Ubisoft Says it Will Focus on Open-World and Live Service Games - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 March 2025 / 4,137 Views
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot during the company's earnings report said it will focus on open world action-adventure games and live service games going forward.
"We have been investing significantly for a big pipeline of products for the coming years along our two verticals, [these] being open-world action adventure as well as Game as a Service-native experiences," said Guillemot (via VideoGamesChronicle). "And that’s what we want to deliver year after year."
Open-world action-adventure would include the Assassin's Creed and Far Cry series, while live service games would include Rainbow Six Siege and The Crew Motorfest.
He added, "As you know, we are preparing a big launch for Assassin’s Creed Shadows in the very short term. Next year we’ll have big plans that will benefit Rainbow Six across all platforms, that’s focusing well, and that’s a key milestone in the gross plan for the company.
"We’ve announced that Anno 117: Pax Romana will also come next year, as well as The Division: Resurgence on mobile. All this is coming along well. We haven’t provided more colour for FY 2026 but we’ll have more to share by the time of May, and as I’ve just said, we have a strong platform for the future years across these two verticals."
Guillemot also stated pre-orders for Assassin's Creed Shadows are "solid" and are "in line with those of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the second most successful entry of the franchise."
Assassin's Creed Shadows will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and Ubisoft Store, and Amazon Luna on March 20.
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Anyone else get the feeling that with a lot of these companies, it's the board of directors making all the decisions? Like, people who don't know video games from a deck of cards?
Me too. -_-
Yves is just like that, a greedy, out of touch, selfish and arrogant kind of guy. He's also the type that refuses to back down, even when he's been proven wrong (no idea if this is just a French thing, but he 's just very, very stubborn).
I think he may have worked something out with Tencent, because he seems/sounds super confident that he will want to continue pissing money away like this, despite the fact that people are just not being glued to live service games like they once were 5yrs ago.
He sounds like Elon.
Wonder how they'll be able to cope, heading in such a radical new direction.
So no change in direction for this ship, then? because havn't you already been doing exactly that... for... forever?
This is what happens when you have someone to save your sinking ship (Tencent). Had Tencent not tried to work a deal with them, they would have been forced to change course or simply go down with the ship.
I'm guessing he's got something worked out by now, because he wouldn't be super confident in making this sort of statement if he didn't have extra padding to fall back on.
Open world is what they have focused on for the better part of 2 decades, that's not an issue. The live service focus though, probably not smart.
Aw shit, here we go again.
Goodbye Ubisoft
Excellent idea. /sarcasm
I would not trust stock in Ubisoft to be worth anything long term... Like seriously... Would anyone be surprised if they actually went bankrupt?
Seems to have been working for everyone else when they are trying to lose a lot of money. But go off Ubi....
R.I.P.
Great! Just what Ubisoft needed lol
The sooner Ubisoft dies, the better.
So how long until they go bankrupt over their next failure then get bought by Microsoft or Tencent? Net Ease. Something like that.
Open world? Sure. Live service? Hell no
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"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact same fucking thing over and over again, expecting shit to change. That is crazy."
they need to take risks with new ips not just inject the same formula into them.
Avatar = Far Cry,
Star Wars = Assassin's creed..
they had the chance to make something unique with them 2 games
Maybe they have some Casino Royale short sale scam going on in the background.
Live service? How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?
I believe it's best for UbiSoft to default at this point. Let their IPs go elsewhere, and free up many talents bound to a crumbling business. Better to have a bad ending than to have endless misery.
Live service👎, Open World like AC👍🦾!! I know i am too early but i want Assassin's Creed: Hexe so bad! I am so interested in this game!! Especially in its mechanics. I do hope for more big cities (with the UHDBDs 100GB it should absolutley be possible!!), more missions at night, a super-natural setting, some horror and much more stealth than in Valhalla. But first lets get Shadows collector's Edition!!
