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[Lunatic_Gamer]

This rumor comes from YouTuber AccolonnTV, who detailed he received a number of alleged documents from an Ubisoft insider who also informed about the current state of the company’s employees and talent.

He shared, “So basically the way developers at Ubisoft is classed according to this insider is you have the the superstars. These are the best of the best. And they're incredibly good at what they do and they're often also very well known. Now, he says there's very few of these people left at Ubisoft. Most of them have already left and have found much better positions at companies that is a lot better positioned within the market.”

“Then there's the what he refers to as the good developers, but they don't have brands. They don't tweet,” he relayed. “And he calls himself one of these developers. They make up a small portion of those developers that are still left at Ubisoft. The problem is while they're good they don't have names so they can't get jobs anywhere else.”

“And then the vast majority of developers is what he calls deadweight. They don't know how to do anything no matter what you give them. They're pretty much always doing it wrong. But what they're very good at is social change, pushing social change. So basically if you can't do the job that you were hired for make sure that you become a political activist is what I took from that,” he declared. “He didn't even talk about the DEI stuff with these guys just apparently they make working for Ubisoft very, very, very difficult.”

From there he shared that this original insider as well as another detailed how Ubisoft’s video game development processes are all bogged down in administration and bureaucratic meetings.

He explained, “The next thing that was revealed to me — and this is from both insiders — is actually just the nightmare of designing video games for Ubisoft. Gaming today, according to these insiders, are more like a factory line and a logistical nightmare than it is about creativity. In order to get anything done you take weeks of meetings and department logistics to get all of the teams involved. And then you get to do the thing and then once you're done with the thing you have to go into more meetings in order to implement the thing. There's just so little space for actual creativity.

“The insider that works in QA revealed to me that just getting bugs fixed is almost impossible. The amount of bugs that they will report to a company and then after a couple of weeks they'll just get a ‘Works as designed. Won't fix.’ And it's not that the bug doesn't exist, it's not that they actually designed it this way, it's that … getting a bug fixed isn't as quick as the developer just quickly making a couple. The logistical nightmare that is fixing a bug just makes it not a top priority for a lot of developers. They don't want to go through all of that and so they would rather just not do it.”

This rumor comes in the wake of Assassin’s Creed Executive Producer Marc-Alexis Côté revealing during an appearance at the XDS24 conference that half of the people working on Assassin’s Creed Shadows are working on their very first game.

He said, “One of the things that I’ve noticed since the pandemic is that we have a lot of juniors in our teams. … Probably half the team that’s building Assassin’s Creed is building a game for the first time.”

A previous rumor from YouTuber Endymion also noted how Ubisoft has become stuff full of activists.

He said back in October, “[Assassin’s Creed Shadows] had no business taking as long as it did to be developed, but it's a Molotov cocktail of poor company oversight being poisoned by a competitor wearing the clothing of an ally and a worker base that is purposely being filled to the brim with activist DEI hires.”

“One look at photos of Ubisoft in its prime versus now tells you everything that you kind of need to know. The company is currently overrun by activist developers from the ground level to the very top,” Endymion continued. “I already reported on how Ubisoft has a terrible work atmosphere and a lot of the most important tasks within the company are being handled by outsourced contractors mostly. It's simply because the actual talent is not seasoned enough apparently based on what I'm being told. I got employees telling me that their co-workers have no business being in the industry whatsoever based on the interaction that they've had with these devs.”

“And I've even had two sources tell me they could have most of their teams fired and gone and development wouldn't be changed one bit for the most part,” he added. “The bloat at Ubisoft which is a prevailing problem across the board for many publishers is a self-inflicted wound of their own making.”

Rumor: Vast Majority Of Developers At Ubisoft Are "Deadweight": "They Don't Know How To Do Anything"

A new rumor alleges that the vast majority of developers at Ubisoft are “deadweight” and “they don’t know how to do anything” other than “pushing social change.”Fandom Pulse is a reader-supported publication.

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[StereoVsn]

Not sure how true any of these allegations are, but if this is actually the case, oh boy is Ubi fucked even more than anyone thought.

 

[Sooner]

Rumor - Everyone is stupid

 

[LectureMaster]

Hey you know me I mock wokeness at every possible chance but I never take those anti woke warriors leak seriously.

