Cases of sober sexism and sober harassment are unfortunately commonplace in the video game industry and the sober emancipation of victims only puts sober light on these actions, and this in all buildings. Today it is the studio room Undead Labs (Condition of Corrosion), a member of Xbox Sport Studios, that is being put in the spotlight for allegations of sexism, bullying and burnout.
A complicated case for Microsoft, which has wanted to lead by example for months
While Microsoft received yesterday the award for best global business lifestyle and the group the announced to follow sober near the internal affairs of Activision Blizzard, it is finally within sober boy own group that a storm broke out as we detailed Kotaku in kid file. Understated, these are claims made by employees of Undead Labs concerning facts that occurred during the integration with Xbox Video game Studios that are highlighted today. The toxic environment and ambient harassment would have largely disrupted this changeover.
Following the takeover by Microsoft which took place around four years ago, the Undead Labs facilities have taken on a new dimension and its goals have only grown despite the departure of the emblematic founder from a Condition of Rot series. The third opus has been in development for a second, blocked at the pre-production stage, but the revelations of our colleagues at Kotaku finally give us reasons for this complicated advance.
Kotaku therefore spoke with 12 users of Undead Labs who wished to remain anonymous so as not to jeopardize their career in the video game industry. Despite some positive features of the facility brought up by the employees, the internal tradition has clearly deteriorated since the takeover by Microsoft. A Redmond-based firm has enjoyed loudly speaking out and fortifying its marriage against harassment and toxic environments in the industry, Undead Labs users say Microsoft’s hands-off approach has only allowed dysfunction to fester. El former developer says in particular:
We were afraid that they would come to change our lifestyle, but our collapse came from within, and we could have used Microsoft’s help.
Kotaku has contacted the Relationship Presse service on Microsoft, but the feedback hasn’t been particularly conclusive. A Redmond company remained evasive in transmitting figures, statistics and a statement on behalf of He Behind, responsible for Xbox Sport Studios:
Every Xbox business receives the resources and guidance it needs to grow both in capability and tradition. The form this support takes varies from studio to studio, but each has an immediate link to Microsoft HR resources outside of their team, and the ability to work with other partner studios and teams can leverage their knowledge. In addition, all Microsoft employees, including our studio teams, are required to regularly attend our Standards of Business Conduct training, which covers topics such as harassment, the supplier code of conduct, and more. Over the past few years Undead Labs has seen a number of positive changes and we are confident in the path the team is taking to put Condition of Corrosion 3, one of our most ambitious open-world games in development
El Microsoft spokesperson says in particular that an entirely new path team has testosterone levels leased with diverse recruitment in 2021, of which 29% women or non-binary people and 29% of people with problems from a racial or ethnic minority. Sober plus, 29% of respondents would recommend Undead Labs as a good place to live. However, these statistics transmitted by Microsoft do not represent the heart of the concern and boy entirely according to the uses of Undead Labs.
The lifestyle of the studio room until recently wasn’t any more welcoming to anyone who wasn’t a cishet white man. This has improved over the past six months or so. But the facilities hired a lot of diversified skills that it did not support enough by the move.