Putting employees at Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced co-developer Ubisoft Barcelona have slammed the corporate’s preliminary severance pay supply as “beneath any resonable commonplace,” after workers had been advised that up to 51 jobs had been being eradicated.
Layoffs at Ubisoft Barcelona had been introduced final month as a part of a wider wave of job losses throughout the agency. 380 employees are being let go on this newest downsizing, unfold throughout Ubisoft workplaces in Winnipeg and Belgrade (which can shut utterly), in Barcelona, and within the firm’s international publishing division.
At Ubisoft Barcelona, up to 51 jobs have been positioned at danger as Ubisoft plans to lower the group’s measurement and prohibit it to working simply on the Rainbow Six franchise in future, IGN understands.
The plight of Barcelona’s employees has sparked headlines, with the doubtless job losses contrasted towards the business success of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, which bought a formidable 2 million copies in simply 24 hours. Whereas improvement on Resynced was led by Ubisoft Singapore, Barcelona contributed considerably to the title. It has beforehand been reported that the corporate dealt with Resynced’s underwater diving side-missions, although IGN understands that the studio additionally developed a swathe of different areas, quests, and contracts.
A number of foremost quests had been dealt with by Barcelona’s Assassin’s Creed group throughout greater than two years of Resynced improvement, together with reportedly a number of showcased throughout pre-release hands-on previews, alongside improvement on a particular in-game area (Gibara), plus work on enemy fight AI and managers.
Yesterday, as negotiations started to avoid wasting roles and safe honest severance pay for these leaving, remaining Ubisoft Barcelona employees joined a strike with round 90 folks in attendance. Images from the walkout present a big banner that reads “Company Greed” within the model of “Assassin’s Creed,” and flags for the CGT (Basic Confederation of Labor) union.
Now, employees impacted by the deliberate redundancies have spoken to IGN concerning the present state of affairs, and mentioned {that a} additional strike will happen tomorrow, Thursday, July 16.
“The severance pay they’re providing is much beneath the minimal anticipated, and beneath what they’ve provided for beforehand laid off workers from the studio,” one Ubisoft Barcelona worker advised IGN.
“There are nonetheless discussions about saving among the jobs, and it is doubtless that at least some will transfer to Rainbow Six, however the job positions themselves appear fairly particular, and the Assassin’s Creed group has been actually lower.”
Ubisoft has lower a whole bunch of employees and absolutely closed quite a few studios in latest months, 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 utterly (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 Large Leisure. Only a week after that, Ubisoft introduced plans to ditch 200 jobs at its firm headquarters in Paris, main to protests throughout the French capital.
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. Then, in March, Ubisoft confirmed that 105 employees had been set to depart veteran Tom Clancy sport studio Crimson Storm Leisure, as a part of a transfer that downsized the studio completely, following three earlier waves of layoffs at the corporate since 2022.
“We’re conscious of the strike motion introduced at Ubisoft Barcelona and respect workers’ proper to categorical their views,” a Ubisoft spokesperson advised IGN in a press release at the moment. “Ubisoft has initiated a proposed restructuring of Ubisoft Barcelona as a part of broader efforts to scale back prices and focus sources on strategic priorities. Beneath this proposal, the studio would focus solely on Rainbow Six tasks, which can influence up to 51 workers.
“This stays a proposal, and no remaining choice might be made till the collective session course of has concluded. We’re dedicated to constructive dialogue with worker representatives and to supporting workers all through this era.”
Picture credit score: CGT
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