Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Team Already Facing Layoffs at Ubisoft

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    "url": "https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-team-already-facing-layoffs-at-ubisoft/",
    "title": "Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Team Already Facing Layoffs at Ubisoft - ComicBook.com",
    "excerpt": "July 9th marks the long-awaited release of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed B lack Flag Resynced. Ahead of launch, the game is sitting at a pretty solid 84 Metacritic rating. Our own review praises it as a worthy return to one of the franchise’s most beloved games. Yet the team that worked on the game is reportedly already facing layoffs, regardless of what’s shaping up to be a successful launch for Black Flag Resynced. According to Insider Gaming , Ubisoft Barcelona has already announced plans to lay off 51 employees. Many of the impacted employees worked on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced . Rather than getting assigned to another project after wrapping work on the highly anticipated remake, the team was instead disbanded “just days after completing all its work” on the game. Because this decision was reportedly made ahead of the launch, it seems Ubisoft planned to make these cuts regardless of how well the game performed. And that’s not a great sign for the state of the industry. The layoffs themselves were announced just after work on Black Flag Resynced wrapped. Members of the team who worked on the project were not reassigned to work on a game, and instead are facing losing their jobs entirely. Though the news itself isn’t new for the team at Ubisoft, the situation is thrown into stark relief as the very game these employees worked on celebrates its launch. For many of the...",
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