Somehow, Beyond Good & Evil 2 has survived through this slate cleanse, a game that's been in development for 18 years at this point. Beyond Good & Evil 2 was originally unveiled at E3 2008 and shown again at E3 2017, most recently, and Ubisoft has reportedly spent over $500 million keeping it alive, according to Insider Gaming . It's mentioned as part of "Creative House 4" in the press release, alongside Anno, Rayman , and Prince of Persia .
Studios not joining these new creative houses are Ubisoft Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Stockholm because they've been shut down. Ubisoft has also reportedly abolished remote work, calling all employees to the office, which will inevitably result in "soft layoffs" since some people won't or can't come back. The company also plans to close more studios over time as part of this strategic overhaul, but the exact number wasn't disclosed.
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gamerk316 Ubi should no longer be considered an AAA publisher. It also looks like they're planning a sale, given their premium IPs were protected from the rest of Ubisoft. To me, every indication is Ubisoft is going to be broken up fairly soon. Reply
hotaru251 gamerk316 said: Ubi should no longer be considered an AAA publisher. 100% this. the only thing AAA about em is the waste of $ for extremely subpar releases. Reply
Shiznizzle I cannot think of another publisher that is hated by so many people. Due to their past language aimed at players, all being pirates; their near yearly substandard bug riddled releases; their lies and all other BS along the way, do i not buy their games. Silent Hunter 3 had a lovely solution to read errors on your cd-rom drive. The DRM software would step down, on a permanent basis, read rates of all drives on your system till it was able to read again. The drives, all of them – cd-rom/IDE would be permanently slowed down to a crawl. You would have no idea why your system lost %99 of its reading speed. I am glad they are going under. Dont lie to players. No, Uplay will not be used to shove a DRM based sales platform down your throat, we were told during the Assassins Creed 2 rollout of Uplay. Look what it mysteriously morphed into since then? Exactly that. Yet more lies. May they go under. They are owned by Ten Cent i think and were now told to do things they previously did not want to as spending others peoples' money was an easier solution. Now they really do have to look internally at who and what is goign to go Reply
GingerBraum Shiznizzle said: I am glad they are going under. Dont lie to players. No, Uplay will not be used to shove a DRM based sales platform down your throat, we were told during the Assassins Creed 2 rollout of Uplay. Look what it mysteriously morphed into since then? Exactly that. Yet more lies. May they go under. They are owned by Ten Cent i think and were now told to do things they previously did not want to as spending others peoples' money was an easier solution. Now they really do have to look internally at who and what is goign to go I am seriously worried about losing access to my AC games on Steam if that were to happen. Reply
thesyndrome GingerBraum said: I am seriously worried about losing access to my AC games on Steam if that were to happen. If they do go under and that were to happen, then most likely the games reliant on uplay completely stop working and some will attempt to force Ubisoft to make them available through legal action whilst others will hack the games to work (much like how community modders are keeping old Battlefield and GFWL games alive through DLL replacements). It's possible Ubisoft will sell off the Uplay service to someone else to manage, or just create their own workaround hack for the Uplay launch system and let third-party providers like Steam or GOG host the downloads (I haven't played an Ubisoft game for a LONG time, so I'm unsure if Steam already handles downloading the game files or if it just launches Uplay to do it when you own the game in Steam), some developers have done this for GFWL games that came to Steam and then stopped working once GFWL shut down Reply
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