In late 2018, Ubisoft hired Mike Laidlaw. Mike Laidlaw was the creative director of the Dragon Age series. Laidlaw also worked on other Bioware games such as Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.
However, and in just a year, Ubisoft fired let go Laidlaw and cancelled his project. And, thanks to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, we finally know the reasons behind this cancellation.
According to Schreier, Ubisoft’s chief creative officer, Serge Hascoët, was the one who cancelled Mike Laidlaw’s King Arthur game.
As Schreier wrote:
“But Hascoët wasn’t a fan of the fantasy genre and set a high bar for the Avalon team in Quebec City, Canada. If they were going to make a fantasy game, it had to be “better than Tolkien,” he told them, according to people familiar with the project.”
This King Arthur game, codenamed Avalon, featured co-op multiplayer world, similar to Capcom’s Monster Hunter games. And, according to ex-developers, the game was progressing well.
Mike Laidlaw and his team tried to salvage the game by pitching new themes. They switched the setting, trying one that was more science fiction and one based on Greek mythology. However, Hascoët shot down all of these ideas.
It’s worth noting that Serge Hascoët is no longer working at Ubisoft. Thus, it will be interesting to see whether the French company will revive this project.
Stay tuned for more!
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They probably cancelled it because it didn’t meet the SJW quota and check list.
ACCURATE assumption!
Because you cant swap king Arthur,a masculine historical figure with Ubisoft created stronk wahmen…
me:looks at arturia from fate stay night
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Ubisoft:
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“featured co-op multiplayer world”
And nothing of value was lost
Here Is Why You Shouldn’t Care About Anything Ubisoft Does! <----- Fixed ?
feminazism and sjw striking strong at ubisoft can’t wait to see it go bankrupt!
Demanded greatness for the project AKA no woke insanity, got fired asap.
Yep i believe the gossip broker that some dare to called a “journalist” about this one.
Ubisoft
Jason Schreier
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EA Bioware
Enough cancer already!
Your troll comments are enough cancer for this website tho.
let’s not be racist here.
Haha, you’re at again. You are Wild’n out man. ?
shut the fck up dpsht
fck off moron.
NO U
Your idiocy, poor reading comprehension and general butthurt are amusing to witness so please do continue embarrassing yourself. I note that the usual bunch of sock accounts downvoted my comment with you as per usual. gg
YOU should STOP embarrassing your own useless comments in DSOG. Enuff Said !!
You always sound like a MORON over here !! Get a life !! What sock accounts ?? This is my only disqus account…
Just because others are also down-voting you for your stupidity, doesn’t mean all the accounts belong to the same fellow !!
this writing style, seen it somewhere before.
What did Bub&Bob do to you?
He could show us using his Bernie doll or Phil Spencer doll.
at tleast he sounds most of you are downvoting without saying anything.
Indeed. How embarrassing for him that his reading comprehension is so lacking. Still, it’s mildly amusing that I continue to trigger him (and sock accounts) this much when others have posted similar comments with no response from him/them whatsoever, haha!
Oh Nooo… You touched him in his hole. ??? Not cool man. Haha you always have the gems bruh. respect.
Didn’t expect a better reply from a low-life disgusting moron like you…
freaking deplorables, hur dur
Says the SJW pedo himself, LMAO.
Every single comment you post here is just b*tching about sjw crap and calling people f4ggot when you’re butthurt that people downvote because no one likes you. I can’t imagine living such a sad existence.
LOL I expected this kind of response from a one sided brain dead idiot like you. I hope you someday realize how much of a loser you act like on the internet. I imagine you look like this https://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/south-park/clip-thumbnails/season-10/1008/south-park-s10e08c05-the-slaughter-16×9.jpg?quality=0.8
LOL my normal existence is much more profound than a loser like you. No sjw here, we can at least agree with that however, I expected this kind of response from a one sided brain dead idiot. I hope you someday realize how much of a loser you act like on the internet. Most people here probably imagine you look like this https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0fd9c55995ecb0d87fee4d8ccea63805f230178d0a95b9f0069ae4a5022b88c2.jpg
I really wish this site would leave that acronym that starts with an ‘S’ & ends with a ‘W’ news alone and just deal in games. It gives the weirdos too many reason to come out of hiding and just start writing all levels of foolishness. Those 4 names you typed, all they deal in is controversy. Controversy that will never change anything, only seeks to anger people.
A perfect example of this is when they accuse some political figure of something treasonous. They go to the tribunal, have a hiering, the truth comes out, he/she/shim is guilty and nothing ever happened. They walk & Now what? Took me 37 years of my life to realise that that type of news/discovery only serves one purpose; it’s too anger we the People. It’s just there to get us all worked up. And now we have to worry about this with our hobby. Nothing good ever follows that name Jason Schrier.
Schreier and his ilk are losing their minds even more so than usual right now as it finally begins to dawn on them that Biden is going to lose to Trump. Brace yourself for even greater insanity from them until November.
Yeah, they are so obsessed. Trump is truly a great realestate mogul because he lives in their heads rent free. That’s why I don’t even give them the platform of a subject matter. We are living in a time of TOTAL government overreach and tyranny with a PLANDEMIC. So much proof of this garbage hoax that’s destroying countries/economies and all those idiots talk about is garbage in video games. One thing I’ve learned in this last 6 months, is his how Na$i Germany started. We are currently AT WAR and because there are no tanks or Jets flying over people are still asleep. That’s why it annoys me when see all this “SJW this and SJW THAT”. They have no idea what’s about to hit us in the next 3 months. I know & it ain’t pretty. Stay safe and Frosty my friend.
financially, it benefits me if usd loses value to other currencies and trump will do that for me so i hope he wins.
real gaming is dead.
Well it’s Ubisoft. If you are a man – be happy your manager punches you in the face only once a month, if you are a woman – be happy your manager only grabs your a*s and actually raped the other chick this month
“Now he is on his agenda to ruin Ubisoft” – but that’s a positive thing
based Hascoët.
Jason Schreier sound like one of those girls back in H.S that was always “spilling the tea”. Every week he has new tantalizing Gossip that no one cares about. That doesn’t better gaming in any way. Do you plan on making gaming better in away, anytime soon Schreier?
Sounds like maybe this Serge Hascoët had a personal grudge or jealousy/envy maybe?
He’s not even the best Laidlaw.
I guess AC Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla are better than Tolkien then.