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Beyond Good & Evil 2 Development Troubled?

The creator of the series has reportedly left the Ubisoft.

In the past, Ubisoft has outwardly displayed misgivings when asked about the state of affairs of Beyond Good & Evil 2. But a new rumor floating around asserts that the production of the long-awaited sequel may have been paused, or even worse, Ubisoft might be talking cancelation.

French gaming website Woot Gaming (via Destructoid, via NeoGAF) alleges that the creator of Beyond Good & Evil, Michel Ancel, and one of his developers, have left Ubisoft Montpellier and founded their own studio due to some sort of spat over the follow-up. This in turn has left the entire project in some sort of disarray; it's paused and--provided this report is accurate--some studio gurus are talking about scrapping the title. 

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About a year after Beyond Good & Evil 2's announcement and trailer-zation in 2008, Ubisoft's Laurent Detoc told Industry Gamers that there was a chance it would never see the inside of a disc drive. This new rumor, if true, certainly takes the "chance" part out of the equation.

Of course, you'll have to keep in mind how bad Google translations of websites can be depending on the content of said site. Also, I get the vibe the author, "Poop," might have just been speculating in that last paragraph. It's hard to tell because of the poor translation. And in another bit of house cleaning: Destructoid notes that Ancel has yet to update his LinkedIn profile, which is something you totally do immediately after leaving a place of employment. It's like a rule or something.

I missed Beyond Good & Evil, and I still kick myself for it. I was hoping to jump onto the love train with the sequel. Apparently, I might not get the chance.  Anyway, what do you guys think about this rumor? I'd imagine it's breaking a few hearts out there.     
  
UPDATE: According to a report about this matter from French gaming blog Gameblog.fr, French Ubisoft representatives and sources within Ubisoft Montpellier are saying these rumors are completely false.

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Edited By Ryax

lol title owned

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Edited By RE_Player1

This is what happens when you post 50 news stories a day. The intern gets lazy and posts stories that have been confirmed by Ubisoft to be false and makes typos in the title and heading for gods sake. 

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Not surprised to bad, it was to good to happen in the first place.

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Bummer, hopefully something good will come out of this.

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Edited By Bos1014

you missed it? you can still play it ps2 xbox and gcn.. pc maybe too. go and get it jeez. 

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Not true.

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Edited By spaceturtle

Breaks my heart, for sure. I loved the first one. One of the better games I've ever played. I see some peepz here are saying there might be coming something else good out of this. For my part, the only GOOD thing that could happen is if the sequel is released like originally planed. 

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Edited By Claude

As much as I liked Beyond Good & Evil, I never expected a sequel. But if a sequel were to happen, so be it. I'm not heartbroken... either way. I played the game and liked it.

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@RE_Player92 said:
" This is what happens when you post 50 news stories a day. The intern gets lazy and posts stories that have been confirmed by Ubisoft to be false and makes typos in the title and heading for gods sake.  "
Agreed. SLOW DOWN. I already get my daily jump-the-gun bullshit from Joystiq.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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Edited By scottygrayskull

What do you mean, you "missed" BG&E? It's not that hard to find, and you can always get it on Steam. It's still just as good now. 
 
tbh if Ancel isn't involved in the sequel I don't have high hopes for it. :(

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A box of K-Bups... A box of K-Bups...

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@solh0und: You can get one on Steam for $10 bucks.
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Edited By Nick

I loved Beyond Good and Evil and I seriously hope this isn't true!
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Fuck, noooooooo. *cries*

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Even if they just remade the first one (like they did with the Butcher's Bay for PS3) it would have been a 100% definite buy! It's an amazing game in every sense of the word - I replay it about once a year.

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Yea missed out on the first game too and I had some interest in the sequel.

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Edited By Olivaw

Now, see, okay, this news story is bullshit. All it does is cite a glorified blog and a forum thread which itself references a google translation of a French website I have never heard of.
 
And now it turns out to have been false all along.
 
This is not a news story that should be posted on a respectable outlet like Giant Bomb.

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This better be a load of horseshit, because I've been desperately waiting to play the sequel for years.  Just put me out of my misery already...

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Well the budget for HAWX has to come from somewhere...

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@PrimeSynergy said:
" Well the budget for HAWX has to come from somewhere... "
Yeah, it's a shame that Ubisoft rather spends money on crappy Tom Clancy games. BG&E failed in sales though, so I understand why BG&E 2 is cancelled/on hold.
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Noooooooooooooooooooo! Jade!

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That better be false. I supported the fuck out of that game and I demand a goddamn sequel.

