Ubisoft announced that there will be no multiplayer beta for the game.
Multiplayer game director Damien Kieken from the multiplayer developer Ubisoft Annecy said that there are no plans for a beta for Assassin’s Creed 3. The two previous titles in the game series, Brotherhood und Revelations, benefitted from the multiplayer betas. “To be honest, it’s something we want to do every year because we get community feedback that helps us tune the game. It is also a good reward for the community that has followed us from the beginning.”
“But doing a beta takes a lot of time; we’d need to polish a version, submit it to the platform holders and support it when it’s out. And all the time put into the beta doesn’t go into the final game. Because we wanted to push so many things into the game, we took the hard decision to favor the final game content instead of doing a beta and we believe it will be favorable in the end.”
Kieken also explained that the multiplayer mode is also developed by the Bucharest and Shanghai studios and that it is in development since Revelations. Ubisoft will support the multiplayer portion after the launch with community events.
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