Their official statement: https://www.ubisoft.com/xdefiant-our-message-to-players
Fascinating how they have repeatedly gone belly up on multiple big projects lately and with the new assassins creed basically DOA it seems like Ubisoft will be the first major to go under. Sadly with as pozzed as gaming is I bet Sony will either buy them outright or keep them alive.
Remember how much crowing the big publishers did over being a multi billion dollar industry bigger than Hollywood a few years back? And how they're almost all publicly traded and even in indexes like FTSE and NASDAQ?
They're close to the fabled realm of too big to fail, and yet a huge number of gamers (I.E their sole income source) fully expect most of them to crash and burn in the next few years. It's going to be a cluster fuck of a crash once the first one falls.
Y'know I wonder if gamers could successfully invert the GameStop magic and start rolling shorts of Triple A stocks until the fireworks start?