Ex-Assassin’s Creed Hexe Director Explains Why Trying To Get Things Done With 1,000-Person Teams Felt Like ‘Pissing Upstream’

Kotaku | 23.07.2026 05:00
Clint Hocking, the first of two directors to part ways with Ubisoft during Assassin’s Creed Hexe’s development, has equated managing Watch Dogs: Legion’s 1,000ish-person development team to “pissing upstream” in a new interview, during which he recounted attending pointless meetings with “directors and producers” who would simply relay info to someone who wasn’t “even in the meeting.”