In a new report from Gamasutra, several more Ubisoft executives are named in new abuse allegations, outlining the behavior that spans much wider than the public had originally anticipated.

A few weeks ago, an investigative news article from Bloomberg ousted the rampant and abusive behavior of many top Ubisoft executives, particularly sexual misconduct and the minimization of female voices throughout the company. This came as a sort of response to another wave of a gaming #MeToo movement, receiving massive outcry from the gaming community.

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Since then, Ubisoft's CEO Yves Guillemot has been enacting damage control by either forcing execs with allegations to resign or completely firing them. Still, many Ubisoft Staff members believe "nothing will change" at the core of the company's morals.

Fast forward to now, Chris Kerr from Gamasutra says he's been spending the weeks since the major story hit with dozens of current and former Ubisoft employees that wanted to share their experiences. Kerr was horrified to find that the company's behavior of harassment, homophobia, sexism, racism, and bullying ran far deeper than the internet had initially uncovered. In it, more big names in Ubisoft are called out for allegations, including many tied to Ubisoft Quebec and its upcoming game Gods & Monsters. 

First to be named in the report is Johnathan Dumont, Assassin's Creed Odyssey's creative director. Many anonymous sources describe him as being a symbol of the toxic behavior running through the core of management and administration in Ubisoft. According to these unnamed victims, he would use physical hostility to intimidate his team such as "slamming doors, punching walls, or throwing objects." When physical bullying didn't work, he would turn to verbal abuse, including homophobic slurs and targeting women.

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Hugo Giard, Gods & Monsters quest director, and Stephane Mehay, an associate producer, also allegedly exhibit the same behavior according to the anonymous sources that Kerr spoke to. They claim them to be manipulative and verbally abusive to get their way, inciting a strong culture of fear in the development studio based out of Montreal.

Multiple reports state that these execs target women without reason and make them cry during meetings. "I can't even count the number of people who left the studio because they couldn't stand working with him anymore," one source says. "No one was spared, and he keeps on being empowered despite this."

Finally, Marc-Alexis Cote, an executive producer and creative director, is the last to be named from the Ubisoft Quebec branch. He's also noted by the current and former employees interviewed as being "narcissistic," utilizing subtle manipulation against his employees and team members and enabled toxicity shown by other company leads. They say Cote has "absolutely no care for the health of employees or the studio itself as long as he can keep climbing the ranks." The same testimony compares him to the now-departed CCO Serge Hascoet.

But the report doesn't end there. Other branches and names are torn apart in this report, showing just how deep the toxic behavior of Ubisoft truly runs. Kerr says that while publicly Guillemot and Ubisoft have been making the right moves towards change, it looks like it's internally been handled much differently, leading the anonymous sources to believe that true change may not be on the horizon.

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Source: Gamasutra