My kids have been waiting for a Rayman sequel for over 10 years now. Is Rayman not profitable enough?
Rayman legends came out in 2019 or are you referring to another title?
Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios
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#12This is a 23-year-old game we're talking about here.
The design work was complete long before anyone working on this project was hired by Ubisoft, and proven in the form of a game that shipped several console generations ago. Ubisoft presumably still has all of the original art assets for reference.
All that had to be done was to study the original game code, port it for modern systems, and then polish up the visuals some. Not a trivial amount of work by any means, but much, much easier than starting from scratch and making a game from nothing.
This should've been a layup for any competent studio given SEVEN YEARS(!!!) to work on the project.
That it wasn't, is undeniable evidence of a AAA game development competency crisis.
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#13>Ubisoft will now focus on developing open world adventure games - which let players freely navigate vast environments - and live service games which seek regular payments from players. Isn’t that what they’ve been doing for a decade that got them to today?
"we're going to cut all the other stuff and make assasins creed games and far cry, the stuff that we can leverage our studios on and make money"
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#14My kids have been waiting for a Rayman sequel for over 10 years now. Is Rayman not profitable enough?
that depends. how much money do your kids have?
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#15>Ubisoft will now focus on developing open world adventure games - which let players freely navigate vast environments - and live service games which seek regular payments from players. Isn’t that what they’ve been doing for a decade that got them to today?
If it's obviously broke, don't fix it!
The problem with reorgs can be that the same management that got you into this situation is the one trying to fix everything. Apparently, Ubisoft management only knows one trick.
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#16Beyond Good and Evil 2 is dead ?.
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#18They have this amazing engine - MMOGenerator - they change a few skins and boom you got a Far Cry or Assassins Creed game.
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#19I discovered last night that my company's stock price is higher than Ubi's and we've lost 75% of our value over the last few years. Doesn't seem good.
Stock price by itself is meaningless. Instead what you want is market cap (number of shares x share price).
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#20My kids have been waiting for a Rayman sequel for over 10 years now. Is Rayman not profitable enough?
Rayman legends came out in 2019 or are you referring to another title?
Your dates are a little off - Rayman Legends released in 2013 and saw a remaster in 2017. Rayman Mini was released in 2019, but it's not exactly a main-franchise title...