Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has been a massive success for Ubisoft, having sold two million copies in a day and breaking the series’ concurrent player records on Steam by nearly 40,000. Despite this good news, the company is planning to lay off 51 developers at Ubisoft Barcelona. These layoffs were announced last month, alongside reductions at Ubisoft’s teams in Winnipeg and Belgrade.
Ubisoft Barcelona has a long history of supporting the publisher’s larger studios, including Assassin’s Creed, The Crew, Ghost Recon, and Immortals: Fenyx Rising. Of course, its latest efforts have been on Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, where it was responsible for all the underwater sections. Those beautiful (terrifying) diving bell sites? Brought to life by Ubisoft Barcelona.
Thanks! Ubisoft Barcelona did all the underwater levels. And that same team is being fired right now because Ubisoft thinks thats what we deserve 🙂 https://t.co/rf3p4fGzlHJuly 13, 2026
“Ubisoft Barcelona did all the underwater levels,” explains Manel Cota, a tech and gameplay animator on the team, on social media. “And that same team is being fired right now because Ubisoft thinks that’s what we deserve :)”
This frustration from a blow right as you should be celebrating is echoed by quality assurance lead Isabel Codina García. “Today is a bittersweet day,” García said on social media. After having worked on the Black Flag remake for over two and a half years, “the whole AC team at Ubisoft Barcelona was informed of a collective redundancy plan.”
“After seven years at Ubisoft Barcelona, this is not how I imagined it would end. But I am genuinely grateful for the people I have met and everything I have learned along the way.”
Ubisoft Barcelona will ne holding a strike for three days
from r/gaming
But the team isn’t going quietly. The Spanish union La Confederación General del Trabajo has called for a three-day strike, starting today, over the planned cuts at Ubisoft Barcelona. “After an intense production, the company claims a ‘strategic shift’ to justify these layoffs,” the flyer reads. “After years of dedication to our team, the company has turned its back on us. We will never see the fruits of our labour, and the reward for our hard work will be the loss of our jobs.”
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