Recently in Ubisoft a large-scale study of the working atmosphere and investigation of harassment of high-ranking employees began after accusations against them.
And the publisher had already fired several executives and managers who were found guilty.
Among them was, for example, Maxim Beland – Head of Ubisoft Toronto and lead developer of Rainbow Six: Vegas, Assassin’s Creed (2007) and Splinter Cell: Blacklist, who left the company in 2019 and returned half a year ago. In general, not for long.
At night, Ubisoft announced the removal of several other key managers of the company.
The most unexpected was the dismissal of “the untouchable right hand of Yves Guillot” Serge Haskoet. All the games of the company passed through it — one of his words was enough to launch or cancel the production of any project.
Also, the head of Canadian studios leaves the publishing house. Yannis Mallat and head of human resources Cecile Cornet – the latter, however, decided to leave the company of her own free will, believing that this would benefit the company.
All this personnel cleaning takes place shortly before the conference Ubisoft forward, where the company will present its upcoming projects – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Watch Dogs Legion and Far Cry 6.
True, there will be no direct statements about what is happening during the presentation, since it has been recorded in advance, and the investigation is still ongoing.
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