France's Ubisoft faces three day strike as unions protest over remote work decision
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Unions have called employees of video games giant Ubisoft to go on strike for three days  in a dispute over remote working and pay, hitting a firm already struggling with poor sales and a collapsing…
  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    1 month ago

    Ubisoft makes a beautiful game with an incredibly well-known IP. They flesh out characters and small cities with loads of detail. Then, they make the entire gameplay one repetitive takedown move and hours of driving back and forth between points.

    Remote work didn’t do this; underfunding the project did. Bringing people back to the offices will only result in losing their best staff.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 month ago

      *Except Far Cry 6, where they also didn’t bother with the fleshing out of the environment.

    • JustCopyingOthersEnglish
      4·
      1 month ago

      Some awful app needed to start the game that always needs a protracted update using administrator privileges every time I run it, (on top of Steam which does pretty much the same thing), doesn’t really draw me back to their products either.