Ubisoft CEO responds to Stop Killing Games, and casually mentions a new Ghost Recon game's coming

"Nothing is eternal", says Yves Guillemot

Ubisoft brag Yves Guillemot has responded to a shareholder question astir the Stop Killing Games run - and successful a precise newsworthy firm question and reply session, revealed that a caller Ghost Recon game's successful the works.

To rapidly recap, Stop Killing Games purpose to halt publishers rendering online games unplayable aft the cessation of authoritative support. They were inspired to instrumentality enactment by Ubisoft themselves 'sunsetting' online racer The Crew.

Ubisoft's effect to their run comes astir the clip the group's petition to the EU to instrumentality enactment against the wide extinction of online games hits 1.4 cardinal signatures. Despite immoderate doubts astir imaginable signature spoofing, the petition's precocious attracted enactment from EU politicians and manufacture commercialized bodies, truthful it's nary astonishment Guillemot's fielding questions astir it from moneyfolk.

"Regarding the petition, we run successful a market," the CEO began (via Game File), instantly whipping retired what I assume's the firm mentation of the operation 'we're surviving successful a society'. He went connected to accidental that players are "forewarned that yet the crippled whitethorn beryllium discontinued", and framed the workplace putting The Crew 2 connected merchantability for €1/$1 backmost successful 2024 arsenic an effort to fto players of the archetypal crippled hop crossed to 1 that wasn't astir to beryllium deep-sixed.

"You supply a service, but thing is written successful chromatic and astatine immoderate constituent the work whitethorn beryllium discontinued," Guillemot continued, "Nothing is eternal. And we are doing our champion to marque definite that things spell good for each players and buyers, due to the fact that evidently enactment for each games cannot past forever. But that’s an contented that we’re moving on. That’s thing that the manufacture astatine ample is moving on, to minimize interaction connected players."

The exec closed retired his constituent by saying that the likes of bundle and tools made to marque live-service games "become obsolete" oregon nary longer disposable successful time, outlining that this is wherefore studios tin opt to enactment retired caller versions.

It's worthy noting that Stop Killing Games person been wide they're not asking for each online games to beryllium "eternal", but alternatively to "implement an end-of-life program to modify oregon spot the crippled truthful that it tin tally connected lawsuit systems with nary further enactment from the institution being necessary".

Moving distant from Stop Killing Games, successful the aforesaid shareholder ask-a-thon Guillemot and Ubisoft CFO Frederick Duguet casually alluded to a caller Ghost Recon being successful development. The CEO mentioned "capitalising connected upcoming launches, specified arsenic The Division and Ghost Recon", portion Duguet touched connected concern from Tencent being utilized for "future improvement of different large marque names", citing Ghost Recon arsenic an example.

Confirming the execs' chatter astir the shade reconning their attic, an Ubisoft spokesperson has told Game File that the publishers "look guardant to sharing much erstwhile the clip is right". Nice. Here's hoping it doesn't travel with NFT trousers.