Ubisoft Launches Project Rise, a Five-Year Plan to Improve Diversity at Its Studios

[Tsing]

Ubisoft has shared a blog post that details some of the changes that it's making to improve workplace culture at its studios.

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[MadMummy76]

How about improving your games, huh? How about improving your grasp on what people want and what they do not?

I don't give two tosses about your ethnic and gender makeup as long as you are making good games. Unfortunately when a company virtue signals about diversity it usually results in the opposite of hiring talent and making good games. Just look at Volition's latest messaging, and how Saints Row turned out.

 

[Brian_B]

This is the type of move you make because you are either courting a buyout, cut off a lawsuit before it starts, or trying to stave off more drastic action from the board of directors.

It really has nothing to do with making games, other than the company in question happens to make games.

 

[Grimlakin]

How about improving your games, huh? How about improving your grasp on what people want and what they do not?

I don't give two tosses about your ethnic and gender makeup as long as you are making good games. Unfortunately when a company virtue signals about diversity it usually results in the opposite of hiring talent and making good games. Just look at Volition's latest messaging, and how Saints Row turned out.

A game like saints row should feed diversity by being equally insulting to everyone. Fighting a gang of native American Indians who have a Asian Indian accent and attack you with katanas while being predominantly Slavic and screaming in Hebrew would fit saints row better than trying to be inclusive.

 

[MadMummy76]

It's better to make an offensive game, than an offensively bad game.

 

[DrezKill]

How about improving your games, huh? How about improving your grasp on what people want and what they do not?

Methinks you are asking too much of them. You expect Ubisoft to improve, and to do sensible, logical things? What kind of drugs are you on?

It's better to make an offensive game, than an offensively bad game.

Now there's some food for thought.