Ubisoft cancels Sands of Time Remake but saves BG&E 2

Ubisoft nuked half its slate but still won’t pull the plug on Beyond Good & Evil 2, a game so old it’s basically paying rent.

Why Ubisoft just hit reset

• Ubisoft is in full crisis mode
• Six projects got axed outright
• Seven more were shoved further down the road
• Four brand-new IPs are being spun up
• The company structure itself got rearranged

One game that somehow survived

• Beyond Good & Evil 2 lived through the purge
• Everything around it burned, but this one stayed
• Ubisoft still thinks it is worth funding
• Even after all the chaos

Why is this kind of wild

• The game was already 14 years into development when it was called “years away.”
• That comment is now four years old
• We are pushing close to two decades total
• Ubisoft leadership still sees value here

What Ubisoft is telling the public

• A Ubisoft spokesperson spoke to Eurogamer
• The game is still on the roadmap
• It fits Ubisoft’s open-world strategy
• Fantasy players are supposedly underserved
• Beyond Good & Evil 2 is framed as “unique.”

How long has this actually been going on

• Development was publicly revealed in 2008
• The last real trailer showed up at E3 2017
• That is nearly a decade of silence
• Hiring for the project was still happening last November

The Prince of Persia contrast

• Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake got killed
• That project “only” had six to seven years sunk into it
• Ubisoft decided it was unsalvageable
• Meanwhile, 18-ish years on Beyond Good & Evil 2 is fine somehow

Context that makes this worse

• This is the same leadership team
• Ubisoft has lost roughly 95 percent of its value in eight years
• Decision-making credibility is not exactly pristine

The expectation problem

• No game can live up to a 20-year wait
• Even a great release would disappoint someone
• A mediocre one would get shredded instantly
• Time has turned hype into suspicion

Why do people still care at all

• The original Beyond Good & Evil left a real mark
• Fans are still emotionally invested
• You can still play the first game today
• A remaster helps keep it alive

Why the pitch keeps getting weaker

• Every year makes the “worth the wait” claim harder
• The masterpiece narrative is eroding
• The gap between promise and reality keeps growing

The uncomfortable question

• If it releases, will anyone actually care
• Younger players did not grow up with it
• Nostalgia only works on people who remember

What today’s players are actually playing

• Roblox
• Fortnite
• Call of Duty
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Minecraft

Why that matters

• These are forever games
• They eat time, attention, and culture
• A revived cult classic has to fight uphill
• Most players may not even know what Beyond Good & Evil is

The blunt reality

• Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been in development long enough to graduate from college
• Its survival says more about Ubisoft than confidence
• Hope is still there, but it is fading
• At this point, release feels less like a plan and more like a gamble