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Ubisoft to Shut Down ‘XDefiant,’ Nearly 300 Employees Laid Off as San Francisco and Osaka Game Studios Close

variety.com Ubisoft to Shut Down ‘XDefiant,’ Nearly 300 Employees Laid Off as San Francisco and Osaka Game Studios Close

Ubisoft will be shutting down its free-to-play first-person shooter game "XDefiant" in the new year.

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Look, I hate Ubisoft as much as the next guy, but this shit always pisses me off. I guarantee that the reason most of these games fail or go in a bad direction is because of the parent company making poor decisions and then punishing the studios as a scape goat. Microsoft closed Arkane Studios after the disaster that was Redfall when most of the poor choices came from Bethesda and Microsoft. Arkane didn't even want to make the game in the first place, but they still got shut down and they all lost their jobs.
Fuck AAA game companies. The only clout they have is making decent games in the past when they were smaller. The only time most of these companies made any decent games (not all, but most) was when they were the indie devs competing against the big boys.
- If any child company is being blamed, it's always the parent companies fault. Not like it changes literally anything though because people keep paying these companies to be treated like garbage.
  
  I feel you. All my gaming friends buy the newest CoD and assassin's creed games on release every time and then spend the first few weeks just complaining about the games. And I'm like, let's go play our multiplayer Stardew Valley save that we have hundreds of hours in and actually have fun playing, my guys.
- Microsoft closed Arkane Studios after the disaster that was Redfall when most of the poor choices came from Bethesda and Microsoft
  Bethesda and Arkane had a common owner, ZeniMax. Bethesda itself didn't own Arkane.
  
  I always forget that ZeniMax even exists, honestly. They're all just Bethesda to me. In my mind I just picture them as "big Bethesda" and "little Bethesda." Regardless, they were all bought by Microsoft so it was probably Microsoft that fucked over Arkane. So it's kind of a moot point anyways.
- I got the feeling Arkane was always shit at org politics, to be honest. Creative energy without corporate strategy. Big shame.

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