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The thing about being offended is that some people insist on deliberately misinterpreting the intent of what someone else has, maliciously, so they can get a dopamine hit off of having power over someone else's speech and for being a righteous white knight (even if it's only thinly-veiled self-righteousness). Basically, I believe that acting in good faith is essential for any communication to be successful. Both parties must try in good faith, both sender and receiver, to ensure communication can be understood accurately. If either party acts in bad faith, it's bound to fail. Why do people think that bad faith actors deserve second chances, or to have their voices be heard or validated? If they don't try in good faith, they don't deserve to be a part of any discussion. And debate relies on communication. And communication can only work in an environment of mutual good faith. That's why ostracism, digital exile, muting, banning and ignoring are the only tools. All it is is just another form of trolling.
what the fk? why mention Hiroshima? ok, fk you. The nukes are from the United States and Ubisoft is from France. how that have anything to do with each others?
@@donghuaworlds3837OR…or…hear me out here….a period appropriate Japanese male samurai - cause u know - females weren’t allowed to BE samurai in that period…(even though personally i would enjoy some femme samurai cake!)
It''s still beyond me, that they manage to fuck up Assasins Creed in Japan. You just had to make a fucking playable ninja lol how could you possible fuck that up? Unbelivable
There was no "boys club" days. That's the word salad vrap feminists play at in their shaming language attempts. Thete was a predominantly male lead industry because it was and still is a predominantly male hobby. When ypu drop mobile games from the list few women are in gaming yet we're supposed to change everything we do to accommodate those few?
How Ubisoft died: 1.- Ditching Assassin's Creed original ending (thus forcing the writer to change his original vision) to milk the franchise. This happened somewhere in 2009, before AC: Brotherhood. 2.- Rushing their games so they could release one per year. 3.- The creation of their launcher/store, in a world full of third-party launchers nobody wants. 4.- The CEO's flawed vision of "Gamers are not yet ready for AAAA games". 5.- AC: Shadows as the final nail in the coffin.
Does the "ditching the original ending" have something to do with Desmond dying, by any chance? Because ever since then I haven't given a flying fuck about the lore. So much buildup for nothing. Stopped playing the series after AC4 as well (I actually liked it quite a bit, there was just nothing "assassin" about it, they put the title on there just to sell to the fans). Feels pointless to care about it when they try to leave an open door every time rather than giving it a satisfying conclusion. And also their games are becoming more and more like MMORPGs with quality based items, ridiculously high numbers for some reason, and very little actual assassin stuff. Their CEO is a hack who keeps making decisions based on what is popular without adding any depth to it. All their recent games are proof (Star Wars speaks for itself, Skull and Bones when Sea of Thieves was rising up in popularity, and maybe he thought he could recapture the audience that left after AC4, and an AC in Japan because... Japan.)
@@masterblaster2678 No. Well, yes, sorta. The present storyline was going to have a resolution, although the change of plans within Ubisoft in 2009 forced them to improvise in between that year and 2012. Originally, Desmond was going to leave with Lucy, possibly to the Moon. "Briefly put, the third game would end with a resolution of the conflict in the present day, with Desmond Miles taking down Abstergo using the combined knowledge and skills of all his ancestors, including AC1's Altair and AC2's Ezio," wrote de Wildt in a footnote. "Also, it is the end of the world in 2012, and Desmond Miles and Lucy are starting a new civilization somewhere else - as Adam and Eve." Series creator Desilets told de Wildt: "That's why she's called Lucy, after the Australopithecus afarensis." As for where Desmond and Lucy were heading? "Boom! It's a freaking spaceship!" Desilets replied." (from Eurogamer). Assassin's Creed was never going to be more than a trilogy. Instead (and as much as I like Brotherhood and Revelations), Assassin's Creed kick-started the 1 game per year policy which was the beginning of Ubisoft's terribly QC with their games, and the slow and painful death of one of their most original pitches. Assassin's Creed III could have been the most fleshed-out game in the franchise serving as the definitive ending, but it simply opened the door for more and more entries in the series which didn't fit the original vision. I dare to say, if they hadn't interfered, this "Assassin's Creed Trilogy" would have competed with the best-sellers books in terms of writing and story-telling. Patrice-Désilets never got a chance to finish his own story. What do we learn? Never interfere with the artist, especially if said artist already has a plan they want to follow. The only way to save Assassin's Creed is to remake the first game with the original puppeteer control schemes to test the waters, then make a deal to reboot the franchise entirely (Soul Calibur, an extremely niche fighting game got the reboot treatment by remaking the first game in response to the backlash of Soul Calibur V. This is a prime example of why it could happen if they wanted). But Ubisoft just crashed, there's no coming back from this.
@@coolmuzt Shadows isn't the nail, that was Outlaws. That was supposed to be their cash cow for the year, and that spooked them, which is why they're pulling AC Shadows. They want the bad press cycle to die, and maybe remove some elements that people hated in outlaws. They've made bad assassin's creed games for so long people are nostalgic for Unity, which was boring and full of micro transactions.
Absolute inoffensiveness in itself makes something offensive, both mentally and to the senses. It's like the uncanny valley with mannequins, it kinda maybe sort of looks like what it's supposed to look, but you can tell it's soulless so it comes off as unnerving and downright disturbing.
We have to go back to the basics. You need to consult people who are japanese, that also specialize in japanese history. How hard is that to find? Some white racist neckbeard aka half of ubisoft wont be able to make it
@@J.B.1982 Their ideology is money. They go all in on making neutered uninteresting and inoffensive stuff to appeal to casual audiences because they make up 99% of their bottom line these days.
Maybe advertising the game by releasing footage of a 6'8 foreigner slaughtering a bunch of Japanese villagers while rap music plays in the background isn't the best way to promote your game?
You summed it up. It feels so absurdly disrespectful, especially considering every single other AC game had had a main character that fit the country you were playing in. All except this one. Fuck this game, man. Ubisoft are so woke their a joke now.
It's also pretty funny that his defining characteristics are being "strong and fast". And with the tori gate stuff, it's like they just can't see that they are in fact out of touch with reality.
I remember taken a trip to Italy with my family after playing Ezio in AC2. Took a tour and was asked by the guide how I knew so much about the area having never been there my response was Assassin's Creed. It one of my most favorite memories. Something I loved video games taught me something about real history that I would never get from a book. History was one of my worst subjects. Granted not everything was accurate but at least 80% was. The entire purpose of these games was educational but entertaining. Being an Assassin in a point in time of history telling there story while educating the player on the era which they are playing. That was Assassin's Creed. I became so in love with this game that I decided that I would visit each location generally that each character played in. All the way to Origins in Egypt. Each time the amount of knowledge I learnt through the game and my own researched decreased. This turned one of my favorite memories and hobbies into something I felt lost itself in. But now I feel like its the Game who has lost it self.
Joke’s on you 🫵😂had you kept on going with that amazing educational field trip idea just a bit longer, you would’ve gotten the chance to speak to a big bull man, a giant one eyed creep, a snake lady and abird lady. Also, you could’ve seen awe inspiring sites such as a giant magical, totally not mythical underwater city, an underground cemetery and discount heaven!! All 100% historically accurate, all of which existed in real life, once upon a time 🤩🙄😒
@@Doomergedon the difference between your word and what actually happened is entirely different. Before the trip took place I research the things I learnt to be sure I what I learnt wasn't fantasy base filler history. So yeah I actually took a big interest with history because of these games. Your opinion is mute.
I doubt they’ll go under; companies like them have MASSIVE backing from some of the largest investors in the world, but they’re certainly going to have to work hard to get back some of that good will they used to have.
@@robotron1236 thats not how it works, over the last 2 years weve seen multiple developers go under, and its an increasingly large and frequent number. these companies are 100% going under, how do you think stock price works? everybody is dumping them because nobody wants to waste money on them now
@@Rootiga maybe you’re right, but I’m actually somewhat doubtful on that considering how large of a company they are. I’d like to see them go under, but in reality, these large corporations will probably get bailed out, or bought out, by some kind of large investment firm. While I completely understand that people are running from their stock, someone with enough money is going to buy the dip and possibly turn the sinking ship around, and at the very least, make it profitable. A behemoth like Ubisoft doesn’t typically disappear, they just change hands. This kind of stuff happens all the time, in every industry. They will probably go bankrupt, but that doesn’t mean they’ll just vanish into thin air; that almost never happens with publicly traded companies, it’s pretty rare.
@@robotron1236 Considering the investors are publicly calling for the guilmont family to resign I don't think Ubisoft has a bright future, their stock recently dipped below 10 euros a share too.
Here's my issue with Shadows. Altair was a middle eastern man game set in middle east. Ezio was Italian, set in Italy. Connor, native American set in north America. Bayak and Aya, Africans set in Africa. Alexis and Kassandra, Greeks set in Greece. Ivor, Scandinavian set in Scandinavia/Europe. Yasuke, African set in Japan. Can we see which one of these things is not like the others?
That's been my point of contention as well. They could have easily allowed Yasuke to be a valuable side character you got to meet but no. They promoted him to a main in a stealth game in a county he isn't native too. So disappointed.
@@yelsahblah3270also the fact that yasuke was basically just another slave who was only there for a year or two and didn't do anything noteworthy. Everything else was completely made up by a white dude recently. History fanfic.
When u see that sweet baby is involved and you know what the people working for the company stand for then you may see that it is indeed flat out disrespect straight up done on purpose.@octavianpopescu4776
Yea now way in hell it was because yasuke was interesting. Being a badass hulking black man of a foreigner fits some peoples bill of interesting which fair enough but to me that has to be the most immersion breaking choice they could have possibly made that feels completely disingenuous and forced😂
Exactly. Diversity blended together only makes a mess. True appreciation of diversity is keeping them separate and distinct from each other. No one wants to mix Sour Cream and Union chips with Sharp Chedder, you put them in separate bowls and enjoy each one's distinct taste instead of lumped together and their flavors blend
@@ReiseLukas They aren't even doing that though. You may see the occasional other ethnicity brought up to preserve the facade, but "diversity" always boils down to a west-centric, weird black power movement. It's always about inserting african american characters/people at the expense of all other groups. And the funny thing there is it's ONLY blacks in america/britain/etc with their own messed up culture that has a chip on their shoulder, you don't really get them talking about actual Africans with their own culture, because they don't have an ideology of racial hatred/racial supremacy. So even taken on its own terms, "diversity" does not fulfill its own logic, it emphasizes a very small group of people, which checks out when you remember it's an ideology of the elites, not the masses.
Worked in Ubisoft before for 8 years in North America. I am not Caucasian. One time the local government went to visit the studio and HR are introducing DIVERSITY, literally they said "We have such diversity here, we have Canadian here, Korean over there, Chinese at this corner, and also Indian....." and I looked at my Indian coworker, he was like "Bro WTF is this auction house style shit?" DEI is the most RACIST BS I have ever seen and I am glad the market is responding to this BS
@@richmondvand147 you can believe it. I also currently work on one of the big name brand game franchises.. for 8 years ago, his description sounds about right. At that time, my employer was also falling over themselves to worship at the altar of woke. At that time, the offices almost literally had rainbow wallpaper, and every day brought a new deluge of emails "celebrating" some different checkbox group (never white guys).
It's actually astonishing, I suggest watching japenese folks react to the work in progress trailer, literally every scene is absurdly wrong: - Torii gate in the beginning leads to shrines, not just scattered for villages, never. - Sakura blossoms arent blooming when rice is being is being planted. - Sakura Blossoms and apples never bloom at the same time - He is walking into enemy territory, it is a time of civil war, farmers were armed, they'd live for years from selling his armor and horse, he would be zero'd instantly. - The Shiba inu, is absurdly huge - Villagers complain aobut taxes, taxes in those times are paid in rice. They are actually planting the rice in the game....what are they paying taxes from. And so on and so on....
slight correction on Torii gate part, they are a symbol of God realm entrance, if you cross Torii gate, you go into where god's live, so they often seen at the road or gate of shrines.