They always claim insiders telling them this or that, the companies are fucking up but never able to give a slice of evidence to backup their claim.

In fact , those are dumbest shit. What will demolish wokeness are facts and reasonings, not baseless allegations.

 

[Doom85]

 

[adamsapple]

YouTuber AccolonnTV,

 

[nial]

Made-up culture warrior bullshit, the sole idea of determining anything like this over like 20K employees is pretty laughable.
Plus, they keep mentioning Ubisoft this and Ubisoft that; which Ubisoft, exactly? There are people out there who really believe that there's just a single Ubisoft company that develops all those games?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

how Sweet baby Inc (DEI and Woke) killed Ubisoft.

That firefighter video making the rounds online is proof of how these freaks see the world.

 

[Jaybe]

There’s a lot of rot at these big video game publishers. I’ve got a job position open for an analytics role and got a resume from someone that was ex-EA and part of their role was reporting on “supplier diversity”

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

I don't need any leak or rumor to state the obvious. Ubisoft has 20K employees. Just have a look at their production and do the maths. The company needs a wild downsize and change DEI for a high-performance culture. Its survival depends on it.

 

[Zannegan]

Not that I wouldn't believe it of some of their departments (and certainly their leadership), but really, how would you even quantify this? Ubisoft is massive, and the vast majority of the company is working for a paycheck and is probably unaware of (let alone eager to participate in) fringe western politics.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

This rumor comes in the wake of Assassin’s Creed Executive Producer Marc-Alexis Côté revealing during an appearance at the XDS24 conference that half of the people working on Assassin’s Creed Shadows are working on their very first game.

This on its own is already alarming!!

 

[LectureMaster]

Apparently, guys merc brand is Fat Man Gaming.

 

[ToneyJ]

Can't take these grifters/influencers seriously. I do believe they have a ton of inexperienced workers though who have no idea what they're doing.

 

[Sebastian1295]

This guy is chasing clout and just looking too get subscribers and views. The title of his video is 'ubisoft emailed me' but why would ubisoft give a damn about a 17k sub youtube channel? And why would any supposed 'leak' come from a guy who has 0 sources or clout to be able to get this info. I call bs.

 

[intbal]

That firefighter video making the rounds online is proof of how these freaks see the world.

"If our game crashes your console, your console got itself in the wrong place."

 

[chromhound]

I know someone that works for Ubisoft and he basically told me the same

 

[EverydayBeast]

Prison should be mandatory for people who create games for “social change”.

 

[PonyStation4]

The same thing is happening with CDR and the new Cyberpunk 2 game. Production just started at their Vancouver studio (ORION) with almost all employees as new hires, many building their first game.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

This guy is chasing clout and just looking too get subscribers and views. The title of his video is 'ubisoft emailed me' but why would ubisoft give a damn about a 17k sub youtube channel? And why would any supposed 'leak' come from a guy who has 0 sources or clout to be able to get this info. I call bs.

Not outside the realms of possibility that this guy just happens to be friends with / was introduced to this person and is saying they were anonymously emailed to 'protect the source'.

Nothing in the rumour sounds all that far fetched. Just sounds like a company / culture going to shit, hard to argue otherwise looking at their stock price and recent decisions RE the game they're making.

 

[Radical_3d]

Anti woke warriors training to be more annoying than woke ones.​

 

[Kotaro]

DEI hires, hired just to fill in 100 races and 60 genders quota

 

[Calico345]

We already know all of this. Let Ubi sink. If it is reborn the right way, so be it. If it is not, so be it. Or Tencent will acquire it and it will probably only be Ubi in name going forward. All of those options are better than what Ubi is and has been.

 

[Kacho]

Prison should be mandatory for people who create games for “social change”.

 

[bundylove]

I hate everything woke. This cancer destroyed the world as we know it and will take years to repair.

But i am getting tired of these threads.

I really think all these should be off topic.

The whole gaming board is full of this lately and its getting old.

Woke is dying , we dont have to watch taking its last breath.

I will come to the funeral but in the meantime lets have more game topics please

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Seems a little to on the nose, coupled with "insider leak". I'm going to take this one with a grain of salt.

