Driver: San Fran dev Ubisoft Reflections suffers layoffs

@The Cole Train
Typically Ubisoft. They announce the game and then forgets that it exists.

@(Unverified)
Really she wants 800?
WTH that's seems like overkill.

@Jawmuncher

For real man:

"Within the next 10 years we plan to ramp up this studio to at least 800 people, and we're ahead of schedule on that," she said."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-26-jade-raymond-making-splinter-cell-6

Now the question here is, is this really necessary?? do you really, really need such amount of people to create a game that is released with luck in 3 years???? sometimes i wonder if the team doesn´t "stretch" the development times on purpose because well, you know they keep getting paid???? honestly, those times and team sizes are ridiculous. Just check any indie title, or even more just check what teams of 3 or 4 guys are doing with unreal FOR FREE, there is a terminator mod that looks amazing and it was developed by a team with just few guys, and all of them amateurs.....Why the big companies keep getting such huge teams for games that let´s be honest are not really something awesome??? conviction was delayed millions of times, and it was changed so many times that the main idea of being a fugitive (which was awesome in my opinion) ended up being completely nonexistent in the final version, and we got another splinter cell that doesn´t do anything different of what we saw with the other parts.....so 800 guys??? for a green colored game (again)????

@(Unverified)

why are you assuming that those 800 people will be working on ONE game????

@Earandir

even if they were working on three games, and lets be honest just read the credits of ANY ubisoft game and you will get those 800 names, 300 and something guys working on a single title still sounds like a lot, and sometimes for a game that is averange, lasts 6 hours, and is released 4 years later......

@NathanDTS


if you watch the video maybe you´ll find what they are doing instead of making patches, those nerf guns wars surely take some time :D

@NathanDTS


if you watch the video maybe you´ll find what they are doing instead of making patches, those nerf guns wars surely take some time :D

@NathanDTS


if you watch the video maybe you´ll find what they are doing instead of making patches, those nerf guns wars surely take some time :D