1up - Ubisoft's decision to let all gamers play Assassin's Creed was a sign of things to come.
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*
Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…
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.
It was obvious that third parties would support Sony very early on only because of the success of PS2, but then they started to see how the industry was changing with the Wii and the 360 and had to change strategies. Sadly, Sony didn't help by making a lot of mistakes this generation, so a lot of third parties had to become multiplatform.
Next generation is going to be interesting to see which console will be on top. With the emerge of casual gaming on IOS and android, will Sony still be supporting AAA hardcore games like this generation? Will Microsoft will keep supporting and giving priority to casual games with Kinect?. As it stands, Sony has the most first party exclusives, but Nintendo has the most successful.
I hope that at least the quality of the games don't drop next generation. Nintendo knows how to treat their first party games, and so does Sony. Microsoft has really improved with Halo 4, and hopefully they will have much more exclusives next gen. What worries me a lot is third parties, because this generation a lot of them made rushed games, they wanted to milk consumers as much as they could, and if this trend continues, I am afraid that Sony, MS and Nintendo start doing the same.
Online will also be a very important aspect next generation of consoles. Not only about features like Cross game chatting, but the entire platform will decide which console will be successful. They need to have a platform with great UI and have great content from games to movies to multimedia offerings.