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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
I've not kept up with Ubisoft news but enjoy their games immensely. What exactly is up with their scandal?
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The creative developer for AC Valhalla, Ashraf Ismail, allegedly was having an affair that went public when the woman he was dating found out he was married and went off on Twitter about it. Including screen shots of convos between them where he's lying his ### off, etc. To avoid dragging controversy and a PR mess into Valhalla right as they are gearing up for their marketing campaign leading into release (he would've been the face of Valhalla doing all the interviews), he stepped down, and to "focus on his family". I'm wondering if this will affect the Valhalla release, in terms of a possible delay.
It's huge too, as even though as mentioned in earlier posts, AC games are handled by multiple studios and seem to rotate each AC game as to which studio is the head one, Ashraf is kind of seen as THE creative director for AC, and their best guy. He was in charge of both Black Flag and Origins; some of the better AC's. That's a huge hole going forward for that franchise creatively if he ends up leaving permanently.
EDIT: I hear it was actually multiple executives who also had their own scandal. I hadn't heard about that, just Ashraf's. Crazy stuff going on over at Ubi..