Ubisoft Lays Off 45 Employees in the US - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2024 / 1,964 Views
Ubisoft has laid off 45 employees in the US, according to a Bloomberg report.
The layoffs occurred at the San Francisco, California and Cary, North Carolina offices, and the people affected will receive severance and career assistance.
A Ubisoft spokesperson said the "difficult yet necessary decision was made to align these studios' organizations with their future business and development objectives."
The Cary, North Carolina office is better known as Red Storm Entertainment. It was founded in 1996 by author Tom Clancy and manager Doug Littlejohns. The next game from the studio, Tom Clancy's The Division Heartland, was cancelled earlier this year.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Ubisoft has 21,000 Employees... Why is 45 getting fired a story?
I'm not trying to be insensitive, but the gaming news industry is overly obsessed with layoffs right now...
45 was 0.2% of their total workforce...
Thats a wildly insignificant number of people...
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A drop in the ocean for Ubisoft this year I imagine; I'd be amazed Outlaws (massively) and Shadows (slightly) didn't underperform Ubi's expectations and result in significant lay offs.
Do they have something that's a sure success at all this year?
The worrying thing is they're expecting it to be those two games. Both will shift a lot of copies of course (Shadows for being an AC game, and Outlaws by virtue of the Star Wars brand), but they'll have baked that into their projections and then some. Gonna be a nervous few months for staff at their studios.
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