I love how certain media outlets say, "It's racism. People don't like playing as black people." Brother, pretty much the whole community LOVES Bayek! Adewale is also beloved by the community. We want MORE of Adewale. The player base isn't the racist ones. It's the idiots who claim that we are racists but, in reality, they are the ones who are truly racist.
Look man, there's definitely plenty of legit criticism, and I'm sure it's a shit game. However, a lot of people really hate having a black guy in the game. Which is a shame because it distracts from the things that actually make it shit.
@XandateOfHeaven I can see a few fans who are just inherently racist, but most of the complaints are due to Yasuke being a real character. Pretty much all AC games have a fictional character as the protagonists, and only the supporting characters are real people. It would be better if it was some fictional black samurai as the protagonist with Yasuke, maybe being his mentor or something, as that fits better with the previous AC games and narrative. Also, people hate the fact that Yasuke can't do parkour, and when he fights (based on the trailer), there is HIP HOP playing as the background noise. I would consider that extremely racist. As I said in my comment, fans loved Adewale and Bayek, so it isn't really the colour of the skin that's the issue. But yes, I do agree that there are other things about the game that should be more of the focus of criticism. A small criticism I have is the other character (sorry, I forgot her name), who does stupid tricks. Crazy front flips. No Assassin would do that as it just increases the risk of injuring yourself, and it wastes considerably more energy than just jumping.
we love bayak and adewale so much the skin tone was never something we cared about. in spite of it being obviuos i never put two and two together that nayak was black. thats how little his race ment to me.
I agree! Like, in general, one of the most famous and beloved video game characters is CJ from San Andreas, a black man literally from the "hood", so what "racism" are we even talking about? 😂 Imo, I would have no problem with Yasuke being a DLC protagonist, but he is just such a contentious figure at this point, it's better if they just had a Japanese samurai character as the base game MC, but we know that won't happen.
Exactly. Speak with your wallet. It's the only way to get through to these overlord agenda driven game companies. Ubisoft deserves to be yet another prime example of what happens to these Woke companies pushing their agendas on us gamers. Just like Concord.
I just don’t understand when the corporate mentality shifted from “we made a product people didn’t like, let’s make a better one” to “we made a product people didn’t like, they’re wrong”. Such a dumb perspective. We gotta stop supporting these companies. Let them sink, the cream will rise to the top.
At some point the creatives and engineers that initially created success with their wildly popular products were outnumbered by Business Degree douche-bro vampires.
Because if they admit they are wrong they can’t bribe the shareholders into letting them stay a bit longer. They will never admit a mistake, working in corporate all my life and people who admit to mistakes don’t make it to levels 1-3
@@ashercubid9848 So there's actually a phenomenon where if a company is narrowly focused on revenue and expenses then small incremental changes build up to ruin the value proposition of a company. You run into this when value proposition isn't integrated into strategy and performance metrics. If you reward for revenue and cost, but people buy your products for reasons other than it being the cheapest option, then you will eventually make a worse product that alienates your customers. It's basically the reason every chain restaurant eventually gets shitty and dies. Private equity comes in, doesn't understand the value proposition but does understand cost cutting, and the company is butchered. Pizza Hut used to make their dough in sight.
@user-t5l2zit's gotten to the point where gamers have had enough. The apolitical gamers are tired of boring repetitive design that doesn't push the industry any further. Then you have the political gamers that can see all the propaganda littered all over the industry and the people within it. It has been a bloodbath year for the gaming industry, and it will continue. They can delay this game all they want, there's not enough time to fix all the problems with it. There's rumors that they're going to delay GTA 6 another year to fix a lot of the dei issues as well. We'll have to see but the gamers have had enough.
It's worse than that... it's a product that isn't allowed to be fixed. Someone implements something and it can't be criticized for fear of hurting their feelings, regardless of wether that thing is good or not
This is a wider cultural thing that I can't stand. This pathological positivity where criticism itself is no longer valid. In fact it's immediately called out as "attacks" and "harassment". Corporate tools and ideologues have learned to hijack this cultural trend for their own benefit, and it's maddening to watch.
Gamedev here ; It's like that everywhere nowadays. Even studios that used to be all about the passion have become so big corporations. I had 1 lead before that was supervising my work - that used to be the one mentoring me, that build the studio. Within the last year before I left, I had 1 lead, 1 director, 1 senior director, and most of them are people who joined the company within the past year or past few months, being promoted up to 4 times in a year, while I have been there 7 years. My promotion was denied over and over because of "attitude" problem -- attitude that goes against the company view and ended me at HR more than once (that attitude problem was me complaining the game we are working on is not good enough and we should do more but the answer I got was "Meh, good enough"). Those new hires have no experience at all , and they aren't gamers, they come in and want to change everything we've been working on for the past year or so, and are so ego driven. It's sad. Luckily, I could retire. Look a bit around, lot of people who've been with big studios are leaving, so many veterans are just starting their own companies or retiring, this is a reason for that. By the end I was working 17-18h a day, 7/7. While other were promoted and cut everything down at 4pm every day. Barely doing anything, always that mentality "It's good enough, nobody cares." I didn't think it was good enough. I couldn't be associated with that kind of work, so I left.
you are just an amazing worker, literally u cared about the game, company, and everything and they are just pointing the gun on their heads waiting for the trigger to be ramdomly pulled, u cant change a marketing and decision making that do not even fly to the public of the people that will give you the money, is like giving a raw meat to a cow saying "if you dont eat the meat you are mostly wrong" or giving a salad to a lion, its amazing
I wish a new game company just comes out and it purges all these pandering in gaming and creates a banger game and it's managed by people who actually love making games
Not everywhere. Why can Larian and CDPR release mature, gritty games with "real" writing that doesn't shy away from difficult and "taboo" topics and gamers love that, but other devs can't do that? Why?
Most people are casual players who don't have the time to do research on videogames, so they buy games based on the name and box art. The fact that Ubisoft's whole sales strategy is to focus on that group of people and take advantage of their lack of knowledge on purpose is just sickening.
I feel like I, as well as many others, started as a casual 12 year old gamer buying games because of the cool name and box art, and have grown into someone who somewhat cares about actual quality in the games I now spend my own money with
@@kiwd-dynamic Yeah. The thing is AssCreed being single player game means they can just dump it as a writeoff. Unlike say live service game, where keeping the game afloat is costly.
@@MassimoMinoliUbisoft's fiscal year ends in March if they release this game in February this will not show on their books till the following fiscal year.
There are videos in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Malay etc every day that trash this game, with hundreds of thousands of view. English criticism is actually a small fraction compared to Asian criticism.. Go search the game's title in any of those languages. Yes, even countries that hate Japan hate this game.
@@nabe999 He’s saying that even countries who don’t necessarily like Japan (to put it lightly) despise the game that is holy inaccurate to it’s portrayal of the country.
@@CollegeBallYouknowtbf from my experience the average Japanese/Korean/Chinese necessarily carries these hatred. At least no where as much as the average murican hates asians as a collective. Hence the unity
I saw a comment on another video about ubisoft, they described them as a "zombie company, struggling to live on while holding on to what identity they had" (or something similar). I think it's a great way to describe the situation going on, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of corporate AAA studios are in a similar position, even in the TV/movie world this is happening.
WE do! And it does show, but so far the broad mass has not fully understood it. And those people think they have to double down on being more DEI because they dont even listen to their audience as shown in this video. Give it 2-3 more years then most got it, then 2 more years until we see better games coming out
Ubisoft going down and possibly going private would be the better thing to happen. At least there's a possibility for them to focus on the games and customers rather than their shareholders and other bullshits. They got too big for their own good.
I lived in Japan for 14 years and was married to a local for 10. I have two teenage children who are dual citizens and spent half their childhood there. I lived in Nara, Osaka, and Kyoto, where at least part of AC Shadows is supposed to take place. I actually worked in Morinomiya for a few years, literally across the street from the grounds of Osaka Castle. The Torii isn't just a gate to Shinto shrines, it's the symbol of the religion itself. It's like the Cross for Christianity, the Star of David for Judaism, or the Crescent for Islam. While they don't expect it of tourists, as a resident I was expected to remove my hat when I walked underneath them. In addition to Shinto shrines, they are erected in places of great sentimental importance, like around schools to protect their children, or cemeteries to comfort the souls of their loved ones. The one pictured isn't just a monument, it's a memorial. They wouldn't have left it broken unless it had staggering sentimental meaning. The vast majority of Japanese people I talked to said they didn't mind foreigners depicting their culture, many adding they considered it a compliment, as long as it was done respectfully. One of my bosses that had studied in the US said, "It doesn't have to be perfect, but it should at least appear like you tried. We are more than willing to give you an E for effort." I think that's the same Torii that was depicted in the beginning of 'The Wolverine,' which started in a flashback to Nagasaki the day it was destroyed. Most of the locals I talked to about the film had mixed feelings about the beginning, and were quick to point out what the filmmakers got wrong, but had a positive overall view of the film because you could tell the filmmakers tried to be respectful. I'm not sure Ubisoft was using that very gate as a reference, but to use any broken Torii to prop up cartoonish characters shows a lot of ignorance and disrespect, and I think most people know respect is a pretty big deal in Japanese culture.
All Ubisoft had to do was 1. bring in some people from Japan 2. Let them experience the game and trailers and 3. And this will be the controversial one here ACTUALLY LISTEN TO SAID JAPANESE PEOPLE!!!!
If you are respectful and sincere the Japanese will treat you well. That was my experience living in Japan for several years. We all have those gaijin smash moments, but I tried to keep them to an absolute minimum. I also spent a lot of time in Kansai.
@@Allantitan The fact that someone at Ubisoft made this decision at a high level and that no one in a 20K employee company was able to voice their constructive criticism also points to a poor work culture within the company where incompetence is promoted and the workers have no say.
Yes, the primary controversy was that they were using the one-legged torii gate which serves as one of many reminders of the nuclear weapon that was dropped on Nagasaki. Not only that it was extremely disrespectful to the lives lost, but also that it depicted an event that wouldn't occur for several hundred years.
It's hilarious that they are so worried about offending each other in the office, but not at all worried about offending the culture that they are trying to depict in their game. What a joke!! See what I did with the !
I Am Japanese, And Just moved to the states for an Intership, talk about Culture shock, I am Deeply offended that this company is replacing a Japanese Man With a Man Of color when this does not represent the real history of our Samarai. They remind me of my white friends that all default to getting me something Japanese related for Christmas. I got a Calendar of Japanese locations, A Lego Japan postcard, a desk sculpture of a Japanese bird...and I'm thinking what If I got you a Statue of Mount Rushmore? Its the same thoughtless thinking. They got an American Japanese person with an americanized degree to represent our culture? Just shameful
There's an additional irony to all this: as much as this word has been overused, this is... actually, for real this time, cultural appropriation. Not the benign kind, where some girl wears a qipao to prom and gets lambasted on the internet. I'm talking the malicious kind, where there is very much a monetary incentive to not give a shit about the source of iconography because of some opaque, nebulous marketing department decisions. Case in point, all the things that AC Shadows used carelessly, like the Sekigahara Teppou Tai flag (that they didn't get permission for), the half-broken torii gate (a symbol of rememberance of the consequences of nuclear armaments, which Ubisoft used completely removed from its original context), and Yasuke using the Nobunaga family crest (found through Dashblue's video here: /watch?v=rxydfYaAwjw , where Dashblue himself is Japanese-American and has a full-Japanese wife, where they point out that there are still living members of the Nobunaga family that have a legal claim to that crest and need to be asked permission to actually use it). I don't think people really have a problem with representation in games, not even those that the media lambasts as "toxic gamers". Most just don't enjoy when representation muscles out the actual plot or effective storywriting, and especially don't like it when it's as rude and cynical as AC:Shadows.
Imo the worst part was seeing how buggy the trailer was, sliding horses, floating doors, floating bullets, misaligned stairs, clipping swords, lighting glitches, missing shadows.
I don't even understand it from a greedy-corporate-standpoint. In what universe would they think that the potential crowd they would draw from these decisions would outweigh the outrage they KNEW they'd receive from basically every other demographic? Do these dipshit executives not actually like money?
