It looks like Ubisoft's troubles are far from over. After admitting to an unsatisfactory financial performance for the first half of the year in a statement yesterday, the studio is now facing a potential employee strike, as well as mounting investor gloom.
Yesterday, Ubisoft announced it would delay Assassin's Creed Shadows until February next year to add extra polish. The company also admitted that Star Wars Outlaws hadn't been as successful as it would like, so that makes two major releases that aren't quite panning out the way Ubisoft might want.
Now, French union STJV is calling for French Ubisoft employees to strike over the studio's decision to force a return to the office for three days a week, which STJV says was a decision "made without any tangible justification or any consultation with the workers' representatives".
STJV is also calling for "an immediate increase in salaries to compensate for the drop in our living standards in recent years", as well as an end to Ubisoft's gender pay gap, a recurring problem for the company in recent years.
That's not all, though. Earlier this month, activist investment company AJ Investments called for Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot to step down, as...