Famous journalist Jason Schreierworking in publishing Bloomberg, continues to publish materials about a well-known publishing house Ubisoft… The reason for the next investigation was a large-scale restructuring within the French company, caused by the dismissal of two high-ranking employees, namely Serge Hascoeta and Janisa Malata…
This time Schreier talked about an entertaining game that was prepared by the publisher and which he had been doing for a short time Mike Laidlaw, veteran BioWare and creative director of the role-playing series Dragon age…
Let us remind you that in 2017 Laidlaw left BioWare and soon took up a position in Ubisoft quebec… However, a year later he resigned without completing a single project in the new place. As it turned out, all its time in Ubisoft Mike Laidlaw worked on a massive role-playing game under the codename Avalonthat was supposed to send players into the universe King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table…
But, unfortunately, to date, according to the data Schreier, development Avalon has been cancelled… At the same time, it is noted that the decision to discontinue production came personally from Serge Hascoeta, which found the fantasy setting as unattractive as possible. Moreover, the only condition under which Avalon could go on sale, writes Schreier, was execution atgrace from Hascoeta – he demanded that Laidlaw’s fantasy be “better than Tolkien“…
Despite the dissatisfaction from the leadership, the creation Avalon went quite actively. At some point, the project even boasted cooperative game modes in the style of the series Monster hunter from Capcom… However, the position Hascoeta in relation to the setting of future development forced Laidlaw together with his team, make significant adjustments to the original plans. In an attempt to save the game, the authors tried to build the project on Greek mythology and add more sci-fi elements to it…
But even so Serge Hascoet was adamant and all new iterations Avalon steadily went to the trash can while last fall the game was not finally buried… This is what caused the departure Mike Laidlaw from the company.
Now, after a series of accusations of sexual harassment, Serge Hascoet was fired from Ubisoft, which entailed significant changes in the management positions of the publishing house. It is extremely difficult to predict how this will affect future releases of the French giant.
It was previously reported that Hascoet was against female characters in games, did not like linear solo adventures and had a negative attitude towards cutscenes. With just one word, he could give the green light to develop a project or stop production.
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