“The office in Bucharest is Ubisoft’s largest testing center worldwide, with more than 1,000 employees if we count those temporary employed over the summer,” Sebastien Delen said.
The office had a major contribution to Assassin’s Creed 3 with both testing and development, he added.
Assassin’s Creed 3, the latest title in the franchise that turned the French publisher into the third largest in US and Europe, launched on both PC and consoles in late October-early November. It has sold more than 7 million copies until now.
The game costs about EUR60 in stores, which means it generated EUR420 million revenue so far. The Romanian office contributed 50 developers and 200 testers to the title, an effort Sebastian Delen estimates at EUR1 million.
Ubisoft’s main competitor, which also has a presence in Romania, is Electronic Arts.
Ubisoft arrived in Romania in 1992 when it opened an office in Bucharest. It then also opened one in Craiova. The total number varies from 800 to 1,000 depending on the temporary tester positions the company usually has available during the summer.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)