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Ubisoft Investigation: 100+ Cases From Psychological Harassment To Rape

French Newspaper Liberation did an in-depth investigation of the Ubisoft harassment cases and turns out, the HR knew about 100+ cases.

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zackeroniii1383d ago

safe to say ubisoft is more garbage and dispicable than EA?

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xTonyMontana1383d ago

EA might make a big fuss about how they are great employers but I bet they have skeletons in their closest.

rainslacker1383d ago

I think any company the size of these companies probably has a copious number if these kinds of cases within their HR. What really matters is how they handle them. If you ignore them, or dont take them seriously, then that's bad.

When you're a company that has a few thousand employees in multiple offices around the world with their own management teams, there are always going to be those people that dont behave in an acceptable manner.

Not sure how ubisoft handled any of these cases here, and not making any excuses for them, but think perspective is important in discussing this issue since so many people immediately jump to the worst possible conclusion.

deleted1383d ago (Edited 1383d ago )

My wallet is a victim.

(....sorry, not to make light of those issues if they are true. just saying it's a common trend.)

deleted1382d ago

*sorry guys, in retrospect looking back at it, I feel this joke was in bad taste. Feel free to collapse this as inappropriate.

ChristopherJack1383d ago

How do you let something like this build up? Surely someone should have reported this to the authorities.

LucasRuinedChildhood1383d ago

I would urge people to actually read the article before leaving a comment for a more serious topic like this.

sourOG1383d ago

I couldn’t get through that article. “Psychological harassment” isn’t a high bar these days. What I got out of the first bit is “the VP is a dick and UBisoft values him more than me.” Welcome to the workforce.

I didn’t get to the rape part but that’s unacceptable in any view. I didn’t even get to the “endorsed toxic behavior” because the article was so filler-based. It could be bad, it could be weirdo entitlement. I don’t know and this article do much to make me care. Maybe that’s why the original article is behind a paywall.

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Microsoft Seemingly Closes Bethesda France

As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people

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Hereandthere17h ago

Microsoft should have left them stay 3rd party

GamerRN14h ago

If they are let go, they can be whatever they want. They ARE 3rd party now... 🤦

Barlos11h ago

Yeah, they're also jobless.

GamerRN5h ago

They can form a company if they want, they are just as jobless as if "Microsoft had left them as 3rd party".

peppeaccardo6h ago

"MIcrosoft leaves Bethesda do what they know how to do best" ... close! Oh the irony ....
(Citation from a week old article)

ChasterMies2h ago

I think Microsoft and other game publishers are letting people go because they think ai will replace them. Doesn’t matter how much profit they make. They were always going to be let go.

PassNextquestion16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much

Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region

blacktiger14h ago

that's a shame for you to say that, i'm sure Elite loves hearing what you just said.

Mr Logic44m ago

What a stupid thing to say. The elites give 0 fucks what we say on an obscure website in the comments section.

Crows905m ago

You can always reach out and give them jobs at your company man. Don't wait

Profchaos16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.

I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games

Tacoboto16h ago

It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.

Profchaos15h ago

Possibly guven all the leaks we know the Xbox brand is really struggling in the region.

Yi-Long12h ago

Well, if your consoles and games are barely found in any stores any more, of course you're gonna struggle finding consumers ...

XiNatsuDragnel15h ago

Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo

Profchaos13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

I think it would have been better for all parties really especially gamers

TheColbertinator14h ago

The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.

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I’m Glad Atlus & SE Changed Dates To Avoid Competing With Shadow Of The Erdtree

Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."

H91d 10h ago

More intelligent than guerilla games

raWfodog17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.

HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.

It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.

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Sony Could Increase Your Game's Difficulty If It Sees You Complain About It

Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.

jznrpg18h ago

This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.

Profchaos17h ago

Souls games will be like that players struggling make it harder

PassNextquestion16h ago(Edited 16h ago)

I think if used correctly it could work well

jambola12h ago

cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me

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