I bet this has to do with Breakpoint's breaking point. Ubi might be re-thinking their live games-first strategy?
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Ubisoft Montreal project 3 years in the making has been cancelled
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I bet this has to do with Breakpoint's breaking point. Ubi might be re-thinking their live games-first strategy?
True. I guess just personally I'm happy we don't have another Destiny-like (and I'm one of those suckers who tries all the destiny-like games).
Obviously I don't like that peoples years of work is just scrapped. Wish they could have just retooled it. We don't need less Sci-Fi games. :(
Are they finally leaving the games as service thing behind? I know the creative director for the division tweeted this on a possibility of a story driven single player experience.
you are probably late for the news but Ubisoft said in the last few months following the death of Quarantine that they will restructure their games foward, this is the reason all their other games in 2020 have been pushed back to try to make their game better and wont rely as much heavily on microtransaction
I wasn't all that serious, really.
Too bad to see another space game go. We need more space games.
I would play the heck out of a game like that, something like TD/I Am Alive mix but with better gameplay. I kept thinking during TD1 that I'd rather be playing a single player game in this vein.
Jason already said this was a new IP. But don't worry, Splinter Cell isn't cancelled.
Because it was never in development in the first place.
Oh damn, that's a shame. A space exploration game by Ubi sounds at least quite interesting to me.
This entire team should simply shift over to Beyond Good and Evil 2 and help finish that one. That thing has been in development forever
I kind of suspected that it might have been a destiny-like game. For a while it seemed like this was the direction everyone is going but after Anthem and the Division 2 not doing so well there's probably some reconsideration
They now know that spamming the market with a bunch of GaaS is a bad idea. You only need a couple and they shouldn't have sequels in like the first 5 years.
They were working on Duck Game weren't they... Then Goose Game came out and stole all their thunder 😡
Sorry to the team. It sucks that your art, design, logic, animation and hard work won't come to fruition this time but you guys will nail it next time.
Sorry to the team. It sucks that your art, design, logic, animation and hard work won't come to fruition this time but you guys will nail it next time.
Ocarina of Time was made in 3 years and at the time Nintendo considered it particularly long.
Damn hoping it's Skull and Bones. Multiplayer pirate game but wait it's only the shit AC4 ship combat with no boarding parties or exploring mechanics. Literally just coastal death match. Way to miss the fucking mark suits.
Still on I think. Multiple Looter shooters just dropped way down their list.
We should have an Ubisoft projects thread to track down what they are working on. They have so many studios, I keep getting them mixed up.
Yeah it's kind of alarming... They had two big flops in 2019 with Division 2 and Breakpoint and don't even have a big holiday title. That's a not a good sign at all. I hope their projects for next year do better.
Watch Dogs Legion
Gods and Monsters
ASSassin's Creed Ragnarok
New Siege expansion
I dont know what else tho
That's an enormous relief. Their games have all become the same repetitive GaaS open world slogs in a different wrapper each time. Ubisoft was much better late last gen, early this gen.
Very good. Destiny-like new IP sounds like they used their Division Template with a new background. No risks taken basically, but they should know now that these types of games are not well received anymore. The market is saturated.
Bring on the new ideas and I will have hope in Ubisoft again.
Bring on the new ideas and I will have hope in Ubisoft again.
imo, division was a great single-player game. interesting story, great gameplay, & loads of lore. & they also released a great book full of even more lore:
Maybe they've realized that gaas doesnt work if everyone is doing it. People dont have the time or money to follow dozens of gaas titles and the formula doesnt work well for story based games.
The tweets on the OP seem to be gone, is there an outlet out there that has an article on what was in the tweets or who spoke on the game?
Crazy to scrap it after so long, but at least no one was laid off (especially since it's the holidays).
But hasn't Ubisoft been scrambling just a bit ever since Ghost Recon: Breakpoint bombed? I remember talk on the Bombcast that higher ups were demanding a lot of new IP pitches afterwards.
But hasn't Ubisoft been scrambling just a bit ever since Ghost Recon: Breakpoint bombed? I remember talk on the Bombcast that higher ups were demanding a lot of new IP pitches afterwards.
Sounds like Ubisoft's Anthem....cancelling is probably for the best.
The division 2 underperformed because of their crazy expectations, it is far away from a flop. Something can be a disappointment and still sell well, like anthem.
It's so clear Legion was their big holiday game and they shuffled breakpoint out early to compensate
Have only seen one person mention Rainbow Six Quarantine. It's probably been in the pipeline for about 3 years and I assumed Ubi Mont is doing it.
