Sony only owns the movie rights to Spider-Man and it’s characters. It doesn’t carry over to comics, merchandise, or gaming. They likely worked something out with Marvel, but there are no sources confirming any of that. 

Explain me Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 then

“Hey guys, the end of everything is imminent, we really need some crunch time on this thing!”

There’s a difference between setting a high bar, and setting people up to fail. Saying you want it better than The Witcher is setting a high bar. Even though I personally think the writing in that game is massively overrated, I concede it is beloved by the masses (much like Twilight was). So, reaching those levels…

I can’t really say. Ubisoft is huge, just in Montreal they were 3000 employees and I was just a junior at the time. So I don’t know what were all the process to pitch a new game, especially a new IP. I just know that news IPs pitch in Ubisoft are really hard to push through.

But I do remember that there were a lot of…

Not a fan of the fantasy genre, Hascoët reportedly set a very high bar for the project, telling the team working on Avalon that it needed to be “better than Tolkien.”

Doesn’t surprise me. Worked about 3 years at Ubisoft every project that were not watch dogs, far cry, assassin’s creed, rainbow six or any new project that were not born from those franchises or able to fit in those molds, were pretty much shutdown.

I’m still surprise that they managed to do Child of Light, probably…

Shiggy has a fair amount of power, but most of the time outside of questioning why such and such is the way it is, he rarely uses his clout. He’s not infallible and seems to realize this to a point.

Forget literary standard, it speaks to the rank hubris manifest in the gaming industry. Tolkien is a huge name to invoke in terms of the comparison of a project in gestation, in this case saying that Avalon had to be literally epoch defining. Like I said, hubris and unsurprising it came from a man later shown to be as…

Pretty sure he was a douchebag who didn’t know what he was talking about and provided nothing to actually help the project or process. I know quite a few “designers” that had a single good idea and then made a career out of providing nothing but criticism about everything else.

It’s wild to hear that one of the largest developers in the world gives so much creative control to a single individual - I’m not sure even Miyamoto has enough influence at Nintendo to unilaterally can a project just because he doesn’t like one aspect of it. From Jason’s article, it also sounds like this CCO was one…

I’m starting to really ****ing hate Ubisoft.

Hascoët reportedly set a very high bar for the project, telling the team working on Avalon that it needed to be “better than Tolkien.”

So you mean all of the io9 commentators.

You know what’s just as annoying as the “Snyder Cut” fans? The “Snyder Sucks" crowd...

Motomu Toriyama dug that grave, and Hajime Tabata couldn’t fill it in.

I mean, what information is this supposed to convey? Do other companies just hang around when developing their games? Call it cynical, but way I see it, this is a rather circular story which doesn’t really tell us anything. It’s like when Blizzard says their games are done “when it’s ready”, like, yeah, no kidding. I…

This statement from SE tells us less than nothing. I still expect 2023 for Part 2 at the earliest. Streamlined development has never been SquareEnix’s forte even back when they were still Square and Enix.

Oh, see, I would have thought that they were going to get it all ready and then delay it for no reason, but now that I know they’ll be releasing it “as soon as they can” well that about changes everything.

Claiming that there is “need” for more transparency doesn’t actually mean anything. You didn’t offer even a single reason why there not only could be more, should be more, you want more and especially a reason why there “needs” to be more.