Got it. No more Ubisoft support and no more money given. I'm not a big fan of unions but with no federal laws to protect the workers I am even less of a fan of union busters.
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2026
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They’re really up there like EA in terms of shit
Lol i dont even play ubi games anymore they dont put out much good stuff
Next thing I'll learn will be that Splinter Cell was a pro fascist story all along
"Wait your saying the guy that goes in and forcibly changes country regimes with murder is a baddie? No that can't be it...."
I'll just add it to the pile of reasons why ubisoft is on my shit list alongside ea, epic, and activision.
Haha, fuck ubi.
I hope they open a new studio.
Right?
The open corruption and lack of empathy for the working class is just embarrassing. I hate EVERY company now since they only care about shares. They don't even consider us as human, we are simply just tools for them and can be thrown away at any moment.
They always have. The owners of industry crave for the days of the Golden Age of Capitalism where they get to be the robber barons instead of just hearing tales about their Grandpa.
It's so easy to not buy games. When was the last good game they made? I guess I'll continue to ignore their catalog.
I think they own hitman but honestly I still prefer blood money anyway. Play the oldies, goodies or the new Indies, goodies.
IOI bought Hitman back a few years ago, which is why World of Assassination is a thing. Before that, Ubi ruined it with a billion different packages. Now it's a simple thing to get all three (modern) games.
That was Square Enix not Ubisoft.
Ah ok that's why its not a steaming pile of shit. I remember when they streamlined it but didn't realize there was a change over.
Jesus fucking christ so blatantly evil
Solvent corporations shouldn't be legally allowed to dissolve positions.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Ubisoft just continues to be awful.
Now all Canada needs to do is legalize piracy on Ubisoft products.
Well its not illegal to DL a torrent in Canada, if that is what you mean.
As far as I'm concerned, unionization should be government mandated for every company everywhere in every industry.
But unfortunately we live in hell.
That would be normal in a socialist society, not in a capitalistic one.
Absolutely this. We need mandated unions for every single company that exists. And with loopholes closed, like offshoring/outsourcing, corporate “headquarters” is a closet in Delaware, etc.
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My 10+ year long Ubisoft boycott still looking like a good idea.
I started to Boycott Ubisoft when they started online DRM checks for single player games that you could not play offline anymore. It was with the release of Assassins Creed 2 and I think it was Settler 7. That was about 16 years ago.
I started to boycott Ubisoft when I can't think of a single game of theirs I would even want to play.
I really wanted to play Watch Dogs when it came out. Unfortunately they also publish a lot of games. They have some cool titles ngl, but I pull through.
I pirated it at some point, it's was as expected, stuffed with repetitive boring tasks to increase playtime. Didn't get far before deleting it.
Oh and driving was still beyond broken over a year past release
Oof yeah ok dodged that bullet I guess 😂
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"we'd rather amputate that entire source of revenue than pay workers fairly"
Capital would rather burn everything down than lose a penny to the working class. Yes in this example, highly paid developers are considered working class relative to billionaire owners
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If the Canadian government were real it would exact punishing fines on the company's Canadian held assets in response to this. And I don't mean cost of business fees, I mean hurtful costs, because these giant fucking companies seriously damage Canadian lives when they just rugpull the labour after making massive profits of Canadian operations. There is no justifiable reason to side with Ubisoft or their scumsucking management here.
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Wow, a whole unionized and competent studio now free to pursue internally chosen productions? I sure hope they don't get some of those "Canadian Heritage" media subsidies. Seriously though this is the shit the state should be funding, it'd be a shame to have this kind of resource squandered.
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Ubisoft is just seeding their own demise.
This particular studio is responsible for some of their best titles.
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So apparently being a French or Canadian company doesn't necessarily mean that you respect or understand unions, I thought that was mostly American practice, I was wrong
French companies outside of France might as well be American with the way they treat non French workers.
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