Rumours started to flow into over the weekend that Ubisoft had been planning on cancelling their free-to-play fantasy sports activities recreation Curler Champions. The rumours grew to the purpose the place Ubisoft have commented on them to say: nuh-uh. In a press release posted on Twitter, its builders say “Curler Champions isn’t getting cancelled, and Ubisoft totally helps it.”
Here is the tweet and full assertion:
Hey Champions! Let’s clear it out of the way in which first, Curler Champions isn’t getting cancelled, and Ubisoft totally helps it.
You may relaxation assured we’ll hold you up to date as we roll ahead.
Full assertion: pic.twitter.com/U8mfQRZRoH
— Curler Champions (@RollerChampions) July 25, 2022
(Somebody inform the video games business’s social media managers you could assist accessibility by including alt textual content to all these statements they publish as photographs on Twitter.)
After confirming that Curler Champions is not cancelled, the assertion goes on to elucidate some adjustments being made to its replace roadmap. “What the Curler Champions dev workforce is doing is ensuring we concentrate on what our gamers have advised us wants enchancment, and that supersedes all different priorities,” it reads. To that finish, Curler Champions’ present season, referred to as Disco Fever, is being prolonged and its subsequent season is delayed whereas builders “take sufficient time to resolve the problems our gamers have voiced as irritants earlier than we launch our new season.”
In a current earnings name, Ubisoft introduced the cancellation of a handful of different tasks, together with a free-to-play battle royale recreation referred to as Ghost Recon Frontline, Splinter Cell VR, and two different unannounced tasks. Curler Champions was talked about throughout the identical name as, by way of retention and income, “monitoring forward of Hyper Scape.” Given how doomed Hyper Scape was, that appeared like faint reward.
Ed, Ollie and Liam all strapped their skates on to check out Curler Champions, and all had an excellent sufficient time with it to be instantly afraid for its long-term prospects.