Ubisoft game designers are expressing a mix of despair and defiant hope when talking about their company’s attempts to reform.
“It’s not harassers who create toxic culture. It’s a toxic culture that produces harassers,” Ubisoft game designer Marc Rutschlé said, during a meeting at the office of French tech workers union Solidaires Informatique.
“We want explanations,” Rutschlé says. “The toxic people who left the company, because a large part of them just left and were not fired, never gave any explanation for their behavior. This will be the opportunity to hear them, in a court of law.”for Ubisoft workers around the world, several of whom emailed Axios about their experiences.“The only issue that I see as fixed is that people within Ubisoft are aware of the issues,” another said.
“Morale is highly variable from team to team, in my experience, even within a single studio,” one developer said.