Rayman Legends delay blamed on sh**ty industry

Originally pegged for a February 2013 release, Rayman Legends has been pushed back to September 2013, for Wii U Xbox 360, and PS3. A developer on the Rayman Legends team has come out swinging at Ubisoft management for the delay, describing the industry at “shitty”.

As reported by Gamespot, the poster goes by Zeta69, and over the years has shared information about trips to E3 and working on previous Ubisoft projects, such as Far Cry 2 and Rainbow Six: Vegas.

The developer outlines how the delay affected the team, who worked hard at crunch time to complete the game, neglecting family and relationships, only to be told the game is delayed. The dev did highlight that the additional time means more content can be added, so that’s a positive spin.

Ubisoft has explained that the reason for the delay was to bring the game to all three platforms simultaneously.

The developer made his remarks over on spanish forum ELO, and was spotted and translated by users over on NeoGAF.

This is not a decision taken by the development team, this comes from really really high up, so please don’t pick on the game.

If you’re pissed, imagine how we feel. Think on the situation, we’ve been making overtime with this game practically since May preparing E3, and then almost a demo per month (gamescon, Wii U presentation, shops, eShop, etc…) and at the same time trying to actually finish the game. We had a first delay because it was obvious we couldn’t finish on time but we gave it all to be there on February. What face do you think we had when the week we had to close the game we’re being told it’s not going to be released? I couldn’t believe it.

For practical matters, you’ll have to wait for some months for the game to be released and will most likely serve for more content to be added and do it better. For us, this means we’ve spent 6 months barely seeing our wifes, kids, and friends for nothing because, after all, such a haste wasn’t needed. Believe it, it was a hell to swallow these news.

Even then I’m firm in what I said back in the day, Rayman Legends is an excellent game and will still be, and the team that’s making it doesn’t deserve to have your back turned on them just because some men in ties one day took a wrong choice. This industry is really that shitty.