Ubisoft also acts as a parent company for an array of other video game developers, including names like Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft Paris, Blue Mammoth Games, Red Storm Entertainment, and more.

Like this Ubisoft employee who now lives hundreds of kilometres from the Paris headquarters: "I've had to move house, so I can't come back for three days face-to-face. I'm going to have to ask ...

Some 700 French staff in Ubisoft offices in Paris, Montpellier, Lyon and Annecy have been on a three-day strike since Tuesday over the RTO mandate which comes on top of growing discontent over pay.