Two developers from Ubisoft and Guerilla Games (Horizon Forbidden West) have locked their twitter accounts, after a conversation featuring them complaining about Elden Ring went viral.
In the now-removed tweets, UX director at Ubisoft Ahmed Salama made a criticism against Elden Ring’s UI:
Both developers have since locked their Twitter accounts, preventing anyone from seeing their tweets, but not before screenshots of the conversation were spread all over Twitter.
Elden Ring has had From Software’s most successful launch ever, and it’s bound to attract some criticism. On any other day, the criticism could have been accepted as just that- coming from two experts of their craft, too.
However Salama’s initial tweet reeked of sour grapes, and many fans have been calling them out on just that- especially considering Rebouche’s game, Horizon Forbidden West, had just launched a week prior with Elden Ring inching it out on metacritic.
While it naturally did incur some fanboys, thankfully some fans have been quick to express the truth- that actually, multiple good games can exist independently of each other.
“Your game got an 88 on metacritic and you’re mad another one did better”, writes one Twitter user. “Why not just enjoy a great game and not complaing [sic]. This is such weak energy. Elden Ring is a masterpiece. People love Horizon FW as well. Chill”.
Fans are extremely defensive over Elden Ring’s UX choices- a huge part of the resounding praise for the game’s open world comes from the fact it steers clear of multiple open world tropes, like massive checklists and constant handholding.
“I hope the massive success of this game helps some developers convince their colleagues (and fellow executives) that the player character does not in fact have to mutter every puzzle solution to herself five seconds after you see it”, writes Bloomberg journalist Jason Schreier.
That being said, fans of the open world genre (and Salama) have taken that as a critique of Elden Ring instead- saying the more homogenized UI would have been a better player experience.
One fan took this to heart, going so far as to craft the “Ideal” Elden Ring UI:
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