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Ubisoft monetization director blames gamers, says they've been exposed as 'non-decent humans' (www.tweaktown.com)

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (16 children)

He's very clearly talking about celebrating people losing their jobs, and does so without saying anything super crazy.

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I rarely post on social media, but today I am sad. Ashamed and sad.

The gaming industry is rough at the moment, we all know it.

But seeing how "gamers" react on social medias, wishing ill-fate to companies and people alike is sad. (And not only towards Ubisoft)

Even though it is always the vocal minority that express themselves on social media, I was hurt, hurt and ashamed to be a part of this community.

What is even more revolting, is coming on Linkedin and seeing the same comments from people within the industry.

On top of exposing yourself as a clearly non-decent human being, you are affecting thousands of employees that are already impacted by all the hate despite doing their best to deliver incredible experiences.

How can you wish a company to fail simply because they do not cater to you or that the product does not please you is beyond me.

We are all on the same boat, please please please, stop spreading hate, we should all uplift each other instead of bringing each other down.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Ubisoft as a company deserved to fail though. It sure sucks for the poor bastards working there but something tells me the tune would be a lot different if this was just another round of layoffs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I don't disagree with that. But he's almost definitely responding to all the vitriol directed at employees losing their jobs as a result of bad decisions passed way down the chain to them, and this article is trying to make it some gotcha hit piece.

I do think being in charge of monetization at a company that does so in the way almost any AAA studio does is an inherently unethical job and will have a hard time feeling sorry for him personally, since he's willing to do that job, but people are also being miserable assholes to everyone else who just is trying to work on a game for a stable employer. And all he's actually saying is "maybe don't be an asshole to people".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People hate Ubisoft so much that they're just not reading the article or your full comments and are downvoting you anyway. What a time to be alive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

lol the inflammatory bullshit title already decided it.

My habit of collapsing long sections so it's less annoying to scroll probably doesn't help either, but whatever.

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