Jesus H the gaming industry sucks so much ass right now. Not everything needs to be live service and multiplayer. Games like Clair Obscur and Baldur’s Gate 3, along with the hype for the now cancelled Mass Effect show there’s still plenty of demand for single player, story driven games. I don’t understand how companies are so out of touch that they pump out sloppy live service shit no one wants or asks for and then scratch their heads wondering why it fails. LISTEN TO THE PUBLIC FFS

Imagine the games we’d have if these companies weren’t constantly chasing always online multiplayer money machines.

I mean we do still have lots of cool good games. But we’d have more.

Everyone wants to make the next Fortnite, GTA, or Destiny.

For the love of God, stop chasing other games. Make your own game and let it stand on its own merits.

It doesn't have to be a live service. It doesn't need engagement metrics designed to appease shareholders. It doesn't need to chase whatever trend is currently making someone else money.

It just needs to be a good game.

Stop trying to replicate things you clearly don't understand and haven't been able to reproduce successfully. Have some original ideas, take some creative risks, and make something worth playing on its own merits.

Ubisoft is an anti-corporation in that it brings together valuable assets into something worth far less than the sum of the parts individually.

Years ago, just as the first teaser dropped, I was an "insider" on the project. The direction they had was pretty clear; single player with some co-op. RPG with robust character creator and classes. Open world with seamless ground-to-space travel, and a single solar system to explore with your pirate ship.

They showed off some early gameplay, their city tech, and their planet generation tech. Then silence.

I'm technically still an "insider", but they just stopped sending updates about 10 years ago.

Now you're telling my they scrapped all of that to make a Fortnite game, then scrapped that to make a 4 player live service game, they scrapped that too and now we're right back where we fucking started at single player with some co-op!?

Why the fuck would a Beyond Good And Evil sequel be a Fortnite clone?

Goddamn fucking suits, ever since they discovered how Chinese MMORPGs made more money.

C-suite fucks up everything.

Ubisoft is allergic to good decisions. At this point it's been a good decade since the last time they made a game that i wanted to play.

Hey, ChatGPT remember the Fortnite killer PR, ditch that and also the Extraction shooter build. The C Suite is now asking for an Assassin's Creed in space and Co-op. Remember to put many towers to climb

Ubi devs probably

How in the fuck is UbiSoft still alive???

I have to say, it takes some serious creative outside the box thinking, to turn Beyond Good & Evil into a Fortnite killer. That earns my respect. I never would have expected that. Like ever.

Everyone wants to be Fortnite, but they forget Fortnite was a fun game before it got popular and it almost bombed if not for a hard course-correction on its gameplay.

"This is what the statistics says not what gamers want!" -fucking corporate financebros.

Also, why the hell compete in an overcrowded live service battle royale shooter market? Have corporates not heard of blue ocean strategy?

That is quite literally the stupidest thing you could have done with the franchise.

For that matter, I've always wondered why anyone would invest notably sums of money into Beyond Good and Evil. The first game was fine, but it seems to continue to be one of the great money pits in the gaming industry.

Ugh, Battleroyale shooters are so 2016. CEOs are still chasing that segment? And screwing up BGE of all games? 🫩

at this point, the only question is "What could possibly go right?"

Really? I was convinced they cancelled it years ago. Huh.

There must be some massive egos and drama involved with keeping BGE2 alive so long.

Fort... nite? How would that even work?

So that's (one reason) why it's been delayed to hell and back?