"Ubisoft thinks that's what we deserve": Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's release followed by union strike over planned Ubisoft Barcelona layoffs

51 unit are astatine hazard of being laid disconnected by the extremity of July

Following the merchandise of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, an undertaking by a clump of Ubisoft studios based each implicit the world, national protests astatine 1 of said studios person kicked disconnected implicit plans to laic disconnected unit present the remake's retired of the door. Ubisoft Barcelona, the workplace successful question, were reported past period to beryllium acceptable for a restructure that'd spot them absorption solely connected Rainbow Six games going forwards.

With the studio's enactment connected Black Flag Resynced present finished, Ubisoft look to person kicked those plans into motion, with 51 Ubisoft Barcelona devs facing layoffs according to the Spanish Coordinadora Sindical del Videojuego (CSVI) union. In protest, the national person organised a three-day onslaught moving from July 14th done to July 16th.

According to VGC, arsenic portion of the strike, the Ubisoft Barcelona devs are seeking 4 outcomes. Ubisoft cancelling the projected 51 layoffs, stronger occupation information guarantees to forestall aboriginal wide layoffs being enactment successful place, a instrumentality to a argumentation that allows up to 60% distant working, positive promotions and wage rises the devs assertion they were antecedently promised.

Outside of the strike, a mates of Ubisoft Barcelona devs person taken to societal media to explicit thoroughly understandable vexation astatine the situation. Tech and gameplay animator Manel Cota wrote successful a station connected societal media that Ubisoft Barcelona were liable for Black Flag Resynced's underwater shipwreck exploration sections, adding "that aforesaid squad is being fired close present due to the fact that Ubisoft thinks that's what we deserve".

Meanwhile, QA/QC pb Isabel Codina García wrote connected LinkedIn that "after 7 years astatine Ubisoft Barcelona, this is not however [she] imagined it would end". "Two weeks earlier launch, the full AC squad astatine Ubisoft Barcelona was informed of a corporate redundancy program (ERE)," she added. "Vantage Studios has stated determination volition not beryllium further mandates for the Barcelona studio, contempt the squad proposing caller AC projects." García echoed that 51 devs are presently acceptable to beryllium fto spell by the extremity of July.

Solidarity to each the Ubisoft Barcelona devs affected by these layoffs and to those taking portion successful the strikes.