Sources allege that Ancel's divided attention and his good favor with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot also hindered Beyond Good & Evil 2. One developer describes Ancel's management style in this regard as erratic, giving praise to workers in one meeting only to turn around and denigrate them in the next. In the report, sources tell Libération that work from developers at Ubisoft Montpellier on Beyond Good & Evil 2, an online open-world adventure sequel to the 2003 original, was regularly thrown out or deemed unusable by Ancel with little warning. This, sources allege, kept Beyond Good & Evil 2's development in disarray for years, especially as Ancel split his time between it and the game Wild. For the French newspaper Libération, reporters Erwan Cario and Marius Chapuis spoke to Ancel as well as sources who worked under him, who describe Ancel's management style as disorganized, unhelpful, and abusive at times. Rayman and Beyond Good & Evil creator Michel Ancel announced his retirement from the video games industry just a week ago, but it seems his exit may have been precipitated by years of bad behavior. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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