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Yeah, I know. What the fuck..?

According to Ubisoft UK Community Manager (screenname Ubi.Vigil) Ubisoft has announced no such thing as Beyond Good & Evil 2. They've just shown a trailer.

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9...4521039266/p/10

Well, then my question is: why even wasting time making a video and show a possible sequel to the audience if you won't make a game out of it?

All I can say is that the video is just an experiment to learn what people think after watching it, and, for what I know so far, feedback was quite positive. The video closed the Ubidays 2008 conference, and that sounded like Ubisoft wanted to stress it. Slapping a title like "ONE (The Pig)" makes it like there will be more videos. Besides, both Gamespot and Wikipedia included BG&E2, especially after the latest interviews to Ancel.

I'll keep crossing my fingers... ;)

Well, talking about Wikipedia, I was the one who created the article and wrote the majority of it so... but yeah, the general perception in the gaming community is that it is indeed Beyond Good & Evil 2, but that still doesn't make it official, Ubisoft is the ones calling the shots.

Although I think they haven't announced a title yet because they don't have one. Chances are they won't call it Beyond Good & Evil 2, instead they will call it something else to give the franchise a fresh restart.

For sure, BG&E 2 is announced and Montpellier is working on it, the only thing is that ubi could change the name.

It's clear that pre-production was underway for a year, it's clear that they've got at least a very good idea on the graphical style of the game and they've made it clear to the audience that BG&E 2 is on the map in a big way. They cannot possibly be thinking of not actually making BG&E 2. They've got the money and the resources for this project, so there's no excuse.

Yeah, it's seems crazy to cancel now, but still. Ubisoft could easily just say "What are you talking about? We have announced no such thing! Beyond Good & Evil 2? What? Oh, you mean that trailer. It was just a demo to show off our new cool graphics engine for the next Tom Clancy game!"

Maybe I'm just nervous... but you gotta be when the official community manager says "We haven't announced it".

Let's hope they release an official announcement ASAP.

I hate you Ubisoft.

Right, denden!

If you go back to interviews with Guillemot, you notice he never calls BG&E 2 as such, and the trailer is just called "1 - The Pig". That may be because they're thinking of another name for BG&E 2 (which I would personally like, if they don't try too hard to make it appealing to everyone). They can't possibly just release a teaser trailer, get a whole fan base's hopes up to only shatter it for their own sick, twisted joy. That would be too risky and they would stand to lose a lot of fans. (I know they'd lose me. I wasn't much of a Ubi fan before BG&E, anyway.)

Besides, note that this is information from a "Community Manager" (basically, a forum administrator). He's bound to know about as much from BG&E 2 as Denden or Reaper here.

As it stands, I will remain cautiously optimistic (as I was since Guillemot's infamous accessibility comment), and wait until "2 - The Girl".

Agree. I think that Guillemot didn't explicitly said "Beyond Good & Evil 2" just for the sake of surprise for the fans at Ubidays. It sounded more like this to me: "Here our achievement on the next-gen graphics. Take a look on this trailer... Surprise! We're working on BG&E2! Ya happy?"

@ MrStalker: as for your Wikipedia article, I didn't notice any challenges of AFD, so I think Wiki considers it reliable and trustworthy. ;)

Uhhh, wtf? The CEO Of Ubisoft himself said that this was the next project from Mr. Ancel, so there's nothing to worry about...at all :P This community manager is basically stating the obvious; I could've posted here that Ubi hasn't TECHNICALLY said exactly that BG&E 2 was in production...but what good would that do, plus it's more than implied from the CEO of Ubisoft himself (repeated statement just to emphasize :P) that the sequel is being made.

Technicalities, go figure :rolleyes:

It's technically not Pey'j we saw in the trailer, it was just a pig with a remarkable resemblance to Pey'j, but it was just a pig. A talking, fly-eating pig, but just another pig nonetheless.

I'm just saying... it's not over yet. Although I belive that BGE2 is coming for sure, Ubisoft can play some dirty trick at us. Oh well. I guess I'm just to used dealing with Electronic Arts. Don't listen at me, BGE2 is coming, hurray!

What the community manager probably meant was that the title Beyond Good & Evil 2 is not official and the title hasn't been announced... yet.

Ubi always gives conflicting information.

They wouldn’t’ve shown it at ubidays if they weren’t going to make it.

Ubi, don't mess it up or I will go insane! :D No rly, it's just a community manager...so anyway, BG&E 2 will come! I hope :D

Yeah, but what if it's in fact a trailer of the next Smash Bros, starring BG&E characters? That'd be a bastard move! :o