Ubisoft is delaying again Creed Shadows of Assassin, but this time, not only worry about the quality of Assassin Creed’s darkness. The French publisher is repelling The New Samurai’s release of open open from February 14 to March 20, 2025 while they consider “different strategic and conversion options to extract the best value to stakeholders”, with news of a “transaction” that can be followed.
Quite a lot of this means opening up for speculation, but recently it has been rumored that the first Ubi family, the Guillemot brothers plotted with Tencent to buy the company, while the minority shareholders are dissatisfied with the company’s drop -off stock price offered to “bring Ubisoft private or allow it to sell a strategic investor”. Therefore, this may be large. Anyway, greater than the delay of a video game.
“After the strategic assessment and implementation initiated by the Executive Committee a few months ago, Ubisoft is taking the decisive steps to reshap the group to bring the best player experience, improve the performance and maximize the creation of value,” read “the strategic update” from Ubisoft, posted this afternoon.
“Ubisoft today claims that they have appointed top advisors to review and pursue various strategic options and conversion options to extract the best value to stakeholders,” it continued. “This process will be supervised by independent members of the Board of Directors. Ubisoft will notify the market in accordance with current regulations if and once transactions are realized.”
Ubisoft has partly increased finance for a while, losing nearly half of their share value by 2024, partly due to the “soft” performance of Star Wars Outlaws. So they cut. In December, Ubisoft stopped PVP Shooter Xdefiant and fired about 277 people. According to today’s statement, XDefiant closed related to the closing “three film studios produced in high -cost geographical areas” – as in, areas with higher salaries.
The company “will continue to promote significant cost reduction, along with a high selective approach”, statement continues. Ubisoft is expected to reduce their “fixed cost basis” (in other words, the cost includes more expenses for prediction, periodic, such as employee salary) 200 million euros for the fiscal year 2025-2026, compared to 2022-2023 on the basis of annual basis.
And then, there was the delay of darkness, a promising historical opus that seemed to have too many riding it after the people outside the law.
“In addition, part of the focus on the game quality and an attractive day experience, people have decided to provide an additional one month of development for Assassin Creed Shadows,” Ubisoft wrote. “This additional time will allow the group to better combine the player’s feedback in the past three months and help create the best conditions to launch by continuing to participate closely with the Assassin Creed community more and more positive. The game is now planned on March 20.”
I have no insight to play Soothsayer about Ubisoft’s luck here. Instead, I will end by showing you about this tired alice0 (RPS) article since 2022, in which Yves Guillemot CEO talks about Ubisoft’s independence while also saying that, of course, they were happy to sell farms to anyone with a real, really large amount of money.
