• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    bad-companies.md:

    Ubisoft

    2026:

    • fires team lead after return-to-office critique
    • closes Halifax studio 1 month after Union formed

    2025:

    • full-in on gen-AI after shares plummeting
    • NOYB sues because of covert user tracking
    • Ubisoft wants to monitor your RAM (🏴‍☠️)
    • EULA demands deleting delisted games

    2024:

    • deletes inactive customer accounts with purchased games
    • “Gamers need to get comfortable not owning games”
    • adds Denuvo after reviews were made

    2023:

    • ads in games
    • started that list here

    To be fair, they also want to be bought up (rebranding), after multiple buy-outs and mass-layoffs.

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      For things before 2023, there was sexual harassment (multiple) bullying and hostile workplace and their excitement over NFT. They had a boys club and made it a really toxic atmosphere, where the CCO literally said “Women don’t sell”.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      I feel like this file would be valuable for every company we might purchase from, and also nearly impossible to maintain.