Assassin's Creed Veteran Jade Raymond to Head Ubisoft Toronto

Any fellow Torontonians have any idea how I can get a job there doing bitch work or better? Also my friend who has actual skills like writing.

I would like to be one of the first to say this. This women is HOT only in video game land. Where she goes to the Bar at she is officially wallpaper. If you point her out you go well not bad but if you don't point her out you'll never notice her. Don't get me wrong defiantly cute but hot please!!! I mean not to brag but my hit list contains women that would smoke her in the hotness category. When you go out she is a consultation prize not the big bonus if you get my drift! This is the most horrifically male shovenist post I've ever made. But at least I'm not saying she got the job because she's hot , cuase that wouldn't be true.

Aside from being the photogenic face of Ubisoft in photo-ops and interviews, I'd guess that - at best - she might be doing a bit of work that could be classed as "project management", but I would say it's extremely unlikely that she represents any sort of creative force behind the games, despite what Ubisoft's marketing campaign would like us to believe. She's basically Stevie Case++, and Ubisoft are dicks for whoring her out as such.

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Whether you're bashing her or saying nice things about her, the bottom line is that the only reason anyone (male and on Shacknews, that is) seems to care is because she's an attractive woman. No one really checked her credentials, and if they did, it was only to affirm their prejudiced opinion. The knee-jerk reaction of a male commentator is pretty predictable: either it is dismissive out of disbelief or sympathetic out of a desire to possess her. Why the fuck can't anyone conjecture about more interesting things?

And yeah, her work history is brief and not very illustrious. But then again, does anyone have more than a vague idea what a video game producer does? Did anyone look it up on Wikipedia? Does anyone realize that it is almost completely managerial and administrative in function? Most of the measures of success in this area of games is internal information that wouldn't necessarily be shared outside of a firm.

She could very well be a cut-throat bitch who knows how to get a job done efficiently and is a nightmare to work under. I think discourse on THAT would be a hell of a lot more interesting than sticking to the dipshit assumption that because she's hot she got the job. That doesn't make a damn bit of sense. And thanks alot for every one of you idiots who put that forth, because with that gem of insight you are all acting like the "big-tittied bimbos" that you assume every attractive woman is.

All I'm trying to say here is that the fact that she's hot is not the most interesting aspect of this story. She's the executive producer. Can anyone even name another famous producer besides Richard Garriott? I would rather hear stories about how she's qualified to get that responsibility at a firm like Ubisoft, because I really doubt a company that makes rational decisions would see anything to gain from this kind of attention. Not to mention the fact that the attention is (as far as I know) only coming from people who assume she got the job because she's pleasant to look at.

People really say some off the wall shit when their opinion is based on stupid prejudices.

Gotta love the picture with her smiling and nearly every other person in there with a look of contempt. Who fuckin cares about Jade Raymond? Anybody? I thought not.

At least 400 of those 800 jobs better be to help Michel Ancel make Beyond Good & Evil 2.

Amazing how all of this back and forth drama can simply be traced back to a person's appearance. Yes she's a fox but that really seems to bring out some odd behaviour in this industry and a mountain of opinions that snowball into a monster which takes on a life of its own. Much ado about nothing.

"She is a woman and also pretty, this means she cannot do her job"

Way to be predictable, shack.

12 years experience?

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Good for her either way, though.

she's quite hot, and therefore quite capable of doing a bang-up job I'd say.

Would anyone be saying all this shit if some male producer was promoted to run Ubi Toronto? I doubt it.

Wow, that picture is wrong on so many levels. The fact that she is out in front of all the other devs, singled out, would piss me off if I worked there. Feels eerily similar to the PR treatment of the infamous Stevie Case at Ion Storm.

is she the reason assassin's creed was so bad?

What a terrible photo and what a huge spotlight whore.

too bad assassin's creed was junk. companies probably wonder why blizzard is so godly... well looking at this its not hard to see the differences in how things are done. those are; one prioritizes pure, successful gameplay and great working games, while the others go for glamor and fluff.

Stevie Case syndrome.

A true program manager stands behind their team, or at least to the side. Any manager that stand well in front of their team, and obviously isolated from the group, needs to be slapped.

All I can think is, "I'm pretty, put me in the front!" She's incredibly out on her own there. I don't remember most game developer group shots like this, most are people all lining up like a class shot.

I hope she enjoys our $263 million that we're paying them to create those jobs. As a taxpayer, does that I mean I sort of possibly own a part of Ubisoft?

When are they opening Ubisoft Halifax? I'll run it for 'em!

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I like that picture in the article. I would bet Ubi gave those guys a couple extra vacation days if they could keep their eyes off of her ass for the photo.

That's good news. They need some experienced people to head up the new studio.