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Ubisoft adresses that they won't adress the recently surfaced fuckery at Ubisoft at their Event
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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Just as a reminder, Square also went ahead with their pre-recorded Avengers presentation even though all the VO in that video was done by Casey Lynch, one of the abusers mentioned when all of that IGN abuse stuff came out.
Not defending either company, just pointing out that they've both fucked up.
Not defending either company, just pointing out that they've both fucked up.
How so? Them not addressing the claims of sexual harassment/etc at the show later today doesn't make much of a difference to whether games will release or not.
They should at least post a video of it on YouTube. You can post multiple videos a day - I know that.
Not gonna defend Ubi, but if the cases are so recent, even making a two minutes statement to alter the video could be a monumental task for all the social media, press and official channels. At least they're not keeping it under the rug and being more direct than Blizzard last year during their Blizzcon.
How about you delay your event out of respect for your employees who have been harmed, rather than use it as some thinly veiled attempt to get some potential good press and to shake off some of the heat?
And how that would exactly help those workers who have been harassed (etc) and also have been working on the vertical demos for this show?
Will they respect them more internally if the show is delayed two weeks?
Editing takes a long time to be done properly multi language, perfectly understandable.
But a text message where there should have been a countdown is what i thought we would get, or a few minutes reading aloud piece, even if it's just reading the press announcements.
Or just delay the damn thing by a week, wouldn't have been the first delay to occur in these troubled times.
We'll see...
But a text message where there should have been a countdown is what i thought we would get, or a few minutes reading aloud piece, even if it's just reading the press announcements.
Or just delay the damn thing by a week, wouldn't have been the first delay to occur in these troubled times.
We'll see...
I don't even really know what they could say at this point to really make any difference. It's either going to be seen as exploitative or insincere. It's going to take action, such as the recent resignations, to make any real difference to people, and I don't think someone talking on a webcam and saying a bunch of nice things in a glorified toy commercial is going to have any real impact at this point with all that's happened.
Ubisoft team sizes are generally so big that even major figures could leave and not really have a significant impact. I'd be very surprised if anything that comes from this disrupts development of any titles in a major way.
Ubisoft team sizes are generally so big that even major figures could leave and not really have a significant impact. I'd be very surprised if anything that comes from this disrupts development of any titles in a major way.
What does this do? Thst person would literally be repeating the same statement they released a couple days ago.
They do state that they won't talk about it "directly". It's possible that there might be a message throughout the show as a slide or something like that.
This is just PR in anticipation of a backlash for not addressing it, if they really wanted they could have added a recently recorded message to the start of their presentation.
I expected nothing else but I am kinda surprised they even make any statement in regards to this in combination with the event.
I expected them to keep those topics seperate ... if that makes sense? Like act like nothing happened. Like Blizzard with HK.
I expected them to keep those topics seperate ... if that makes sense? Like act like nothing happened. Like Blizzard with HK.
They could absolutely do that (as other companies did for BLM) but we all basically know the reason they won't do that as they don't want to inform people about all the bad things they do at what is basically a Marketing event. All just an excuse :(
I surprised people thought they would. Majority of people probably don't know anything about what's going on, They're not going to draw attention to it during what is essentially a giant commercial.
And even if they did address it in the stream there's no way to get anything across with any sincerity when it's immediately followed with "Now here's all our new products we want you to buy". And who would even do it? Which higher ups are still there that aren't either under investigation for abuse or knowingly allowed it to happen.
Not defending their stance, but it was pretty inevitable.
And even if they did address it in the stream there's no way to get anything across with any sincerity when it's immediately followed with "Now here's all our new products we want you to buy". And who would even do it? Which higher ups are still there that aren't either under investigation for abuse or knowingly allowed it to happen.
Not defending their stance, but it was pretty inevitable.
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At least they are acknowledging it. Not surprised at all they won't mention it at their marketing show. smh
Would anyone really buy a half arsed apology / address during a game PR reel? It would potentially bring it to the attention of people who don't already know (which I'm sure they obviously don't want - but it's possibly too late, you can't stop the signal Mal) but it's also like expecting them to willfully harm their own PR event of the year. Which would by proxy potentially harm innocent developers (bonuses etc) who had nothing to do with the egregious behaviour we've heard about.
I'd rather hear from them (about this) when they've done something solid. Sacked people. Restructured. Gone to the police.
I'd rather hear from them (about this) when they've done something solid. Sacked people. Restructured. Gone to the police.
As someone else said earlier this in thread, adding/editing in a statement doesn't really accomplish anything that this statement and their recent actions already aren't addressing. Dismissing whether or not Ubisoft cares or is taking this seriously, based on the presentation of their games-focused direct, is exactly why they shouldn't bother editing the Forward; because folks will (justifiably) disbelieve the sincerity and honesty of the addition. Nothing said on Twitter or in this video would do a damn thing to convince or put-at-ease the folks that are most critical of Ubi right now. It's just gonna take a lot more publicity from announced firings and infrastructure changes.
"We would rather have our new games dominate the headlines rather than the fact our untouchable CEO has been enabling toxic abusers for years, please."
That's a disappointment. Whatever they produce won't get the same amount of views as this event. But at least they're making changes.
Still a million times better than CDPR. They even appear to be off limits to journalist.
Still a million times better than CDPR. They even appear to be off limits to journalist.
Yup, preemptive damage control. They just want to avoid causing everyone to think about the serious internal issues rather than the upcoming games they show.
Well, it would sound ridiculous to go "We're sorry about everything that happened on our company but here are some games please be excited" anyway, so it's a good call.
Fucking terrible decision. Could've easily added a bit before it begins, and it's a hard spot they're in but definitely one that their higher-ups and HR have been actively participating in for a long time. So they could've at least tried to add a piece to the beginning of the show - keep firing and clearing house behind the scenes (good first steps) but publicly and vocally make sure you make it known the company is committed to address harassment and abuse and is enforcing change. Why not on their company's biggest games media day of the year?
So they can release a statement with their show. All this does is help bury the lede and offer less exposure to the issue to the more mainstream audience who isnt aware of the behind the scenes scum at Ubi.
This just comes off as "Whoa hey look over there!"
Shame on them. They could have at least pre recorded a statement to address this.
If they do their typical we're a family section it's going to come off even faker than usual and super tone deaf
If they do their typical we're a family section it's going to come off even faker than usual and super tone deaf