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Ubisoft
2026::
full-in on gen-AI after shares plummeting
fires team lead after return-to-office critique
closes Halifax studio 1 month after Union formed
2025::
EULA demands deleting delisted games
NOYB sues because of covert user tracking
Ubisoft wants to monitor your RAM (🏴☠️)
2024::
adds Denuvo after reviews were made
deletes inactive customer accounts with purchased games
“Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games”
2023::
ads in games
To be fair, they also want to be bought up (rebranding), after multiple buy-outs and lay-offs.
For things before 2023, there was sexual harassment (multiple) bullying and hostile workplace and their excitement over NFT. They had a boys club and made it a really toxic atmosphere, where the CCO literally said “Women don’t sell”.
If only instead of each one micromanaging our purchases there could be a system set up to thwart the bad corporate behavior in a broad and systemic way, with the dedicated pros doing oversight professionally.
That’s ridiculous. It would take some sort of centralized entity designed to represent the will of the populace. I wouldn’t even know where to start to create such a thing.
bad-companies.adocUbisoft 2026:: full-in on gen-AI after shares plummeting fires team lead after return-to-office critique closes Halifax studio 1 month after Union formed 2025:: EULA demands deleting delisted games NOYB sues because of covert user tracking Ubisoft wants to monitor your RAM (🏴☠️) 2024:: adds Denuvo after reviews were made deletes inactive customer accounts with purchased games “Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games” 2023:: ads in gamesTo be fair, they also want to be bought up (rebranding), after multiple buy-outs and lay-offs.
For things before 2023, there was sexual harassment (multiple) bullying and hostile workplace and their excitement over NFT. They had a boys club and made it a really toxic atmosphere, where the CCO literally said “Women don’t sell”.
I feel like this file would be valuable for every company we might purchase from, and also nearly impossible to maintain.
The website that pulls this off would get the $2.75 I keep not giving Wikipedia.
If only instead of each one micromanaging our purchases there could be a system set up to thwart the bad corporate behavior in a broad and systemic way, with the dedicated pros doing oversight professionally.
That’s ridiculous. It would take some sort of centralized entity designed to represent the will of the populace. I wouldn’t even know where to start to create such a thing.