I am so thankful that the executives took a productivity and happiness survey when we went full time remote.
Any time a new manager brings up maybe we should return to the office, our offcial remote manual begins with data: we are far more productive remote working. There is the data, the proof.
The second part about being overall happier reminds us that we didn’t really like being in the office either.
We also have two more metrics: amount of time saved by a company in commute reduction, and the increase in safety.
But the first two are the most important.
I stopped buying Unisoft games decades ago. Because they suck. The owners suck. The management sucks. The corporate culture sucks. I feel bad for the coders working for them.
Stop. Buying. Ubisoft. Games.
I tried to uninstall a game but was blocked because I didn’t remember my ubisoft launcher password. Wtf, its my PC get the fuck out
Probably wanna check
BulkCrapUninstaller for windows. https://www.bcuninstaller.com/
It’s pretty good.
Or just drop Winblows and finally move to freedom by installing a good Linux distro.
Ubislop. I stopped buying them after AC2.
The last Ubisoft games I played to the end were AC: Black Flag and Watch Dogs, which were both like 12-13 years ago. Neither game was GOOD, but they seemed decent to me at the time. I’ve play tested a few titles since then since then, all of which were hot garbage. Ubisoft is as dead to me as EA these days.
Merde alors.
Ubisoft, they are still alive. Wow. Well not much longer we can hope.
This is why I’m so happy I’m 3000 miles away from my office. No way I’m getting a call back to office. Never was and never will be.
I mean, it’s not hard to understand why their stock is down 95% over the last 5 years…
We need socialism
Always.
But we need to get this huge problem away that always a power hungry dictator gets to power and then it turns into just any dictatorship!!! And not socialism!
This huge problem stems from “we need”. Collectivism leads to hierarchy, because a collective isn’t semantically compatible to one person. A collective can’t be responsible, a collective can’t make a decision, a collective can’t think, a collective can’t speak in one voice. But collectivism means trying to treat a collective like one person. Leading to dictatorships.
Finally, someone had to say it. While capitalism is far from perfect, I’d rather have billionaire capitalist assholes that I can then call on their bullshit than so-called ‘socialism’ which is just the pretty way to call a dictatorship. Show me one ‘socialist’ country that has thrived. One, come on.
You talk as if with corporations a single person can be held responsible…
You can have syndicates and get close to socialism
Thats then syndicalism which is a form of socialism
shit, the average public corporation is a more representative democracy than the US actual government is.
Then you have to fight for it.
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.
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”.
I feel like this file would be valuable for every company we might purchase from, and also nearly impossible to maintain.
The website that pulls this off would get the $2.75 I keep not giving Wikipedia.
Okay. I’m keeping my commitment, but I’m going to need help.
Everytime Ubisoft makes the news for being idiots, I buy another Indie game.
I’m going to need your recommendations for great indie games.
Because Ubisoft has recently gotten me through my wishlist.
Zero Sievert - single player extraction shooter and you can customize the difficulty with granular controls
Little Rocket Lab is like Stardew + Factorio. It’s chill and fun.
Pulled from my Top Playtime on Steam (so you know you’ll get your money’s worth if you like them!)
- Factorio (Even though the DLC is pricey, it at least doubles the playtime. Though, like RW below, it takes a lot of content/concepts from fan-made mods.)
- RimWorld (Though I dislike how many DLCs they’re pumping out and how much is basically taken from mods.)
- Terraria
- Mount & Blade (Warband 1 & 2 are prime)
- Kerbal Space Program (NOT the sequel)
- TerraTech (The original is a better experience)
- Both the Pathfinder games
- Grim Dawn
- The Riftbreaker
- UnderRail
- Mindustry (Open source/free, but deserves the support from buying it on Steam.)
- No Man’s Sky (They’ve gone above and beyond in shaping up since the clusterf release.)
- The Long Dark
- Rise to Ruins
- Space Pirates and Zombies (1 and 2 are both great, in their own ways.)
- Caves of Qud
- Tales of Maj’Eyal
- STALKER (I’ve heard bad things about #2, but the rest are great, high replayability with Anomaly.)
- Astroneer
- War for the Overworld
- Autonauts (and Autonauts vs Piratebots!)
I’d like to add Satisfactory to this list.
The Riftbreaker is fun and graphcally nice to look at. For city builders, I’d also like to suggest:
- Manor Lords
- Timberborn
Lets be real here… Factorio probably has more time played than all the others combined right? lol
All combined? No. Top in playtime by a very large margin over #2? You betcha! 😁
Amazing. Thank you!
Here are my recommendations then:
CrossCode is a personal favorite of mine. An action RPG heavily inspired by retro games.
