diffusionx
Gold Member
Actually the issue is that Ubisoft has been pissing money down the drain for years on vaporware like BG&E2 and Skull & Bones.Serves you right Ubisoft for not putting the right resources behind Beyond Good and Evil 2...
Karma's a bitch, Yves!
A company like Ubisoft right now which seems to be in total freefall always has tons of problems. The managers are probably not very good. The rank-and-file they are hiring are probably not very good. Their entire corporate ethos and structure is probably flawed. The fact that they couldn’t deliver a straightforward remake of Prince of Persia Sands of Time is indicative of the problems up and down. Bad management, bad employees, bad plan, bad schedule, everything bad.The error is never at management. If things go bad and down south the response is: "My workers are lazy and underqualified, and they can't deliver anything on time". However, if some project turns out great the management response is: "Look what I did using my excellent management skills. Our success is entirely because of me, because I'm such a good manager".
I know a lot of top people got pushed out of the company a few years ago, this was applauded because it was generally thought that they were scoundrels in some way, but they were the people who built the company and made it into a powerhouse, and they were apparently replaced by far less competent and less skilled people who rapidly drove the company into a ditch. As always, the only thing that makes a company are its people, there is no magic dust in the air at a studio that guarantees the company would be successful after successful people leave.