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 staff. This comes within the wake of constant backlash in opposition to the sport from obvious ‘anti-woke/anti-DEI’ content material creators, their followers, and a number of the sequence’ participant base.
Since Murderer’s Creed Shadows‘ reveal, some have taken problem with its portrayal of the historic determine Yasuke, a samurai of African origin.
Individually, gaming collectibles creator PureArts got here beneath fireplace for being “insensitive” in the 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.
Chatting with French media outlet BFMTV, an nameless Ubisoft worker claims that an “anti-harassment plan” has been carried out 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 staff that displays networks and acts rapidly within the occasion of a focused assault. In contrast to 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 with the intention to reply rapidly to the slightest downside. 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 obtained the next response from a spokesperson.
“Our stance has all the time been that staff members’ social media channels are their very own. Our prime precedence is the security 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 staff members’ well-being. We additionally share assets to assist forestall and shield in opposition to on-line harassment, one thing our groups have sadly confronted.”
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