Library of Ruina is a great non-roguelike deckbuilder. Technically it’s a sequel, but it’s not necessary to know anything about Lobotomy Corporation to get the full enjoyment of its story. At most you can just look up LC’s true ending if you aren’t interested in brutally hard management sims.
Tactical Breach Wizards is a really intertesting mix between a turn-based tactical game and a puzzle game.
Thanks!
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Cassette Beasts
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Pseudoregalia
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Return of the Obra Dinn
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Chants of Sennar
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Gloomwood
Psuedoregalia I think has some of the best movement in any game. I was sad for it to be over, I needed more. I love games that leave room for “breaking” the intended path if you can find the right places to push the movement tech to its limits. Not many games do it.
I think the formatting is a markdown thing… try using double line breaks if you edit or just next time
Thank you!
…what kind of game is that?!
In case you haven’t deciphered where the cut off points are:
- Cassette Beasts
- Pseudoregalia
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Chants of Sennar
- Gloomwood
Yeah, I was just poking at what I assumed was a day off the cuff response. Didn’t occur to me they might have tried formatting it, and failed.
Thanks for breaking them out!
There’s like 4 games without separation in there
Commas are a premium feature now.
Microtransaction based single purchase
My client shows the returns I added to it… oh well, maybe Lemmy requires carriage returns ;)
Updated my post after a long day at work! :) sorry y’all
Gloomwood is great. It feels a lot like classic Thief in the best of ways.
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Bloodthief is great, fast paced with an extremely high skill ceiling. Unlockables give you something to strive for and the level based structure makes it easy to quickly pick up and put down. Some other games I see people recommended here that I love are Signalis, Pseudoregalia, and Sayonara Wild Hearts.
Signalis is the best modern take on the old Resident Evil formula I’ve ever played, hands down. Pseudoregalia is a blast to play, the movement and tech in that game are unrivaled. I thought about comparing it to some Mario games, but that wouldn’t do it justice. Sayonara Wild Hearts is short but beautiful, there is nothing out there like it and it probably has some deeper meaning to read into.
Thank you!
Senua’s Sacrifice
Thanks!
The Last Caretaker and StarRupture are pretty fun if you like the factory survival type game. TLC is something really special IMO. The boat aspect is just so much fun.
Thank you!
TLC is so good
Monster Train 2 if you like card games. It’s got a load of content and replay and they recently released a patch today to add more!
Oh, good call. I loved the first Monster Train. Thank you for the recommendation!
Sayonara Wild Hearts if you want a short but very cool musical game
Thanks!
Awesome game
Terra Invicta is amazing. It’s as if Paradox made an X-Com grand strategy game. The developers were clearly passionate about their game.
Thanks!
signalis if you haven’t got it
Thanks!
Derail Valley Simulator and Vintage Story have gotten me through the last year or so.
Thank you!
Brotato
Thanks!
Lethal Company is a fantastic game imo.
Thanks!
yeah, that’ll make him show up to the office!
I get the impression Ubisoft wants to lay off as many people as possible anyway. They don‘t care who so as long as they can meet some quota. I’m guessing they‘re trying to push operating costs down while they‘re looking for buyers of their IPs.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
It’s big brain moves like this that’ll surely return the like … 20x? … value they’ve lost over the last few years.
I’m sure the publicity of it I’ll land this guy a higher paying job anyways
I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they’re axing people left right and center.
And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it’s still alive in 2026 is in it’s own right quite the achievement. I can’t even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.
Last Ubisoft game I purchased was Rainbow Six Vegas. Great game, but nothing else after that has interested me.
The goal of companies mandating RTO is attrition. They want people to quit without firing or laying them off.
Their goal is to hire younger, hungrier (both literally and figuratively) coders who are cheaper and less experienced and will use “AI” to clean up their code.
Management have over inflated egos. They think, oh, fuck John, John’s division only did $25m. They only see bottom lines. But they fail to realize they killed off John’s ideas that would have brought in $500m. So John leaves, gets to develop his own ideas, then shocked peakachu face.
I believe they want to divert all their resources into one huge Fortnite like success story. Something that can bring them a reliable recurring revenue stream.
All they have to do is make the best game of the year. Yet they have a severe case of skill issue
Is this sort of thing not protected by labour laws?
Sadly not everywhere.
Not anywhere in America.
I’m pretty sure France is one of those places where it is indeed.
I’m pretty sure Montreal is one of those places not in France indeed.
Ah, my bad. Didn’t realize this is Ubisoft Montreal specifically.
If this is NOT another reason to study and read socialist theory, then I DON’T know what is. Seriously! https://redsails.org/
Tankie warning 🚩🚩🚩
TIL ubisoft is a french company. didn’t know an european company can be this anti-worker.
America creates the blueprint. As they say, we are #1 (at speedrunning towards a cyberpunk dystopia)
