Ubisoft execs not happy with recent information leak

Regarding that little boo-boo that some Ubisoft personnel recently made, the game company has finally broken its silence and has expressed a lot of dissatisfaction about the entire information leak. To quote from the Ubisoft executives:

We are clearly displeased that confidential information from Ubisoft has been distributed on the internet. The publication of this type of information can only be harmful to the game development process and we will take all steps necessary to prevent this from happening in the future. We are still investigating the events that lead to this information leak and at this time have no further comment.

To recap those who may not have heard of it yet, some sleepy personnel over at the Ubisoft offices recently uploaded a .rar file onto their FTP server that contained up to 2GB worth of concept art, screenshots, and other assets for PSP game titles, some of which are yet unannounced. Titles that were spied among the said material included:

• Assassin’s Creed
• Farcry 2
• Farcry PSP
• Farcry Wii
• Lost
• Naruto
• OpenSeason
• Prince of Persia
• RB6: Vegas
• Rocky PSP
• Splinter Cell 4
• Splinter Cell 5
• Surf’s Up
• Star Wars PSP
• Shaun White (Snowboarding game)
• TMNT
• TMNT GBA

Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), Ubisoft was quick to find this leak and the offending file was immediately removed from their servers to prevent the further spreading of supposedly confidential material. So much for the element of surprise, but that’s okay since it’s rather impossible to not love the company who has brought us the Prince of Persia trilogy for the PS2 and will soon be bringing us Assassin’s Creed. However, how this will affect their strategies for the said games can only be guessed.

As for the person who has placed the confidential information online whether deliberately or accidentally… Well, he really shouldn’t have used up all his Sands of Time in one go. It would have been really handy right now.

Via NeoGaf

Regarding that little boo-boo that some Ubisoft personnel recently made, the game company has finally broken its silence and has expressed a lot of dissatisfaction about the entire information leak. To quote from the Ubisoft executives:

We are clearly displeased that confidential information from Ubisoft has been distributed on the internet. The publication of this type of information can only be harmful to the game development process and we will take all steps necessary to prevent this from happening in the future. We are still investigating the events that lead to this information leak and at this time have no further comment.

To recap those who may not have heard of it yet, some sleepy personnel over at the Ubisoft offices recently uploaded a .rar file onto their FTP server that contained up to 2GB worth of concept art, screenshots, and other assets for PSP game titles, some of which are yet unannounced. Titles that were spied among the said material included:

• Assassin’s Creed
• Farcry 2
• Farcry PSP
• Farcry Wii
• Lost
• Naruto
• OpenSeason
• Prince of Persia
• RB6: Vegas
• Rocky PSP
• Splinter Cell 4
• Splinter Cell 5
• Surf’s Up
• Star Wars PSP
• Shaun White (Snowboarding game)
• TMNT
• TMNT GBA

Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), Ubisoft was quick to find this leak and the offending file was immediately removed from their servers to prevent the further spreading of supposedly confidential material. So much for the element of surprise, but that’s okay since it’s rather impossible to not love the company who has brought us the Prince of Persia trilogy for the PS2 and will soon be bringing us Assassin’s Creed. However, how this will affect their strategies for the said games can only be guessed.

As for the person who has placed the confidential information online whether deliberately or accidentally… Well, he really shouldn’t have used up all his Sands of Time in one go. It would have been really handy right now.

Via NeoGaf