Ubisoft Staff Are Leaving Their Jobs In Droves, Report Claims

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I mean come on, are we really surprised LOL.

Even the Ubisoft staffs are not Rabbids.
They knew something wrong with NFT practice.

High employee turnover with layoffs upon completion of projects is normal in the industry but people who work for Ubisoft are creatively stifled and dealing with toxic company politics compounding the issue. This will affect games we don't even know about yet, be prepared for a new level of Ubi-jank in the absence of valued and loyal engineers and artists, who I wish the best for in their new jobs elsewhere.

Ah well, no big shame there, as soon as they said NFTs people started jumping ship? No surprise as no one wins with them except the share holders who don't care about anyone except themselves

This is so sad,i loved Ubisoft as a kid,they were really good in the 90s/early 2000s.

Butters must have snuck in and hypnotized them into buying NFTs.

Ah, Ubisoft, EA and Activision. The holy trinity of abuse towards employees.

@HedgehogEngine We've been told by the usual suspects in this country that the "Great Resignation" is a US-only or US-centric phenomenon, but it's nice to see that the anecdotes I've heard about people leaving the office behind (with or without the agreement of management) extend to the tech industry. It's not usual to see people in Montréal and Toronto act in unison on anything, so this is particularly encouraging.

There will be consequences from all of this, good and ill, but at least some of them should fall on these AAA mismanagement types...

Rabbids team seems okay.

Good

Because Ubisoft is worse than EA nowdays and that is saying something.

Good for them. There are a lot of reasons to leave Ubisoft to be honest. For example, the absolute fountain of sex predator allegations sweeping that company from top to bottom.

Between Ubisoft and Activision, the entire AAA video games industry could crash like it was 1983 and I wouldn't cry about it.

@Randomname19 as someone who is a couple years older, ubicrap hasn’t changed. Doesn’t mean there haven’t occasionally been an ok game, but then they a sequel every year until it dries up.

Who could have predicted that when you treat your employees like sh*t they will eventually leave?

Just get out the Ezio collection and then they can go under.

My main takeaway from this article is that I’m not sure if “people ops” is Queen’s English for “Human Resources” or if that’s just what ubisoft calls it because they think it sounds more personal.

outside of Mario + Rabbids I don't play Ubisoft games not really a company I trust

Wish them well. Sounded like a truly awful company to work for.

@CharlieGirl "wouldn't cry about it." Watch out guys, we got a smug badass over here.
On topic: Hopefully this forces Ubi to rethink their gameplan.
The industry does not need to crash, just a change of pace an assessing what the consumers actually want.
Happy consumers= returning consumers= profit
Naturally there needs to be a healthy workplace environment as well.

I don't play any of their games other than Rayman so they can crash

It'll only continue to haunt you, Ubisoft. You too, Activision. Wipe your damn slate clean and maybe you'll have something to be proud of again.
Good on the employees for taking the stand and I hope more continue to do so.

They were just starting to come up with great games again. I love Ghost Recon Wildlands. Hopefully, their management will rectify things, but I doubt that.

Some of these are presumably just high profile technical people, that get headhunted for finalizing other big productions. And that's VERY normal.

Looks like the employees took the advice to "Look forward" and "Move on" to heart then, is this what good management looks like?

Ubi was already on a tight rope. Dipping into the NFT scam was probably the last straw for many of the employees.

This "head of people ops" saying "our attrition today is a few percentage points above where it typically is" sounds like a real people person.

They've probably been treated as though they were rabbids!

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
The bigger a company, the more company politics, leaving creativity in the dust.
Their games with overblown marketing, yearly follow-ups, anti-consumer, gaming as a service, micro transactions and now NFT-bull, can be delayed to infinity for all I care

I haben't played an ubisoft game in over a decade (before everything wen't sour) so this is no skin off my teeth; but I do hope the company reevaluates their infastructure and management soon.

Ubisoft is no different from Blizzard/Activision, it has a chauvinistic culture.

