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Ubisoft Boss Clarifies His Controversial Remarks About Toxicity - Kotaku

Ubisoft Boss Clarifies His Controversial Remarks About Toxicity - Kotaku

Ubisoft Boss Clarifies His Controversial Remarks About Toxicity - Kotaku
Sep 26, 2022 48 secs

In a new interview with La Presse, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot appeared to say that toxicity in the games industry comes from necessary “friction” in the creative process.

Two years into a workplace reckoning over sexual harassment, misconduct, and browbeating at the publisher behind Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, it sounded at best tone deaf, and at worst like an endorsement of infighting among development teams.

When asked to clarify his remarks, Ubisoft provided Kotaku with a more detailed explanation from the CEO.

“I want to be clear, as I have said before there is absolutely no place for toxicity at Ubisoft or in our industry,” Guillemot wrote in a statement.

It wasn’t until the larger workplace reckoning that Ancel was investigated and eventually resigned in September 2020.

Guillemot has not attempted to clarify that one, and Ubisoft declined to comment today when Kotaku asked about the pattern of controversial suggestions from the man responsible for leading the publisher’s cultural transformation

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