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It's really hard to say.

People hate Ubisoft for ages, but millions still buy their games. And while they don't care about players, ethicacy, privacy, legacy, or any othercy, I'm pretty sure they do care about profits.

From these stats on their income, in 2023 their profits reached €160M. That's more than they have ever made before (second best fiscal year was €140M, then €110M, €108M, €105M, and the remaining good years hover at €70-90M). So even "modern Ubisoft" can push great profits.

In 2024, they had a loss of €160, erasing all the income from the previous year. But their second worst year (ignoring 2022 due to Covid) was a loss of €125M in 2019. That's a six years younger Ubisoft, a noticeably less evil Ubisoft, yet the loss gap isn't that big (consider inflation).

I don't know any 2025 numbers and I don't feel like researching this further, but I think there's not enough people who see Ubisoft as pure evil, and plenty of gamers can still be convinced by Ubisoft of recent two years to buy whatever they sell, singleplayer microtransactions and all.

So I don't necessarily see them going under as a company. I kinda want to say I want that, because their approach should not be rewarded, but there's too many people working there who have zero say about things, who might do an amazing job if the leadership was the only part that got under. If you're thinking "they'll find better jobs," that is absolutely not guaranteed.

My hopes is for someone to decapitate the management (figuratively) and install someone who understands that staying at least somewhat user-friendly is good for business.

It might be telling to know what exactly caused the €160M loss last year. No emotional guesses, actual analysis. This fiscal year might answer your questions anyway. Two years of negative €150M+ in a row surely wouldn't be something Ubisoft can just wave off. Heads would fall, presumably.
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Unhinged evil people tend to stick around longer than those that have enough moral fiber to contimplate the op question. Food for thought.
Honestly, Ubi hasn't released a game I want to play in a decade. So I am ambivalent to their current implosion. They were releasing the most shallow, vapid shovelware with a huge budget, I'm honestly surprised people kept buying the stuff enough for them to stay afloat al lthese years. Add to that the culture of sexual abuse and covering up and supporting the abusers... well. Yeah. They can die in a fire just fine.
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ElDoRado1239: - edited analytical stuff-
Please note that at that level of mismanagement, cooking the accounts is pretty much a standard of business so any reported numbers are likely to be false. The actual numbers can be milder or more severe in either direction, while the reports are used to sway the outside perception of investors and the like.
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ElDoRado1239: - edited analytical stuff-
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honglath: Please note that at that level of mismanagement, cooking the accounts is pretty much a standard of business so any reported numbers are likely to be false. The actual numbers can be milder or more severe in either direction, while the reports are used to sway the outside perception of investors and the like.
I feel you, but UBI is based in the EU (France specifically), arguably the worst place on Earth for companies to do something like that. I wouldn't expect a huge difference between reality and their own reporting. From tax fraud to

Not saying the EU is a saint, but comparatively. After all, this is one of the real reasons UK's elite wanted out of the EU, to avoid tighter grip on corruption, bribery, etc. Not that I want to go deeper into this, just trying to give some grounds for my claim.

Ohh... I just found out that Ubi is getting ~$600M from Tencent. Not yet sure what exactly their new joint project means, but it should mean Ubisoft stays alive for now, for the better or worse.

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/tencent-is-spending-1-8-billion-for-25-percent-of-ubisoft-s-spinoff-subsidiary

Not too happy about Tencent buying anything, but in this case...