Ubisoft Montpellier is dealing with one other shakeup because the studio sheds Past Good and Evil 2’s managing director amid a labor investigation. A big portion of its builders are dealing with burnout and going via their sick go away, resulting in the investigation.
Kotaku studies that the Inspection du Travail has opened an investigation into the Montpellier-based studio based mostly on the unprecedented dozens of burnout and sick go away employees ranges. It was additionally revealed that Ubi vet, Guillaume Carmona, the managing director, can be leaving the corporate for an undisclosed cause.
This isn’t the primary time the Past Good and Evil 2 developer confronted a labor investigation. Final December, it confronted one other massive variety of employees taking day without work, and whereas some got here again to the studio, others left, sparking a check-in by the authorities.
It’s value noting that the undertaking has had a latest shakeup that noticed senior artistic director Jean-Marc Geffroy off the undertaking and the promotion of Emile Morel, who served as the sport’s affiliate director. Charles Gaudron grew to become its new recreation director after Benjamin Dumaz left Ubisoft after 14 years to affix the indie recreation studio, Construct A Rocket Boy.
It doesn’t fairly make a lot distinction as Kotaku’s sources retain that the group nonetheless can’t determine what to do with BG&E2 because it beats out Duke Nukem Without end’s Improvement Hell file final yr.
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