Ubisoft is clear. It was just one troll in their company tricking us.

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LordTheNightKnight said:

 

He wasn't just a moderator. He worked for the company. That's what made a lot of us think it was Ubisoft's official position. Again, some companies require employees to state it's just what they think, to avoid confusion.

As for koffieboon, it's not just about making that game. It's showing that they don't think they Wii is just a shovelware dump, or else they wouldn't be making a sequel to Red Steel at all. Since they've been working on it at the time that employee made those comments, it proves they don't actually think the way he claimed they did.

I don't know about you, but I took articles like this as much more important than anything any moderator/small fish could have said:

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL2287657620070822

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/11/ubisoft-aims-fo.html

Two quotes from 2007:

Guillemot said the company's casual games business was "extremely profitable" and helped to finance the initially costly development of games for next-generation consoles -- Sony's (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) PlayStation3 and Microsoft's (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Xbox 360.

Instead of complaining that Nintendo games get all the attention on Nintendo platforms, why not just (wait for it) make products that are as high-quality? Ubisoft seems to get it: CEO Yves Guillemot says that the company's Wii games next year will be "Nintendo-quality."

What the moderator said might have been the catalyst, but it's certainly not the main reason for outrage, at least not as far as I'm concerned. As I said above... actions speak louder than words. Always look at the actions first. Nintendo quality games in 2008? Nope, not even close... Using the Wii as a money machine with shovelware (i.e. low development effort titles)? Yep, plenty of that.