While we learned a few hours ago that the development team for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown would have been dismantled, other reports and statements have just surfaced concerning the projects to which the people concerned were assigned.
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Following the broadcast of articles about the dissolution of the team, Abdelhak Elguess, lead producer on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, confirmed the information on the Prince of Persia Discord, while specifying that the employees concerned still work at Ubisoft Montpellier, but on “other projects which will benefit from their expertise”.
“I am extremely proud of the work and passion of our team at Ubisoft Montpellier to create a game that resonated with players and critics, and I am confident in its long-term success. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is now at the end of its post-launch roadmap with three free content updates and a DLC that released in September. We are now focused on making the game accessible to more players: it has. recently launched on Steam and will be available on Mac by this winter Most of the team members who worked on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown have moved on to other projects that will benefit from their expertise.
We know gamers love this brand and Ubisoft is very excited to deliver more Prince of Persia experiences in the future.”
But then, what could these projects be? According to Insider Gaming, the majority of team members have been assigned to the development of Beyond Good and Evil 2, while approximately a dozen employees are now working on Project Over, the next main opus in the Ghost Recon saga.
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If we already knew about these two games, a third should excite Rayman fans. In fact, around another dozen developers are now working on Project Steambot, which would be a remake of Rayman in development at Ubisoft Milan. However, the project would have been unpopular internally, due to the involvement of Michel Ancel as a consultant, even though he had left the industry in 2020. Indeed, the creator of the franchise had been singled out by Libération in 2020 for its “toxic methods”.
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