Not to mention how their concept art is literally just a collage of random old looking pictures from google images that may or may not have legal owners, AND they have the nerve to actually sell it as an artbook! Cultural appropriation or not, there’s no denying that Ubisoft is full of thieves
I'm in IT. For over 20 years I've tried my best to go for the best endresult possible. That means pointing out flaws and problems so they can be fixed. That's my JOB. I've been called "negative" by management because of it and it has cost me money. Now I just do what they ask, no comments. I've given up. That's probably happening with some devs too. When your good intentions only get you in trouble, you just give up.
Yep been there done that. I have learned by and large that people truly can't handle the truth. They would much rather hear a sweet lie than a harsh truth. This started back in the 90s when parents started forcing participation trophies for all kinds of activities.
You can pray that the boss will fail and gets replaced with a more competent boss but in the mean time just put your head down and collect your paycheck
You won't get compensated for it, but if there really is a problem that needs fixing that affects your work and you have a solution, make them think it was their idea.
I actually have a friend in Japan, who is Japanese, that was so greatly offended by this. In his own words, "we get a game, which represents us, and of course, they take the protagonist away from us." I know many people have these same thoughts, but this comment is here to show Ubisoft, no, it's not westerners who are offended, its the Japanese too.
Not just the Japanese. They offended even the Chinese and South Koreans with their mixed up stuff put in the game! And if any of us know history, these three eastern countries had always had beef with each other. But this game and the insanely detached devs managed to unite them together.
I know about ubisoft devs that banned a streamer from xdefiant...he wasn't even playing XDefiant. They just didn't like what he said during his stream. It's not just the higher ups. The entire company is corrupted
It's stakeholders (executives) vs customers (gamers), let's see who breaks first. Spoiler alert: Customers always win, without them there's no market, and shareholders (investors) always follow the market.
Spoiler alert, the customers never win. Where the hell have you been? The big guys sell out and get rich, while the customers get a shitty product, while the rank and file employees lose their jobs. This take is so out of touch. You honestly think there is no market for the guys at the top? Do let me know when you've ever seen one of those guys suffer a day in their lives. They get bail outs and stock options, and buy outs. See who breaks first? Damn dude, you really haven't been paying attention at all, have you? lol
As an ex-Ghost Recon developer I can confirm that 80% of their Game Designers/Programmers had absolutely NO idea what the fuck was going on. They spent most of the time at the office playing Guild Wars 2 or LoL - and usually ended up sending studio-wide e-mails asking what Game Modes to implement.... absolutely shameful display. P.S. my NDA already expired and have nothing but disdain and pain left from all of the frustrations, humiliations and discriminations they put me through while working there - so all I can hope for is that the half Tori gate will serve as their headstone.
It's a war, us against them, and they have everything to lose because we're not forced to buy their crap, we can simply play old games or newer games that are not full of DEI bullshit, their companies will collapse just like ubisoft right now and maybe then they will go back to their senses
What would you say if I told you that I have witnessed this happen at two huge car manufacturers that i have worked at? That a few months ago I have seen a very senior that is an expert (recognized worldwide, not joking) in its field get fired over saying "you should try to think more like a security person rather than like a sysadmin" during a friendly feedback session where feedback was requested, because apparently that answer made him very sad (didn't like hearing the title he had before that one) and he cried at home thinking about it? I swear I am not making this up. Happened in southern Germany btw.
@@alaia-awakened iam from germany and i didnt witness people getting fired for stating valid criticism. Our labor laws usually prevent this from happening.
I am an immigrant and live in the US. If my country got to be a setting for an AC game I would have felt so proud for people to see more of the history and culture. Seeing an MC who is a foreigner makes me feel that Ubisoft doesn't think telling the story from a national's perspective is worth their player's time. The fact they made-up details about a real person only makes it worse. Were no historical Japanese figures, from thousands of years of history, of interest to the dev's?
As a easterner in the western world. I think it’s actually dope to represent a rare part of history. It’s unique, I’ve never played nor cared abt ac ever in my life, but as a history buff, the fact they have Yasuke is outstanding. And in reality Yasuke is more apart of japans history than African history. It brings more light to viewers especially if they tell his story right. Obv game wise, yea it doesn’t make sense of having a black tall man in futal Japan trying be stealthy. But it also doesn’t make sense why a black slave came to Japan and then turned out to be a samurai and was given warrior status. Being under the great unifier, fighting to bring peace to the land and unify japan. There’s a reason why it’s 2 mc, the ninja is for the stealth. Now decisions for this wasn’t js brain dead, they have stats on where they’re player bases are at and which regions it’s most popular. Like any business you appeal to your crowd. Also to add on abt “your country” opinion. Which is fair… but again Yasuke wasn’t just a foreigner, he was kidnapped and basically forced to be a servant at a young age. Then taken to Japan as a bodyguard. In reality the “servant” was more so slavery than what you think servant means now a days. In reality he most likely had no choices to stay at home and be with family, he was basically forced. In that sense, to any human being who was forced to be in a country not in their origins, and being basically raised n living there, you’d wanna believe that that’s your home and your apart of that nation n culture too. You know nothing else abt your homeland and your people. All you know is where you’re at now. For example for yourself, you feel that way bc you most likely had a connection to your homeland, you had experiences n memories. But per say, your born and your parents decided to move to America for a better life for you and your raised as a infant in America and live your life in America. I’d hedge my bets you’d believe you’re apart of that nation than your true origins. Your covered in American culture, education system, slang, religion, your apart of American society, you are apart of American history that occurs, you have a part in the economy, the language you speak is English. Yes your parent can teach n enrich you abt your origins, you can travel back to your country, but you were basically raised American that, yes you can say your apart of two nations, but one will most definitely dominate and influence you than the other. The only difference is that Yasuke didn’t go to Japan for a better life, he was js forced to. His tenture of how long he was in Japan is shady, bc he was with oda and after death, with his son, then captured, and sent to jesuits and there it’s unknown if he lived longer or was exiled. The fact that he was treated differently by majority of the country and still fought for peace and to unify Japan should be respected. And to add on to his character, a warlord really saw his loyalty and trust, being a foreigner and choose him to become one of his strongest samurai than anyone else is a plus. Yes he was physically more fit than most, yet was still seen as an animal to most, and when he did get captured, they didn’t use him, even though they could have used his skill and physical talents to help their army. They most likely tried to exile him. It just shows his character that a warlord saw in him, and how oda viewed him as part of his own, treating him like family, letting him eat with him, bringing him into his close circle, giving respect, even tho majority viewed him as a outsiders.
Ubisoft when multiple higher level executives are outed for sexual harassment: 🙈🙉🙊 Ubisoft when a random employee doesn't put a smiley face in their text message: 😡😡😡😡😡
Please can EVERYONE here not buy a SINGLE Ubisoft game. Not the old ones that are great, not the new ones that are garbage, nothing. This company needs to collapse, as a message that will shiver down the rest of the gaming industry to show that if you go down this path, it leads to bankruptcy.
At one point I about bought Crew Motorsport because Blue Stahli did the OST...but it's Ubisoft and right now I just wanna see them fall. I'll pick the game up second hand if I see it at pawn shop though.
They are literally children that go lalalalala can't hear you lmao Putting on my tinfoil hat pushing it to Feb when Monster hunter Wilds and Kingdom come deliverance 2 come out let them use the excuse of "Oh it was a highly competitive launch window' when it under performs to try and calm down investors
For real. I hate how even with all the criticisms and advice that could be turned into a good game, they just turn off comments and then the game comes out and completely flops and they go “what da hek, why our game no do gud?”
They just don't understand why they are failing. This kind of stuff is why, they just don't understand that doing all this stuff that you just said is the problem. If it isn't private, it dies.
Outstanding post. I teach a senior-level CS class on real-world software engineering (BYU M, CS 428). I’m also an old-school game developer myself (SunDog: Frozen Legacy). Back in 2008, I wrote two articles that describe aspects of what these developers describe within Ubisoft: The Dead Sea Effect (driving away your best developers) The Thermocline of Truth (information suppression as you move up the management hierarchy) YT doesn’t like multiple links in comments, but you can find them easily w/a web search.
What pisses me off the most about this is that it not only does "DEI" Crap like this looks bad for Black people like me, but *it makes us look bad WORLDWIDE* . It's not us, we didn't ask for this, and CERTAINLY aren't the ones calling everyone racist and shaming everyone who disagrees with the choice of Yasuke. I'm so sick of Narcissistic "woke" People using minorities as a political meat shield to protect themselves from valid criticism. As long is its "for the greater good", These hypocrites think they have diplomatic immunity or something.😂
I'm not minority myself, but i believe the minorities can speak for themselves. Forcing something that doesn't fit into the game under the excuse of "spreading the message of equality" can actually make things worse.
8:52 the fact they made japanese people bow in respect for a foreigner character (race is inconsequential) is not a slap but a sucker punch to the face of japanese people.
Said "foreigner" is a samurai. You're supposed to bow to samurai. They aren't bowing out of respect towards his superiority over Japanese people as a foreigner, they're bowing out of respect for his standing in Japanese society.
@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Yasuke was NEVER a samurai. Japanese historians recently dug deep to find any evidence of it because of this controversy and they found nothing about him being a samurai. Disrespect to Japanese history and culture is putting it lightly. It's sickening
@@Leverchadsyes, a very good app i know is called "commissioning", you have to pay and wait for them to generate the art but it's far better than any other AI right now
Japan is one of the few county's i can think of that DEEPY cares about it culture enough where they have entire government departments dedicated to preserving it.
A bud of mine asked a very obvious question. "Why is Shadows an Assassin Creed game? It has nothing to do with the Creed, samurai don't do stealth so why are we here?" Valid. It could have been called something else. Wouldn't have helped much, but still.
Ah for the most part, that'd be correct. Hanzo Hattori (A famous ninja) wasn't actually a ninja, he was actually a Samurai who was taught ninjitsu and became the most famous ninja because of his skill.
They had the easiest lay up in AC Shadows. Easiest, and they chose the Disney route and ruined a sure thing. I will give them credit where it is due, they wish to bring the world together (at least thats what they say, not what they do) and in this situation they are bringing gamers all over the world together to support our friends in Japan. Most of us loathe their disrespect.
@@jamellfreeman7875 good they should, the vast majority of the West doesn't want this, so you know with good chance that they LOATHE it out East (as they should) 😂
As an Egyptian, I was amazed by AC Origins not just for the story and how amazing that game was and its dlcs. But its portrayal of Egyptians, phenotypically they looked Egyptian the protagonists and npc were not whitewashed or blackwashed as we see a lot in Western media, the lifestyle of the farmers shown in their side missions and npc scripts is accurate to the history and the Egyptian character as the farmer is the best representation of Egypt for 80% of Egyptians were farmers up until the industrial revolution, the class clashes between Egyptians and the Greeks and Romans perfectly captured the Egyptian spirit, they even portrayed the sarcasm in the face of hardship and oppression which is a common trait in Egyptian culture. Their portrayal of ancient Egypt and the Egyptian character was what we all want, Authentic. Back then there were ACTUAL racist posts about Bayek's voice actor being black and they were all bs imo as Bayek is an Egyptian character, who cares what his voice actor looks like and Abubakr exceeded all expectations in his performance anyways, back then UBI was right to ignore these people, but ever since Odyssey the excessive DEI nonsense is enough reason for people to boycott Ubisoft like they've done. I miss AC Origins Ubi, That is the Ubisoft I want, the Ubisoft that actually cares about their games' story, world, gameplay, and authenticity!
Don’t feel too bad if you like rpgs odyssey is still great and Valhalla was not for me but there’s still a love for it others have and if you’re talking about the problems that people are having with the games not working on windows 11 odyssey just might crash here and there but nothing crazy and idk about Valhalla
The'yre on track to become just that right now. Problem is to persistently keep out similar DEI enforcement outfits and their personnel out of the industry for good. Problem is, ESG investment money is just too powerful and seductive for corporations to pass up on. At least for the big ones. And it always comes with DEI strings attached.
