Ubisoft is set to lay off members of the team behind Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, the recently released remake of its 2013 pirate-themed adventure, at the company's Barcelona studio. The redundancies have prompted emotional reactions from developers who worked on the project, with several sharing their feelings publicly as the game launched, underscoring the ongoing instability and restructuring within Ubisoft's global operations.

Affected staff described the timing as painful, with one developer calling the remake's release "bittersweet" and another writing "this is not how I imagined it would end." The layoffs come amid a broader period of cost-cutting and reorganisation across Ubisoft, which has faced financial pressures and closed or downsized several studios in recent years, even as the Black Flag remake itself was intended to capitalise on nostalgia for one of the series' most beloved entries.