There's been a lot of discussion recently about Ubisoft Barcelona's fight against the potential layoff of 51 workers which is set to take effect by the end of this week.
Some people even claimed that they were likely contract workers. But that's not the case as this is not being treated as such by the Spanish labor law.
Tom Henderson's article on the topic has finally provided a clearer picture of the scope of Ubisoft Barcelona's work for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, provided by the workers themselves:
* All the swimming systems
* All the underwater mechanics, biomes (seabed), animal behavior
* All the underwater wrecks
* All the smuggler dens
* 3 main naval quests: Proper Defenses, Diving for Medicines, Devil’s Advocate
* 15 side quest naval contracts
* 4 Assassin Contracts
* The region of Gibara with its locations: Crooked Island, Salt Lagoon, and Mariguana Island
* All bosses (divided with Quebec once they entered the project)
* All combat enemy AI (until Quebec entered the project)
And despite that work, the whole AC team in Barcelona is being laid off just a single week after launch…