Absolutely not, they should be allowed to do what they're doing. People need to realize that the game devs and companies are more at fault for hiring them, the next sweet trash will be smarter and stealthier, these Canadian idiots love to parade the games they're ruining, which in turn is saving us money. Same goes for IGN, their reviews should be allowed and publicized so that the general public will know what to avoid.
Netflix: "Black Cleopatra. A documentary!" Ubisoft: "Black Samurai. Historical!" Cultural appropriation, for some reason always with Black person. Ubisoft's game: "Foreigner en-masse killing local population". ..What could go wrong? :P
What on earth have they done. A samurai running around with a giant bludgeon, smashing through walls and breaking everything around him. I studied Japanese language and culture in school, my Sensei (she was Japanese, she wasn’t just our ‘teacher’, she was our Sensei) would be appalled by the way they have used and misrepresented these honoured moments in Japanese cultural history.
The choice to go with Yasuke may as well be the final choice that kills Ubisoft. It has been a series of bad decisions after bad decisions for the last few years. Assassin's Creed isn't even an Assassin's Creed series anymore. It's some weird RPG bs.
theres like a very small chance they can salvage shadows but i doubt it. They *could* save yasuke’s character if they make some major story changes but I doubt they can do that in the few months they’ve given themselves
That's my major problem with it, AC was never suposed to be an RPG. You're suposed to be reliving a hidden history, not creating one with diverse decisions.
Maybe this is just me but i feel like ive noticed a weird trend of people in the DEI "woke" (even though I hate using that word) sector of the culture taking so many liberties with Asian culture that they would never do with black or hispanic culture. From the weird shit localizers pull to an AC game set in Japan with a black protagonist whos historical influence is dubious at best, and a bunch of other stuff, it feels like Asian cultures are kind of getting the shaft from a lot of westerners rn
That's because East Asians are considered acceptable targets by those people. There's a long list of discrimination against East Asians in American and Europe by the "champions of diversity"
I've heard activist speak that involves classing Asian culture as 'white adjacent'. pretty much meaning many richly varied and unique Asian races are considered to be just another version of 'white' amongst activist types. This is probably the thinking that builds a load of Chinese architecture into a game set in Feudal Japan. It is disgusting, and sums up everything wrong with the way people like that think.
Cause Asians tend to be more successful in Western culture they are above black and Hispanic people in the progressive stack, so its ok to violate their culture if you are doing so to benefit a group that is more "oppressed," I didn't make the rules that is just how woke works.
I wouldn't buy AC Shadows if it was on sale for a penny. Ghost of Tsushima showed us what true fans, with the right skills, can do to bring historical-fiction to life while being respectful and honoring the culture of Japan. I absolutely adore Ghost of Tsushima, I think it's a perfect game and, I am really looking forward to Ghost of Yotei.
Don't look forward too much and learn about the DEI hires they are making, specially main character actress who is a known lgbtq redical activist that hates white people.
I'm in IT, too and I am very glad we have a culture where you can voice your opinion and it is heard. If I am concerned with certain requirements we can talk about it and find a solution. This agency makes it worth the stress and it feels rewarding watching the end result. Must be depressing to work at ubisoft if you can easily pinpoint what's going wrong and nobody gives a shit and speaking up gets you in trouble
Ubisoft has been a company of nepotism for decades. Relatives of the Guillemont family are hired into mangement roles with little to no experience resulting in tons of lost development time. No wonder Ubisoft has 18,000 developers with the amount of mismanagement they have.
All they had to do is cast both protagonists as Asians. That's it. Literally. But NOO, they just had to cast a historically embellished token black guy to play the other half of the protagonist while demoting, emasculating and vilifying Asian men. The Sengoko-jidai is one of the most illustrious and well recorded time period in Japanese history and Ubisoft freaking waded through 99.99% of the entire Sengoko-jidai period just to not cast a Japanese man. Like bruh...
"Appearnce is 75% of a business, 10% is production and 15% is quality. The fact is, people dont care how good your product is if your company looks bad." Is something I've heard from alot of top business owners and CEO's. The fact is, it doesn't matter if you think it's "toxic criticism" or "unhelpful" or just "hateful". If you aren't listening to what those people are saying and responding accordingly and professionally. You're guaranteed to lose business. Because while you may not want to hear it or may not want to listen or talk about it. Everyone else will hear it and talk about. And if they don't see you handling it professionally or fixing it, They won't partake in your business. It's as simple as that.
I see nothing has changed during the past 12 years after I left. Whenever we shipped yet another mediocre game, the studio boss gathered us and gave a movie-grade speech about how great we were and how all difficulties have made us stronger, only to repeat the same mistakes and bad decisions all over again on the next game. And anyone disagreeing with this was delusional and free to resign because there is nothing like this great job anywhere in the world - as a C++ programmer, all you could ever do elsewhere was bank software - this was the mindset and the culture. I got into programming because I loved games and wanted to make games - after Ubisoft, I never wanted to play any game, ever again.
@@Jehuty256Brother I’m jumpin head first into Monster Hunter Wilds, none of these games will stand a chance. Capcom has been cooking a feast these past few years and I am famished!
Black history month is stupid as hell. Plenty of other races that have experienced centuries of hardship, blacks aren’t special in that regard. Rather than putting races on a pedestal, forgetting about race entirely and focusing on culture would be far greater a feat than any movement the West has pushed in at least a decade.
No talking anymore... just don´t buy that game, that´s the only "language" they will understand when it´s solely about their revenue, because that´s the only power a customer has which is where and for what he spends the money in his wallet and definitively not his voice/opinion.
This has always been true. Stop buying trash games. Just like Skull and Bones was trash. Redfall, Anthem, Starfield. Perhaps gaming needs a soft crash. A correction to the half baked garbage people have been buying for 10 years.
@TP-pq9xx those "ragebait channels" are literally the reason why so many people very likely including you know about this problem and why so many people won't buy this piece of trash, would you have known that thy were basically butchering Japanese/Asian history without these channels ? I would eb ready to bet you and most people would answer no, not only that but it helps point out new controversies that you might not have known (the Tori gate being one of them, if they stopped talking about it, nobody would've own since it only came up quite recently), of course it's clear what these channels doing isn't exactly the most honourable type of sh** and that they rely a lot on clickbait and that in reality it's mostly about money but on the other hand sorry to tell you that but that's standard practice for basically the entire industry of, well, everything, and on the other hand literally nobody forces you to watch and if you decide not to it's not like you're going to lose money because it's all free content anyway. When I see people complaining about "ragebait channels" I can't help but see it as basically trying to cen**r the equivalent of "whistle-blowers" all this for a scummy company which is just despicable, far more so than making a few bait videos, I do hope you're not one of those "people"
From what I've heard, the half Torii gate is very disrespectful. Not because of the bombs, but the Torii gates are religious symbols, and when a Torii gate is damaged, it is immediately fixed. The gates represent gates to shrines, and its a spiritual thing. I'm no expert on Japanese religion, but it would be akin to chopping a Christian Cross in half and parading it around.
The only Tori gate that has never been fixed, is the one from Nagasaki, in turn it was turned into a monument in memory of the people killed in the nuclear bombing.
Ubislops also use the Buddha (Nara Daibutsu) statue in their game, *THAT NO ONE gets permission to use, EVER.* You Need to have japan and culture ministers permission to use that statue commercially (because it's a Japan national treasure) But most of the time they give only permission for educational purposes and they need to make it culturally and historical appropriate. *quick notes!* Before you say anything like "but there's been a lot of buddha statue in video game especially the current one in Black myth wukong?" There are several different buddhas and each country has their own laws on using religious artifacts in media.
Toxic positivity and intellectual dishonesty are the perfect terms for what's happening in the corporate world, but especially in corporate America. not defending true hate speech and the like, but seriously, we are terribly 'soft' right now. I don't even begin to think that I've got the solution or have any idea where to draw the line, but it's worrying to think what end stage toxic positivity and intellectual dishonesty looks like. On the flip side, we've seen the extreme opposite, we experience daily life through an the 'Us vs. Them' lens--however valid, and necessary it can be at times to operate from that mentality, it has always resulted in someone being put down. video games have influence, so I understand the caution and ridicule that developers face from the general public, but to completely disregard the developers and gaming community isn't cool..and when you prioritize profit over people, well...look at Ubisoft. I used to be a huge Ubisoft fan, but man these last few years have been rough...I don't think there's a single Ubisoft game I've got favorited right now. That's wild.
I remember back when I was a kid in the 90's, and "Christian stuff sucks" was the joke everyone understood. The stereotype was that Non-Christians had all the cool stuff, which could be edgy and fun, and Christians were stuck with what was considered to be watered-down, vanilla, "safe" stuff like Bibleman and VeggieTales. In the stereotypical Christian media no one could say bad words, no one could be attractive, the committee-approved morals had to be front and center, and it was generally all constrained by over-sanitization on every front. This new culture we have now is constrained by the same religious fervor, the same moralistic over-sanitization, as the "Lame Christian Content" of the past. The only difference is _which_ words are considered unforgiveable cusswords.
I get what you’re getting at, but labeling it “Christian” is a serious oversimplification. American Protestantism and Evangelicalism isn’t the same as Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy. The super cringy hyperfixation on no curse words and the like is permeated in the former and completely non-existent in the latter. That’s why just labeling it “Christian” isn’t accurate.
@@hydra1683-m7u Hey, I'm still a Christian, and I get what you're saying. I'm just talking about the stereotypes. Ironically "American Protestantism and Evangelicalism" is also a broadly inaccurate simplification, because those categories envelop millions of people and thousands of churches that have vastly different levels of fixation on this stuff. It really just comes down to how deep into the legalistic aspects the local culture and individuals and families are. My point was that the overarching stereotype was that the "Christian versions" of things, whether movies, music, or what have you, tended to be seen as the "We have [X] at home" knockoff versions of everything entertaining and "good." And now the "Woke versions" of everything are following the same route of legalistic hypersterilization that stifles creativity.
Refund all pre orders and release shadows sandwiched in between KCD2, GOY and MHW... ubisoft decision making is borderline self sabotaging at this point.
They haven't ever made a historical personage playable in AC, so I'm not sure why they did with this game. Yasuke should have been a side character as we've seen in the other games. He could have had side plots, etc. But it's obvious that Ubisoft has been running on fumes for awhile. The company is an absolute hot mess and has been for years. They went from saying female player characters were "too hard", to being investigated for rampant sexual harassment, to just dialing in all of their formulaic games without any thought. They have predatory and unnecessary monetization schemes and they think you should not own their games. They need a good purge of their executive suites.
@@richmondvand147 not sure what you mean by that. What I'm talking about is something like in Origins, you didn't play as Cleopatra or any of the historical personages in that time. You didn't play as a de Medici or Ivarr the Boneless, or Blackbeard or George Washington, etc. Yasuke is an historical personage, whatever you think about his story, and the decision to let you play as him is odd and literally a 180 from what they've done before.
@@richmondvand147 Your comment makes no sense though? Its a change from literally every other AC game for no reason. I honestly though odyssey was OK too. All the recent games from Ubisoft have been ass.
on the other hand, it makes sense because of the different play styles. you have one valhalla-like character and one classic-assassin-like character. so you can please both player types.
You said it urself. They listen to DEMAND only. Don't buy their games, that's it. People here cry about all those things, yet still run like idiots buying their stuff. Don't be like those sheep.
The hamstringing by Disney for Star Wars: Outlaws is something that could have been interesting to dig in. Ubisoft might be paralyzed internally, but if they also apparently got told that Kay Vess couldn't actually be a bad guy then Outlaws being bland makes sense in a whole new way. I guess Post-Modernism and Moral Relativity are only for certain projects, and that doesn't include ones about actual criminals.
