Great post, especially since "analist" would be one who performs anal, while analysts are the ones who analyze things!
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Ubisoft is, shockingly worth only 2.67 Billion USD
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If anyone, it would probably be Tencent......seeing as they already own a small part (~10%). Then you'd also have to get the Guillemots to sell.
For anyone who does buy, its would be one heck of an integration. Ubisoft has over 20k employees and several divisions. Not sure if the asking price would be worth the hassle.
For anyone who does buy, its would be one heck of an integration. Ubisoft has over 20k employees and several divisions. Not sure if the asking price would be worth the hassle.
I mean if Sony, or any company for that matter wanted, they could drop like 500 million and own 25 percent of Ubisoft. That sounds ludicrous. I don’t think Ubisoft or western publishers in general are on the up though and even that would be a bad investment.
The problem is ALL western publishers are full of rot. They’ve let these blue haired sjw lunatics in, who now run the HR and hiring department and keep hiring their friends and fellow travelers. This is the reason western gaming is dying and in a lot of cases dead. These sjw types cannot make a product people want. EA fell for it hard in the ps4/xb1 generation and outside of fifa have destroyed all of their major franchises.
Take 2 for whatever reason has been able to stay away from scandals but they fired one of the brothers that MADE gta what it is. Outside of Sonys western production western gaming is dead and Sony just created and Equity department for PlayStation so it’s only a matter of time until that catches up with them.
Don’t know about that. The publisher is a bloated mess.
Whoever buys them will need to seriously trim all the baggage.
Whoever buys them will need to seriously trim all the baggage.
This is the “money will solve our problems” fallacy, and it doesn’t hold true. I’ve seen this again, and again in the real world.
If Ubisoft doesn’t have the talent and ability already, their functioning is not going to be improved by an ack. It’s a nice thought but it just doesn’t work.
Ubisoft should just continue to do it’s thing and get any issues it may have sorted out internally.
ubisoft have talent. what they lack is a suite of executives that understand that by trying to milk everything to death they make their games less appealing.
Well, there's also Siege. And all the other R6 games. And the Division. And the Clancy stuff in general. And Watch Dogs. And For Honor. And Rabbids. And Rayman. And Just Dance/Let's Sing. And Prince of Persia.
But none of that matters (even though several of those are way more lucrative than Far Cry.)
That also lack artistic vision.
Everything they make is just an idea that already exists, with the set-dressing changed.
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It was a kind way of saying buy the IP's, give them to someone competent and gut the studios of bloat and waste.
Just going through the list I posted above your post, there's lots of original ideas in there. Just Dance was an original idea, PoP (both 8 bit computer and PS2 era) was an original idea, Watch Dogs had original ideas, AC had original ideas, Siege had original ideas. It's just bloat like AC and Far Cry sequels coming out too often and being farmed out to the B team that leads to "the Ubisoft game" being a bad thing.
But the last decade has pretty much destroyed the value of the IPS through uninspired milking.
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Buy low, sell high.
Sony bought Insomniac for $250 million. After a handful of amazing games, what do you reckon their worth is now? Spiderman is nigh-on a $1 billion game.
I don't think it's that they lack artistic vision, it's that they allow the artistic vision to be compromised by the demands of execs. Like they make good looking games, but the gameplay has had any fun and defining characteristics massaged out through endless focus testing and desire to cater to trendy garbage. Look at immortals fenyx rising, beautiful game... but the game design is kinda mid.
Maybe I used the wrong search engine to validate my typing.
Opens thread, sees someone crying about "blue haired sjws", closes thread.