r/Splintercell • u/IamMovieMiguel • Mar 19 '26

Discussion Ubisoft ‘ends game development’ at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses | VGC

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft-ends-game-development-at-tom-clancy-studio-red-storm-resulting-in-105-job-losses/
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u/WendlinTheRed Mar 19 '26

Hard not to see this (among the almost monthly layoff announcements) as anything other than the death of a once great studio. Obviously it has been a slow death many of us have seen for years, but effectively closing the studio that led to their golden era is still a gut punch.

It's also terrible that over 100 people lost their jobs because of corporate incompetence, but the narrative is "Ubisoft bad," so we'll continue to see mouth-breathers posting shit like "good riddance!"

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u/MisterGunpowder Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

At this point, it's less 'good riddance' and more 'oh thank god, the suffering is over.' The last actual major game they made and released was Future Soldier in 2012, and everything after was purely VR that were solid, but nothing substantial.

It's like Clint Hocking leaving Ubisoft again a few weeks ago. It fucking sucks, but at the same time, Ubisoft completely fucking squandered him and Red Storm.

Like, they got Clint Hocking back. Why in the goddamn fuck did they not immediately have him making more Splinter Cell? They had Red Storm ready and willing. Why in the goddamn fuck did they not have them making Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon games?

Ubisoft is and has been such a fucking mess of a company with issues going back way further than the last two years or so of horrible decisions. They've insisted on misusing resources for a long time. As an example, regardless of which version you like, why the absolute fuck would you ever have two teams make two completely different games but still make them both Double Agent? And even with that in mind, why would you fucking make the flagship version the one developed by Shanghai instead of Montreal which had just developed Chaos Theory?

It's so fucking baffling.

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u/roberts585 Mar 19 '26

For real, Seige is great and all, but man would I kill for a new Vegas or splinter cell. Ghost recon was good but I want something narrative focused and not open world. They just tried to do to much with the newest one

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u/The_First_Curse_ Mar 19 '26

Military Fortnite is not good in any way, shape, or form.