a company full of trannies and niggers that couldn't actually do work and expected indians across the pond to handle things for them.
https://files.catbox.moe/tffmsk.mp4

>>716288590 (OP)
Hire the best
Steamline the process by getting rid of anything that doesn't make the game better
Put customers ahead of investors; respect the customer
Make good games

>>716288875
>Hire the best
>Steamline the process by getting rid of anything that doesn't make the game better

Ubisoft especially found ways to scam the Quebec government, turning themselves into some weird job-work program for Frenchies. They get a LOT of government funding. But that means a lot of idiots.

>>716289065
Well, you see where it got them in the end.

>>716288629
Could it really be that simple?

Ubisoft fell into the AAA trap and had nowhere fucking close to enough money, talent or drive to pull themselves out of it

They're about to have even less money because trying to divest everything to a shell company that Tencent can buy and leave Ubisoft itself as a hollow husk for shareholders to vulture off of is highly illegal in Europe and will get the absolute living fucking shit sued out of them

>>716289262
For these people it isn't. A complete overhaul is required.

>>716288590 (OP)
Did they try making the line go up? Making it go down wasn't a very good business idea

>>716288590 (OP)
>you see that mountain? you can climb it

>>716288590 (OP)
>what could they have done to avoid being bought by Tencent?
made good games
/thread

>>716288590 (OP)
>appeal to lowest common denominator (normalcattle)
>realize they have no staying power beyond 1-2 games
>lose money
nobody could have seen this coming.

>>716288590 (OP)
I can't believe a nigger samurai killed Ubishit

>>716290836
They've been dying long before him. He just stole the kill.

>>716288864
I still laugh whenever I think about how they let the indians remake Sands of Time, only to find out its end result was so unsalvageable they had to completely restart development

>>716291416
What can I do with the one 2$ stock of ubisoft

>>716291798
Wish you can make back $1.5

>>716289262
Nothing's ever truly simple, but the fact of the matter is that Ubisoft homogenized their entire company and nearly all their brands into a dime-a-dozen devalued slop. Rainbow Six and Mario & Rabbids escaped the hell and R6 suffered in its own ways, but everything else became
>open world
>blend of stealth and action with no real consequences for either-or besides mandatory fights or failure on detection segments
>thrown into a world filled with enemy outposts and a non-linear structure of story to take down a bunch of evil commanders
>arbitrary skill/loot mechanics that outright prevent you from being worth a damn at the start, such as locking basic/standard abilities from prior games away, and require grinding arbitrarily in padded out checklist hunting to get anywhere
>microtransactions shoved into everything to pay-to-progress if someone just felt lazy, yet the games were mostly just filler; peeling out the MTX would not change these games, and they're such boring comfort food slop that there's no real challenge to need buying progress to begin with, so they don't make any extra money and probably spent more money implementing them than profiting off of them
>lost all sense of innovation that Ubisoft themselves had started, instead becoming complacent and just repeating the exact same design tropes and ideas over and over and over, while the rest of the industry moved forwards; by the time they made a Breath of the Wild clone, no one paid it any attention because they weren't gonna budge from BotW for some Ubisoft game with shit marketing and a bad name
It's not necessarily as simple as "make good game", but they did NOT need to fester the market with so much shit that they had the Mega Man Effect of competing with themselves.

>>716288590 (OP)
Don't be gay. Its that simple.

Well, I haven't bought (or even played) a Ubi game ever since they started that uplay crap.

Also, riding the social justice warrior train was a really, really bad idea.
Get woke, go broke, get bought up by communist China for pennies on the dollar.

>>716288590 (OP)
They swerved hard left into George Floyd and couldn't unswerve again in time when they realised gamers are 95% right wing. Thankfully they're death will serve as a warning to the other companies that you don't cater to cucks.

Reminder Geoff showed the february Steam top sales this summer and Ass creed didn't show up

>>716292579
You also forgot the Anno, which is still good but too niche to make any difference in ubi's eyes.
You also have the recently announced Heroes: Olden Era, which was originally announced to be published by them but they apparently care so little that they let another publisher take care of it.

>>716295668
Most of the exceptions are generally fine enough, and it's not like Ubisoft is shipping broken games (as much) now and things are generally technically solid for most folks. But you'll find it hard to discuss the exceptions because they're not what Ubisoft's really known for.

>>716288590 (OP)
Fire rapists. Cancel live service trash. Make a new Rayman game.

>>716295668
They also made a shockingly faithful Settler game Even if the campaign was boring as sin.

this is literally karma for spitting in the face of your customers when they asked for years for a assassin's creed game to take place in japan only to have faggots ruin it with their faggotry
fuck this whole company
i hope everyone responsible for this shitshow of a studio gets fucking blacklisted

>>716288590 (OP)
Nothing. They made Far Cry 3 and 99% of their games after was some form of Far Cry 3.

>>716288629
FPBP