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Meh, I would have worried about that ten years ago when I still had hopes for a proper Beyond Good & Evil 2, after all the empty promises from UbiSoft but I just stopped caring a long time ago.

I can't talk to the reasons for this individual leaving but...

mxmissile wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 11:23:
I'd leave too, with all the SJW thought police taking over companies and destroying creativity.

Forget that shit, what about basic professionalism?

People who could barely function in a conventional working environment being hailed as "stars" while people around them work ocean's of overtime to execute their vision?

There aren't many professionals working in games. Even within the companies juvenile behaviour is encouraged as HR companies are told to hire "talent" and don't really evaluate potential staff as "professionals".

In art school we were taught that no matter how talented you are if you don't work on interpersonal skills you won't last in any creative field. Games development is swimming in people who didn't learn this part.

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I'm taking his words at face value until otherwise proven different. I would have got out of the game industry long before 30 years.

jdreyer wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 18:43:

mxmissile wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 11:23:
I'd leave too, with all the SJW thought police taking over companies and destroying creativity.

If you want to live completely free, you should move to Somalia. There aren't any thought police there. In fact, there aren't any police there at all.

pfft. He doesn't need to go that far. There are plenty of places in the US where you can get an off the grid homestead and you're essentially on your own. You can't really use the internet if you don't want to be exposed to the thought police, or new ideas, or different opinions, or other people's beliefs. Shrug.

I'm hoping Ancel invests his times well and makes a difference. Everything seems like it's burning these years.

mxmissile wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 11:23:
I'd leave too, with all the SJW thought police taking over companies and destroying creativity.

If you want to live completely free, you should move to Somalia. There aren't any thought police there. In fact, there aren't any police there at all.

wtf_man wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 17:17:
Not sure why folks are jumping to the conclusion that this has something to do with Ubisoft's harassment issues... 30+ years means the guy could simply want to move on.

/shrug

Agreed. He's retiring. He's likely made a fortune, he's nearing 50 which is a rare age for game devs, and he's done all he felt he needed to.

On to the dream life.

Not sure why folks are jumping to the conclusion that this has something to do with Ubisoft's harassment issues... 30+ years means the guy could simply want to move on.

/shrug

HorrorScope wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 14:08:

Kxmode wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 14:04:
Sometimes a person leaving for what they claim is exactly that and not some conspiracy of wrongdoing.

Games fucked!
You are right and we need to stop this ourselves because this is the same shit we blame the media for doing, connecting what seems like reasonable dots, but that doesn't make it true.

Before you can connect those reasonable dots, the dots have to exist. Arguing because other high profile Ubisoft people were ousted due to improper behavior doesn't mean every high profile person deciding to leave the company is automatically guilty of bad behavior. That's called prejudice and stereotyping. Or, as Stephen Colbert calls it, the truthiness of the situation. You know Michel Ancel is guilty because your gut told you so.

mxmissile wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 11:23:
I'd leave too, with all the SJW thought police taking over companies and destroying creativity.

That's probably a factor, particularly with Ubisoft producing. Still it's better to help wildlife anyway.

Kxmode wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 14:04:
Sometimes a person leaving for what they claim is exactly that and not some conspiracy of wrongdoing.

Games fucked!
You are right and we need to stop this ourselves because this is the same shit we blame the media for doing, connecting what seems like reasonable dots, but that doesn't make it true.

Sometimes a person leaving for what they claim is exactly that and not some conspiracy of wrongdoing.

PC

Beamer wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 11:32:

mxmissile wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 11:23:
I'd leave too, with all the SJW thought police taking over companies and destroying creativity.

You're free to. If you dislike America, you can go to China. I'm sure they won't mind you not treating people like people

Wow. But China is also restricting people to what China thinks is best (like more and more western countries do, too). Let's just say that in different ways and to different degrees in the different countries, the freedom of opinions is getting smaller pretty much everywhere on this planet.

So - leave Earth for Mars?

Good for him.
I hope he enjoys Version 2.0 of his life as much as we enjoyed 1.0

mxmissile wrote on Sep 18, 2020, 11:23:
I'd leave too, with all the SJW thought police taking over companies and destroying creativity.

You're free to. If you dislike America, you can go to China. I'm sure they won't mind you not treating people like people

I'd leave too, with all the SJW thought police taking over companies and destroying creativity.