Heroes VII

Igromir 2015. Interview with Ubisoft. Might & Magic: Heroes 7 (RUS/ENG):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJagdll92g

I watched it; this Lebreton didn't say anything useful, and from his words, I understood that, figuratively speaking, he's shifting all the responsibility for how the heroes look now onto the members of the Shadow Council. And I didn't hear a single word about when the optimization issues and bugs in the game and campaigns will be fixed. Did they not want to make a bad impression in front of the camera? They already made a bad impression when they released an unfinished product. And also, this stupid, frozen expression on Breton's face when he was asked questions is just annoying.

Well, with such a publisher, "they refused" sounds like "we can't stand them anymore." Who knows what really happened?
I didn't say that the series belonged to Nival.

The point of my post is that Nival made a good game. This game got better with each expansion pack. That is, they know how to make games! Why change the developer and give the series to who knows who, if the people were successful? At the moment, the experiment hasn't been very successful, neither with the 6th nor with the 7th installment.

The thing is that Nival really refused, and I think it was precisely because "they couldn't stand it anymore." That is, they didn't refuse to continue working on the Heroes series; on the contrary, they were interested, but they refused to work with Ubisoft. And since Ubisoft owns the rights to the Heroes series, they can do whatever they deem fit, fire a developer, hire another, then fire him too, and so on. Just look at how many development teams have changed. First, Black Hole, then Limbic, then the Chinese from Virtuos, and now Limbic again. And now that the series' reputation has been damaged by such a disastrous, unfinished release of Heroes 7, is it worth talking about whether Limbic will soon be politely asked to leave? I think this is likely to happen. And in general, it's very similar to the situation with our national football team: no matter how many coaches you change, the players won't play better, simply because everything is based on money; they play for personal enrichment, not for the whole country, and in general, we don't have the right upbringing, the right understanding of how football should be played. The same is true here: no matter how many developers Ubisoft changes, the Heroes series will not become the same Heroes series that we knew in our childhood. Nival is an exception; they are the only ones of the recent developers who put their heart into the series and brought it back to life. But Ubisoft doesn't have the right understanding of how to make a game. So, as long as they are in charge, everything will continue in a circle; I don't think they will suddenly have an epiphany and give up their desire to make money and start making a good game. Unfortunately, this is a business, and there are very few decent people in it.