New community manager in ubisoft forums

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Originally Posted by Seeadler

IYesterday the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" did an interview with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot. Guillemot makes it again quite clear, the new Ubisoft marketing strategy will be the Ubisoft-Launcher, massive multiplayer online games and new game concepts for the new motion sensors.

Thanks for the link! That sounds like Ubisoft is really heading away from PC platform games, at least the single player ones. I don't think there is much to expect from them in the future anymore, but maybe they will sell the Silent Hunter label to one of the smaller developers that already focuses on highly detailed realistic simulations and strategy games. There's quite a few of those successful studios right now. (The market can't possible be that small? What is the definition of "small" or "niche" for people that claim simulations and strategy to be a niche? Anything that doesn't sell 1M units on the release date is niche? -- Just some spontaneous thoughts. There is nothing you can't do if you change definitions....)

EDIT: As a side note, in the interview YG says himself that they were disappointed that their OSP-DRM didn't work well in the beginning and it lead to
the server outages. Nice, so much about DDOS attacks.