{"id":16305,"date":"2024-10-23T07:23:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=16305"},"modified":"2024-10-23T07:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:23:04","slug":"rumors-ubisoft-disbanded-the-writing-team-for-prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/industry\/rumors-ubisoft-disbanded-the-writing-team-for-prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumors: Ubisoft Disbanded the Writing Team for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8HgkIyq0emY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French YouTube channel Origami<\/a>, specifically journalist Gautoz, learned that Ubisoft abandoned the idea of a sequel to <strong>Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown<\/strong> and disbanded the team responsible for the original game because the project did not meet expectations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">J&#39;ai entendu ou lu &quot;la meilleure prod&#39; de ma vie&quot; trois ou quatre fois en un week-end \u00e0 propos du d\u00e9veloppement de PoP The Lost Crown. Tour \u00e0 tour espoir d&#39;une autre mani\u00e8re de cr\u00e9er et zone de r\u00e9habilitation pour gens cr\u00e2m\u00e9s par BGE2, l&#39;\u00e9quipe a \u00e9t\u00e9 dissoute par Ubisoft. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FFz9cfm4xj\">https:\/\/t.co\/FFz9cfm4xj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gautoz (@gautoz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gautoz\/status\/1848742322319548852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That <strong>doesn&#8217;t mean Montpelier<\/strong> is being shut down\u2014at least, that&#8217;s not what it looks like at the moment. It&#8217;s just that the development team is no longer working on a single project but is scattered throughout the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the reporter&#8217;s sources told us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The fate of The Lost Crown was decided back in the spring, a few weeks after the game&#8217;s release. Ubisoft was unhappy with sales. <strong>Long-term support<\/strong> was out of the question\u2014it was clear that everything would end with a couple of updates and one DLC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Several key developers hoped to get the go-ahead to create a sequel but were unsuccessful. Then, the authors tried to persuade Ubisoft to offer at least two supplements, but the management thought dealing with more promising projects was better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The management also killed the <strong>sequel to The Lost Crown <\/strong>because the second game&#8217;s release would allegedly harm the long-term sales of the first game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcYZ00_zoM7kjotwrKUcM1ThzbyS8iawo7dEb3AnHqNpI4GYUXLh_cQx0Fqm0uXykiRAWjGoVuGtFscZzblcZVeYn_XgA1qRyCDRVuCIO9tZP8ncoj8bNODOCcwuv5HmI8epZN-y23d6_PuuGNpbE42Q_AF?key=OVPB5JlhZOlrR1HnJTO0gw\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was released on <strong>January 18, 2024<\/strong>. It is available on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch consoles. The average score of the review game Metacritic is <strong>86 out of 100<\/strong> from the press and 8.5 out of 10 from users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The year<strong> 2024 has been filled with upheaval<\/strong> for Ubisoft, but disbanding the only development team that created everyone&#8217;s favorite game can hardly help matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French YouTube channel Origami, specifically journalist Gautoz, learned that Ubisoft abandoned the idea of a sequel to Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown and disbanded the team responsible for the original game because the project did not meet expectations.&nbsp; That doesn&#8217;t mean Montpelier is being shut down\u2014at least, that&#8217;s not what it looks like at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":16307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-16305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-industry","8":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16309,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions\/16309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}