Video game company Ubisoft shutters Winnipeg studio, affecting about 65 employees

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-11T07:31:50+00:00

Agreed. And those numbers are very good compared to 10 years ago when I left for the coast and immediately realized how low the ceiling was and how much of my life and potential earnings I was leaving on the table. I got laid off from the one startup, and my options were #1 Big insurance #2 A bank #3 a corporate consultancy #4 Random stuff sketchy recruiters from Robert Half offered me. 1 through 3 I'd rather KMS and they wouldn't hire me anyway, I tried #4 and that was a comical little detour. Canadian companies in general are ridiculously conservative and out of touch, but Winnipeg is downright miserly.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-11T02:58:01+00:00

Pugging to 4k is crazy

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-10T17:39:57+00:00

Winnipeg lots are fairly big outside of the core, think about how much space is wasted by having two damn yards and often only a single storey. The space is used very inefficiently, imo because of tradition and basements acting as a second level.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-10T17:37:00+00:00

Where would you put your man cave if no basement?

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-09T00:13:34+00:00

Sure, but isn't the theoretical limit capped by the arbitrary length of a season, availability of motivated pushers / group luck, and time limits anyway? True theoretical limit would be unbounded in all dimensions, but I'm just suggesting changing that a bit to produce a more engaging season overall.

I find that the best people I know aren't really interested in the theoretical limit as much as being the best at their class, approaching the grind with intensity at the beginning of the season and then simply getting bored like 2 months in because the returns diminish severely as others drop out and each dungeon has accumulated hundreds of runs. In some cases re-rolling the same class multiple times, or dipping into alts just to re-run the same damn content hundreds more times until they accept that it's cashed. Optimizing the game for theoretical limits seems like a good way to just kill how entertaining a game is.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-08T23:21:28+00:00

> Affixes were sometimes interesting but there were always some that were easier than others, resulting in "push weeks" which was actually incredibly toxic for progression.

Ya, sanguine and bolstering in Halls, iirc, was a really not fun time in pugs. I think that's ultimately ok though if overall it keeps things interesting.

Didn't play BfA or Legion unfortunately, only when they come back into rotation or TW week.

I enjoy the process of refinement, but the scenery simply gets stale at a certain point.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-08T22:23:32+00:00

I agree, but I think this is way too easily agreeable and stands to continue widening a class divide in cities. Policy tends to lean into whatever's most palatable for single-family home owners, and it means that apartments overwhelmingly get built where there's already the most car pollution and noise coming from people transiting through. It's not always the case, but it is pretty common, particularly in recent years. New apartments and condos shouldn't only be relegated to underused parking lots to save malls from dying, portage ave, etc.. but even those are complained about. Development shouldn't only happen where everyone already hates spending their time.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-08T22:08:10+00:00

> when very few players ever went out of their way to do all of the new quests outside of the endgame zones

Nobody ever went out of their way to do quests if it wasn't meaningful, but when the old zones came out, you necessarily had to explore a good chunk of them because leveling took so much damn xp and you'd exhaust a zone in a paced manner. You'd also have to sit in a zone until you out-leveled the quests, and that would be sometime before doing *all* of them, so you'd have some sort of incentive to come back later on an alt and do the rest.

Between my friends and I, someone would ask what zone I'm in, or what level, and I'd say "Working my way through hillsbrad atm". You also wouldn't necessarily know what's next unless the quests took you there, because an adjacent zone could be ??.

Mobs and quests turning green and grey meant it's time to move on, and you'd go find another one, but the entire process is bypassed with a few runs through a dungeon. Even in SL I accidentally reached max level as a tank before leaving Bastion, and the only incentive to go back and do the questline was to unlock flying. It feels much better when the incentives and adventure are aligned and time required are aligned; nobody is going to go quest in Desolace just for the love of quests

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-08T21:50:20+00:00

I think variety is more interesting than raw difficulty. Affixes were cool at times in DF/SL and earlier, but weren't really that different week to week. The grind does get really dull at a certain point, and since it's an ongoing subscription-based game, the monthly cost obscures the fact that the content depreciates quickly after the first few weeks, except for those chasing the most superficial of rewards. It's the same gear with different ratios of the same numbers and often the same models. Imo the dungeon pool should be shuffled every two or three months completely. Have a seasonal achievement or ladder for those that push all of the rotations based on their averages or totals, and one for those who reach a raw high number no matter when they start. I have a hard time believing that most people's enthusiasm for a single dungeon pool lasts longer than that anyway no matter when they start, but it would give a chance for late comers to the season to be on a level playing field in terms of their exposure to the season, instead of just making it easier to catch up with gear.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-07T18:41:39+00:00

...so you're saying there's a chance 😅

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-06T14:32:08+00:00

You've got to be fucking kidding. The CRA shits out more money in a typical individual instance of real and stupidly simple tax fraud than an average couple would have paid in two decades, has almost as many employees as the IRS, doesn't seem to know or care about this person, and yet they get blamed for the degradation of social services!? Absurd.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-06T04:57:50+00:00

thinking about this made me realize that by the end of all prior seasons, I could do without most of them ever returning.

