r/LastStandMedia

• Ubisoft reported a record annual loss of nearly $1.7 billion for FY2025–26.
• Net bookings down 17.4% to $1.78 billion.
• The company is in the middle of a major restructuring after years of delays, underperforming releases, cancellations, and cost-cutting.
• Former Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent is joining Ubisoft’s Tencent-backed Vantage Studios as a special adviser.
• Ubisoft expects another rough year in FY2026–27, forecasting an 8–9% sales decline

If I were a betting man, I’d say their major seminal releases from Gen 7 are going to be fully remade.

Since there’s a lot of talk about accounts being lost due to the recent fiasco, I want to remind people to avoid using PSN social features. I’ve wrote in about this in the past but it never got it on the show.

I had a friend get suspended for two weeks. He definitely has a mouth on him, but never says anything overtly offensive other than fowl language. He messaged Sony to get an explanation of why he was suspended and they offered nothing and immediately ended the chat.

After this, we used some alt accounts, and an old friends account that’s no longer active, to test out certain messages to see what would get accounts suspended. Our findings were a bit shocking.

Foul language of any sort is considered worthy of a suspension by Sony. The words “damn” and “shit” were used, not even in an offensive manor, and got one of our alts suspended for 2 weeks. Past that, ANY message that gets reported such as “hey want to play later?” will be removed by Sony moderation. We were not able to determine if enough of those messages get reported if you will be suspended.

The last thing we tested was reporting an old friend who we haven’t talked to since 2018. We reported the messages in that conversation, and they were removed by Sony moderation. This proved that there’s absolutely no limitation on account flags.

I know a lot of us have had our accounts since we were kids. If there’s any message you’ve ever sent, especially if there’s foul language, your account is at risk. I also want to remind everyone that a few years ago, they added voice chat recording/reporting, so even if you’re in a private chat with your friends and someone reports it, your account could be at risk.

I recommend everyone use discord for any voice calls and all communication with your friends rather than PSN native features. If your account is ever suspended, and/or eventually banned, you are not entitled to any explanation, recourse, or refunds, and you are completely out of luck and all the money you’ve ever spent on your account.

TLDR: PSN social features are incredibly strict with their moderation if reported, and it can lead to account suspension or ban if used.

>It's me, Colin. Please welcome journalist and writer Alyssa Mercante to Sacred Symbols+. Though I've heard of Alyssa and knew her name for some time, it wasn't until a few-ish years ago that she more properly popped onto my radar. It was then that the dreaded Sweet Baby Inc. Crisis (a moniker I just now made up) erupted, and Alyssa -- then at publication Kotaku -- was one of the most visible media-types covering the affair. Now, with the Slay the Spire II-slash-Anita Sarkeesian situation unfolding before us, it felt like a great time to sit down and talk things through. This whole scenario is, after all, a distinct echo from the past. To keep things simple, we started with a basic premise and then went off from there: Did Anita Sarkeesian ultimately lose the culture war? Why does her name still resonate more than a decade after so-called GamerGate kicked-off? Can the victors of these sorts of fights simply not accept that they now wield the power they once coveted? And perhaps most importantly of all: Why can't more people have conversations just like the one we've conducted? There's a lot to get to, so let's not delay further. Please enjoy.

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Wondering if the guys (from any of the podcasts) are on here at all, would love to give away the codes to them and / or someone in the community that wants to try the game. The beta already started and goes through Sundays 10pm (not sure PT or ET).

Let me know, I’ll be checking my notifications through the day!

Excited to see what the spoilercast is like for Saros. I was quite disappointed to hear about their ignorance on weapon choices. But to say modifiers was something the developers are forcing/wanting you to use and sounds like in the case Colin did (I maybe wrong). It’s a players choice if you think Saros is easy, do it without it then.

I hope they beat it first without modifiers and if you want to make it harder. Don’t start from the first biome.