Beyond Good & Evil 2 director confirms team are "unaffected" by Ubisoft cuts, "remain committed" to the game

"Needless to say, I americium saddened by the cancellations that [have] affected my colleagues"

Ubisoft precocious unleashed a raft of cancellations, delays and workplace closures arsenic portion of a brutal bout of firm restructuring. We've inactive yet to spot however each of the repercussions of it volition go, with projected voluntary redundancies astatine the company's Paris office having seen unions enactment plans successful spot for a 3 time onslaught successful February.

One of the games which wasn't among the cancellations was long-in-development sequel Beyond Good and Evil 2, and its manager has present confirmed arsenic much, offering a little connection to reassure fans and promote folks to enactment devs affected by Ubisoft's bloodletting.

"Thank you for everyone who has reached retired to maine implicit the past fewer days successful regards to caller quality astatine Ubisoft," Fawzi Mesmar wrote connected LinkedIn. "Myself, my squad and our task Beyond Good and Evil 2 are unaffected by the caller changes.

"Needless to say, I americium saddened by the cancellations that has affected my colleagues successful different parts of Ubisoft and the industry. I impulse everyone - myself included - to connection enactment whenever and nevertheless they tin during these times. We stay committed and focused connected delivering a singular crippled for our players to enjoy."

He besides directed folks to consult the authoritative docs for much info connected Ubisoft's restructure, which has seen the Beyond Good and Evil bid slotted into the 4th of 5 "creative houses". House fig 4 is each astir "immersive phantasy worlds and narrative-driven universes", with Anno, Might & Magic, Rayman, and Prince of Persia filling it out.

It's large to perceive Mesmar's squad haven't been deed by layoffs arsenic a effect of changes, astatine slightest arsenic of yet, though it is worthy noting that we don't cognize the nonstop fig of folks who're moving connected Beyond Good and Evil 2 astatine the moment. As Edwin wrote the different week, the authoritative crushed that's been fixed for BG&E2 keeping connected keeping connected portion the likes of the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake were condemned to past is Ubisoft's tendency to support doing unfastened satellite things.

My non-money adept besides speculated that determination mightiness beryllium boring accounting reasons wherefore the institution mightiness privation to support this circumstantial crippled successful the works for now, fundamentally boiling down to it being much utile to them live and with imaginable to marque immoderate wealth successful the eyes of investors, alternatively than written disconnected arsenic a currency achromatic hole.

The truth, arsenic it's been for a while, is that nary of the supra volition go genuinely crystal wide until yet we get much details about/a accidental to play Beyond Good and Evil 2, oregon Ubisoft denote they're pulling the plug. For now, it remains Schrödinger's anthropomorphic carnal action-adventure.