Game designer Michel to Ansel (Michel Ancel) did not allow to leave the industry just like that: the French edition of Libération published a material of which accuses the developer of inappropriate behavior when creating Beond Good & Evil 2. Say, precisely because of whims Ansel The game has been burning for many years in the production hell.

The original material is hidden behind a paid subscription and a language barrier, so we will rely on a brief version from Kotaku. Libération authors talked with employees Ubisoft. They assure that with Ansel It is incredibly difficult to work: they say, he constantly changed vision Beond Good & Evil 2 and forced subordinates over and over again to redo a bunch of materials, which led to fatigue, depression and “burnout” of many team members.

“He can explain to you how ingenious you are, how wonderful your idea is, and then smash you at the meeting, saying that you are just a piece of shit, your work costs nothing, and then not talk to you for a month”, - asserts one of the sources of Libération. Like, in the end, responsible people even banned Ansel communicate with some departments so that he does not bring excess confusion.

Libération received comments from Ansel. He admits that production at Beond Good & Evil 2 Very difficult, but assures that this is a common situation for projects of this kind: the whole team feels the severity of such a large -scale game, including Ansel. Besides, Ubisoft He carefully studies behavior Ansel As part of a series of proceedings that began in July, after scandals around some bosses of the publishing house. The results of the investigation regarding Ansel The company is not yet ready to declare publicly.

Shortly after the publication from Libération Ansel posted a post on his Instagram:

1. Toxic management. I don't control the team. I create a vision, but what, when and how to do it, decides producers and managers. They are powerful people in the production of such projects. Why are journalists not talking about them?
2. "I constantly change my opinion" - not true. For example, I spent years, explaining why the city [from Beond Good & Evil 2] no need to redo from scratch. He explained for hours that the characters are good and they do not need to be redone. The same with planets and everyone else. But sometimes some people in the team changed things contrary to my advice. Such issues are resolved by managers.
3. “Demo of 2017 was a fake and a pre-prepared video” was not true. Demo of 2017 was strong and allowed to create a demo of 2018. Contrary to what they write in the news, the demo of 2018 correctly showed the details, really used the flow load, procedural generation and worked on the network. This is a technology workshop.

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Unfortunately, this is the basis of the majority of modern media, which instead of checking facts and truth carry only scandals, lies and clicky headlines.

I do not want to slander Ansel, nevertheless, the first BG in my top 5 games for all times, and this is definitely his brainchild. But again, since the first part I went very much to me very much, I immediately began to catch news about the possible sequel by grains, and if you have been giving together all that Musye Michelle broadcast for many years, then the Kulstorye collection will be released no worse than Mulino's. In words, he began to develop the second part in the words during the time of PS2, immediately after the release of the original, but it very quickly turned out that PS2 would not pull out everything that was conceived, OK, quite in the case, a new generation on the nose was, a little later, even rolled up a piece of gameplay on 360 boxing, he caused a lot of wau and an increased zhdun regime, the Ansel said that not so fast, we had a little tie, we had a little tiem We are a family, we do not want to inflate the state, etc.D., Then the project was suddenly frozen as everyone switched to Reimen, then the development of the shaman simulator arose, an exclusive for PS3 (another long -building from Ansel), then it turned out that PS3 and 360 boxes were not pulling the entire Ansel genius. We were waiting for a new platform, fairy tales about the little Tim-family were repeated, then there was a video, a presentation of a gameplay from Ansel flying over a huge statue of an elephant, a promise that will definitely come out on the current generation, the current worship is a couple of months, Ansel was retired. I briefly listed my emotions of Zhdun BG2 from memory, obviously not all the facts mentioned, and it doesn’t matter, the point is that the unconditionally talented developer Michel Ansel is no less talented in driving the ears. Personally, I am the news that he moved away from the development rather with joy, the project had a chance to relieve.

You think that once the media were different? Enough to shove "modern" and "in our time" everywhere. Most of the things that are applied to have not changed significantly.
As for the news: who knows. Maybe in the end we will find out who is more right. If Ansel is really unfairly accused, I wish him to defend himself of course. But anything happens, creative people often have a heavy character.

Well, no, the yellow press https://cupcakebingo-casino.co.uk/ is still a little different. Yellow press about scandals, intrigues, sensations, usually with a vulgar theme. She never wrote about the treasures and uncomfortable working conditions, her audience (not very smart) is so uninteresting. But juggling with facts in favor of some of its agendas-that was always.

They assure that it is incredibly difficult to work with Ansel: they say, he constantly changed the vision of Beond Good & Evil 2 and forced his subordinates to redo a lot of materials over and over again, which led to fatigue, depression and “burnout” of many team members.

