Tencent, Guillemot Family Reportedly Considering Ubisoft Buyout

Maybe Sony can convince them to buy Bungie too, maybe throw in firewalk.

Is it just me that thinks ubisofts output would be even worse under Tencent?

Sony should buy Ubisoft and let Team Asobi make a new Rayman game

So they’ve ground down the share price down to below 10$ through their own negligence and poor business practices so that they can now buy the shares cheaper through a forced purchase and gain back their ownership whilst ripping off all their investors.

Nothing will change if they achieve this with Tencent because Tencent will probably take a back seat thinking these clowns are going to change things by bringing out more Assassin Creed games with the promise of a Splinter Cell game in the future.

Maybe it's just time to change the "formula" for an Ubisoft game. I think people are getting fatigued by the cookie-cutter open-world game mechanics that pretty much all Ubisoft games have at this point (and a Star Wars license won't fix it).

Clearly Ubisoft has creative talent - just look at Mario + Rabbids - but it shouldn't take a partnership with Nintendo to bring that out!

Make something that is just fun to play. Scale back the development budgets a bit to and make fun original games. They don't need massive maps. They don't need tons of voice actors. They don't need to be bleeding edge.

@colonelkilgore I dunno…it’s hard to fall off the floor. But if anyone can manage such a feat, it WOULD be Ubisoft.

@colonelkilgore They're technically already under Tencent to some degree, but I take your meaning. I'm certainly wary about Tencent as an entity, but I think Ubisoft going private may be a really good outcome. If they do, they won't need every release to be a Massive (wink wink) success and just focus on making games that keep them in the black, rather than a constant stepping-stone to expansion.

@GamingFan4Lyf That change should have happened a decade ago. They’ve been sacking their best talent on higher wages and getting in younger staff who can find themselves being quickly promoted to manager roles over experience

Private is good. No shareholders breathing down their neck demanding constant growth.

I guess it's a good thing they have nothing left I'd want to support, lol.

@GamingFan4Lyf Davide Soliani already left Ubisoft. Pretty much the only worthwhile team left is the one that made the recent Prince of Persia.

Well if you spend millions making games like Avatar and SW outlaws and some how don’t make them top AAA games then what do you expect.

You reap what you sow, it’s as simple as that.

Basically terrible manufacturing process leading to poor games.

@Ralizah He couldn't have possibly been the only creative person, there, right?! Right?!!

I quite like Ubisoft open world games, guess im in the minority😃

Ubisoft could shut down tomorrow and I wouldn't care less.

@Jrs1 nope, not just you. Avatar was the only one I really didn’t like. I’m playing and enjoying SW:O now.

@Jrs1 you aren't the only one mate, I'm quite fond of their single player open world games. I have Star Wars but not played it yet, really enjoyed Avatar too.

If Ubisoft dies, the only thing i want is for a decent studio to buy the Rayman IP

@Jrs1 they're not great. But hate for the stupid leaves the games to be judged more harshly than most others.

I hope they don't buy. Or at least wait until AC shadows is out. Release it on steam, and I'll buy it.

The funny thing is if that occurs and it's just some major conglomerate of salivating private investors at the helm, it will just be even worse formulaic and/or predatory games and a massive layoffs that result.

Ubisoft needs to be cut in half atleast they have way too many people.

Games have continued getting worse and worse and this year in particular just undesirable to play. They are a sinking ship

Can’t wait for xbox podcast like defining Duke tho to say xbox should buy them lol.

@Americansamurai1 Can we also add Herman Hulst to that package?!

If Tencent is involved, that would just make things worse. And it would be keeping the current problems, not fixing them.

Tencent? Hey even more reasons not to buy from Ubisoft as if I needed any 😅

@IslandLogic man would be awesome to get him out of there and Shu back in

@Jrs1 I'm in the same boat - I like Ubisoft games in general. I'm subscribed to Ubisoft+ at the moment and enjoying playing through a few of their games. They aren't perfect obviously but there is absolutely an element of 'bandwagon jumping' in everyone constantly slagging them off.

@somnambulance
You’re still buying their games? Save the money

I must be the rare one who actually likes their games, especially the Far Cry and Watch Dogs games, but also really enjoyed Immortals Fenyx Rising and both Mario Rabbids games.

This has been the plan all along get share prices down to a low amount and buy it at a low price

@GamingFan4Lyf agree, other examples of small but great games would be valiant hearts, child of light and grow up. The last smaller scale prince of Persia was also a move in the right direction.

It's sad news. The bigger the corporate buyouts the greater loss of creative freedom and input employed developers have to add a more grounded, individual style to the game as they become cogs in a machine steered by profit driven execs.
It seems to me that, Ubisoft, like Naughty Dog before them trod a fine path between the two but were misstepped by internal and external forces with other agendas

@Jrs1 yeah, the minority of 10-15 million that buy every AC and Far Cry 😅 it's a total nonsense that Ubisoft isn't popular, really. They have just made some weird decisions lately, since Skull & Bones, and their own IP are much stronger than their massive licensed ones, it has turned out.

Let the Anno team start their own studio, then the rest can turn into a chinese gacha gaas factory for all I care.

If this happens it will be interesting to see how this would affect the Activision cloud gaming rights that Xbox recently sold to Ubisoft. I can't see Microsoft wanting Tencent to have any part of their franchises.

@GamingFan4Lyf they don't need DEI that nobody wants too.

I just want a new Rayman platformer, I can't be the only one.

Let Embracer Group buy them 😂

Ubisoft desperately needs new leadership, a new direction, and a new vision. Sony should be looking to aquire it, if anyone. Not let it become yet another Chinese buyout, and especially not tencent.

@RBMango exactly i mean what would missed if they shut down? They've either ran their franchises into the ground like far cry and assassins creed or they've completely ignored them like rayman.

Tencent should stay far away from this mess, let Yves sort his mess out himself.

Just don't understand how you can own Rayman, splinter cell, ghost recon, rainbow six and numerous other popular franchises and either ignore them completely or ruin them, just poor leadership and lack of understanding of what gamers want.

I certainly don't want assassins creed every year or every other year, definitely don't want rainbow six in it's current clown form, bring back vegas!