They did the same thing to Boba Fett as well in the Book of. A bounty hunter so dangerous and even reckless even Darth Fucking Vader tells him to take it down a notch, becomes leader of a criminal empire we never see or hear, then the whole time seems like he wants to be the police instead of an underworld spice king. Fennec the assassin is actually making the decisions the whole time too, so Fett is literally a useless fat old loser in his own show. When did he stop being a villain? BoBF should have been like The Penguin but too incompetent. The only thing that makes sense to me is the script was originally meant for Timothy Olyfant's character to become The Sheriff of Mos Espa and crushing the spice trade (yeah give me that show)
Social media doesn't represent reality in any shape or form, it's so bizarre to witness this kind of stuff. Not even talking about these mainstream products, but everything related to it, it's so weird. Psychiatrists will have a field day studying the late 2010s and early 2020s, one of the most bizarre trends ever, make the hippies look reasonable in comparison
@@matteodelapaz1698 Naah, the masses in real life are not maniacally obsessed with "race" and virtue signaling, we're talking about bubbles on social media. Sometimes the stunt works, like what happened with Black Panther and Barbie, but most of the time the real world is not affected by this. Sometimes politicians try to take advantage (as always, doesn't matter the trend, they are opportunistic by nature) and so on, it is what it is. I have friends living in Japan and Singapura, people in east asia have no idea this "woke" trend even exists. To put in perspective, the emo trend was strong enough to reach asia and influence some stuff here and there, no social media, the early steps of the infamous "globalization"... and the emo was somehow charismatic enough to reach that far
There are people today who don't know how to be tactful and make excuses for their poor behavior. I am not a gamer, too much time wasted, but the black samurai is based on a real person(s)...in Japan. My son tells me that some were whining about this. It is also shocking how many don't know what is real and what is not. Today, people are TOO sensitive and some TOO bold that they feel that they can say and do anything they want. It's usually the vocal, most loud minority that gets the attention. It's also about money money money. More independent developers need to crawl from the basements of millions of kids who do nothing but play games instead of creating something. Those developers who are pushed out need to create their own studios.
the biggest insult to all gamers is that they showed floating doors, stairs leading up to walls, swords not attaching to the hands, and incomplete animations and they say they are delivering 'the polished game we all want' as if the problem was the high expectations
@@tmbfreak_16bugs and shitty story aside I enjoyed Unity. It was the last Assassins Creed game that actually felt like an Assassins Creed game... Plus the parkour was fun lol
@@TheKillamanJoe That too. I wish they spent more time for Unity, and start making a proper main present story for It, atleast until Juno dies and then for cashgrab have anthology games without present day story. Same for Watch_Dogs 1, I love that game.
Great review. Awesome shirt. I have many Slayer songs uploaded to my iPod playlist titled "Margaret Thrasher". Although South of Heaven was awesome, Show No Mercy is also still my favorite album by them.
The main issue for me was Ubisoft's attempt to have both a shinobi and a samurai with different characters (putting aside their terrible choice of having a black samurai). To me, it would have been incredibly smart to have one character as a shinobi inducted into the brotherhood, or a samurai character slowly resorting to assassination methods throughout the game (just like jin sakai in Ghost of Tsushima)to kill templars after being inducted in the brotherhood. These could have been done with japanese characters and making sure the game will respect the japanese culture and setting.
You’re right, that is literally just ghost of tsushima, and that would also be stupid. Yasuke is a great choice for a character in a video game, it’s just that Ubisoft probably won’t do a good job with him
Keep in mind that Shinobi WERE samurai. Samurai was a social class of warriors. Shinobi were samurai that employed specialized tactics around stealth and subterfuge. Think of it like a soldier vs a navy seal. A seal is a soldier with advanced training and equipment. It's like that.
Or nix the samurai experience and have just an experienced female Assassin and a relatively normal male farmer sucked into the hidden war. As for how he'd have the combat skills? Sumo. Nobunaga was well known for his sponsorship of sumo wrestlers. Also, this was feudal Japan; they're not as large in body as they are now. The man could slowly start repurposing his farming tools for digging (kunai), cutting rice (sickles), and carrying cargo (bo staves) into brutal weapons the deeper he's inducted. The female expert would specialize in palace infiltration and social stealth, patience mechanics, as well as the more elaborate martial arts imported from China, Okinawa, etc. Each could teach the other their skills and both will wield hidden blades.
@@nellcrud8082actually yasuke isn't a great choice for a main character, even for stealth. He's the only guy in Japan with that color and height. Plus, a black man going around killing Japanese soldiers in the name of justice, of course the people of Japan got offended. Every assassins creed setting has a protagonist born in that setting except yasuke.
Their response makes it worse. They aren't lying to us, they are lying to their investors. We obviously won't buy it regardless. I wonder if what they are doing is legal?
Literally everyone: "We've been waiting SO long for a Ninja Assassin's Creed since AC1!!! So Excited! Lets see it! Ubi: "Best I can do is a black dude larping as a samurai with a big club"
Yasuke was a real Samurai. He existed, he fought for the most important man in Japanese history. You are literally complaining that real life is too woke
Imagine having to go have this conversation as a grown man or woman? Truly is clown world. Hey a few of us at lunch are going grab a bite to eat at this new burrito place. Want to come with us to lunch?...smiley face emoji.... Next thing you know you are in HR fighting for your job for that emoji.
@@teddybear1342Thank the emperor this is mostly western countries issues. The studios that wanted to make fun games should move to asian countries if they still want to be creative.
HOW the F are major gaming publishers "unaware" of their customer opinions? IMPOSSIBLE!!! It is NOT just a fringe group that are upset about this shameless DEI injection into a Japanese setting. This is beyond stupid.
They are totally aware, but they have righteous moralism on their side so they think that everything they do is okay, even if it upsets people or makes no sense. It's the embodiment of the ends justify the means.
It is simple really.... they now have filters to remove "trolls" "ists" and "phobes" (according to them).... meaning they take 1000 comments...filter out 997... and then analyze the 3 still "acceptable", anything other than those is considered "fringe group". And let's be real here.... there is a massive corporate push for DEI stuff, google protects, youtube protects them, the gaming "journalists" are as reliable as the regular ones (not a compliment).... executives don't spend their time playing games or in the forums, they take the information given to them by "trusted sources" and their marketing team. Besides, they stopped getting enough money from game sales (because they spend a lot of money for "consultants" and decided to add a lot of DEI stuff), so now they kinda depend on the loans / investment they get from "Yasuke-Stone"... which in a way is a genius move by Yasuke-stone. Offer them money to add your unwanted stuff in.... things sell less because of it... the company becomes reliant on your money because they are selling less.
First here bro, but the way you spoke on some of these topics was awesome. "I am sick of people, waiting and being prepared to be offended" Imma gonna steal that line. It hits different!
This is a company that couldn't care less about it's consumers. The industry as a whole needs to change, and Ubisoft is hopefully, going to be the first domino that falls, if it isn't bought out, or forced to replace old management.
That is very sad and stupid from such a company to play it that way. Ffs it was supposed to be france's most profitable company...and now, it is as hated as its government.
Most aren’t bro. We see dog crap and forced leftist politics being pushed into the games we love and demand we shut up & buy it or find a different hobby. Really? The men that created this hobby have to leave now because a small fraction of the world wants it? Make that make sense.
@@adaptivegamer9905 as somebody who despises right wing politics I can say us leftists hate it too. It’s not inclusion if you exploit minorities to excuse awful writing and game design.
Thanks to everyone and the developers for supporting the last video. It feels great to cover and highlight these issues and I'm glad it connects with a lot of people. Lets keep talking and get better games.
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The thing about being offended is that some people insist on deliberately misinterpreting the intent of what someone else has, maliciously, so they can get a dopamine hit off of having power over someone else's speech and for being a righteous white knight (even if it's only thinly-veiled self-righteousness).
Basically, I believe that acting in good faith is essential for any communication to be successful. Both parties must try in good faith, both sender and receiver, to ensure communication can be understood accurately. If either party acts in bad faith, it's bound to fail.
Why do people think that bad faith actors deserve second chances, or to have their voices be heard or validated? If they don't try in good faith, they don't deserve to be a part of any discussion. And debate relies on communication. And communication can only work in an environment of mutual good faith. That's why ostracism, digital exile, muting, banning and ignoring are the only tools. All it is is just another form of trolling.
what the fk? why mention Hiroshima? ok, fk you. The nukes are from the United States and Ubisoft is from France. how that have anything to do with each others?
replace the yasuke character with a beautiful and sexy female samurai character from japan❤
@@donghuaworlds3837 If they do that, I'll buy the most expensive version
@@donghuaworlds3837OR…or…hear me out here….a period appropriate Japanese male samurai - cause u know - females weren’t allowed to BE samurai in that period…(even though personally i would enjoy some femme samurai cake!)
Ubisoft has fucked up Pirates, Star Wars, and Samurai all in a single year.
That’s a pretty impressive achievement by anyone’s standards.
The pirate was in 2013 era. And that was masterpiece till unity and now getting worse
To be fair Star Wars based on the video sounds more like Disney than them. Still would have been bad either way.
@@darkman7009 Skull & Bones dude
@@nabe999 yeah. That one was abomination
If only they would have stick to the original Skull and bones gameplay and style... They would have released it in 2018 and everyone would be happy.
It''s still beyond me, that they manage to fuck up Assasins Creed in Japan. You just had to make a fucking playable ninja lol how could you possible fuck that up? Unbelivable
They did it on purpose.
You do have a playable ninja in shadows tho..
You have to understand there's a lot of effort being put into making such slop as mediocre as they can
Nice you’re gonna get what you want then lol
The funniest thing is: Ghost of tsushima exists. That is basically AC Japan, or what it should be at least. This should have been a free win.
"Ubisoft should become comfortable with not existing."
- Gamers, 2024
Damn straight.
UbiSoft owners should start getting comfortable with not owning their company.
oh yes indeed.
There was no "boys club" days. That's the word salad vrap feminists play at in their shaming language attempts. Thete was a predominantly male lead industry because it was and still is a predominantly male hobby. When ypu drop mobile games from the list few women are in gaming yet we're supposed to change everything we do to accommodate those few?
I don’t even play the games that are free on psplus.
How Ubisoft died:
1.- Ditching Assassin's Creed original ending (thus forcing the writer to change his original vision) to milk the franchise. This happened somewhere in 2009, before AC: Brotherhood.
2.- Rushing their games so they could release one per year.
3.- The creation of their launcher/store, in a world full of third-party launchers nobody wants.
4.- The CEO's flawed vision of "Gamers are not yet ready for AAAA games".
5.- AC: Shadows as the final nail in the coffin.
Does the "ditching the original ending" have something to do with Desmond dying, by any chance? Because ever since then I haven't given a flying fuck about the lore. So much buildup for nothing. Stopped playing the series after AC4 as well (I actually liked it quite a bit, there was just nothing "assassin" about it, they put the title on there just to sell to the fans). Feels pointless to care about it when they try to leave an open door every time rather than giving it a satisfying conclusion. And also their games are becoming more and more like MMORPGs with quality based items, ridiculously high numbers for some reason, and very little actual assassin stuff.
Their CEO is a hack who keeps making decisions based on what is popular without adding any depth to it. All their recent games are proof (Star Wars speaks for itself, Skull and Bones when Sea of Thieves was rising up in popularity, and maybe he thought he could recapture the audience that left after AC4, and an AC in Japan because... Japan.)
Hang on now, Assassins Creed Black Flag is a legendary game. Rogue and Unity are solid as well.
@@masterblaster2678 No. Well, yes, sorta. The present storyline was going to have a resolution, although the change of plans within Ubisoft in 2009 forced them to improvise in between that year and 2012. Originally, Desmond was going to leave with Lucy, possibly to the Moon.
"Briefly put, the third game would end with a resolution of the conflict in the present day, with Desmond Miles taking down Abstergo using the combined knowledge and skills of all his ancestors, including AC1's Altair and AC2's Ezio," wrote de Wildt in a footnote.
"Also, it is the end of the world in 2012, and Desmond Miles and Lucy are starting a new civilization somewhere else - as Adam and Eve."
