Ubisoft is shedding extra employees and providing voluntary buyouts

Ubisoft’s Large Leisure, the developer of The Division sequence, Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is providing some workers volunteer buyouts because it makes an attempt to “realign” its groups, the corporate mentioned in a post on X. The transfer is designed to “strengthen our roadmap,” Large wrote, because it focuses on The Division sequence together with its Snowdrop engine and Ubisoft Join. Ubisoft notably did not point out Star Wars and Avatar in that assertion, an omission that will successfully spell the demise of these franchises.

Large framed the layoffs as a “voluntary profession transition program… supported by a complete package deal that features monetary and profession help.” Employees on the Large studio in Malm, Sweden can volunteer till December 13 for the package deal, which primarily targets folks between tasks ready for brand spanking new assignments, in response to the French information website Le Figaro.

One other Ubisoft studio, Helsinki-based RedLynx, additionally announced that it was restructuring “as a part of Ubisoft’s international efforts to simplify, cut back prices and guarantee a stronger prioritization and effectivity.” If applied, the proposal would lead to a most of 60 employees being let go, RedLynx mentioned.

Following the underperformance of key titles like Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ubisoft has shuttered workplaces and laid off employees at workplaces in San Francisco, London and Leamington. Final yr, the corporate’s headcount dropped from 20,279 to 18,666 on the finish of September. Earlier this month, Ubisoft partnered with Tencent to launch Vantage Studios, which now homes the corporate’s tentpole franchises: Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six.