Ubisoft CEO Apologizes For Company's Culture, Offensive Game Content In Video Statement

So are they going to quit acting like horrible people? Will they quit the exclusivity deals with Epic and release more games on Steam and GOG? Will they make their games more polished instead of glitchy messes? Are they going to ditch over aggressive monitization of their games? There's more important issues they should be addressing from my perspective as a gamer.

"I'm sorry this was revealed. If it wasn't, we would have continued to do nothing."

Resign, you slug.

If there was any doubt that this wasn't just a disingenuous Typical PR Response by Ubisoft, then their apology for the portrayal of BLM stand-ins in Tom Clancy's Elite Squad ought to have eliminated it. BLM has thoroughly revealed themselves to be anarchists at best, if not a full-blown terrorist organization which promotes black supremacy because apparently they think it's cool to loot businesses, attack civilians, and commit arson as "reparations" for slavery that has long since been abolished and none of them were ever had to suffer, so they're entitled to nothing, and if there was any debt to be paid, then I think that the lives of Union Soldiers who fought for the freedom of their ancestors during the Civil War and effectively put an end to slavery is more than adequate compensation for their inane suffrage by proxy and hypocritical victim complex.

So yeah, Ubisoft could have and should have taken the opportunity to publicly denounce the hate crimes committed by BLM and admitted that the terrorist group featured in Tom Clancy's Elite Squad was a deliberate social satire of BLM, but that would have taken courage, honesty, and integrity. So yeah, they're full of it, and any Sexual Misconduct which took place within Ubisoft was likely deliberately overlooked because they don't actually give a hoot, ergo they only took action because they were afraid of bad press cutting into their profits.

How much did Yves know, though. Either

1) He knew nothing and was negligent towards the people he employs.

2) He knew some of it and didn't bother looking any deeper

3) He knew everything and helped cover it up.

Either way, Ubisoft had employees who were sex offenders and rapists in their company for decades and rather than fire them, they promoted them.

Ubisoft was criticized for not releasing a video statement prior to its first Ubisoft Forward in July.

...not from anyone that matters. Ubisoft did some f'ed up shit and needed/needs to seriously address the problem; but there's no reason to virtue signal about their internal investigations and accusations in their E3-like sizzle reel showing new games coming up. Most of the people that watch those kinds of videos would just skip past that part anyway.

This month they announce support for BLM, next month for Antifa, then in November for ISIS.

I don't really care about the game one way or the other, but from the description of the in-game group in the linked article, it sounds like a pretty accurate representation of what BLM has become. What is there to apologize for?

Ubisoft in dire need of a make over lol. I like to call em b side activision lololol.

Just want them to stop making a mockery of the Tom Clancy name FFS!

I know this is more than likely going to rub some folks the wrong way, but what in the Sam Hill does this have to do with making quality video games.

Honestly, I feel the world has gone completely crazy in regards to social justice and political correctness to the point where companies would rather sacrifice the quality of their products just to ensure a message is pushed out to the masses.

It’s seriously making me want to develop a time machine just to go back to the 80s and 90s where games were games first and foremost and any political statements were incidental for the most part as opposed to mandatory. 😑

And y'all still won't be satisfied.

Cut to Guillemot naked on a bear skin rug in front of a fireplace: "We're sorry!"

Watched the video on that and I can see how it could look like Black Lives Matter, but I feel like that is just timing more than targeting them particularly. Seriously, riots, social media to discredit political leaders, etc is nothing new and will remain that way after BLM is gone.

It was a good move to cover their own ass, but this was just timing and a generic plot used both in real life and fiction long before this. None of this is new.

Meh. bargain bin purchase.