One male employee apparently said “You don’t look as pretty as normal today,” and “I’m surprised a girl like you has this job.”

What it was in actuality was studio leadership painting a DEI face for Microsoft, while women were consistently ignored, dismissed, interrupted, talked over, and blamed,” said a former developer.Īnother former developer said that men would ask them to take notes during meetings, ignore their knowledge and make sexist comments. “When I interviewed at the Lab, I was sold a studio in transition that was making a top priority. We needed to protect the jobs, benefits, and work culture we’d built up over the past eight years, and so we were receptive to acquisition discussions with Microsoft,” Strain added.Īs outlined in the report, staff at Undead Labs also highlight how the studio was home to discrimination against female, non-binary and other marginalised groups employed there. “When you own an independent studio you are personally responsible for it-if you fail a milestone and don’t get paid, you have to cover the payroll personally-and SoD3 was going to be way beyond anything we could personally back financially.

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