Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps are two of the best platforms that have been published in recent years, in addition to being two of the most visually beautiful games that we can find in the Xbox console catalog. .
However, in recent days, an investigative report by VentureBeat has come to light in which several workers from Moon Studios, developer of Ori, talk about the toxic work environment in the studio, with its founders, Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol, treating his employees inappropriately, insulting them, making sexual comments or heavy jokes that harm the workers.
After this report surfaced, Windows Central reporter Jez Corden has come to the fore to corroborate this environment toxic work from their own sources while the well-known Jeff Grubb has commented on his podcast that Microsoft was aware of the problems of this developer and that, after finishing Ori and the Will of the Wisps, they decided to cut ties with them and not publish their next title, a new role and action IP to be published this time Private Division.
Three other indie studios have also been accused of a toxic work environment
Moon Studios is not the only indie studio with a bad work environment that has been talked about these days since a People Make Games report also points to Mountains (Florence), Fullbright (Gone Home) and Funomena (Wattam) as developers with a bad work environment, with bosses with abusive behavior that even use personal information of their workers to humiliate them.
To this we must add the continuous reports of labor abuses by studios within large companies, the clearest examples being those of Activision Blizzard and, on the other hand, Ubisoft.