Former Murderer’s Creed franchise boss Marc-Alexis Côté is suing Ubisoft for greater than $1.3 million.
It was introduced in October 2025 that Côté had left Ubisoft, after engaged on the Murderer’s Creed collection for almost twenty years as a designer, director and producer.
In 2022, Côté was put in control of main Ubisoft’s world groups on the Murderer’s Creed franchise, tasked with shaping the long-term technique of the collection.
Nonetheless, final October Ubisoft’s new Tencent-backed subsidiary Vantage Studios began operation, overseeing the corporate’s three largest IPs – Murderer’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six.
Two weeks after Vantage began, co-CEOs Charlie Guillemot and Christophe Derennes emailed workers and posted a press launch claiming that Coté had been supplied a management place on the subsidiary however declined the provide, and had determined to go away Ubisoft.
Later that week Côté launched his personal assertion, claiming he didn’t resign and was “requested to step apart” by Ubisoft, who had “determined to switch the management of the Murderer’s Creed franchise to somebody nearer to its organizational construction”, including: “A special place was talked about, nevertheless it didn’t carry the identical scope, mandate, or continuity with the work I had been entrusted with lately.”
Now CBC Radio Canada studies that Côté is taking Ubisoft to court docket, citing “constructive dismissal” and claiming greater than $1.3 million in severance pay and ethical damages.
Côté’s lawsuit claims {that a} Ubisoft administration assembly held in the summertime of 2025 revealed that the corporate was trying to discover a ‘Head of Franchise’ who would oversee the three IPs taken over by Vantage, and that this place would have taken on most of Côté’s obligations.
Côté says he was as a substitute supplied the function of ‘Head of Manufacturing’, which might have reported to the Head of Franchise and would have prompted him to lose the status of overseeing the collection, in addition to his capacity to steer dialogue with companions like Netflix.
Based on Côté, Ubisoft then determined in September to supply him a management place at a possible “Inventive Home”, which might oversee Ubisoft’s second-tier collection. Provided that he noticed himself because the “guardian of the Murderer’s Creed collection, Côté claims these proposals had been primarily demotions.
Taking two weeks off to mirror as a result of he was “disoriented, confused, and affected by the anxiety-inducing scenario”, Côté says he was instructed by Ubisoft on the finish of this era that he needed to make his ultimate determination on whether or not to just accept the proposed new place. Côté determined that it was an “unacceptable demotion” and a “disguised dismissal”, so formally demanded Ubisoft pay him severance pay.
Côté claims that Ubisoft instructed him to not present up for work on October 13 and to proceed his interval off till it responded to his formal discover. The subsequent day, Ubisoft formally introduced that Côté had left his place.
The lawsuit claims that as a result of Ubisoft’s assertion advised a “voluntary departure”, the corporate was attempting to keep away from paying him severance and to maintain his non-compete clause lively (which presumably stays in impact when somebody voluntarily leaves an organization, however not in the event that they’re laid off).
Côté is claiming two years’ wage in severance pay, in addition to $75,000 in ethical damages (for what he says are an abuse of energy and hurt to his repute), for a complete of greater than $1.3 million. He has additionally requested the court docket to raise the non-compete clause.
VGC has contacted Ubisoft for remark.
