A game linked to Assassin’s Creed Shadows definitely in the shadows
This is information that the Origami media was able to confirm with half a dozen employees: AC League, the code name for a multiplayer-oriented project in the Assassin’s Creed universe, has seen its development canceled. First thought as a DLC for the latest Assassin’s Creed Shadowsthe baby which nevertheless mobilized 85 people from Ubisoft Annecy has gradually become a cooperative experience in its own right, probably sold as a standalone if it had ended up being successful.
Yes, but here we are, Vantage, the Ubisoft subsidiary co-financed by Tencent and managed by Charlie Guillemot and Christophe Derennes (a family affair, remember), has been responsible for several weeks sorting out what deserves or not, according to it, to continue moving forward. This is therefore not the case for this AC League, even if the work done on it is not entirely thrown in the trash.
Indeed, since the cancellation, a small team of around ten people has been responsible for integrating technical advances into the Anvil graphics engine and starting to conceptualize cooperative modes to integrate into a future major Assassin’s Creed. We recall that the license has not had a multi-player component since the Unity episode, which goes back more than ten years, and that the desire to bring multiplayer up to date is, we imagine, inevitable for Ubisoft which wishes to perpetuate its most lucrative licenses as much as possible.
However, when this leads Ubisoft Annecy to be brought back to square one of a project for the second time after the PvE shooter Pathfinderwe think especially of employed people. Origami ends by declaring that of the 270 members making up the Annecy studio, a quarter currently find themselves without a project. And while a quarterly review will take place on February 12, at a time when Yves Guillemot is advocating “rightsizing” (a term to say otherwise “cleaning up”), while a period of strike on the French studio side will be put in place, the coming days still risk creating movement.