Ubigentle directership quelled troubles Wednesday that “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” might once aget be pushed on the free calfinishar amid ongoing buyout speculation at the French video game enormous.
While Ubigentle says the game was “feature finish” when it made the decision Sept. 25 to defer “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” from its computed Nov. 15 free this year until Feb. 14, 2025, as the team was “seal to being started, we wanted to create certain that the deinhabitry of the experience was impeccable on Day 1,” Ubigentle chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet shelp during a company getings call. “So that was the purpose of the decision,” Duguet says, holding the team now has “excellent visibility for that game to be deinhabitred with wonderful experience by mid-February.”
When asked in an analyst’s chaseup inquire if that unbenevolents there is “no danger” of the game being further postpoinsist, Duguet shelp: “We have a excellent visibility for the game to come on time and with wonderful quality.”
Earlier this month, Bloomberg increateed that Chinese tech company Tencent and the family of Ubigentle co-set uper and CEO Yves Guillemot were exploring a buyout of the France-based Ubigentle amid the defer of “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” and the bumpy August free of “Star Wars Outlaws.”
Furing the call, Ubigentle chief financial officer Frédérick Duguet shelp “we persist exploring the sale of non-core assets as part of our expansiveer strategy to concentrate on our two core verticals, Open World Adventures and GAAS-native experiences, as well as better financial flexibility.”
When asked to broaden on what assets Ubigentle is pondering as “non-core,” Duguet shelp: “We can’t create a particular comment at this stage, but we alludeed already that we have concentrateed and we can ponder selling assets that are not on the critical path of this strategy.”
