It’s been nearly two months since Ashraf Ismail stepped away from his role as creative director for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla amidst reports of rampant infidelity made worse by lying to his sexual partners about his marital status. The scandal touched off a reckoning for Ubisoftꦦ where current and former employees accused the French publisher of having a toxic work culture that both 🐻stifled and abused women both inside and outside of the company.
The reverberations of that scandal are still ongoing. Ubisoft announced a sweeping internal investigation into all reports of sexual harassmeℱnt that has already claimed multiple executive-level em🐼ployees. Now, we can add Ismail’s name to the list.
According to an internal memo obtained by , Ismail has been fired from Ub💙isoft.
“Foꦦllowing an investigation by an external firm, it was determined that Ashraf’s employment with Ubisoft had to be terminated,” the email read. “We cannot provide any details about this confidential inv𒈔estigation.”
Ubisoft ha🔯s yet to respond tꦚo requests for comment.
The difficulties for Ubisoft and Ismail began in late June when a Twitter post detailed the Valhalla creative director's infidelity.
"This person is married," wrote Dani Porter Bridges, a former partner who took to Twitter to warn other women of Ismail's behavior. "When he starts a relationship with you, know he's married. This is why he 🀅doesn't want to talk on the phone or facetime or have things sent to his home. His marriage has been confirmed by 3 people. I was with him for a year on and off before finding out."
After that, other women and ꧃even some co-workers came forward to confirm her story. The scandal grew and Ismail stepped away from the game he'd help create.
But it didn't stop there. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Ub♑isoft soon became embroiled in controversy as top-level executives were accused of misconduct and the company's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:HR was accused of trying to cover it u🅷p. This resulted in the departures of Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoët, Ubisoft Cꦑanada Director Yannis Mallat, Global He💫ad of HR Cécile Cornet, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Editorial Board member Maxime Béland, which was soon followed by the firing of fellow board member 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tommy Francois.
Ubisoft’s sexism isn’t just related limited to internal employee matters. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Recent allegations have accused Ubisoft of adding a male option to Valhalla’s canonically female protagonist, Eivor, although Valhalla’s narrative director denies this to be the case.
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