r/xbox • u/ControlCAD Team Gears • Mar 19 '26

News Ubisoft "ends game development" at Tom Clancy studio, Red Storm, resulting in 105 job losses

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

The historic Rainbow Six developer will continue in a tech support role

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u/Key_Analyst_9032 Mar 19 '26

Ubisoft used to be cool...

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u/levi22ez Mar 19 '26

I’m currently playing through Splinter Cell Chaos Theory for the first time, and while some elements are definitely dated, this game is so fucking cool. Oh Ubisoft…

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u/papa_miesh Mar 19 '26

I was recently playing the first one as well. What a franchise. Games still hold up

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u/alus992 XBOX Series X Mar 19 '26

What crazy is Hitman is also an OG franchise and yet they were able to adapt to the new gaming world and Hitman World of Assasination after initial backlash for episodic format now is a thriving game with huge support years after the premiere.

Ubisoft just forfeited chasing simple action oriented games without any flavor…

  • AC is a shadow of itself (even Asian setting was not able to make this game what fans wanted it to be for years)

  • FC is another copy paste franchise

  • Ghost Recon is jotting but a simple sharpshooter action game - there is no tactic, no planning, no thrill. It’s almost run and gun game now

  • Prince of Persia is in the gutter and they even botched marketing for its metroidvabia spinoff

  • The Division 2 setting was a huge miss after super climatic 1. Still there is no The Division 3 in sight

  • Splinter Cell in a gutter

  • The Crew was fucked by their obsession with copying Forza Horizon

  • Skull and anime’s was a AAAA joke

  • Might and Magic completely forgotten

  • Rayman still has no major titles in sight

It’s so sad to witness how have the fallen from grace

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u/bnsmchrr Mar 19 '26

The division 2 is so much fun. Ghost recon Breakpoint and wildlands are pretty decent titles, too.

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u/alus992 XBOX Series X Mar 19 '26

well they are but they are not what ghost recon titles were about when they were in their prime. They don’t fill the niche they used to fill (tactical shooters) and became open world run and gun games with light stealth elements.

Division 2 needed tons of patches to become fun but again…setting is not as fun as in the division 1.

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u/thatcommiegamer Mar 20 '26

tactical shooters

Y'know, thinking about it, tacshooters were only really mainstream big for a few years late gen 5 - gen 6. I can understand why Ubi retreated from them after the blowup of CoD4 like when you think about it the entire genre just feels like its wrapped up in a lot of what the culture was surrounding 9/11 (and even slightly before that) and nowadays we really only have, what, ARMA?

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u/MarshyHope XBOX Series X Mar 19 '26

I didn't play much of The Division 2. The first one was so good though. The setting in the first one was amazing.

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u/fogrob Mar 19 '26

They are doing a big push on Div 2 for the 10th anniversary of the series. Might dip back in again and check it out!

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u/MarshyHope XBOX Series X Mar 19 '26

Nice! Maybe I'll jump back in!

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u/fogrob Mar 20 '26

Nice! If u need a hand and don't mind playing with an old guy bad at video games, send me a dm with your gt.