Ubisoft, which once supported half of the gaming industry with “Assassin’s Creed”, “Far Cry” and “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege”, now seems to be paying for the decisions of the past few years. According to foreign media reports, Ubisoft will close two studios again and lay off up to 380 employees. employees, becoming the latest in the company’s ongoing restructuring plan!
Affected this time are studios in Winnipeg, Canada and Belgrade, Serbia, while the Barcelona team will also lay off employees. Ubisoft said that these decisions are to simplify the company’s structure, reduce operating costs, and enable the company to maintain competitiveness in the long-term development.
Year after year of reorganization, players have almost memorized the script
If there are players who have been paying attention to Ubisoft, this kind of news is probably no stranger to them. Starting in 2025, Ubisoft has successively closed multiple studios, laid off hundreds of employees, and even canceled multiple games in development. At the beginning of this year, the company announced a large-scale reorganization, reintegrating internal resources into five major creative departments, hoping to concentrate on operating core IP.
However, the ideal is full, but the reality is a bit skinny. In recent years, the market performance of works such as “Skull and Bones” and “Star Wars Outlaws” has not met expectations, which has also forced Ubisoft to continue to reduce expenditures.
Ubisoft is still regaining its former glory
In fact, Ubisoft has reported news of layoffs in recent months, including well-known teams such as Swedish Massive Entertainment and Red Storm Entertainment. To the outside world, this is no longer just cost control, but more like a lengthy corporate self-rescue operation.
Of course, Ubisoft still holds many heavyweight IPs, but the question is whether players are willing to continue to pay. After all, reorganization can continue and the studio can continue to close, but if the next masterpiece still fails to rekindle market enthusiasm, then the three words “reorganization in progress” in the news headline may still accompany players for a long time.