Was that just a bad idea? or a failed experiment? I still see it as a good idea (the figurine collection concept, them coming to life to fight in an arena or a dungeon, the paint workshopвЂ¦), but flawed in its execution. Might & Magic Showdown - a short-lived game that broke records in terms of lack of players (a maximum of only 79 players playing at once and also a very often minimum of 0). And of course, donвЂ™t ship until our beta players raise their green thumbs up. I know some fans lament that we spend too much money on making our games nice versus refining the gameplay, but trust me, itвЂ™s key in leveraging internal support and external favorable reviews that convert into more confidence (and budget, and time) on the project. A defining vision to give it a clear identity. If you had a time machine (from the Ancients) or a magical stone of infinite power that could turn back time, what would you have done differently with Heroes 7? Spend more time and effort on finding the gameвЂ™s focus. For a large company like Ubisoft, Turn-Based Strategy titles like Heroes are now too costly to produce (because of the scope expectations and our overhead costs) and too limited in their sale potential.WeвЂ™re Ubisoft, weвЂ™ve acquired the IP, we have not created itвЂ¦ Fighting the nostalgic aura of Heroes 3 is like fighting the waves, ultimately futile. No matter what we do, we always stand in the shadows of Heroes 3.IвЂ™m OK with the reuse of art and audio assets from former games because it allowed for a larger scope, but, for various reasons, Heroes 7 ended up looking less modern and appealing than Heroes 6.A collection of features is not a Creative Vision вЂ“ Heroes 7 lacked a вЂњsoulвЂќ.My own personal analysis is the following (not pointing fingers at anyone here, IвЂ™m also guilty as charged): That said, our initial intention for Heroes 7 was to make it the вЂњBest OfвЂќ Heroes by involving the community and combining the most appreciated features from Heroes 1 to 6. I was proud to showcase it at the Gamescom, and IвЂ™m still thankful to Limbic and my fellow M&M colleagues at Ubisoft for their dedication in a time when we had very little love and support. In my opinion Trials By Fire was a better (if not perfect) illustration of what we really intended for Heroes 7. The game had severe technical bugs, and artistic and design flaws that could have been fixed given some extra months of polish. After months of interacting with the Shadow Council members and listening to their feedback, we pushed the gameвЂ™s release when all the fans were raising the red flag. What went wrong? To put it bluntly our biggest mistake was to ship the game too early in spite of the communityвЂ™s warning. In terms of sales and popularity it definitely wasnвЂ™t a hit. Heroes 7 received mixed or average reviews ranking a Metacritic score of 67 with reviewers and 4.9 with users. LetвЂ™s get the hard ones out of the way first.

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