It appears as if the highest-profile studio to be affected by the upcoming spherical of layoffs is Mainz, which beforehand labored on Anno 1800, Anno 117: Pax Romana, Rainbow Six Seige, and Past Good and Evil 2. The Ubisoft studios in Berlin and Dusseldorf will even be affected, with Dusseldorf reportedly taking the brunt of the job cuts. The job cuts are motivated by sustainability, with Ubisoft’s Benedikt Grindel stating in an inside e mail that the cuts would “finest place our German studios for the long run…with a clearer deal with their function, capabilities, and organizational setup wanted for the work forward.”
Ubisoft has simply come out of a massive reshuffle, which saw the gaming giant split its core IPs into five separate “creative houses,” every of which has “end-to-end accountability” for its personal IPs, together with branding and scope, financing, and publishing methods. Together with the announcement of the brand new construction at Ubisoft, it cancelled six video games and delayed seven extra. It was subsequently reported that Ubisoft could lose round 18% of its complete workforce in spite of everything is alleged and executed, with the eventual end-goal being an annual reduction of at least €200 million in fixed costs. These layoffs seem to fall outdoors that beforehand reported 18% discount.