Series creator Desilets told de Wildt: "That's why she's called Lucy, after the Australopithecus afarensis." As for where Desmond and Lucy were heading? "Boom! It's a freaking spaceship!" Desilets replied." (from Eurogamer).
Assassin's Creed was never going to be more than a trilogy. Instead (and as much as I like Brotherhood and Revelations), Assassin's Creed kick-started the 1 game per year policy which was the beginning of Ubisoft's terribly QC with their games, and the slow and painful death of one of their most original pitches.
Assassin's Creed III could have been the most fleshed-out game in the franchise serving as the definitive ending, but it simply opened the door for more and more entries in the series which didn't fit the original vision. I dare to say, if they hadn't interfered, this "Assassin's Creed Trilogy" would have competed with the best-sellers books in terms of writing and story-telling.
Patrice-Désilets never got a chance to finish his own story. What do we learn? Never interfere with the artist, especially if said artist already has a plan they want to follow. The only way to save Assassin's Creed is to remake the first game with the original puppeteer control schemes to test the waters, then make a deal to reboot the franchise entirely (Soul Calibur, an extremely niche fighting game got the reboot treatment by remaking the first game in response to the backlash of Soul Calibur V. This is a prime example of why it could happen if they wanted). But Ubisoft just crashed, there's no coming back from this.
@@coolmuzt Shadows isn't the nail, that was Outlaws. That was supposed to be their cash cow for the year, and that spooked them, which is why they're pulling AC Shadows. They want the bad press cycle to die, and maybe remove some elements that people hated in outlaws. They've made bad assassin's creed games for so long people are nostalgic for Unity, which was boring and full of micro transactions.
Narrow-minded take mate. Nuances.
They were trying so hard not to offend anyone, that they ended up making the most culturally offensive and morally dubious game in recent years lol.
Absolute inoffensiveness in itself makes something offensive, both mentally and to the senses. It's like the uncanny valley with mannequins, it kinda maybe sort of looks like what it's supposed to look, but you can tell it's soulless so it comes off as unnerving and downright disturbing.
We have to go back to the basics. You need to consult people who are japanese, that also specialize in japanese history. How hard is that to find? Some white racist neckbeard aka half of ubisoft wont be able to make it
I don’t think they were trying to do that. They are concerned about their ideology first and foremost.
@@J.B.1982 Their ideology is money. They go all in on making neutered uninteresting and inoffensive stuff to appeal to casual audiences because they make up 99% of their bottom line these days.
Facts.
Maybe advertising the game by releasing footage of a 6'8 foreigner slaughtering a bunch of Japanese villagers while rap music plays in the background isn't the best way to promote your game?
Lmaoo they ignorant af
It's hard to believe this was a decision that was made by someone or several someones 💀
Who said he was 6'8?
Afro samurai would disagree
You summed it up. It feels so absurdly disrespectful, especially considering every single other AC game had had a main character that fit the country you were playing in. All except this one. Fuck this game, man. Ubisoft are so woke their a joke now.
Being the only black samurai in a country full of Japanese has to be the worst stealth debuff of all time
Apb out on the only black man in this entire country. Please alert if seen
It's also pretty funny that his defining characteristics are being "strong and fast". And with the tori gate stuff, it's like they just can't see that they are in fact out of touch with reality.
He wasn't even a samurai
he's invisible at night if he doesn't open his mouth.
Assassins operate during the night, so wouldn't being black be a buff???
I remember taken a trip to Italy with my family after playing Ezio in AC2. Took a tour and was asked by the guide how I knew so much about the area having never been there my response was Assassin's Creed. It one of my most favorite memories. Something I loved video games taught me something about real history that I would never get from a book. History was one of my worst subjects. Granted not everything was accurate but at least 80% was. The entire purpose of these games was educational but entertaining. Being an Assassin in a point in time of history telling there story while educating the player on the era which they are playing. That was Assassin's Creed. I became so in love with this game that I decided that I would visit each location generally that each character played in. All the way to Origins in Egypt. Each time the amount of knowledge I learnt through the game and my own researched decreased. This turned one of my favorite memories and hobbies into something I felt lost itself in. But now I feel like its the Game who has lost it self.
Joke’s on you 🫵😂had you kept on going with that amazing educational field trip idea just a bit longer, you would’ve gotten the chance to speak to a big bull man, a giant one eyed creep, a snake lady and abird lady. Also, you could’ve seen awe inspiring sites such as a giant magical, totally not mythical underwater city, an underground cemetery and discount heaven!! All 100% historically accurate, all of which existed in real life, once upon a time 🤩🙄😒
A lot of what I know about history comes from Assassin's Creed and History of the Entire World I Guess
and school too, I guess
@@Doomergedon the difference between your word and what actually happened is entirely different. Before the trip took place I research the things I learnt to be sure I what I learnt wasn't fantasy base filler history. So yeah I actually took a big interest with history because of these games. Your opinion is mute.
Ubisoft really had the *EASIEST IP'S TO MAKE MONEY WITH AND WENT: NAH BRO LMAO WE GOIN UNDER INSTEAD*
I doubt they’ll go under; companies like them have MASSIVE backing from some of the largest investors in the world, but they’re certainly going to have to work hard to get back some of that good will they used to have.
@@robotron1236 thats not how it works, over the last 2 years weve seen multiple developers go under, and its an increasingly large and frequent number. these companies are 100% going under, how do you think stock price works? everybody is dumping them because nobody wants to waste money on them now
@@Rootiga maybe you’re right, but I’m actually somewhat doubtful on that considering how large of a company they are. I’d like to see them go under, but in reality, these large corporations will probably get bailed out, or bought out, by some kind of large investment firm. While I completely understand that people are running from their stock, someone with enough money is going to buy the dip and possibly turn the sinking ship around, and at the very least, make it profitable. A behemoth like Ubisoft doesn’t typically disappear, they just change hands. This kind of stuff happens all the time, in every industry. They will probably go bankrupt, but that doesn’t mean they’ll just vanish into thin air; that almost never happens with publicly traded companies, it’s pretty rare.
@@robotron1236lol wtf!? Titans don’t invest their money into companies that don’t make money silly
@@robotron1236 Considering the investors are publicly calling for the guilmont family to resign I don't think Ubisoft has a bright future, their stock recently dipped below 10 euros a share too.
Ex-Ubisoft concept artist here - i've worked on most Assassin's Creed games from Black Flag to Origins. Everything you said is SPOT ON!
so 4 of out 13 ? :P
@@andytunnah7650 AC3, Black Flag, Liberation, Rogue, Unity, Syndicate, Origins.
@@Inkgnition I remember being fascinated when AC Origins came out. Couldn't wait for the first UA-cam gamer to release gameplay footage.
Origins was the last one that I thought felt spot on and creative
@@Rooples Oh come on now, I'm no fan of Ubisoft but AC: Odyssey was a masterpiece!
Here's my issue with Shadows. Altair was a middle eastern man game set in middle east. Ezio was Italian, set in Italy. Connor, native American set in north America. Bayak and Aya, Africans set in Africa. Alexis and Kassandra, Greeks set in Greece. Ivor, Scandinavian set in Scandinavia/Europe. Yasuke, African set in Japan.
Can we see which one of these things is not like the others?
That's been my point of contention as well. They could have easily allowed Yasuke to be a valuable side character you got to meet but no. They promoted him to a main in a stealth game in a county he isn't native too. So disappointed.
exactly. This is exactly the problem, well that and the blatant disrespect to japanese culture.
@@kyledabearsfan Is it disrespect? I think it's more laziness and ignorance than any intentional snubbing to call it disrespect.
@@yelsahblah3270also the fact that yasuke was basically just another slave who was only there for a year or two and didn't do anything noteworthy. Everything else was completely made up by a white dude recently. History fanfic.
When u see that sweet baby is involved and you know what the people working for the company stand for then you may see that it is indeed flat out disrespect straight up done on purpose.@octavianpopescu4776
Ubisoft wanted to fight racism by doing the most racist shit possible - picking a main character purely from his skin color 🤣🤣
Yea now way in hell it was because yasuke was interesting. Being a badass hulking black man of a foreigner fits some peoples bill of interesting which fair enough but to me that has to be the most immersion breaking choice they could have possibly made that feels completely disingenuous and forced😂
There's an irony in all of this. In their pursuit of "diversity", they actual become an echo chamber.
Exactly. Diversity blended together only makes a mess. True appreciation of diversity is keeping them separate and distinct from each other. No one wants to mix Sour Cream and Union chips with Sharp Chedder, you put them in separate bowls and enjoy each one's distinct taste instead of lumped together and their flavors blend
@@ReiseLukas They aren't even doing that though. You may see the occasional other ethnicity brought up to preserve the facade, but "diversity" always boils down to a west-centric, weird black power movement. It's always about inserting african american characters/people at the expense of all other groups. And the funny thing there is it's ONLY blacks in america/britain/etc with their own messed up culture that has a chip on their shoulder, you don't really get them talking about actual Africans with their own culture, because they don't have an ideology of racial hatred/racial supremacy. So even taken on its own terms, "diversity" does not fulfill its own logic, it emphasizes a very small group of people, which checks out when you remember it's an ideology of the elites, not the masses.
@@ReiseLukas True diversity is appreciating the contrast and the differences, not mixing them all in one uniform bowl
Union chips😂 free my pickled brothers
Free ma pickled brothers
Worked in Ubisoft before for 8 years in North America. I am not Caucasian. One time the local government went to visit the studio and HR are introducing DIVERSITY, literally they said "We have such diversity here, we have Canadian here, Korean over there, Chinese at this corner, and also Indian....." and I looked at my Indian coworker, he was like "Bro WTF is this auction house style shit?" DEI is the most RACIST BS I have ever seen and I am glad the market is responding to this BS
Sure buddy and I'm the risen queen of england that shits rainbows. DEI is a racist checklist yes but you were never an ubisoft employee
Communism brainrot, but i guess it is pretty genius that they targeted universities so the educated will get corrupted first
There was a word for this in the 2000s. It was called Tokenism, and I'm pretty sure we didn't consider it a good thing back then.
@@richmondvand147 you can believe it. I also currently work on one of the big name brand game franchises.. for 8 years ago, his description sounds about right. At that time, my employer was also falling over themselves to worship at the altar of woke. At that time, the offices almost literally had rainbow wallpaper, and every day brought a new deluge of emails "celebrating" some different checkbox group (never white guys).
@pewpewdino: proof you've worked there... i mean i can say that too.. that doesn't make it true, right?
It's actually astonishing, I suggest watching japenese folks react to the work in progress trailer, literally every scene is absurdly wrong:
- Torii gate in the beginning leads to shrines, not just scattered for villages, never.
- Sakura blossoms arent blooming when rice is being is being planted.
- Sakura Blossoms and apples never bloom at the same time
- He is walking into enemy territory, it is a time of civil war, farmers were armed, they'd live for years from selling his armor and horse, he would be zero'd instantly.
- The Shiba inu, is absurdly huge
- Villagers complain aobut taxes, taxes in those times are paid in rice. They are actually planting the rice in the game....what are they paying taxes from.
And so on and so on....
Man, it's just fuck up after fuck up, after fuck up x1000
Couldn't the big shiba just be an akita?
Not even the seasons are right? 😂
It’s like they’re trying to get a world record for f-king up.
@@Escalusfr Akita look different.
Even if it was it'd be a very large akita.
slight correction on Torii gate part, they are a symbol of God realm entrance, if you cross Torii gate, you go into where god's live, so they often seen at the road or gate of shrines.
I love how certain media outlets say, "It's racism. People don't like playing as black people."
Brother, pretty much the whole community LOVES Bayek! Adewale is also beloved by the community. We want MORE of Adewale. The player base isn't the racist ones. It's the idiots who claim that we are racists but, in reality, they are the ones who are truly racist.
Look man, there's definitely plenty of legit criticism, and I'm sure it's a shit game. However, a lot of people really hate having a black guy in the game. Which is a shame because it distracts from the things that actually make it shit.
