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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 85065, member: 27"] 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 [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] One game that somehow survived [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] Why is this kind of wild [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] What Ubisoft is telling the public [LIST] [*]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.” [/LIST] How long has this actually been going on [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] The Prince of Persia contrast [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] Context that makes this worse [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] The expectation problem [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] Why do people still care at all [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] Why the pitch keeps getting weaker [LIST] [*]Every year makes the “worth the wait” claim harder [*]The masterpiece narrative is eroding [*]The gap between promise and reality keeps growing [/LIST] The uncomfortable question [LIST] [*]If it releases, will anyone actually care [*]Younger players did not grow up with it [*]Nostalgia only works on people who remember [/LIST] What today’s players are actually playing [LIST] [*]Roblox [*]Fortnite [*]Call of Duty [*]Grand Theft Auto V [*]Minecraft [/LIST] Why that matters [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] The blunt reality [LIST] [*]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 [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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