I anticipate if this goes through it will be something like Tencent holding the majority share (60%+) and Guillemot Family holding a minority share, Ubisoft will go private, Tencent will be in control and likely thousands of layoffs will follow as Tencent attempts to bring Ubisoft in line with other publishers, aka heavily rely on cheap outsourcing and kill off a bunch of low-value IP.
Ubisoft is a bit of a unique entity in the current publishing industry in the sense that they have thousands more developers than most other publishers because they do a lot of internal co-development whilst most other publishers just rely on cheap outsourcing via external studios, Ubisoft as a little credit to them has mostly managed to avoid these mass layoffs, won't last though.
I would have preferred for Ubisoft to recover itself and Yves to step-down...Not a fan of Tencent acquiring them or any mega corporation in light of recent events in the wider industry and Tbh it sounds like this will just end up with Yves still remaining as CEO and nothing changing aside from thousands of layoffs and Tencent being the owner.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 04 October 2024
