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Gods & Monsters dev team comments on the game's delay, Ubisoft talks franchise hopes
A few days back, Ubisoft announced that Gods & Monsters wasn't going to make its original release date, and is now coming out sometime in the next fiscal year. That means at the very earliest, we'll see the game in April 2020. Following news of the delay, the team working on Gods & Monsters shared the message below.
One ambition with Gods & Monsters has always been to create a unique and epic journey where you explore a beautiful world in which you fight dangerous mythological creatures, use extraordinary powers bestowed by the gods and save the world from the deadliest creature in Greek mythology.
We have made the decision to take more time to polish our game so that we can deliver an even more incredible and memorable experience across all platforms.
We cannot thank everyone enough for your interest in this exciting project. Your passion and engagement continue to drive us to create wonderful worlds and unique games.
We can’t wait to show you more of Gods & Monsters.
Will people flock to the game when it comes out? Ubisoft certainly hopes so, as they'd like to turn the game into a franchise. Here's what Ubisoft EMEA executive director Alaine Corre had to say about franchise hopes to MCV.
“That’s the dream of every publisher. When we are bringing a new IP, we hope that it will please a lot of fans and that they will go on playing. We’re going to go on feeding this game with new things along the way. So ideally if the fans response positively, it will have a long life in the future.
What we would like is to convince not only the hardcore gamers but also a more casual audience to be able to play together in their living room, to spend many hours altogether in their living room, to spend many hours together to play the game. It’s something that we have done for a while, to reach this kind of population, and we wanted to have one of our best teams to work on such a game so that we can also get more variation in our portfolio. We think that Gods & Monsters will please and surprise a lot of people when it comes out.”