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Jan 18, 2023 · According to Kotaku, that email included a portion where Guillemot told employees that "the ball is in your court," which was widely seen as management shirking its responsibility. Employees at...
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Jan 19, 2023 · Ubisoft’s CEO Yves Guillemot has since contacted staff via email, appearing to shift the blame on to them. “Today more than ever, I need your full energy and commitment to ensure we get back...
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- Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot held a company-wide Q&A to address the publisher's future
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By Carson Burton
Updated: Jan 22, 2023 1:36 pm
Posted: Jan 18, 2023 8:57 pm
Ubisoft is facing turbulent times financially and in-house, and CEO Yves Guillemot was forced to reckon with recent comments he made shifting the blame to the staff.
After cancelling three unannounced games and delaying the release date of Skull and Bones for a sixth time, Guillemot told employees “the ball is in your court” to help get the $3 billion company back on track.
The changes at Ubisoft were scrapped up to "major challenges" in the industry, the underperformance of Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Just Dance 2023, and an upcoming "restructuring" for the publisher. On Wednesday, a new report from Kotaku revealed that Ubisoft had a company-wide Q&A to address the news of the restructuring. There, the CEO apologized for his previous comments.
Guillemot also remained vague about the potential for layoffs. “It’s not about doing more with less, but finding ways to do things differently across the company,” Guillemot said.
According to Kotaku's report, some developers within the company still feel that management is out of touch with the lower-level staff. The Q&A, which lasted an hour, also did not address the recent call for strike at the company's Paris studio. Solidaires Informatique, Ubisoft Paris' tech union, asked the employees to go on strike in response to Guillemot's previous comments. The strike will reportedly last a half-day on January 27.
Ubisoft's particularly poor 2022 included no marquee blockbuster releases. Several projects were delayed, trapped in development hell or simply failed to find a substantial audience.
Carson Burton is a freelance news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.
Yves Guillemot (born 21 July 1960) is a French businessman and co-founder of Ubisoft with his brothers Claude, Michel, Gérard and Christian in March 1986.
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