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Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash
Submitted 1 hour ago by Dremor@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-dies-in-plane-crash-2000708648
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rtxn@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
lemmyng@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Oh no…anyway
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Link your Ubisoft account, and for only 3000 Ubisoft Connect Points, you can unlock the new Elite Pro Club plane that never crashes!
x00z@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Karma.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I’m not saying he was a good guy, but he ain’t a war criminal and was maybe really nice for all we know so I don’t really understand how you can be happy about such news.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 28 minutes ago
He and his brothers still maintain control of Ubisoft (even though an attempted hostile takeover). It’s been shown in documents that management have known about but ignored the pervasive sexual misconduct there (in fact promoting the abusers) as well as extensive union busting, employee abuse, on top of the numerous lawsuits for selling/mismanaging customer data, rug pulls with games, and more. Claude Guillemot was an active founding member of the company and maintained his involvement throughout.
Those alone I believe earn the ire thrown at them. I personally add the moral failings of their early overenthusiastic adoption of NFTs and AI.
They very much are a part of the abusive wealthy class treating the world as their personal misogynistic playground.
To argue he was “maybe really nice” is to straight up ignore his hand in all of that. Try again.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 51 minutes ago
we know he stole the value of people’s labor.
0li0li@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
Clearly not a monster, but he does not sound that nice to me in this whole thing. I guess we’ll never know for sure.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Did we have another Luigi or something?
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
There’s a huge difference between refusing people healthcare and producing video games people are free to buy or not.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 27 minutes ago
Promoting sexual abusers and trying to cover up their abuse through two lawsuits though? Yeah, not a good look
meejle@piefed.world 1 hour ago
Globox Mangione
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
The Guillemonts are old money French aristocrats who escaped the Revolution by being out of the country. They are collectively terrible to others and are deliberately trying to tank Ubisoft so they can buy it back and take it private. All those anti consumer business moves Ubisoft males are their best ideas at making money. Hopefully the loss of the savvy one brings them back to reality but history and experience shows they won’t.