When a video game is in the Guinness Book of Records, it’s almost always cool for the developer. The best-selling game ever, the biggest game ever, the game with the highest production budget ever. All things you can be proud of in some form. But no one wants to wear the title ‘Game that has been in development the longest’. And yet Ubisoft Montpellier will have to do this. After all, they are responsible for Beyond Good & Evil 2. A game that is still not finished after sixteen years of tinkering. And far from that. When the message came in this week that an investigation by the French labor inspectorate is underway because a lot of employees are walking around with a burnout, then you know that something is going seriously wrong. But what? JJ hit the web and came up with the following video.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a so-called ‘Development Hell’
What’s up with the sequel to the cult hit Beyond Good & Evil? The fact that there was a sequel was a miracle in itself. After all, despite extremely favorable reviews, only 500,000 copies of the game were sold. And then it’s usually end of story. Not here. How is that possible? Why was the famous studio boss Ancell allowed to work on the sequel. And why was there never any intervention when the game was not finished? JJ dived into the matter and came up with a hypothesis.
Will the game ever come out?
Of course he also answers the question of whether Beyond Good & Evil 2 will ever be released. Because Ubisoft claims at high and low that this is going to happen, says nothing, according to him. There are always ways to get out of it. On the other hand, tinkering with a game for 16 years and then doing nothing with it, that’s a huge bucket of money in the sea of thunder. And nobody wants that. What’s going to happen? Click on the Play button and you will get the answer.
