18 Jan. (Portaltic/EP) –
Ubisoft has canceled and delayed launching some games for not be “what the players wanted” and by need “more polish” since they were not convincing in the internal quality and control tests.
The French video game developer shared last week some changes in the strategy for launching new games. Among them, the cancellation of three titles in development yet unannounced and the new Skull and Bones delay. This change of strategy maintains its commitment to franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s as strong titles for the company.
All this is framed in a context in which Ubisoft expects to strengthen its long-term growthafter checking that titles like Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Just Dance 2023 have not had the expected performance in the last weeks of last year.
In this sense, according to Statements from five company workers collected by Insider Gamingthe consensus that has been reached among Ubisoft developers is that the The reason multiple games have been canceled and delayed has to do with them not being “what the players wanted”as reflected in the comments during the game tests.
In fact, one of the sources mentioned that Ubisoft came to have around twelve ‘battle royale’ projects underway in different stages of development, under the pretext of “capitalizing on success” and achieving a game capable of competing with the most popular titles in this genre, such as Fornite. However, the worker acknowledged that I was unaware of the fate of most of these gameswhich may end up being rejected.
Another of the reasons in which the company workers agreed is that games have been canceling and delaying their release because they needed “more polish”, since they were not convincing in internal quality control tests either.
Regarding the delays, one of the employees clarified that it is not that they are running out of games, but that “They’re just taking forever.”
For example, according to this source, Ubisoft has been working on unannounced live service game since 2019 and it is not anticipated that be released until 2025 or 2026 as soon. Similarly, other games yet unannounced have release dates for the year 2027 or later.
However, employees have stressed that they are expected to Assassin’s Creed Mirage and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora work very good for fiscal year 2024, which will begin in April 2023.