That is, he was doing what the gamemerator should do? Well, fucking now, it turns out when the gamemeranean requires certain results from subordinates in accordance with his vision - this is. That's when the team of effective managers comes and on the basis of the readings of the focus groups turns the game into an ugly shit-miclone is cut off the credit-everything is fine, because ordinary (mediocre shit) developers (some of which are printed on the keyboard, so that the manicure does not spoil) may not strain).

P.S.: We’ll see if Ansel will get away from the crowd of Twitter-invisors, I am sure that he is already actively canceled (even despite the fact that it seems to be already leaving itself), noting any words of Ansel. After all, he is white, a man, most likely heterosexual. And such a twitter-incations seeks to cancel “the cost of everything” (including common sense and unequivocal facts not in favor of Twitter-incations).

“He can explain to you how ingenious you are, how wonderful your idea is, and then smash you at the meeting, saying that you are just a piece of shit, your work costs nothing, and then does not talk to you for a month,” says one of the Libération sources. Like, in the end, responsible people even forbade Ansel to communicate with some departments so that he would not bring excess turmoil.

Demand certain results in accordance with your vision and behave unprofessional is a little different things.

He constantly changed Beyond Good & Evil 2 and forced subordinates to redo a bunch of materials over and over again, which led to fatigue, depression and “burnout” of many team members.

A similar approach is justified in the case of UNCHARTED 4, where the development under the leadership of Amy Henning was simply standing still, and when Streili and Dracman came, I had to throw some developments. And BGE under the guidance of Ansel is already how much is being developed?

I have hopes above the roof, and I wait in any case, I just got the impression that the hypertrophied perfectionism of the Ansel was only inhibited by the development.

At least, if this had not been, then the left movement would not have arisen and would not gain such scale. And it is quite logical and correct that the left has their own newspapers, magazines and television channels, regardless of how I relate to their ideas. It’s just that the reader should understand what prisms the specific media sees everything, so as not to be indignant in the spirit of “Oh, these damn levaks, again in everything they see the oppression of the working class!"Or" Oh, these damn Libertarians, again they are talking about their "market"!".

Well, as if not such scandals and intrigues, but more secular ones, I don’t know how to describe it more precisely. For example, two articles:

"Kirkorov and Basque: amazing facts about the truth of their relations". This is jaundice.

“Kirkorov Light operator: At Philip Bedrosovich, ideas on visual design of concerts are changing faster than we manage to convert the scene”. You feel the difference, yes? Jaundice - it is for the people of undead, designed for emotion, vulgar region and "shock!".

Well, the left -handed theme about the oppression of the working class exist from the moment the left movement has appeared and have not faded for a second. The same liberals is known for sucking out labor scandals from a finger. Another thing is that now almost all the media are flooded and this trend has become more noticeable

I got the impression that half of the claims on the part of the workers regarding the “tyranny” of Ansel is the inability to accept quite ordinary subordinating relations between the manager and the subordinate. Of course, I did not hold a candle, but it seems to me that some complain are people who came to Gamdev, that they attracted them with the possibility of free creativity and revealing their potential. But it turned out that instead of vanilla, to the vomit of the romanticized industry, they faced the harsh cruelty of real life. And in this life, in order to survive, you need to stick out, regardless of whether you draw or Georgian boxes. Vren said correctly: Today is the time of the victorious Shinji who do not want to climb into this damn robot!

If I remember correctly some of his old interviews, then it was said that he wants to continue and develop the ideas of the first part, and he was imposed on top ... Grindilka in the open world. He tried to linen it all together, but it did not work out.
So now, when it has been "left", it is convenient to hang all the dogs on Ansel.

This is easy for those who left the industry and does not lose anything much. But others who are still in business try to somehow soften their own cancellation, I suspect that under the pressure of their employer. Although why did Freenser Abellon canceled himself - it is absolutely incomprehensible. Everyone in principle knows that no repentance from SZHV will help

She may be released, but you think the anniversary will be able to make her interesting without Ansel? Of course, there may be a miracle and the anniversary will suddenly make the same masterpiece as 1 part, however, I am weak in this.

We will live then and we will see, I have a lot of hopes for this game, and the fact that Michel Ansel left me a little upset, but I'm still waiting for her.

Yes. Once upon a time, only the “yellow press” was engaged in the publication of unverified news and rumors under the guise of facts.

Here is horror! It turns out at work you need to work, especially in a game building, when the money is spent, and the profit is not a fact that there will be. As if few people guess that they have to reckon with the vision of the authorities.