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Read the story, then the edit. AWESOME, FALSE !!  Loved the first BG&E, hope they don't mess this one up

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For the people that haven't played it yet I have to say this. Buy it on Steam and play it. I bought it a few months ago and I LOVED IT! Playing a 2003 game in 2010 and I freaking loved it.

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There goes what looked to be ubisofts only good game this gen

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Why not go back and play the game? 
Oh, wait. No backwards compatibility 

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@masterpaperlink said:

" There goes what looked to be ubisofts only good game this gen "



UPDATE: According to a report about this matter from French gaming blog Gameblog.fr, French Ubisoft representatives and sources within Ubisoft Montpellier are saying these rumors are completely false.
    nuh uh
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You can get Beyond Good & Evil on steam if you wish so.

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@Brackynews said:
" @RE_Player92 said:
" This is what happens when you post 50 news stories a day. The intern gets lazy and posts stories that have been confirmed by Ubisoft to be false and makes typos in the title and heading for gods sake.  "
Agreed. SLOW DOWN. I already get my daily jump-the-gun bullshit from Joystiq. "
I'll have to agree with this too. I'm not happy about it but I may be overly sensitive to that sort of thing at the moment since a similar development fucked up a former favorite gaming site of mine by reducing all "news" to completely worthless yellow-press-style rambling without any substance [I'm talking about a German site called gamestar that's probably of no interest to most of you ;) ].
 
BGE is an excellent game with one of my favorite Protagonists of all time but I could live with letting this universe rest. I was actually quite afraid of a continuation since I think there's a solid chance it'll be quite underwhelming for me.
Also: Duuude if you're "kicking yourself" for having missed it just fucking play the damn game and don't try to just please hardcore fans by making uninformed statements about it's worth. If i didn't happen to catch your interest that's ok too, sad as it is. I remember Jeff not being completely sold an some of its gameplay mechanics either (and making a good argument for it).    
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I hope this is not true.
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Well, with the site denying the rumors, this article's kind of useless now, other than its preview saying the lead developer may have left "the Ubisoft."

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True or not, anything that puts Ubi in a negative light is great in my books. I hate that company on so many levels.

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FALSE! FALSE! FALSE!

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I don't know what to say, I would love to see a sequel? The first game was great had lots of great personality and story to it. The only complaint I had with the game was the mad hard steath evading missions it made you do.

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fffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

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Brad N, chipping away at GB's credibility in record time.

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Christ, the internet is a gigantic place.  How hard is it to find someone who speaks French to give you a proper translation, instead of using Google?

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@ryanwho:  to his credit this wasn't the first place that reported it
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@Kenzo287 said:
" @ryanwho:  to his credit this wasn't the first place that reported it "
I'm sure other bullshit outlets reported on it too. Point is, old GB wouldn't have.
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I think we can allow the man the mistake of speed reporting like they dude over at those gaming blog sites. He's just gotta learn that, that ess ain't gonna fly at Giantbomb -- at least not if they expect me to continue coming here.

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You guys do realize that Brad is an editor for Destructoid right? And not some "intern" or random dude. He is pretty much just assisting in actually putting some news on this site compared to the maybe 1 article a week at best that used to come up.
 
This community is a bunch of conceited self righteous idiots at times.

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the first Beyond good & evil was so awesome, I hope dear god this is false D=

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@Subject2Change said:

" You guys do realize that Brad is an editor for Destructoid right? And not some "intern" or random dude. He is pretty much just assisting in actually putting some news on this site compared to the maybe 1 article a week at best that used to come up.  This community is a bunch of conceited self righteous idiots at times. "

Normally, there's about 1 genuinely newsworthy thing happening a week during the summer. I never found myself clicking an article to make sure it was a none Nicholson article aka a "real" article before this clown showed up. I understand plenty of people like this high quantity badly written shit, and that's great, you can stay at Destructoid and soak up all the joke reviews and cheap poorly cited articles you want. That's not what GB is known for and it shouldn't be.
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Glad to hear it's false.  The guy leaving what is likely his only chance of ever getting the game released would be insane.
 
Looking forward to it reaching the market even though I never finished the first one.  The characters have a lot of true depth, and I recall the game actually pulling off emotionally tender scenes.  RARE in gaming.

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@ryanwho: yeah but...yeah
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  I fucking hope this shit is false. if not this SUCKS for Ubi.    

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Can you believe that I got the original Beyond Good and Evil for $25.00 brand new? It was awesome and I love the game. I still have it. It had some rough edges and it could of used more areas to explore. Still a lot of fun.