Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced breaks Steam and PlayStation player records
51 employees were laid off after Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced launched. It's pointing more and more towards a fixed-term, project-by-project games industry. That still requires you to work on-site and relocate for every gig. Utter bullshit.
Mr. Carter7Sounds like a great reason to fund our own game dev company and stop working for these bullshit corporate fucks.
almightytallest.bsky.social5Is this how the film industry operates?
The Brigadier1Sadly that's all been happening for a while. I worked for a medium sized dev studio in a permanent position (because I'd been there for years) - all new starters were coming in on fixed term short contracts because it was easy to downsize that way. Eventually they made the move to shift all 1/2
British Summer Dave.1Only in the established studios. This creates space for startups. I hope we see a new wave of innovation 👍
I probably have an article in me about how Assassin's Creed went from Anarchist philosophy with "Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted" to cryptofascist signaling and changing the Creed to "we work in the dark to save the light"
Ela Bambust 🏳️⚧️ (alleged transsexual)47The former can only be a deeply anarchist call to question power structures. To say that nothing is true it's to say that anyone who sells you absolute truth is lying to you. To say that everything is permitted is to say that laws are not reality, that there are only consequences.
Atomikrin 🍉🐸1Having only played through 2 and Odyssey, I'd be interested in reading that.
Maple Autumn 🏳️⚧️🏴☠️🐕1Hah, I didn't know that they used that quote in AC. For me, it came through Principia Discordia, and the practice of Chaos Magic, and its associated philosophies. It's a thing I and some of my associates say quite often.
Aasa T 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸1It's been a moment since I replayed the older ones, which one ypu think is the turning point?
"No thanks!" Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake Resynced being review bombed on Steam for single-player microtransactions www.eurogamer.net/assassins-cr...
☀️Blissy☀️77Aunque lícito, siempre me apena que los gamers solo hagan review bombing y boicot cuando les afecta a su consumo, y nunca por los trabajadores que hay detrás. Recuerdo que 51 trabajadores de Ubisoft Barcelona, la mayoría del equipo que trabajó en este remake, serán despedidos en unos días.
🦝 Greywaren 🦝3Me hace mucha gracia que la reacción a este en concreto haya sido tan negativa cuando Ubisoft lleva haciendo esto desde hace muchísimos años, son cosméticos totalmente opcionales (y muy feos, imo) y han dicho varias veces que es lo que más pasta les da para financiar más juegos.
