Patrick Ploude has been part of Ubisoft for about 20 years. He was the artistic director of Baby of Gentle, Watch Canine 2 and Far Cry 3. Ploude introduced earlier immediately that he shall be leaving the corporate to work as a part of an unbiased consulting company. Ubisoft later confirmed that Ploude “will present consulting to a few of our artistic administrators, at their request, and to the Editorial staff on sure initiatives”.

That stated, it is extremely vital to notice that Patrick Plourde has been talked about as being one of many key contributors to the poisonous work tradition, harassment, abuse, and discrimination that has been happening on the firm. In truth, a bunch based by many present and former Ubisoft workers, A Higher Ubisoft, criticized the company late final yr for letting Plourde stay as VP of editorial “regardless of the a number of misconduct studies filed in opposition to him”.

Whether or not Plourde’s departure will end in a greater work setting for Ubisoft’s workers stays to be seen. Nonetheless, A Higher Ubisoft tweeted out an announcement simply a few months in the past stating that, regardless of many departures within the firm, change inside Ubisoft have been very sluggish, and Ubisoft nonetheless hasn’t listened to the 4 calls for that they’ve been repeatedly asking for.

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