Comment on Ubisoft Carves Out Top Games Unit; Tencent to Get 25% Stake

Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ubisoft is largely run by one family, the Guillemots. What seems to be important to them, above and beyond everything else, is running a company called “Ubisoft”. Their company has a lot more value if someone else can run it, but they won’t budge on that, so their stock has tanked over the past number of years, as they keep making bad decisions. They tried to partner with Tencent to take Ubisoft private, which basically means buying out all of their investors, but Tencent also wanted the Guillemots gone, which wasn’t happening. So instead, they made this new company that Tencent can have more control over, which gets the best parts of Ubisoft’s portfolio as well as a lot of the debts, but Tencent has enough sway to flip off the Guillemots and make decisions they think are better. Meanwhile, the Guillemots still get to run a company called Ubisoft into the ground, but they get to start fresh with less (or zero?) debt, so they don’t have to dig themselves out of a hole first.

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• VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This could help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta8z3-XmIhg

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