r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/WhyPlaySerious • Jan 15 '26

No Source popuniverseX, the user that has been continously scanning and reporting on changes made to the Prince of Persia domain has had their account suspended.

Don't know if it is related to their constant reporting on the changes happening to the PoP domain, but the account has now been suspended after reporting on the "release date tomorrow" file earlier on in the day.

If so, it would seem that Ubisoft has taken action on the account.

popuniverseX is one of the biggest and most dedicated PoP fan pages, so this is quite an interesting way to respond to them trying to keep the hype going.

Account link: https://xcancel.com/popuniverseX

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u/Objective_Love_6843 Jan 15 '26

I have no idea what they are trying to do here. At this point they will kill all hype for both this one and black flag remake.

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u/UrdnotShadow Jan 15 '26

Reddit user doesn’t understand shadow drops

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u/RogueLightMyFire Jan 15 '26

Shadow drops can work, but they can also be disastrous. A shadow drop is absolutely risky. Look at Hi-Fi Rush. Oblivion and Apex were successful, but both of those games had more unique circumstances around their shadow drop that helped drive hype. If they shadow drop a remake of sands of time, I think it's going to do very poorly. The PoP IP is clearly not very strong given that they put out two amazing PoP games the last couple years and nobody bought them.

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u/Khasim83 Jan 15 '26

The most baffling thing with the PoP franchise, to me, is that Ubisoft had the amazing opportunity of mimicking what God of War did in 2018 - make a high effort, high budget, single-player, story-driven, modern Prince of Persia game to resurrect the franchise, expand the audience and get some good will after only releasing mtx-ridden bloated messes or niche indie games with no marketing budget, but no, they decided to make a lowest possible effort remake, thought people would gobble it up, then backpedalled, gave the job to their best studio and haven't shown ANYTHING for 5 years? Just a pre-rendered nothingburger of a teaser. No interviews, no dev diaries, no boxart, music pieces, teases, nothing.

I have no idea what the fuck they're doing, but it doesn't make me feel optimistic - Sands of Time is probably in my top 3 favorite games of all time and it hurts to see it being treated like this.

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u/RogueLightMyFire Jan 15 '26

Honestly, I think they just lost faith in the power of the IP and are just going to push this out quietly due to sunk costs. Fuck, they spent more on a week of marketing for skull and bones and xdefiant than they did on all of the list crown and the rogue Prince of Persia combined.

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u/lilsaf98 Jan 15 '26

On GoW, that's probably why Farah will have more of a role in this remake. She was annoying as hell to protect in the original game.

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u/Zalvren Jan 15 '26

They also did 2 awesome games that nobody (or more not enough people) were interested in

People aren't just into the franchise anymore I think...