Ubisoft dismantles part of the Assassin's Creed: Black Flag team and lays off 51 workers in Barcelona

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    "title": "Ubisoft dismantles part of the Assassin's Creed: Black Flag team and lays off 51 workers in Barcelona - El Periódico",
    "excerpt": "'Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced'. Gabriel Ubieto The video game development company Ubisoft is finalizing an employment regulation file (ERE) at its Barcelona offices to lay off 51 employees, almost a third of its workforce. Workers denounce that the company, of French origin, is dismantling part of the team that participated in the design and launch of the game Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, one of the franchise's most iconic sagas and which has received good reviews from users.The works council faces the last week of negotiation of the consultation period, denounces that the management is offering them minimal compensation and \"paltry\" reassignments, and has called for three days of strike action to try to unblock the file. The company has decided to activate a restructuring plan, and the Barcelona offices are one of the affected locations. The good reception that the 'remake' of this Assassin's Creed saga video game is receiving has not prevented part of its team from being dismissed.Ubisoft itself boasted last week in a statement that \"two million copies of the game were sold on the first day after its launch, July 9. The game ranked first on Twitch on July 9 and reached a maximum of 99,451 concurrent players on Steam in the first 24 hours after its launch, making it the Assassin's Creed title with the highest number of concurrent players ever recorded on that...",
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