Open-world games like Far Cry 3 and Assassin’s Creed boost Ubisoft’s profits by 5%

Consumers like open-world games. Ubisoft likes money. It’s a beautiful cycle.

Ubisoft recorded sales of €293 million ($394.06 million) for the first half of the 2013-2014 fiscal year, a period that ended on Sep. 30. That’s up 5 percent over the same period last year.