Ubisoft Reportedly Seeking Canadian Investors to Avoid Vivendi Takeover

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• Nayr752 Member UncommonPosts: 172

  February 2016

  Nice read. Hopefully they keep it out of reach from Vivendi.
  
• rojoArcueid Member EpicPosts: 10,722

  February 2016

  Best of luck to Ubi.
  
  If Activision, of all companies, ran away from Vivendi then those guys must be pretty bad.

  
  
  
  
  
• Asm0deus Member EpicPosts: 4,407

  February 2016

  Yuck hope they succeed in fending off vivendi...
  

  Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.

  
  
  
  
  
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  February 2016

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• H0urg1ass Member EpicPosts: 2,380

  February 2016

  This could go either way.  Quebec was initially very friendly to gaming studios and many studios went there in droves due to the massive tax breaks the city offered for gaming studios.
  
  Then they unexpectedly cut those tax breaks a couple of years ago and several studios were planning to bail.  Just as unexpectedly they reinstated those tax breaks again last year.
  
  So who knows. Interestingly, if Ubisoft provides good French translations for their games, then they have a better chance of Quebec stepping in to help.  They are fiercely French in that regard.
• TimWilson Member CommonPosts: 4

  February 2016

  Mtibbs1989 said:

  Meh, maybe with a change in management when Vivendi takes over Ubisoft they can finally move away from the "You can only see in 30 FPS" bullshit stuns they've been pulling to hide the fact that their games are poorly optimized.

  Lol Vivendi once owned Acti/Blizzard and basically forced the people who created Call of Duty out so they could do the whole pay 100$ or more every year for the same crap mechanics. Was it a great business decision? Well duh, but that said this will only make Ubisoft games worse in my opinion and since they already struggle to release competent titles on PC (most of them play like the console ports) and their console titles are for the most part meh (Listen Assassins Creed is a fun game but its a bit overdone now).
  I have a feeling if The Division is a great success it will seal their fate and they will be bought and since its pretty hyped and seems to be fun, they probably will be bought by Vivendi and I will cease buying Ubisoft products altogether.  Also this is the unfortunate nature of being publicly traded..if somebody wants to overtake you and they have the money you are kind of screwed, because it will happen eventually.
  
• Asm0deus Member EpicPosts: 4,407

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  H0urg1ass said:

  This could go either way.  Quebec was initially very friendly to gaming studios and many studios went there in droves due to the massive tax breaks the city offered for gaming studios.
  
  Then they unexpectedly cut those tax breaks a couple of years ago and several studios were planning to bail.  Just as unexpectedly they reinstated those tax breaks again last year.
  
  So who knows. Interestingly, if Ubisoft provides good French translations for their games, then they have a better chance of Quebec stepping in to help.  They are fiercely French in that regard.

  Indeed, about the fiercely french thing you can't blame Quebec for being like that since some provinces like Ontario had a law (not anymore though) which made french schools illegal for a long time to try and kill off french by forcing french people to send their kids to english school.
  
  http://www.citynews.ca/2016/02/22/premier-wynne-apologizes-for-1912-regulation-banning-french-in-ontario-schools/
  
  http://tvo.org/article/current-affairs/shared-values/why-ontario-once-tried-to-ban-french-in-schools
  
  
  

  Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.