Hey contacts at Ubi Soft corporate,
Please forward this message to the appropriate party.
The other day you guys announced that Rayman Legends was going to be delayed until September in order to be multiplatform. Not even two days later, the developer came out and admitted that the game is done, they had worked hard to finish it, and they are upset that it won't be released.
It just seems like a painfully bad business choice.
1) The game was developed for the Wii U, demo'd as a Wii U launch game, and publicized heavily. It doesn't have a lot of competition on the console, especially with a February release.
2) A port to Xbox 360/PS3 is great news, but I don't see why the finished version needs a delay.
3) Did you guys notice that GTAV is coming out the same month you delayed Rayman to? Did you notice that next-generation system are coming a month or two later?
It is a poor decision, and as a multi-console owner who was looking forward to Rayman Legends, I am very disappointed and I feel like Ubi Soft has slapped Nintendo-consoles in the face over this decision. It shows a lack of faith in your original decision, and a blatant disrespect for your developers hard efforts when you should be celebrating their hard work with the release.
I don't care that it's non-exclusive and coming to other systems (that's great news), but to needlessly delay a finished game in order to shoe favouritism to other consoles....well that just isn't a consumer-friendly choice at all.
It's not going to sell very well in September, and I don't think anyone would argue that. A release on Wii U in February would have no effect on sales of a PS3/360 version.
You are literally holding a game hostage in order to be release multiplatform, and I'm so appalled by the decision I had to send this email.
I won't be purchasing Rayman Legends in September, where I would have purchased it day 1 on February 26.
thanks for your time,
