That "longterm shareholder in Activision Blizzard" that "started their Ubisoft position couple weeks ago" troll that sends their "open letter" with cc to "Cc: KKR, Vivendi, Blackstone" (3 who failed at trying to acquire Ubisoft) doesn't seem to know that it isn't possible.
In their deal with Tencent they signed that Ubisoft wouldn't sell to anyone during minimum the next whatever years (I think it was 5 or 8) and that Tencent wouldn't buy more Ubi stocks in minimum a certain amount of years (I think it was 8 or 5).
Sounds to me it's just a play from a butthurted big hedge fund (or MS) who is angry because the Guillemots secured the company from being acquired by them. So they try to drop the stocks pricing to force the Guillemots to sell, but instead of that what the Guillemots do is to buy more stocks at a cheaper price.
P.S.: The moronic letter mentions "Tommy Clancy’s"
EA was rumored to be buying them once, I think they got spooked by all the overhead. Ubisoft has more employees then EA, that's crazy.
EA never had the cash to acquire them, if something they'd have offered a merge. But Ubisoft never wanted to sell to anyone.
Yes, EA has 13,700 employees and Ubisoft around 19,000. Ubisoft releases more games, but EA has EA FC, Madden and The Sims, thanks to which EA generates over 4x times more from game addons than from selling games (and they sell a ton of games).
This moron of the letter lies when saying that Ubi has 17,000 and EA 11,000.
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