“Cancellation of the match will only be a matter of time.”

Arlésienne among Arlésiennes, Clearly, Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a damned project. After it was announced in 2008, the game sank into oblivion until 2014 when Michel Ancel teased a photo of Jade’s new look on social media. Two years later, in 2016, French game designer and Ubisoft formalized the game’s pre-production phase. It wasn’t until E3 2017 to see the new direction this ultra-ambitious sequel took. A game that aims to get us to visit several planets in a solar system, each star is an organized open world, a bit like No Man’s Sky. Only here, since the unexpected and hasty departure of Michel Ansel in October 2020, development seems to be slow. Without a leader, the project does not really know where to go and whether we will believe his words Tom Henderson, a journalist at VGC and IGN, looks like production is about to stop. Insiders go further by specifying that the game’s abandonment will be announced soon, and that it is only a matter of time. Internally, at Ubisoft, Beyond Good & Evil 2 calls itself “Skull & Bones 2.0,” and it’s another game whose development also seems chaotic.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 The game is experiencing a development crisis due to a lack of creative direction since the title went into development, which was exacerbated by Michael Ancel leaving the studio in September 2020.

– Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) November 12, 2021

Still according to Tom Henserson, Beyond Good & Evil 2 faces the new direction taken by Ubisoft, which wants to standardize its products, with this desire to move toward gaming services. The idea is really to perpetuate the existence of each title while developing post-launch content. If this information is to be taken with the tweezers of rigor, it’s true that the silence about Beyond Good & Evil 2 has something to worry about for players, especially after so long waiting while the apocalypse is announced there already 5 years. . We can keep a little hope, because Ubisoft Montpellier has been looking for The community developer’s history of taking over communications about the game and another undisclosed title.