They have the highest market share because every other platform has been shit (until gog), and customers voted with their wallet. They aren’t squeezing competition out, everyone else needs to suck less.

I hate to say it, but like the other commenter, these aren’t layoffs because they want line go up, they’re layoffs because they literally don’t have the money to pay for that many people. Ubisoft is rightfully circling the drain, it’s unavoidable that those people’s jobs will be lost.

This is sad. They did wrong, but I still walked past them often in Seattle and always saw people outside chatting and having a good time.

and also put a pretty big dent in climate change

I watched an interview where he said in the same sentence that it would solve climate change and world hunger, and something else astronomical.

Absolutely delusional. Think of what all of that investment money would have actually done if put towards actual useful causes.

ORD is such a shitshow. I have to fly there because I have family nearby, but there is always some sort of delay, either because of the airport or storms or something. When I do fly there I take the flight that gets me in at midnight when the airport is dead, and when I come back home I make sure I fly direct and have plenty of time on the other side pending delays.

sigh The Layover. I admit, I watched it

Lemmy is not a chat platform, and the fediverse is the wrong technology for that. There are plenty of decentralized chat apps already that have that capability

Why not just go to any of those apps?

I stopped years ago, but not for moral reasons. I’m just mad at how they left me behind.

Target used to be a place where the average Joe could go in and buy staples, like a blue shirt. Hey, I need a blue shirt, I’ll go to target.

Then they killed off all of those lines and store brands for designer labels and other bullshit. If I wanted designer labels I’d go to their stores, no idiots I want a blue shirt. Nothing else.

I’m probably the minority there, but I just stopped going. I don’t want Kate Spade pants or whatever. I just wanted pants at reasonable price.

Everything I don’t like is because of the others!

Hey if an A100 goes up on a used site for 400, I’ll buy it.

But then the gold rush ends and everyone has piles of shovels, your shovel investors get mad and demand a new CEO because they thought shovel demand would be that high forever.

And you’ve pissed off your loyal hobby shovelers who have been with you for decades.

I honestly don’t know how they’re so disconnected from reality. To in the same statement within 2 paragraphs say they both want to be more focused on the gamer, and immediately then say “More GenAI, more recurring payments, more Games as a Service”. I just, I don’t know man. I don’t want layoffs but man they really just don’t get it do they?

Yeah so, we know gamers have hated our stuff because of these horrible shitty practices - but, and hear me out, what if we did that stuff even more, don’t even mention things like great stories and fun worlds or anything gamers have been asking for, and also laid off most of our staff and forced return to office too?

Ubisoft founder and CEO, Yves Guillemot, said the company must pursue a “radically new” value-creation model and become a more “gamer-centric” organization to find its footing in an increasingly competitive and selective triple-A market.

Good! Realizing it needs to be about the gamer again not just shareholder value.

“The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group’s strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI,” reads the document.

Oh god damnit nevermind, the boycott continues

That’s true, the totally real guy did go to the back, make 5-6 bags of nuggets in the 4 fryers which take about 5 mins each, and no one else who worked there stopped him or called him out on it.

Like seriously, unless it was a supervisor/manager (unlikely), they would have just been kicked out of the store.

No way. Don’t believe this. Worked for 5 years at a busy McDonald’s. There is NO WAY an entire bag of nuggets would just be ready somewhere. We kept two trays going, each one had about 20 nuggets or so in it max. If this was lunch rush they might have 40 nuggets up at once, but then they were so busy they just dumped them all here.

If it was down time they may be a few available, like 10-20 getting old they need to get rid of anyway. Fine. That’s plausible.

Even end of day you don’t have a bag of nuggets of waste. Of you did your supervisor would be pissed at you for mismanaging your rotation so poorly over the day.

Zero way this is real. Dude clearly dumped a few on top of a full bag to get internet clout.

Lovers in a dangerous spacetime was a ton of fun! Very adorable, simple mechanics, plays on one screen, and not too hard. Also came out over 5 years ago so win win

Such a weird way to put the question. Your question has nothing to do with boomers. It’s who abuses their guitars the most.

If your question was actually who’s the most boomer guitar hero, the only answer would be Ted Nugent.

So weird. Watched all good things last night.