@XandateOfHeaven I can see a few fans who are just inherently racist, but most of the complaints are due to Yasuke being a real character. Pretty much all AC games have a fictional character as the protagonists, and only the supporting characters are real people. It would be better if it was some fictional black samurai as the protagonist with Yasuke, maybe being his mentor or something, as that fits better with the previous AC games and narrative. Also, people hate the fact that Yasuke can't do parkour, and when he fights (based on the trailer), there is HIP HOP playing as the background noise. I would consider that extremely racist. As I said in my comment, fans loved Adewale and Bayek, so it isn't really the colour of the skin that's the issue.
But yes, I do agree that there are other things about the game that should be more of the focus of criticism. A small criticism I have is the other character (sorry, I forgot her name), who does stupid tricks. Crazy front flips. No Assassin would do that as it just increases the risk of injuring yourself, and it wastes considerably more energy than just jumping.
Forced Diversity is a new Racist
we love bayak and adewale so much the skin tone was never something we cared about. in spite of it being obviuos i never put two and two together that nayak was black. thats how little his race ment to me.
I agree! Like, in general, one of the most famous and beloved video game characters is CJ from San Andreas, a black man literally from the "hood", so what "racism" are we even talking about? 😂
Imo, I would have no problem with Yasuke being a DLC protagonist, but he is just such a contentious figure at this point, it's better if they just had a Japanese samurai character as the base game MC, but we know that won't happen.
LOL did anyone check ubi's stock today? it went down -17% today 😂
It's not enough, I'm looking forward to the company being worth less than a billion.
Holy shit... It hasn't been this low since 2013 😆
@@fs5866fuck that not even a single cent
Music to my ears😊
They bought ze dip? Dompeet again! - Bogdanoff twins
Don’t buy the game. Money or lack thereof is the only feedback that can’t be ignored.
Mm. I like that logic.
They forget that the market is made to appeal to customers. Never the other way around.
Exactly. Speak with your wallet. It's the only way to get through to these overlord agenda driven game companies.
Ubisoft deserves to be yet another prime example of what happens to these Woke companies pushing their agendas on us gamers. Just like Concord.
Exactly, we should always vote with our wallets
I just don’t understand when the corporate mentality shifted from “we made a product people didn’t like, let’s make a better one” to “we made a product people didn’t like, they’re wrong”.
Such a dumb perspective.
We gotta stop supporting these companies. Let them sink, the cream will rise to the top.
At some point the creatives and engineers that initially created success with their wildly popular products were outnumbered by Business Degree douche-bro vampires.
Because if they admit they are wrong they can’t bribe the shareholders into letting them stay a bit longer. They will never admit a mistake, working in corporate all my life and people who admit to mistakes don’t make it to levels 1-3
@@ashercubid9848 So there's actually a phenomenon where if a company is narrowly focused on revenue and expenses then small incremental changes build up to ruin the value proposition of a company. You run into this when value proposition isn't integrated into strategy and performance metrics. If you reward for revenue and cost, but people buy your products for reasons other than it being the cheapest option, then you will eventually make a worse product that alienates your customers. It's basically the reason every chain restaurant eventually gets shitty and dies. Private equity comes in, doesn't understand the value proposition but does understand cost cutting, and the company is butchered. Pizza Hut used to make their dough in sight.
Getting reported for harassment for not including an emoji or explanation mark is all I needed to know why Ubisoft games are the way they are
Gamers: Ubisoft, you suck!
Ubisoft: We prefer toxic positivity.
Gamers: Oh, sorry! Ubisoft, you are very good at sucking.
HR would like to see you in their office, we're told you used an exclamation point in a recent message.
😂@@RevolverPicturesYT
Hey wow bro ..... no exclamation points, HR was very clear on that. 😷
They are also very good at blowing. They suck AND blow.
@@RevolverPicturesYT
Exclamation !
Microaggression !
4 months of mandatory sensitivity training !
Toxic positivity is a nice way of saying CENSORSHIP. Product is designed by committee, and the leadership is full of commissars.
Specifically, it's censorship driven by delusion and wish fulfillment.
@user-t5l2zit's gotten to the point where gamers have had enough. The apolitical gamers are tired of boring repetitive design that doesn't push the industry any further. Then you have the political gamers that can see all the propaganda littered all over the industry and the people within it. It has been a bloodbath year for the gaming industry, and it will continue. They can delay this game all they want, there's not enough time to fix all the problems with it. There's rumors that they're going to delay GTA 6 another year to fix a lot of the dei issues as well. We'll have to see but the gamers have had enough.
It's worse than that... it's a product that isn't allowed to be fixed. Someone implements something and it can't be criticized for fear of hurting their feelings, regardless of wether that thing is good or not
This is a wider cultural thing that I can't stand. This pathological positivity where criticism itself is no longer valid. In fact it's immediately called out as "attacks" and "harassment".
Corporate tools and ideologues have learned to hijack this cultural trend for their own benefit, and it's maddening to watch.
Chilling effect is the normal term
Gamedev here ; It's like that everywhere nowadays. Even studios that used to be all about the passion have become so big corporations. I had 1 lead before that was supervising my work - that used to be the one mentoring me, that build the studio. Within the last year before I left, I had 1 lead, 1 director, 1 senior director, and most of them are people who joined the company within the past year or past few months, being promoted up to 4 times in a year, while I have been there 7 years. My promotion was denied over and over because of "attitude" problem -- attitude that goes against the company view and ended me at HR more than once (that attitude problem was me complaining the game we are working on is not good enough and we should do more but the answer I got was "Meh, good enough"). Those new hires have no experience at all , and they aren't gamers, they come in and want to change everything we've been working on for the past year or so, and are so ego driven. It's sad. Luckily, I could retire. Look a bit around, lot of people who've been with big studios are leaving, so many veterans are just starting their own companies or retiring, this is a reason for that. By the end I was working 17-18h a day, 7/7. While other were promoted and cut everything down at 4pm every day. Barely doing anything, always that mentality "It's good enough, nobody cares." I didn't think it was good enough. I couldn't be associated with that kind of work, so I left.
It's pathetic that you would work 18h a day 7/7. Holy sh*t. People like you make such standards possible. Get a grip, this is sad.
I appreciate you for not conforming with mediocrity
you are just an amazing worker, literally u cared about the game, company, and everything and they are just pointing the gun on their heads waiting for the trigger to be ramdomly pulled, u cant change a marketing and decision making that do not even fly to the public of the people that will give you the money, is like giving a raw meat to a cow saying "if you dont eat the meat you are mostly wrong" or giving a salad to a lion, its amazing
I wish a new game company just comes out and it purges all these pandering in gaming and creates a banger game and it's managed by people who actually love making games
Not everywhere. Why can Larian and CDPR release mature, gritty games with "real" writing that doesn't shy away from difficult and "taboo" topics and gamers love that, but other devs can't do that? Why?
Most people are casual players who don't have the time to do research on videogames, so they buy games based on the name and box art. The fact that Ubisoft's whole sales strategy is to focus on that group of people and take advantage of their lack of knowledge on purpose is just sickening.
I feel like I, as well as many others, started as a casual 12 year old gamer buying games because of the cool name and box art, and have grown into someone who somewhat cares about actual quality in the games I now spend my own money with
They should not release shadows. They would be doing everyone s favor.
they are not cancelling a 100% done videogame
Then what would youtubers talk about? 🤔
@@kiwd-dynamic Yeah. The thing is AssCreed being single player game means they can just dump it as a writeoff. Unlike say live service game, where keeping the game afloat is costly.
That would instantly deprive hundreds of content creators of hours of free revenue though. Ubisoft is literally feeding people. Just not themselves 😊
About cancelling, Concord 2 etc.@insensitive919
Only so much loss can be written off in one fiscal year…
February 14th 2025 is still within 2024 fiscal year.
So true, they know it will not sell... they just don't know that a tax trick will not save them.
@@MassimoMinoliUbisoft's fiscal year ends in March if they release this game in February this will not show on their books till the following fiscal year.
@@Mythicalgoon Yes, but that would be true even if they had released this game in November 2024.
@@Kimrah01 We were hoping they'd actually try fixing some things with the extra time
There are videos in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Malay etc every day that trash this game, with hundreds of thousands of view. English criticism is actually a small fraction compared to Asian criticism.. Go search the game's title in any of those languages. Yes, even countries that hate Japan hate this game.
Your final sentence does not support what was previously said
マジでそれな、中国と韓国までACSを批判し、日本を擁護する側に回るのはあまりに驚きでした。
@@nabe999 He’s saying that even countries who don’t necessarily like Japan (to put it lightly) despise the game that is holy inaccurate to it’s portrayal of the country.
@@CollegeBallYouknowtbf from my experience the average Japanese/Korean/Chinese necessarily carries these hatred. At least no where as much as the average murican hates asians as a collective. Hence the unity
@@nabe999 'Your.' Also, as explained, even countries that are beefing with Japan (South Korea, China) dislike the game.
I saw a comment on another video about ubisoft, they described them as a "zombie company, struggling to live on while holding on to what identity they had" (or something similar). I think it's a great way to describe the situation going on, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of corporate AAA studios are in a similar position, even in the TV/movie world this is happening.
*Just Stop Buying Their B.S.*
(vote with your $)
Its why they're releasing it on Steam day 1. They're desperate as hell.
WE do! And it does show, but so far the broad mass has not fully understood it. And those people think they have to double down on being more DEI because they dont even listen to their audience as shown in this video. Give it 2-3 more years then most got it, then 2 more years until we see better games coming out
we do, we do.
Ubisoft going down and possibly going private would be the better thing to happen. At least there's a possibility for them to focus on the games and customers rather than their shareholders and other bullshits. They got too big for their own good.
Yes. And no more to $70+ games. End it.
I lived in Japan for 14 years and was married to a local for 10. I have two teenage children who are dual citizens and spent half their childhood there. I lived in Nara, Osaka, and Kyoto, where at least part of AC Shadows is supposed to take place. I actually worked in Morinomiya for a few years, literally across the street from the grounds of Osaka Castle. The Torii isn't just a gate to Shinto shrines, it's the symbol of the religion itself. It's like the Cross for Christianity, the Star of David for Judaism, or the Crescent for Islam. While they don't expect it of tourists, as a resident I was expected to remove my hat when I walked underneath them. In addition to Shinto shrines, they are erected in places of great sentimental importance, like around schools to protect their children, or cemeteries to comfort the souls of their loved ones. The one pictured isn't just a monument, it's a memorial. They wouldn't have left it broken unless it had staggering sentimental meaning.
The vast majority of Japanese people I talked to said they didn't mind foreigners depicting their culture, many adding they considered it a compliment, as long as it was done respectfully. One of my bosses that had studied in the US said, "It doesn't have to be perfect, but it should at least appear like you tried. We are more than willing to give you an E for effort." I think that's the same Torii that was depicted in the beginning of 'The Wolverine,' which started in a flashback to Nagasaki the day it was destroyed. Most of the locals I talked to about the film had mixed feelings about the beginning, and were quick to point out what the filmmakers got wrong, but had a positive overall view of the film because you could tell the filmmakers tried to be respectful. I'm not sure Ubisoft was using that very gate as a reference, but to use any broken Torii to prop up cartoonish characters shows a lot of ignorance and disrespect, and I think most people know respect is a pretty big deal in Japanese culture.
All Ubisoft had to do was
1. bring in some people from Japan
2. Let them experience the game and trailers and
3. And this will be the controversial one here ACTUALLY LISTEN TO SAID JAPANESE PEOPLE!!!!
If you are respectful and sincere the Japanese will treat you well. That was my experience living in Japan for several years. We all have those gaijin smash moments, but I tried to keep them to an absolute minimum. I also spent a lot of time in Kansai.
@@Allantitan The fact that someone at Ubisoft made this decision at a high level and that no one in a 20K employee company was able to voice their constructive criticism also points to a poor work culture within the company where incompetence is promoted and the workers have no say.
Yes, the primary controversy was that they were using the one-legged torii gate which serves as one of many reminders of the nuclear weapon that was dropped on Nagasaki. Not only that it was extremely disrespectful to the lives lost, but also that it depicted an event that wouldn't occur for several hundred years.
