Announced by leaks, cancelled by leaks
Now Ubisoft say that they have cancelled it.
“We can confirm we will no longer support the development of Project Q in order to focus on priority projects, to which our teams are being reallocated,” an Ubisoft spokesperson toldVGC, after leaks over the cancellation earlier in the week.
Ubisoft have been on a cancellation spree of late, withthree unannounced projects cancelled last week. The cancellations come as Ubisoft say they’re facing “worsening macroeconomic conditions” and are undertaking “targeted restructuring” - eg. layoffs. This news led toa French union calling for Ubisoft Paris employees to strike, and anger at how it was communicatedled to Ubisoft CEO apologising in a ‘I’m sorry you feel that way’ way. Employee groupA Better Ubisoftcontinues to campaign for a better response tomany allegations of a toxic workplace culture within the publisher.
Project Q seemed to fit within Ubisoft’s much-stated ambition to transition towards more live service games, but the studio doesn’t have a good track record in the space. Their battle royale,Hyper Scape, failed to find an audience and closed down, and theirGhost Recon battle royalewas canned before closed testing began.
It’s not uncommon for game projects to be cancelled during development, but Ubisoft do seem to announce, cancel, or indefinitely delay more games than most.
