Ubisoft Barcelona builders who contributed to Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced have spoken out concerning the firm’s plans to put them off — simply as their closing venture turns into a business success, promoting 2 million copies in round 24 hours.
Layoffs at Ubisoft Barcelona had been introduced final month as a part of a wider wave of job losses throughout the agency. 380 workers are being let go in this newest downsizing, unfold throughout workplaces in Winnipeg and Belgrade (which can shut fully), in Barcelona, and in the corporate’s world publishing division.
Ubisoft Barcelona has a historical past of supporting tasks usually led by different, bigger Ubisoft studios, such as video games in the Rabbids sequence and Star Trek: Bridge Crew. For Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, the staff labored on the sport’s diving side-missions — a secondary exercise {that a} separate staff additionally labored on in the unique Black Flag.
“Ubisoft Barcelona did all of the underwater ranges,” wrote Manel Cota, a tech and gameplay animator on the studio, by way of a post on social media. “And that very same staff is being fired proper now as a result of Ubisoft thinks that is what we deserve :)”
Thanks! Ubisoft Barcelona did all of the underwater ranges. And that very same staff is being fired proper now as a result of Ubisoft thinks thats what we deserve 🙂 https://t.co/rf3p4fGzlH
— Manel Cota (@MaNeo_O) July 13, 2026
“At present is a bittersweet day,” added Isabel Codina García, a top quality assurance lead at Ubisoft Barcelona, by way of a publish on LinkedIn that famous {that a} portion of the Barcelona studio had been engaged on the sport for over two years. “Nevertheless, two weeks earlier than launch, the entire AC staff at Ubisoft Barcelona was knowledgeable of a collective redundancy plan.”
Barcelona-based staff have now begun a previously-announced a strike in opposition to the layoffs which can proceed till this Thursday, July 16. A flyer promoting the walkout claims that “51 workers will lose their jobs in the approaching weeks.”
“After years of dedication to our staff, the corporate has turned its again on us,” the flyer states. “We’ll by no means see the fruits of our labor, and the reward for our arduous work would be the lack of our jobs.”
Ubisoft Barcelona goes on strike. The corporate needs to layoff 51 #ACResynced builders after recreation success.
🏴 No to ERE (redundancies) in Ubisoft Barcelona! pic.twitter.com/vCeNfUBqTD
— CGT Catalunya 🚩🏴 (@CGTCatalunya) July 14, 2026
Ubisoft plans for its Barcelona staff to now focus solely on the Rainbow Six franchise, IGN understands, as a part of wider organizational adjustments which have seen repeated reshufflings and redunancies throughout the entire firm.
In March, Ubisoft confirmed that 105 workers had been set to depart veteran Tom Clancy recreation studio Crimson Storm Leisure, as a part of a transfer that downsized the studio completely, following three earlier waves of layoffs on the firm since 2022.
Ubisoft has reduce tons of of workers and totally closed quite a few studios in current occasions, with 2026 already off to a brutal begin. In January, the corporate canceled six video games together with its Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake and closed two Ubisoft studios fully (Ubisoft Stockholm and Ubisoft Halifax), whereas making layoffs at its workplace in Abu Dhabi, at Trials studio RedLynx and at Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora outfit Huge Leisure.
Only a week after that, Ubisoft introduced plans to ditch 200 jobs at its firm headquarters in Paris, resulting in protests inside the French capital. Subsequent, in February, Ubisoft was compelled to reassure followers that its long-awaited Splinter Cell remake remained in improvement after 40 jobs had been eradicated at its studio Ubisoft Toronto.
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