 

[Hero_Select]

I get wanting to hate on Ubisoft but can we not give attention to random youtubers who just spew out shit for clicks?

 

[Quantum253]

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Didnt know Joel Embiid is in the new AC game.

 

[M.W.]

 

[FeralEcho]

I'm just chilling waiting for our boy EDMIX to start the explanations on how inacurate this actually is.

 

[damidu]

yawwnn, vast majority youtubers are loser morons and "they don't know anything" other than "tired click baiting"

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

Apparently, guys merc brand is Fat Man Gaming.

 

[Three]

I'm sorry but this is horseshit. If there is anything that you can’t deny it's that the actual developers at Ubisoft are very talented regardless of what you may think about their writers.

 

[Yoboman]

this reads like any random late 20s professional who has been in a role for about 2-3 years and thinks they know everything - including a full workplace assessment of a billion dollars company!

One of the best parts of my role is popping the inflated egos of guys like this

 

[Barakov]

This rumor comes from YouTuber AccolonnTV, who detailed he received a number of alleged documents from an Ubisoft insider who also informed about the current state of the company’s employees and talent.









From there he shared that this original insider as well as another detailed how Ubisoft’s video game development processes are all bogged down in administration and bureaucratic meetings.






This rumor comes in the wake of Assassin’s Creed Executive Producer Marc-Alexis Côté revealing during an appearance at the XDS24 conference that half of the people working on Assassin’s Creed Shadows are working on their very first game.





A previous rumor from YouTuber Endymion also noted how Ubisoft has become stuff full of activists.

Rumor: Vast Majority Of Developers At Ubisoft Are "Deadweight": "They Don't Know How To Do Anything"

A new rumor alleges that the vast majority of developers at Ubisoft are “deadweight” and “they don’t know how to do anything” other than “pushing social change.”Fandom Pulse is a reader-supported publication.

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"Rumor"

 

[MrCunningham]

The deadweight employees should just be forced to work on shovelware and mobile games.

 

[Syphon Filter]

to be fair its a lot of developers and not just ubisoft. especially "triple A" developers.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

this reads like any random late 20s professional who has been in a role for about 2-3 years and thinks they know everything - including a full workplace assessment of a billion dollars company!

One of the best parts of my role is popping the inflated egos of guys like this

Bit difficult to pop the inflated ego of someone criticising the company as it circles the drain and delays games in a desperate bid to attract a buyer.

 

[Yoboman]

Bit difficult to pop the inflated ego of someone criticising the company as it circles the drain and delays games in a desperate bid to attract a buyer.

That's on leadership, not individual employees

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

That's on leadership, not individual employees

The OP looks like a criticism of the team that Ubisoft's leaders have put together and the culture they've fostered. So yes, it is on the leaders.

 

[Imru’ al-Qays]

I don't understand how a French company is so conspicuously woke. France is one of the least woke of the major western nations

 

[balls of snow]

If deadweights can recreate Baghdad in the detail that Ac Mirage was then give them a raise.

 

[Rubim]

After playing Star Wars: Outlaws, i think they are right.

There's some weird shenanigans with all the female cast on that game.

 

[EDMIX]

I'm just chilling waiting for our boy EDMIX to start the explanations on how inacurate this actually is.

nah, you'd be still waiting.


Stop fucking tagging me in this dumb shit looking to argue..

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

How is this a rumour?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

“Then there's the what he refers to as the good developers, but they don't have brands. They don't tweet,” he relayed. “And he calls himself one of these developers. They make up a small portion of those developers that are still left at Ubisoft. The problem is while they're good they don't have names so they can't get jobs anywhere else.”

This is so stupidly false that I don’t know how anyone can fall for this. A week in the job market will tell you how LOL-worthy this is.

 

[Optimus Lime]

... and this is reported by Youtuber 'AccolonnTV', so you KNOW it should be taken seriously!

 

[FeralEcho]

nah, you'd be still waiting.


Stop fucking tagging me in this dumb shit looking to argue..

I was just playing around since you're always in these threads...but it's alright, won't tag you anymore.

 

[Paasei]

Considering the quality of games from the past few years, I believe this rumor.
Throwing money and having thousands of people working on a, doesn’t make it good.