Patrice Desilets
As we reported, Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Desilets was sacked by Ubisoft. Well, he's sueing the company. For a lot of money and for control of his 1666: Amsterdam game.
In our initial report Patrice stated that, "Contrary to any statements made earlier today, this morning I was terminated by Ubisoft", so he was sounding a tad pissed off then. He is pissed off to the sum of $400,000. French newspaper La Presse reports that:
"According to the petition filed by Patrice Désilets obtained by La Presse Friday, he was assured, verbally by CEO of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, that he "loved 1666 Amsterdam and wanted to continue the development." The game had come over as part of a deal made with THQ that also saw Patrice join Ubisoft. La Presse continues:
"But there was a stumbling block: the agreement between THQ and Désilets. It gave him too much creative freedom "so" Ubisoft would have difficulty controlling Désilets, "because of rights" were granted by a desperate person, "according to comments attributed to Mr. Guillemot in the query."
Basically, Désilets has an agreement which Ubisoft claims is invalid due to it being made under some form of duress, which we can only imagine was a bidding war.
As the paper explains, "The damage required are essentially a year of base salary Désilets, or $ 250,000, moral damages of $ 100 000, reimbursement of expenses incurred $ 35,000 and severance Research $ 25,000."
The case, as they say, continues.
In our initial report Patrice stated that, "Contrary to any statements made earlier today, this morning I was terminated by Ubisoft", so he was sounding a tad pissed off then. He is pissed off to the sum of $400,000. French newspaper La Presse reports that:
"According to the petition filed by Patrice Désilets obtained by La Presse Friday, he was assured, verbally by CEO of Ubisoft, Yves Guillemot, that he "loved 1666 Amsterdam and wanted to continue the development." The game had come over as part of a deal made with THQ that also saw Patrice join Ubisoft. La Presse continues:
"But there was a stumbling block: the agreement between THQ and Désilets. It gave him too much creative freedom "so" Ubisoft would have difficulty controlling Désilets, "because of rights" were granted by a desperate person, "according to comments attributed to Mr. Guillemot in the query."
Basically, Désilets has an agreement which Ubisoft claims is invalid due to it being made under some form of duress, which we can only imagine was a bidding war.
As the paper explains, "The damage required are essentially a year of base salary Désilets, or $ 250,000, moral damages of $ 100 000, reimbursement of expenses incurred $ 35,000 and severance Research $ 25,000."
The case, as they say, continues.
Companies:
Ubisoft
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