Ahead of Ubi Forward, a message from Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot

Ubisoft CEO talks about their values and what they stand for.

[-Foxtrot]

So he's basically doing this to try and win some love back before they reveal new games later

A strategy, a tactic...nothing more

[morganfell]

Just wants to pay lip service to every social trend before they rev up their engines and step on the GaaS.

[-Foxtrot]

Exactly

"We're sorry"

https://i.imgur.com/VhObgEx...

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"Now buy our next game"

[boing1]

I think it's more about sexual misconduct that was happening.

[-Foxtrot]

Yeah I know it is

But instead of apologising when it actually happened, speaking out properly instead of hiding until the backlash died down he's come out now with a shitty apology because there's a Ubisoft games event in a few hours.

More to do about giving a quick apology so people can get hyped for their new games.

[GameZenith]

So is what he is saying in the message wrong? Is it immoral for a CEO or corporation to want to be on the right side of history when it comes to such matters?

Or should they they just shut up and make games cause it interferes with your social/political views?

[Christopher]

No winning here.

They don't address it -> get criticized for not addressing it.

They address it -> get criticized for trying to win some love back.

I honestly don't know who is right or wrong, but at least they put themselves out there and made it about their issues. I think that's better than just ignoring it entirely. I don't think they're "good guys" at all, but this is a problem with the structure of large businesses in general. Just solve that shit, hire people who aren't as shitty and have talent, move on, be better.

[smashman98]

Saying it's nothing more is a bit unfair. Yves isn't some heartless bastard who doesn't care about anybody. I'm not the biggest fan of ubisoft but this guy cares about his people and his customers. With that being said yes it is definitely being timed before today's show because that's when the most people are paying attention to ubisoft.

[seanpitt23]

Thing is with Ubisoft games there is no passion they just set a barrier of average everything and are happy with it, by the looks of it that follows it in the office behaviour of conduct as well

[mikeboccher]

We went an entire console generation with no new splinter cell games think about that

[Darkborn]

Notice how in most of the trailers and talking points, plus the talk with most of the people who joined Ubisoft was like 80% females.

[enkiduxiv]

Yes I did notice a lot of what appeared to be female human women in recent media output from the company. It's almost as if Ubisoft is trying to demonstrate to the world that they aren't a bunch of misogynistic weirdos after a bunch of high level employees got very publicly fired for sexual misconduct.

[Darkborn]

I was just pointing out they put a ton of women on this event as opposed to past events specifically because of the head guys who got in trouble recently. It's quite obvious that they did this to look like the "good guys" even though for years apparently they were completely against this.

[OG_TK_Cole]

Like i said on Twitter in 4 different Tweets

"Ubisoft is a terrible company for Gamers to support. GhostReconBreakPoint and TheDivision2 both were horrible releases. This is coming from a guy who has supported both series, and brought Ultimate Editions. They need to get rid of both Dev Teams and start fresh.

Lets not go into the Internal Issues with Men at Ubisoft Disrespecting and Harassing Women. You want to change the "Culture" it starts at the top and works its way down. As a Black Man I dont care if you donate money to BlackLivesMatter or the NAACP your company is tainted.

Gamers need to start being "Disciplined" and hold their money back from these Video Game companies. IF YOU DONT STAND FOR NOTHING YOU WILL FALL FOR ANYTHING.

Ubisoft wants to start calling their video games AAAA Instead of AAA.😂😂😂 ; Ubisoft hasnt made a great game in a long time, they are deciding to use the "AAAA" not because their Video Games are Spectacular, but because they want to have a reason to raise prices"

[Kabaneri]

The Division 2 started out good but they ruined it with that Raid that was impossible on consoles.

[OG_TK_Cole]

You know why I cant give The Division 2 a pass, its because the first game had the same issues. The Dev Team thats works on the game needs to go.