Ubisoft Has 2,000 Devs On Assassin's Creed, Wants Hundreds More

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Ubisoft already has four Assassin's Creed games in active development, including the upcoming Assassins Creed Mirage, Codename Red, Codename Hexe, and Codename Jade, and we recently found out that there are four more currently in the prototyping stage. Now we're finding out that Ubisoft is seemingly all-in on Assassin's Creed with plans to add hundreds more staff to Assassin's Creed projects.

The news comes courtesy of Axios Gaming's Stephen Totillo who sat in on Ubisoft's most recent earnings call. He noted that Ubisoft already has "about 2,000 people working on Assassin's Creed games," but plans to increase that number by 40 percent to "fuel its ambitious expansion."

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In the face of economic headwinds, including an operating loss of 500 million Euros over its last financial year, Ubisoft doesn't plan to do a lot of hiring. Instead, CEO Yves Guillemot said that it plans to reallocate developers from other projects. This is definitely bad news for Beyond Good and Evil fans hoping that the sequel will ever see the light of day.

Ubisoft is already down over 700 developers due to office closures, layoffs, and "tight controls on recruitment." There's also been past reports of veteran devs leaving Ubisoft in droves over ongoing allegations of operating a toxic work environment.

But even with its remaining developers being tasked with Assassin's Creed titles, Ubisoft plans to launch a slew of games by the end of March 2024, including Assassin's Creed Mirage, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Rainbow 6 Mobile, The Division: Resurgence, Skull & Bones, The Crew: Motorfeest, and XDefiant as well as "another large game."

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