Ubisoft Staff Call for Support as Company Continues to Ignore Harassment and Abuse

I would dearest to be surprised, fifty-fifty if only in one case. I would dearest to say that a multinational company worth billions has taken actions to make clean up the utter shit that permeates through the very core of its culture. Sadly, we alive in a world where being able to say this would be a surprise, and we alive in a globe where looking after the people that make your company billions is far likewise much effort for those on top. Yves Guillemot, and by extension Ubisoft, is a liar who chooses to protect abusers rather than those who make him coin.

Am I right to call Yves Guillemot a liar and somebody who would prefer to protect abusers than the staff that make him millions? Well, it's undoubtedly treading a fine line, but I would say the facts are on my side. Seventeen months ago, Yves himself stated that he was committed to taking actions that would change the civilization of Ubisoft for the meliorate. This was followed by a survey revealing the extent of the toxic culture within Ubisoft, showing around iii,500 people had either witnessed or been victims of misconduct.

Information technology is abuse on an industrial scale when ane in four people are either victims of or witnesses of misconduct. Activision Blizzard, in a cyclone of its own, from the reveal of the abhorrent toxic culture of the company, saw the release of a letter from Ubisoft employees in solidarity with the employees, and victims, of Activision Blizzard. This letter of the alphabet also highlighted that the promises from Yves Guillemot were empty.

This alphabetic character highlighted that about public abusers were sacrificed on the altar of PR. Information technology's much like Bobby Kotick'southward recent PR Stunt, which is irrelevant as he netted $100m+ in bonuses later firing thousands while Activision was doing its best-ever figures. In Ubisoft? Other abusers were moved to another studio or fifty-fifty promoted, allowing the cycle of corruption to go along. Those who were allowed to resign, such as Serge Hascoët (who allegedly drugged people and was described as the about toxic person in the company), should have been unceremoniously fired but were not due to friendships with Yves Guillemot.

Every bit for the letter of the alphabet past Ubisoft employees calling on the company, and Yves Guillemot, to stand by their words, yous can discover it below or on this tweet:

An email was sent out to all employees from higher up, telling them that they respected them. The employees responded with a specific set up of demands. These demands included absurd requests like "stop promoting known offenders" and "give us a meaningful say in how the company moves forward". Now we come to the subject area of this post; One hundred days subsequently that original letter was published, nada has inverse.

The Twitter account of these staff, ABetterUbisoft, tweeted two days ago making a straightforward statement:

100 days agone we signed our open letter and set up out our 4 key demands. None of our demands have been met. So today nosotros're launching a new petition, open for ALL our supporters to sign forms.gle/Jx16pKUNgD9GdP Delight sign and share!

All I can do is reiterate the request from Ubisoft employees that you lot sign and share their petition and perhaps even start to vote with your coin. Information technology's hard because voting with your money inordinately impacts those already existence driveling, so this petition should be a good start. Y'all may recollect signing it will testify nothing, merely it shows your support for the staff and your opposition to abuse. It also shows solidarity with staff who confront this every twenty-four hour period.

If it comes to the stage of not buying Ubisoft games, though, you're likely not going to miss out. When y'all do, y'all end up getting harassed by them, maxim you're not playing or purchasing enough. I wouldn't think about reporting information technology though, Kotaku has published a piece showing that Ubisoft doesn't answer to harassment reports.