The managing director of Ubisoft subsidiary Massive Entertainment, David Polfeldt, is leaving the company.
Although we knew Polfeldt was planning to step down from his senior post to “pursue other challenges” at Ubisoft, originally he had planned to take “a long break” before “embark[ing] on a new adventure in Ubisoft” after a six-month sabbatical. Now it seems he’s leaving the developer/publisher altogether, having reportedly submitted his six-month notice at the beginning of the year.
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Polfeldt had been leading the Sweden-based team responsible for the upcoming Avatar game as well as leading on titles like The Division and Ubisoft’s new Star Wars game. He’d worked at Massive for 17 years, and served as managing director for 12 of those.
“I think my philosophy and my skills work well for a certain kind of group of a certain kind of size,” he told Nathan Brown in the Hit Points newsletter (thanks, VGC). “I don’t think I’m the right manager for what the studio has become. I’m perfectly at peace with it.”