Edition Gamesindustry.biz with the head of the publishing house Ubisoft Yves Guillemot. In the interview, they discussed the development of open-world games that the campaign is developing, touched on the cost of producing such projects and microtransactions.
Journalists asked the director if Ubisoft plans to return to creating smaller-scale works. Representatives of Gamesindustry.biz mentioned , where only the city of Paris was presented as an open world, and the story took 15 hours to complete. Yves Guillemot replied: “No, our goal is to put Unity inside . If you want to see a story for 15 hours, you can easily get it, but there are many more such stories around. In such a world, you can live and do whatever you want. You get a lot of Unity-style adventures."
The head was also asked about the further course of the publishing house. The production of large-scale open-world games is becoming more expensive, and the prices for such projects are not growing. Yves Guillemot assured that Ubisoft is moving in the right direction. The figures are growing, the company's products attract a huge audience, and users want to stay longer in the games they like. According to the manager, the costs are fully paid off in the long term. And in microtransactions, Yves Guillemot sees no problems - he said that the purchase of in-game items contributes to the creation of additional content.
Source: 3dnews.ru