Apparently, Ubisoft is preparing for an employee's lawsuit according to a Ubisoft dev on FB pic.twitter.com/5hjRg12enb
β Pirat_Nation π΄ (@Pirat_Nation) March 28, 2025
Oh please God let this be true 
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Ubisoft devs get double fricked! Turns out their retirement was tied up in shares of Ubisoft that will now be worthless as the executive team jumps ship for the new subsidiary company
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lmao you are telling me the ubi devs went all in on gay black ninja in Feudal Japan KNOWING they had money in ubisoft stocks?
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They had no other choice, also they were probably heavily trained on how righteous their work is
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Wasn't it a successful launch?
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A huge success. They basically sold 3 million+ copies at $18.00 a pop. They're diving into piles of cash like scrooge McDuck.
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Cost 250 million dollars to develop.
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No way this is real, how is that basically insider trading?
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It's actually quite common to offer stock options to employees. Insider trading rules are usually avoided by requiring that the employees hold the shares for a long period of time before they can sell.
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I think they have certain windows where they are allowed to sell, right after earnings calls usually.
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It depends how it set up. For the grunts doing grunt work they likely vest over time. So if you get 100 shares over a four year vesting period you get 25/year that become free and clear to do with what you want. If it's over 5 years it's 20/year, etc.
It can add up and be a nice little yearly windfall. Executives are considered a "control person" usually and they're the ones subject to Rule 144.
If this was a pension or 401k match thing expect a lawsuit and easy payout since the employees likely couldn't access the securities until a certain age or length of employment. Some lawyer is salivating at this should it be the case.
"Bonus" is tough to decipher without more context.
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They'll also warn you not to sell right before a major announcement, because you can get investigated by the SEC for doing so.
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Oh I see they had to hold it for 5 years.
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Almost surely not.
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Yeah, it seems like what's being described is an ESPP, which is very common and totally not illegal.
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Not even needed tbh. I used to work at a very large company and we had a setup like this, but no minimum holding period. I sold mine basically every pay cycle because I'm not r-slurred enough to keep a significant stock exposure to my employer.
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I'm not sure how to say this without sounding like a simp, but it's both hilarious and attractive how you manage to come aross as a financial genius by following incredibly basic standard investment advice.
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Youre both r-slurred
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I don't get why there isn't a private market for rsu insurance
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pretty certain they're forbidden by contract
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Stock options are communism.
@Ubie discuss.
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There's no way people would just go on the internet and lie would they?
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Surely lying online is illegal!
Did you know there's an image of Marsey in the dictionary right next to the entry for "gullible"?
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Holy shit. It's REAL?
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No... Just no really. Insider Trading, as a legal concept, means you are acting on non-public information to buy/sell stocks. This is part of why companies almost always have a period of time where you must hold stock and sometimes even pre-plan/announce intended sales months ahead of time. Sure you get a better-than-public stock price but you have some fair roadblocks to prevent utilizing it illegally. It's not impossible to do insider trading in these circumstances but it is reasonably prevented.
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I was misreading things
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Not immediately selling your RSUs after they vest is so fricking stupid (unless there's some tax benefit to holding onto them). Putting your fricking retirement fund into company shares and investing your own money in addition to all of that is just peak r-sluration. Nobody does that, let alone "most employees".
The stock has been at 2.50 a share for months. This tard has nobody to be mad at but himself (and his parents for not aborting him).
Even if this were true, the employees deserve it for working at Ubisoft.
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This. There's no way that "most employees" did the dumb behavior outlined in OP.
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gambling yieldeth greater profit
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securities are subject to market risk. please consult a financial expert
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it's literally not inside trading at all lmaooo
like if you were actually trading on nonpublic info then you would have known this was coming and liquidated your shares first
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It could be "inside" trading because "inside" trading isn't a thing
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Alpha and Omega rslur, king of r-slurs, lord of downies and leader of morons
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The eternal Frankoid
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Marsey French merchant
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Frick Ubisoft employees, hope they lose everything
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I'm pretty sure that's not how spinning off a company works, you can't just say. "This part is a new company and I'm keeping all the shares" the old shareholders get an equivalent stake in the spin off
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There's a difference between outright spinning something successful off and being an extractionist vulture. It takes a bit more finesse than that. Most importantly you slow play it well in advance of the intended BK. If it is too much, too quick, and too close to the BK a court is very likely to unwind it. You either create or utilize financial problems in the first company for the second company to buy uncollateralized property. It's not looting a failing company (yet), merely extending a lifeline.
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Bimothy here. This anonymous post is real.
Thank you.
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Doesn't the company own its subsidiary?
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Lol actual r-slurs do not understand what insider trading is. This sounds like either ESPP or an RSU program, both incredibly common in tech companies. Anyone who holds onto more than a tiny amount of their own company's stock long term is a genuine moron. Imagine both your continued employment and your long term investments are dependent on your boss not being a dipshit. Even
@WeihnachtenSalvador could see the problem with putting all your eggs in one basket like that.
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Skill issue
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this makes no sense, a stock investment by definition is external to their employment.
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Man that sucks, they should have just made good games
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ESL nonsense.
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Nooooo i voluntarily made a bad investment decision, imma sue
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I suppose it's a bad investment decision to give money to someone that'll try jewing you like that
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R-slur's never heard of an ESOP?
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No... shut up, I'm not from ruqqus. This is stupid, you're stupid. You are hurting my feelings. you have no proof that I'm from ruqqus. why would you accuse me like that. You're a toxic person... So what if I'm from ruqqus and you are right about that? That doesn't devalue my bussy does it? I just want to spew unfilterd opinions under drama-posts and then pretend I'm being ironic, please just let me have this, please don't out me as a ruqqoid, please, I'm litterally begging you.
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i suspect this post becuase im pretty sure companies offering discounted stock to thier employees is not illegal considering like every f500 ever does this
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Maybe
they should 
have made a good game
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