I think Nintendo is excluded from these Metoo witch hunt because it's a Japanese company. There's barely any female staff working in Nintendo, definitely no female devs or producers. The Western PC culture of inclusiveness does not apply in the East.

Who Let The Dogs Out... New song version " who let the rabbit out"

Remember: the more a company claims to be woke and progressive, the more toxic it is as a work environment. People don't like "woke" stuff not because they dislike representation but because it's a symptom of inner rot.

I hope this doesn't negatively impact Sparks of Hope. That's one of my most anticipated games.

@Donutman 90's Ubisoft was different,back then their star was Rayman,and they only made 3 main games with him,and each one was on a different console generations(they did get ports to other consoles,but still the same games,not sequels)

Maybe they'll get their s*** together if enough key people leave, then.

Sad to hear that the company has been involved in workplace abuse/bad environment etc. and hope that if true it stops soon!

On the note of games maybe I've been lucky with my purchases and I know I'm more easy going then a lot of gamers but I've always found Ubisoft games great.

Mario + Rabbids, Just Dance, Phoenix Eternal Rising(brill game) and Starlink are all fab.
Whenever I see people comparing them to EA it's usually regarding Assassin's Creed games which I haven't played so maybe it's that.

Edit: Got that title completely wrong 😅 - Immortals Fenyx Rising

@durrdevil yah, they have just announced Balan Wonderworld 2: Electric Balanloo.

I would think workplace environment and work load would be the big reasons to leave, not sure about NFTs but I am sick of hearing about them too.

And they'll hire new people and continue. Not everyone can afford to be morally superior.

Ubisoft will be fine. They can replace these troublemakers and focus on making better games. The media make it sound really serious, but if you so much as look at these staff members in a manner they don't like, they will claim harassment.

@Captain-Cluck you sound like you know of this issue personally, i take it you work there?

Genuinely asking btw... would be cool to actually speak to someone with first hand knowledge on this matter.

@PtM Too much self reflection is a sign of self centered emotional disorders.

Spending too much time second guessing your own self worth by constantly questioning yourself isn't indicative of a mentally healthy person.

Its important to think on ones owns actions but its also important to be able to act without hesitation at times.

Woke culture is a sickness that is causing people to second guess everything they do and by extension, what everyone around them does.

You can't maintain an argument with a "woke" person because they are so blinded by their own over sensitive emotions.

@NoTinderLife Animal Crossing: New Horizons, AKA the Switch’s biggest original game, was directed by a woman

@PtM Let me put it this way: a normal non-racist or non-sexist person doesn't need to constantly advertise about how not-bigoted they are. Kind of like men without confidence in their masculinity tend to act overly "masculine" to make up for it and end up just being a-holes.

Development studios always have a high churn on staff. It's often for legitimate reasons too - like working on a specific genre you specialise in, but the next project isn't of interest.

This guy is just stoking the fires of hate towards some of the bigger publishers. "People left a developer. It must be a terrible place".

Not to mention this is happening EVERYWHERE right now. All industries have seen people move on. It's fallout from the pandemic - change job for a higher salary, better work/life balance, because you can work there without living there - so many reasons right now. The job market is favourable to the employee right now from cleaning to banking, it's happening everywhere.

@PtM Yes, companies whose CEOs are proclaiming social justice outwardly all the time while covering ongoing harassment internally. Same thing, just on a larger scale.

Any company that wants to burn the Earth with NFT and mistreating their employees can crumble for all I care. I just wish these people get employed by a better company.

Up until now. I always put Ubisoft a tier below the likes of EA, Activision, and Take Two, in terms of being greedy and unforgiving to the customer. But I think now with their big NFT push and misconduct allegations, it's probably fair to lump them in with the worst of them now.

This is why we keep our eyes toward the Indie scene. Stifling creativity is the bread and butter of these massive publishers.
Interesting that once bioware was bought by EA the same type of thing happened, even after the founders said they weren't gonna leave... problems abound.