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Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized

60 points| acron0 | 1 month ago |ign.com

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eli_gottlieb|1 month ago

>Last year, Ubisoft turned outside the company for assistance, creating a new business entity to manage Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six with a 25% stake from Tencent.

Enshittifying three whole product lines to own the workers.

deflator|1 month ago

People in the game industry must be passionate about what they do. When I was in school 20 years ago, I remember being discouraged from the game industry by advice that you'll be flogged your entire career. I loved games and had a lot of experience making mods, but that was enough to scare me away back then!

matusp|1 month ago

I wonder if they unionized in an attempt to save their jobs.

interactivecode|1 month ago

Reminder that this would be illegal in any modern developed country.

free_bip|1 month ago

IANAL, but Canada has far stronger labo(u)r laws than the US. They should all be lawyering up, whether it be for some union busting law or plain old wrongful termination.

em-bee|1 month ago

even better, in countries like germany, any individual can just join a union. and it is simply a matter of enough people joining up. there is no need for employees to even organize themselves to get unionized. also, any company with more than 50 people is required to have a betriebsrat by law, regardless of any employees being in a union or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_council

eli_gottlieb|1 month ago

Canada is not a modern, developed country?