Ubisoft has detailed plans expand its Assassin’s Creed team by 40 percent “over the coming years” as it seeks to focus its resources on “big brands and long-lasting Live games”.
The news comes as part of the publisher’s Financial Year 2023 earnings report, its first earnings report since a disappointing quarterly update in January which saw it pledge an “increased cautiousness over the coming years” and cancel three unannounced projects.
In today’s end-of-year report, Ubisoft recorded net bookings of €1.74bn, marking an 18 percent year-on-year decrease for the publisher, but there were some notable wins for its biggest games, including a record number of active users for the Assassin’s Creed franchise over the last year, coming it at 44 percent higher than Origins and 19 percent higher than Odyssey.
That’s undoubtedly helped spur Ubisoft’s decision to lean even harder on Assassin’s Creed, with the publisher announcing plans to expand the team working on the series by 40 percent in the coming years. To achieve that target, which will bring the team’s headcount up from 2000 to 2800, employees will be moved over from other franchises.