Désilets: I Had To Come Up with Political Lying While at Ubisoft When Doing Interviews

Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin's Creed, said that during his time at Ubisoft he had to come up with political lying in interviews and explain decisions by others. This eventually led him to leave the company.

He also said he'll eventually make 1666: Amsterdam, after Ancestors.

[Chris_Wray]

Sadly not a huge surprise. Ubisoft have become quite renowned for their deceptiveness. They've lied about so many things, from DRM to Micro Transactions and even to the actual quality of the games. To force a games producer to 'politically lie' is wrong, simple as.

[indysurfn]

Not a huge surprise now. But wait until next Gen when people go online to download their digital games to a replaced xbox, or replacement hard drive. And never can because the servers have been discontinued. Until Microsoft says something other than 'we don't have any plans to turn them off' I'm not biting. That is the oldest play on words in the history of marketing. Tell me we will keep them online for x amount of years, with no added conditions, and fast enough to not have timeout erros.

[Krysis]

What does any of this have to do with Microsoft?

[indysurfn]

ops I posted this on the wrong N4G Article page.

[ginganinja]

It sounded more like because Ubi is such a big company, he didn't have the control he wanted. So, he'd inevitably have to do interviews where he'd have to promote aspects of the game that he would have prefered to have done differently.
It's the nature of the beast. With so many people having an input there needs to be some compromise or it'll finish up as a mess or never come out.
There's probably some folks in his new company frustrated at some decisions he's making now and doing the same thing.

[ccgr]

Glad he left

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Ubisoft going into the door of Tartaros. Honestly I want them to their just desserts.

[annoyedgamer]

Ubisoft, EA and Activision. The three headed beast that is devouring the lamb of gaming.

[Imp0ssibl3]

That might be just a tad exaggerated...

[JokerBoy422]

Isnt this coming from the same guy that said he hates men and refuses to hire them no matter how great they might be at their job. He's just a shitty SJW who has had a hand at ruining the industry in order to pander to whoever can bitch and moan the loudest. Fuck you Patrice!

[jznrpg]

It was sarcasm

[Inzo]

Media didnt think it was.

[EatCrow]

He was joking.
The media twisted it and turned it into an SJW thing.

[medman]

How is this news? Unless you're the the head honcho at the top of the pyramid, you get your marching orders from someone.

[DragonKnight]

Didn't read the article did you?

[medman]

I did, but just skimmed it. But I believe the sentiment applies....if you disagree, please explain.

[DragonKnight]

Ok, so you want an explanation. Very well.

While it's true that everyone has a boss, Desilets' position should have afforded him much more respect and latitude than it did. According to Desilets, he'd be sent to events to discuss AC games, which he was all too happy to do, and then be forced to basically lie, cover up, obfuscate, and skirt around everything.

He'd be relegated to answering questions about things that had nothing to do with him, being put on the spot for poor decisions, and forced to be dishonest about what were clear problems.

This is news because it shows that even the creative director of a (arguably) massively popular game can still be treated like an intern by people who don't know the consumer base at all and think that their lies won't come to light.

There are marching orders, and then there's just outright scummy demands.

[medman]

Yes, I understand that part perfectly well...but I don't see how anything you just said obviates the initial statement I made regarding the boss/employee relationship. This guy is far from the only one on the planet with undereducated/uninformed/terri ble decision maker man/woman as his superior. It happens. You say, "Desilets' position should have afforded him much more respect and latitude than it did". I agree with that. But since when has what "should" happen have anything to do with what actually happens?

Mismanagement did not spring out of nowhere to effect Desilets and Desilets only.

[Artemidorus]

Only a complete fool believes in this company.

[opinionated]

The smaller studios are getting more popular. There are a bunch of high profile people that chose to leave the assembly line studios like Levine with ghost story games, Kojima productions and many others. It makes sense but now we just have to see if they can deliver the same quality with a 30-40 man studio. The talent is there but is it enough? I hope so. I hope they don't turn into another comcept, Inafune was one of my favorite developers but I just can't get behind anything he's done since leaving capcom. Its sad to see honestly.

[Lord_Sloth]

Oh no! When doing PR you have to do PR!!!!!!