Monday, March 17 at 12:20pm PDT Ubisoft has offered PCGamesN with a press release outlining its on-line well-being and anti-harassment efforts.
In keeping with a brand new report, Ubisoft has created an “anti-harassment plan” to guard Murderer’s Creed Shadows‘ improvement crew. This comes within the wake of constant backlash towards the sport from obvious ‘anti-woke/anti-DEI’ content material creators, their followers, and a few of the sequence’ participant base.
Since Murderer’s Creed Shadows‘ reveal, some have taken subject with its portrayal of the historic determine Yasuke, a samurai of African origin.
Individually, gaming collectibles creator PureArts got here below hearth for being “insensitive” in direction of Japanese tradition, pulling a figurine that noticed twin protagonists Naoe and Yasuke standing in entrance of a one-legged torii gate. This not directly referenced the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki throughout World Struggle II, as the one one-legged torii gate in Japan stands on the metropolis’s Sannō Shrine.
Talking to French media outlet BFMTV, an nameless Ubisoft worker claims that an “anti-harassment plan” has been applied that daunts builders from utilizing social media. “We’re suggested to not submit on social media that we work at Ubisoft to keep away from harassment,” they state. Notice that we’ve got relied on machine translation for these quotes.
The report claims that Ubisoft has collaborated with Canada’s Communications Safety Institution on the plan. “It’s an initiative from Canada. There’s a crew that screens networks and acts shortly within the occasion of a focused assault. Not like what we’ve had earlier than, that is severe.”
Reportedly, “messages posted by web customers on X (previously Twitter), Reddit, and even movies on YouTube will probably be intently monitored by a devoted unit as a way to reply shortly to the slightest drawback. Legal professionals are already able to file complaints within the occasion of confirmed harassment.”
PCGamesN contacted Ubisoft for touch upon this reported anti-harassment plan, and acquired the next response from a spokesperson.
“Our stance has at all times been that crew members’ social media channels are their very own. Our high precedence is the protection of our workers, together with on-line, which is why, as a typical follow throughout Ubisoft, we provide steering on navigating social media, digital security, and help for crew members’ well-being. We additionally share assets to assist stop and shield towards on-line harassment, one thing our groups have sadly confronted.”
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