GamesBeat: Xavier Poix runs Ubisoft France, overseeing the publisher’s three main studios, with more than 700 developers. He is in charge of the Just Dance, Raving Rabbids, Rayman, and Ghost Recon franchises. He gave a talk yesterday on leveraging new technology for games at the DICE Summit, an elite game industry event in Las Vegas. We caught up with him for an interview. Here’s an edited transcript of our talk.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
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Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.
Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
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This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.
Every industry has these issues
Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.
I have absolutely no problem with ubisoft porting rayman over to xbox/ps3, but to do it so close to launch is what makes me a bit upset...
Why not just do it as a timed-exclusive? Tecmo is porting over Ninja Gaiden: Razor's Edge to the 360 and PS3, but they didn't hold the Wii U version and wait to release all simultaneously. And Tecmo is a smaller company than Ubisoft so them having to pay for marketing twice on the game would effect them more than it would Ubisoft. Apparently they aren't phased by such details.
What makes this even more stupid is that there really isn't anything coming out out this month that would be a threat to it. Now you release the game in September to go against Grand Theft Auto 5?????
*cues The Price Is Right losing horn*
Just plain stupid can't believe the decision to make WiiU owners wait they have the superior version so why not give it to them now and let 360 ect wait as they wern't even expecting the game to be released on their consoles so it's easy just make them wait and give WiiU owners their game.
Hmmm, wasn't that "innovative" message leaving ZombieU feature he mentioned also in Demon Souls?