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kane_magus) wrote2023-02-28 12:45 pm
kane_magus) wrote2023-02-28 12:45 pm
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"Staff at Ubisoft's Beyond Good and Evil 2 studio are reportedly at breaking point"
"Numerous staff have taken extended leave recently, and some never returned."
Look. It has been 15 fucking years at this point. As the article itself notes, this game has already taken the title previously held by Duke Nukem Forever[1]. Just admit that the game is never coming out, or even better, officially cancel it, and be done with it, especially if it's causing employees that much stress. Honestly, as much as I adored the original Beyond Good and Evil game (though I have to admit I'm remembering less and less about it as the decades go on, given that I haven't touched it once since the first time I finished it, a decade or two [closer to two] ago), at this point I think I'd be okay if I never heard the name Beyond Good and Evil 2 ever again. Even if, miracle of miracles, the second game somehow saw the light of day, I don't know that I'd bother with getting it, especially given all the myriad ways in which Ubisoft has become a puddle of shit, generally speaking, between then and now. And this very story, right here, is just yet another example of the puddle of shit that Ubisoft has turned into.
[1] - A game so notorious for its lengthy development time that said development has its own Wikipedia page, which is bigger than the game's normal page. (And both of the pages mention how BG&E2 has beaten DNF's record now.)
Look. It has been 15 fucking years at this point. As the article itself notes, this game has already taken the title previously held by Duke Nukem Forever[1]. Just admit that the game is never coming out, or even better, officially cancel it, and be done with it, especially if it's causing employees that much stress. Honestly, as much as I adored the original Beyond Good and Evil game (though I have to admit I'm remembering less and less about it as the decades go on, given that I haven't touched it once since the first time I finished it, a decade or two [closer to two] ago), at this point I think I'd be okay if I never heard the name Beyond Good and Evil 2 ever again. Even if, miracle of miracles, the second game somehow saw the light of day, I don't know that I'd bother with getting it, especially given all the myriad ways in which Ubisoft has become a puddle of shit, generally speaking, between then and now. And this very story, right here, is just yet another example of the puddle of shit that Ubisoft has turned into.
[1] - A game so notorious for its lengthy development time that said development has its own Wikipedia page, which is bigger than the game's normal page. (And both of the pages mention how BG&E2 has beaten DNF's record now.)