@hermes200 What if they had committed gross misconduct? Sexually abused someone? Got drunk at work? Divulged company secrets? They were not made redundant they were sacked. If for no reason Patrice will sue but I'm guessing Ubisoft were in their rights. Companies cannot comment on reasons for firing an employee but sacked employees can say anything they want. Also Ubisoft did make a statement.
Don't get me wrong I despise Ubisoft since they screwed us over with their DRM shit but I don't think we know the truth of what happened and probably never will.
This is nonsense, all the blokes I know applaud women in gaming. I worked for SonyCEE and the women were treated the same as men. I should start a kickstarter film entitled "GTFO: Stop looking for sexism where there is none".
@hermes200 I know what you said, I'm saying it's too early to jump on the "lets blame Ubisoft" bandwagon without knowing the reasons. Ubisoft would not legally be able to discuss their dismissal so what could a pr guy say?
@hermes200 @Ramus73 Thats what I'm suggesting, people will be quick to jump to conclusions about Ubisoft when it could be they had very good reason to fire them.
I don't know what it's like in Canada but here in Blighty if a company fires you without cause you can take them to a tribunal. If there is no tribunal you can be sure they both did something that gave Ubisoft reason to fire them.
@jimrhurst @Ramus73 Once upon a time EA were publishers and that's all they did. Now they have bought out companies, like Maxis in 1997, they are the developer as well. Maxis is now just a department in EA and (considering EA laid off nearly half the Maxis staff after buying) a shadow of it's former self.
But then Maxis themselves are a bit wanting. Did you know the Maxis board of directors turned down Will Wrights The Sims idea? Which EA then snapped up and The Sims became the best selling game of all time. You also mention the road network has had to be patched but in Sim City 4 the road network had to be fixed after release too. How could they make the same mistake twice? Both Maxis and EA need to shoulder the blame.
Yes its odd, there are obviously some intelligent people in America but they have taken on immense amounts of debt without a care for the future of the economy. Probably not helped by unscrupulous members of the Obamanation bringing about Obamageddon. If America is not in depression by Dec 2013 I will be very surprised.
Aren't all games an escape from reality? Decades are only of interest to the people that lived in them, I'm guessing you're under 20. Would you prefer a game where you have to get out of bed, eat cereal, get stuck in traffic on the way to work and then spend 9 hours typing numbers into a computer?
Oh dear. Does the management in these big companies live on another planet. EA and Disney to make Star Wars game......... I predict a cheap and nasty movie cash-in to come.
Sim City was hacked and cracked days after launch so if the intention was to prevent piracy it failed. EA are trying to patch over problems with cars doing u turns instead of being man enough to admit their AOL DRM is why the game failed and if it wasn't for the million morons that pre ordered sim city this game would have caused EA serious financial harm. The sooner people stop buying EA products in outrage at their business practices the better.
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