This second half of 2020 has been a period in which the victims of harassment and inappropriate behavior within the video game industry they have come out to point out their perpetrators.
One of the companies that accumulates more cases of this nature is Ubisoft, franchise owner like Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six and Far Cry.
Since last June, the French company has remained under public scrutiny, after it transpired that a toxic work environment It has been around for at least a decade.
And one of the people on whom direct accusations fell is Ashraf Ismail, who has served as creative director in various deliveries of Assassin’s Creed, between them Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which will arrive in November of this year.
Ismail was forced to step down as creative director of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla after the press announced that he held multiple extramarital affairs with women to whom he never mentioned that he was a married man.
Now, according to information from The Verge and Kotaku, Ismail ha sido fired from ubisoft, after having carried out the corresponding investigations.
In Kotaku’s case, there was access to a internal mail with which employees were informed that the company decided terminate the employment relationship with Ismail, after the results of an external investigation were received.
Another medium that confirmed the news was Eurogamer, to which a Ubisoft spokesperson said ‘As a result of the investigations, Ashraf Ismail has been separated from Ubisoft and is no longer an employee ‘.
Ismail was also creative director of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag and Assassin’s Creed Origins.
Its departure is unlikely to affect the development of Assassin’s Creed ValhallaWell, at this point the team should be polishing details and not working on the fundamentals of the game.
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