The creators of Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human did not anticipate the dissemination of "homophobic, misogynist and racist" photos.
Quantic Dream will have to compensate with an amount greater than 5,000 euros to a former employee of the company who denounced the dissemination of "homophobic, racist and misogynist" photos by his colleagues, as the Labor Court of Paris has ruled.
In early 2018, several media outlets, including Le Monde, published in their pages that study members had denounced sexist and homophobic practices, as well as inappropriate behaviors within Quantic Dream, the study responsible for games such as Beyond: Two Souls, Heavy Rain or the recent Detroit: Become Human. As a result, the company was denounced by former employees. Now, the courts have ruled a conviction against Quantic Dream, although other allegations of former workers have been dismissed.
The judicial defeat of the study has occurred against a former employee, since the judge has estimated that the photos released were "homophobic, misogynist, racist and deeply vulgar." They consider proven that they were created by other employees and shared among the team members without the management being able to protect the victim. Therefore, the sentence requires Quantic Dream to pay 5000 euros to the employee as compensation. You must pay another 2000 euros for legal costs.
The sentence does not condemn the study for the content of the images, but for failing to protect its employee. It specifies that the humorous spirit that the company defended does not accept a “more than questionable practice”. The study, meanwhile, has published a tweet in which the sentence is celebrated as a judicial victory.
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"The judge has rejected all the main requests of former employees and has considered very clearly that the image" Super Nanny "does not justify their demands, since there was no deterioration of their working conditions in the company," they say in the tweet. "The judge later determined that the company's executives acted appropriately, as they took the necessary measures on the day of the incident in question."
The statement continues in this way. “The former employee has obtained only compensation of 5000 euros (plus 2000 euros of costs) for 'security obligations'. Although these images were created outside working hours and there were no complaints, the company should have anticipated the possibility that these captures would circulate without control, since they were designed at the company's facilities. ”
The company also confirms that it will not resort to the sentence. He also says he publishes the statement to avoid misinformation.
Quantic Dream was linked to Sony for several years, although its contract with the Japanese company expired a few months ago. Since then, the studio has decided to follow a cross-platform path and become a completely independent company. Thus, all the exclusive titles of the PlayStation platform have also been marketed on PC. Detroit: Become Human will go on sale on December 12 at Epic Games Store
