Jade Raymond Leaves

"[Ubisoft] and Jade Raymond have agreed to pursue future opportunities separately," a statement from the publisher says. "Alexandre Parizeau, a founding team member of the Ubisoft Toronto studio, replaces Raymond as managing director."

“On behalf of Ubisoft, I’d like to thank Jade for her leadership and many contributions over the years, and wish her all the best in her next adventures,” said Yannis Mallat, CEO of Ubisoft Montreal and Toronto. “The Toronto studio is a key part of the Ubisoft global network, and Alex has been at the heart of the studio’s growth over the years. He was the obvious choice to lead this talented group of people as they continue to develop amazing games.”

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We all know why she's leaving but she was the only one that had the decency of not saying it. She was truly one of us.

They should have had her going away party on the roof of the Ubisoft building, then she could have left by jumping off the roof into a bale of hay and disappearing.

I wish her all the best.

Gives more people the opportunity to see that smile of hers

Man, that post saved itself from being really rude lol.

Soooo..... Could someone summarize relevant bits of info?

I have no idea why this matters.

Edit:

Apart from her being an important figure of course, but that happens every so often to everyone.

who?

Wow...this is sort of a fucked up thing to say about someone with legitimate programming and game development experience. Forget her actual professional skills, let's just talk about how pretty she is, because that's where her worth is! I'm no SJW or whatever, but damn dude.

She's had quite enough of Ubi's shit I guess.

Are you for real?

I'm with you there, I don't see how this is of any import at all.

@freedomfreak: are you?

Big loss for Ubisoft. She helped produce a string of best selling games there. Wherever she goes to afterwards will have gotten a superstar.

one of the most recognized producers in this industry is leaving and that doesn't matter? Not to mention she's one of the very few female producers. On top of it, she's leaving when the gamergate thing is happening and blowing up in mainstream media making gaming look like a cesspool of misogyny thanks to the likes of Kotaku and Anita.

You guys are the very definition of clueless.

does she have any connection to gamersgate?

Isn't it sexist of you to assume she left as part of a women-in-gaming related issue?

Maybe she just didn't want to work on AC forever.

Who is this?

Actually, don't answer that. I don't care.

That's cute, the fact that you don't/can't realize gaming is a cesspool of misogyny. A good looking women was the face of a video game company and was driven out due to the incessant sexually explicit banter.

Women in video games are paraded around like whores and is seen as the norm. Women are belittled and patronized in video games and it is seen as acceptable practice as long as the game is fun to play.

Video games, video game culture, video game media is incredibly misogynistic and sexist. Welcome to reality!

Yeah, I'd like to know that as well.

And sorry for not fangasming over industry personalities @Gue1....

Wherever she goes, they are getting a goldmine of talent. Wishing her the best.

By the way, what does GamerGate have ANYTHING to do with this?

She should have no problems staying in the ministry with her work record of AAA games.

a lot of big names leaving the industry over the last 2 years now. is working in the industry that bad?

...yeah it probably is :S.

still, and call me mad, but i saw this and thought "new kickstarter on the way".

TC is anti-GamerGate. That's all I am interpreting from this thread.

I understand her, it is to much copypaste Assassins Creed milking, cant be fun go to work.

Well, let's hope we get some better games now.

I was thinking OMG were is he going with this????? Then whew, ok now i got ya.

I hope she signs with Nintendo. She could teach Reggie a few things about how western developers work.

You mean like maybe dropping a few franchises and going all in on a new 3D Mario game every single year or something?

of course I'm just making assumptions. It's not specified if she's leaving the industry or just Ubisoft. But since this is a forum I thought it was worth discussing.

She's Pretty...

On a serious note I wonder where she ends up.

@b4x said:

She's Pretty...

On a serious note I wonder where she ends up.

My face would be a good start. /i'msorrydamnit!

hahaaaaa, classy!

:D

@mikhail: I lol'd

@mikhail: I smell a White Knighter!!!! Get him boys!!!!

Dude do you think woman dress and wear the cloths they do "not all woman"... to not be noticed?

Woman love to be wanted ,needed and drooled over.

Oh noes. A quasi game producer left a company. What will we do...

Evidently she is "one of us" according to the TC, so that's why.

I never understood the fascination with her. years ago when I first seen her, they made it seem like she was the driving force for AC as if it was her game that was created. She was apart of the time, but I'm guessing her biggest job was eye candy to sell the game.

Of course. I find Jade Raymond to have a beautiful smile. Now, mikhail, would you mind answering my question, seeing as I have answered yours?

Good. She was a big name, talented female developer before this SJW feminist bullshit showed up.

Shes kinda hot.

There are many talented women in this industry but I guess she was popular because she was good looking? :/

Also lol at gamergate. She was probably getting tired of Ubi.

I don't like Ubisoft save for Ancel, and she has no bearings on any games I like at all.

If she is the reason Ubisoft made cookie cutter annualized crap, then good riddance? Although, I wouldn't put the blame on her, I blame Ubi. They are almost as bad as Activision and EA. They are almost there.

We do? Can you fill us in?

Talent leaves all the time. Producers, artists, audio, directors...I don't know why she is leaving and I don't know what decency she is displaying. For all I know, she's saved up a lot of money over the decade with Ubisoft pumping out games and wants to take a huge vacation.

i thought this was going to be one of those stupid farewell sw posts, but this isnt news people leave jobs all the time

Well said, I don't see how we can draw any conclusions from this. Lots of people in the insdustry come and go for various reasons, the fact that the timing is similar to the scandal is simply not enough to make any kind of assumptions here. Good luck to this person, I know little about her and the only upcoming game from Ubisoft I am looking forward to now is Far Cry 4....watched a trailer recently and was sold....looks like Far Cry 3 times 10 lol.

I enjoyed the Assassins creed games, especially AC2. I think MS could do worse than bring her onboard, getting more gamers (like spencer) on board as opposed to middle management.

haha now that would have been fukin awesome

the sexism on this board has reached stupid levels