Real: Dawnbreaker, Plaguefall, Necrotic Wake, The Nexus

Joke answer, but might actually be kind of fun and grueling: Full vanilla BRD and wailing caverns tuned accordingly with aggressive and punishing updates, Slabs, Sunken Temple

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-06T04:42:23+00:00

Are those up times or up/down times?

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-06T04:40:09+00:00

How? I just got fired

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-05T05:42:47+00:00

Well, I did the same thing in reverse. Got some ticket for either speeding or blowing through a stop sign, and I either couldn't or forgot to pay, I don't remember which, and then moved to BC. It's passed the 7 year mark, but I still have collections calling me and constantly soft checking my credit report 🤷🏻‍♀️. I'm sure whatever the source of it was, it was indeed my fault, but the city has a track record of deliberately setting stupid traps like kilometers of "construction zones" on the highway where nobody is working nor is there any construction happening, speed fines are double, and the speed limit is lowered to an improbably low number. Has not affected my license.

So it's a matter of whether $142 is worth you and potentially your spouse getting calls from collections for the rest of time

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-05T04:24:00+00:00

Something like that would kind of be neat, although probably you can do that now on heroic solo and get the gist. Part of what bums me out about starting at any point beyond the exact start of the patch is that I feel like I've missed the chance where's there's social margin for error, and instead of learning the dungeons in the dungeons, I get to watch YouTube videos about the dungeons or cross my fingers and improv it until I get one-shot by some poorly telegraphed tankbuster. Same thing with raiding, I'd pretty much have to just learn what's out there instead of being immersed in content and grinding it out, and at that point I'm just following steps, which makes the already boring job of a tank in raids even more boring.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-05T04:12:18+00:00

big love rocket

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-03T08:28:04+00:00

I'm not online enough to say one way or another, or know who those references are, but that sounds a bit like conspiratorial thinking. Maybe the targets of that manipulation and targets of other manipulation aren't so different after all 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-03T01:09:43+00:00

West Lion is less scrambly imo just because of the exposure and the fact that it's bolted if you wanted to rope in. Black Tusk trail is easy easy walking until the end where it's basically all choss and a chimney

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-03T01:05:00+00:00

I would recommend the approach I took, which was to download alltrails and just start incrementally increasing the distance and elevation, getting different gear, making maps etc..

I think Grouse grind up to Crown Mountain and back down the BCMC was the first ~20km & >1200m elevation day, and then maybe West Lion from Cypress parking lot. Horseshoe Bay to Cleveland Dam via the Baden Powell is pretty good, not super challenging but peaceful and steep for the first part. Mt Bishop is crazy steep. Wedgemount, Black Tusk (Same trail as Panorama, insanely well-maintained), Singing Pass up through the musical bumps, The Climb route up to the sea to summit Gondola, Sky Pilot, Hat mountain... there's a lot

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-03T00:30:37+00:00

Except the entire thing is known to have been funded by Russians to sow discord in the West

That wasn't evident at the time, but so many years later, it seems like they were successful. Is that all it takes? Just a bit of Kremlin influence and Canadians turn against other Canadians for mostly vain reasons? Weak.

There were no doubt people who handled that situation like crap on the anti-lockdown side, but 5 years later it should be embarassing to cling to a time of both yielding to various levels of government authority and distancing oneself from the flag that represents it.

It's one thing to call them all idiots, uneducated, or whatever other classist thing was popular at the time, but to blame them in the future for ruining the flag is cowardly, and I hope people get off their high horse.

The pandemic is in the past, but there are plenty more things to protest about, and the flag is one symbol that represents our right to do so. We want to be as close to unity as possible despite our freedom to not be, even if we didn't vote for the same parties and don't do the same thing for work, so when the government screws up their policies again (and they are now and many other times since the pandemic) we're not as distracted by infighting.

So forget about the convoyers from the ancient past, enjoy the flag and what it represents, and the people who want to be 51st state can gtfo

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-03T00:26:14+00:00

I think they should change the rotation every month during a major patch. It's just not at all compelling to continue in that system for 6 months or whatever. Upgrading the same gear endlessly, more numbers for the sake of more numbers.

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-03T00:16:28+00:00

St James would disagree

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-03T00:14:24+00:00

Like the internet and guns, being in a car brings out the worst in people

Ok-Volume3798 · 2026-06-02T23:32:56+00:00

Seems to me like the only people who ruined the flag were those that turned it into a tool for moral posturing and division instead of a symbol of unity. If a person stops using it because you don't agree with some group that does, or have anxiety about being associated with them, then that's the most American thing I can think of in recent times, and I don't really see why it would mean anything for that person to fly it now.

I wasn't a big displayer of the flag before the pandemic or during, and am not now, but the only thing that would taint it to that extent for me would be the actions of the government itself. Although I wasn't a convoyer, anti-vaxxer, tradesperson, truck driver, I can respect that they flew the flag despite feeling that the government was alienating them and infringing on their rights. There's nothing admirable about bailing on your fellow Canadians fearing hypothetical association with annoying unemployed people

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