Not anymore. Activision bought itself out a couple of years ago as far as I know.

Thanks for the answers guys. I hate this kind of news. Though.

Few years ago when they started to suck.

It seem the best Call of Dutys came under Vivendis control. Cod1 to Cod MW2.

Noooooo. My good old Splinter Cell...

I BELYVES

No surprise really. Almost every large media company is being bought by the extremely large companies. Like others have said above me, once you allow over 50% of the company to be publicly owned, the chances of being bought out are very high(if your company produces anything useful).

Well, I guess that's they risk they run deciding to be a public company! It doesn't really mean much to me, but I guess we'll see what happens of Ubisoft.

Sucks. I don't expect anything good to come out of this. There's certainly problems with Ubisoft, but I'm not expecting Vivendi to manage Ubisoft very well, and I also don't like the concentration of money like this.

In all honesty the franchise would have tired out sooner or later, no matter who was managing it.

I haven't bought a UbiSoft game since AC: Brotherhood, and frankly I don't see this changing my interest in the company's output. It's mostly just unnecessarily large open world games they put out nowadays, or always-online games. I have no interest in either of those.

Maybe if Vivendi can bring some change, who knows. Curious to see this play out, though.