China is going to end up buying it. You'll see a big fanfare about a return to form, their first few games under Chicom ownership will likely be pretty decent, probably great. But over few years after that, if you're paying attention you'll notice that games will start having a few sympathetic Chinese side characters here and there, communists will never again be the villain of a story, etc. They'll keep the spotlight on having attractive women again, White male main characters in some of the bigger titles to bring older fans back in. But little seeds of Chicom propaganda will always be just below the surface.
It's brilliant, given that China is the main culprit underwriting woke programs in the West (yes, even way more than that country). Poison western studios with woke, drive them to bankruptcy, buy them cheap and the restore them with Chicom propaganda in the background.
I wonder if they can even pull that off. Ubisoft is so rotten to the core they'd have to fire 90% of the people there. Probably not going to be doable due to worker protection laws in the West and government intervention in take overs.
Alternatively they might just buy the rights to the more valuable franchises and let Ubisoft itself wither and die.
I wonder if they can even pull that off. Ubisoft is so rotten to the core they'd have to fire 90% of the people there. Probably not going to be doable due to worker protection laws in the West and government intervention in take overs.
They'll let the current ownership do that due to losses. They'll buy the husk of Ubisoft for its IPs and what brand worth it has left and to get a stronger foothold in Western entertainment markets. From there, they'll use in-house studios to build out the games with some French executives left to oversee general content direction, but it will likely go exactly as Smiggieballs outlined in his post.
ON the contrary. I hope they don't. I don't want China to successfully bamboozle tens of millions of western men into gladly slurping up Chicom propaganda just to get some decent video games. I will never condone or support that attitude of "go ahead and feed me poison, so long as it tastes good".
China is going to end up buying it. You'll see a big fanfare about a return to form, their first few games under Chicom ownership will likely be pretty decent, probably great. But over few years after that, if you're paying attention you'll notice that games will start having a few sympathetic Chinese side characters here and there, communists will never again be the villain of a story, etc. They'll keep the spotlight on having attractive women again, White male main characters in some of the bigger titles to bring older fans back in. But little seeds of Chicom propaganda will always be just below the surface.
It's brilliant, given that China is the main culprit underwriting woke programs in the West (yes, even way more than that country). Poison western studios with woke, drive them to bankruptcy, buy them cheap and the restore them with Chicom propaganda in the background.
Every game will have gacha mechanics and ultra-aggressive microtransactions like every Chinese product does as well.
You are saying that like Assassins Creed doesn't already have XP boosts in a single player game.
True, but it can always get worse.
It’s nice of them to preserve some of Ubisoft’s values like that.
Say what you want about Chinese communism, at least its an ethos!
Seriously though, I'd take this trade in a heartbeat. At least communists have a future, unlike troonists.
And at the very least it'll put market pressure on the remaining US studios to cut the woke crap out and put out reasonable products once more.
I wonder if they can even pull that off. Ubisoft is so rotten to the core they'd have to fire 90% of the people there. Probably not going to be doable due to worker protection laws in the West and government intervention in take overs.
Alternatively they might just buy the rights to the more valuable franchises and let Ubisoft itself wither and die.
They'll let the current ownership do that due to losses. They'll buy the husk of Ubisoft for its IPs and what brand worth it has left and to get a stronger foothold in Western entertainment markets. From there, they'll use in-house studios to build out the games with some French executives left to oversee general content direction, but it will likely go exactly as Smiggieballs outlined in his post.
This is wishful thinking.
ON the contrary. I hope they don't. I don't want China to successfully bamboozle tens of millions of western men into gladly slurping up Chicom propaganda just to get some decent video games. I will never condone or support that attitude of "go ahead and feed me poison, so long as it tastes good".
That's exactly what they did with Marvel Rivals, though.