The crescent is an Ottoman symbol not Islamic my friend but insightful comment other than that
It's hilarious that they are so worried about offending each other in the office, but not at all worried about offending the culture that they are trying to depict in their game. What a joke!! See what I did with the !
I Am Japanese, And Just moved to the states for an Intership, talk about Culture shock, I am Deeply offended that this company is replacing a Japanese Man With a Man Of color when this does not represent the real history of our Samarai. They remind me of my white friends that all default to getting me something Japanese related for Christmas. I got a Calendar of Japanese locations, A Lego Japan postcard, a desk sculpture of a Japanese bird...and I'm thinking what If I got you a Statue of Mount Rushmore? Its the same thoughtless thinking. They got an American Japanese person with an americanized degree to represent our culture? Just shameful
You’re so right , it’s a shame
There's an additional irony to all this: as much as this word has been overused, this is... actually, for real this time, cultural appropriation. Not the benign kind, where some girl wears a qipao to prom and gets lambasted on the internet. I'm talking the malicious kind, where there is very much a monetary incentive to not give a shit about the source of iconography because of some opaque, nebulous marketing department decisions.
Case in point, all the things that AC Shadows used carelessly, like the Sekigahara Teppou Tai flag (that they didn't get permission for), the half-broken torii gate (a symbol of rememberance of the consequences of nuclear armaments, which Ubisoft used completely removed from its original context), and Yasuke using the Nobunaga family crest (found through Dashblue's video here: /watch?v=rxydfYaAwjw , where Dashblue himself is Japanese-American and has a full-Japanese wife, where they point out that there are still living members of the Nobunaga family that have a legal claim to that crest and need to be asked permission to actually use it).
I don't think people really have a problem with representation in games, not even those that the media lambasts as "toxic gamers". Most just don't enjoy when representation muscles out the actual plot or effective storywriting, and especially don't like it when it's as rude and cynical as AC:Shadows.
Imo the worst part was seeing how buggy the trailer was, sliding horses, floating doors, floating bullets, misaligned stairs, clipping swords, lighting glitches, missing shadows.
I don't even understand it from a greedy-corporate-standpoint. In what universe would they think that the potential crowd they would draw from these decisions would outweigh the outrage they KNEW they'd receive from basically every other demographic? Do these dipshit executives not actually like money?
@@Utrilus Missing shadows in AC Shadows. Apropos...
Just wanted to let you know this is a great well researched take, not used to finding those in the comments, fr
Not to mention how their concept art is literally just a collage of random old looking pictures from google images that may or may not have legal owners, AND they have the nerve to actually sell it as an artbook!
Cultural appropriation or not, there’s no denying that Ubisoft is full of thieves
I'm in IT. For over 20 years I've tried my best to go for the best endresult possible. That means pointing out flaws and problems so they can be fixed. That's my JOB. I've been called "negative" by management because of it and it has cost me money. Now I just do what they ask, no comments. I've given up. That's probably happening with some devs too. When your good intentions only get you in trouble, you just give up.
Yep. No problems only solutions and God help you if you cause an outage based on pressure they started to get it done fast
Yep been there done that. I have learned by and large that people truly can't handle the truth. They would much rather hear a sweet lie than a harsh truth. This started back in the 90s when parents started forcing participation trophies for all kinds of activities.
You can pray that the boss will fail and gets replaced with a more competent boss but in the mean time just put your head down and collect your paycheck
You won't get compensated for it, but if there really is a problem that needs fixing that affects your work and you have a solution, make them think it was their idea.
Yeah I'd have thought you want IT techs to be "negative", because that means they're finding shit to fix lol.
I actually have a friend in Japan, who is Japanese, that was so greatly offended by this. In his own words, "we get a game, which represents us, and of course, they take the protagonist away from us." I know many people have these same thoughts, but this comment is here to show Ubisoft, no, it's not westerners who are offended, its the Japanese too.
It is just wild. This should have been a slam dunk. People have been wanting an AC game in Japan since forever, and they screw it up.
@@Nesdude42 But Saint Fentanyl Floyd
Ubisoft will say that your friend is a far right american
he sounds like a entitled prick then
Not just the Japanese. They offended even the Chinese and South Koreans with their mixed up stuff put in the game! And if any of us know history, these three eastern countries had always had beef with each other. But this game and the insanely detached devs managed to unite them together.
11:28 “i banned tf out of them” lmaoooo
i say it all the time
How am i supposed to blend in and be stealthy when I'm a tall black man?
You have to play your hip-hop really quietly
@@Zkullz69 Yasuke was a Samurai as opposed to a ninja.
@@Rogue_Trooper970 lol
You don't, but you have the power to hopelessly confuse your enemies with your presence. Use it.
That's what the woman is there for Einstein
Ubisoft pushed Assassin's Creed: Shadows back to BLACK HISTORY MONTH 🙄
Hell yea why not insult another ethnicity lmao, next they gotta make it 9.11$ (more likely 91.1)
I'm not American so I didn't realize that lmao
So a Japanese game is releasing on a month celebrating black history instead of a Japanese holiday.
Yup. That's diversity alright 😮💨
lol the pandering, sad part? that kinda stuff works too.
From a marketing stand point, it worked for Black Panther.
I know about ubisoft devs that banned a streamer from xdefiant...he wasn't even playing XDefiant. They just didn't like what he said during his stream.
It's not just the higher ups. The entire company is corrupted
Who cares?
It's stakeholders (executives) vs customers (gamers), let's see who breaks first.
Spoiler alert:
Customers always win, without them there's no market, and shareholders (investors) always follow the market.
Spoiler alert, the customers never win. Where the hell have you been? The big guys sell out and get rich, while the customers get a shitty product, while the rank and file employees lose their jobs. This take is so out of touch. You honestly think there is no market for the guys at the top? Do let me know when you've ever seen one of those guys suffer a day in their lives. They get bail outs and stock options, and buy outs. See who breaks first? Damn dude, you really haven't been paying attention at all, have you? lol
As an ex-Ghost Recon developer I can confirm that 80% of their Game Designers/Programmers had absolutely NO idea what the fuck was going on.
They spent most of the time at the office playing Guild Wars 2 or LoL - and usually ended up sending studio-wide e-mails asking what Game Modes to implement.... absolutely shameful display.
P.S. my NDA already expired and have nothing but disdain and pain left from all of the frustrations, humiliations and discriminations they put me through while working there - so all I can hope for is that the half Tori gate will serve as their headstone.
Which Ghost Recon game/s did you work on? What aort of practices and issues did you run into in development?
@@cypherzer0589probably Ghost Recon Breakpoint
Underrated comment
Aye Wildlands was fire tho. Did you work on it?
@@Sky-fp5mq wildlands was the shit, I miss playing with my buddies
February is Black History Month. Any criticisms can be deflected by playing the racism card, thats why they moved the release.
💯
It's only Black history month in the US as far as I know. So us in the UK and the rest of the world can continue to bash it without the guilt trip. 👍
It's a war, us against them, and they have everything to lose because we're not forced to buy their crap, we can simply play old games or newer games that are not full of DEI bullshit, their companies will collapse just like ubisoft right now and maybe then they will go back to their senses
Black history month is strictly an usa thing. The rest of the world doesnt care.
@@Ravix0fFourHorn elden ring released in february too. Youre only saying this because the game features a black character
Going to HR over an emoji is WILD.
it's the most first world issue i've ever heard
What would you say if I told you that I have witnessed this happen at two huge car manufacturers that i have worked at? That a few months ago I have seen a very senior that is an expert (recognized worldwide, not joking) in its field get fired over saying "you should try to think more like a security person rather than like a sysadmin" during a friendly feedback session where feedback was requested, because apparently that answer made him very sad (didn't like hearing the title he had before that one) and he cried at home thinking about it? I swear I am not making this up. Happened in southern Germany btw.
@@biologicalhazard552Germany has been guilted into this BS for too long. Friendly greetings from your Western neighbors
@@alaia-awakened iam from germany and i didnt witness people getting fired for stating valid criticism.
Our labor laws usually prevent this from happening.
@@HwafgwSvh3bif they want you fired they will brother don’t think otherwise.
I am an immigrant and live in the US. If my country got to be a setting for an AC game I would have felt so proud for people to see more of the history and culture. Seeing an MC who is a foreigner makes me feel that Ubisoft doesn't think telling the story from a national's perspective is worth their player's time. The fact they made-up details about a real person only makes it worse. Were no historical Japanese figures, from thousands of years of history, of interest to the dev's?
As a easterner in the western world. I think it’s actually dope to represent a rare part of history. It’s unique, I’ve never played nor cared abt ac ever in my life, but as a history buff, the fact they have Yasuke is outstanding. And in reality Yasuke is more apart of japans history than African history. It brings more light to viewers especially if they tell his story right. Obv game wise, yea it doesn’t make sense of having a black tall man in futal Japan trying be stealthy. But it also doesn’t make sense why a black slave came to Japan and then turned out to be a samurai and was given warrior status. Being under the great unifier, fighting to bring peace to the land and unify japan. There’s a reason why it’s 2 mc, the ninja is for the stealth.
Now decisions for this wasn’t js brain dead, they have stats on where they’re player bases are at and which regions it’s most popular. Like any business you appeal to your crowd.
Also to add on abt “your country” opinion. Which is fair… but again Yasuke wasn’t just a foreigner, he was kidnapped and basically forced to be a servant at a young age. Then taken to Japan as a bodyguard. In reality the “servant” was more so slavery than what you think servant means now a days. In reality he most likely had no choices to stay at home and be with family, he was basically forced. In that sense, to any human being who was forced to be in a country not in their origins, and being basically raised n living there, you’d wanna believe that that’s your home and your apart of that nation n culture too. You know nothing else abt your homeland and your people. All you know is where you’re at now. For example for yourself, you feel that way bc you most likely had a connection to your homeland, you had experiences n memories. But per say, your born and your parents decided to move to America for a better life for you and your raised as a infant in America and live your life in America. I’d hedge my bets you’d believe you’re apart of that nation than your true origins. Your covered in American culture, education system, slang, religion, your apart of American society, you are apart of American history that occurs, you have a part in the economy, the language you speak is English. Yes your parent can teach n enrich you abt your origins, you can travel back to your country, but you were basically raised American that, yes you can say your apart of two nations, but one will most definitely dominate and influence you than the other. The only difference is that Yasuke didn’t go to Japan for a better life, he was js forced to. His tenture of how long he was in Japan is shady, bc he was with oda and after death, with his son, then captured, and sent to jesuits and there it’s unknown if he lived longer or was exiled. The fact that he was treated differently by majority of the country and still fought for peace and to unify Japan should be respected. And to add on to his character, a warlord really saw his loyalty and trust, being a foreigner and choose him to become one of his strongest samurai than anyone else is a plus. Yes he was physically more fit than most, yet was still seen as an animal to most, and when he did get captured, they didn’t use him, even though they could have used his skill and physical talents to help their army. They most likely tried to exile him. It just shows his character that a warlord saw in him, and how oda viewed him as part of his own, treating him like family, letting him eat with him, bringing him into his close circle, giving respect, even tho majority viewed him as a outsiders.
Ubisoft when multiple higher level executives are outed for sexual harassment: 🙈🙉🙊
Ubisoft when a random employee doesn't put a smiley face in their text message: 😡😡😡😡😡
Please can EVERYONE here not buy a SINGLE Ubisoft game. Not the old ones that are great, not the new ones that are garbage, nothing. This company needs to collapse, as a message that will shiver down the rest of the gaming industry to show that if you go down this path, it leads to bankruptcy.
right on mate
At one point I about bought Crew Motorsport because Blue Stahli did the OST...but it's Ubisoft and right now I just wanna see them fall. I'll pick the game up second hand if I see it at pawn shop though.
Well I don't buy games that suck ass, so... no problemo
Not bought any far cry since 3 or assassin creed past unity
Maybe not this bath, but I want to take a nice hot bath 🚿
They are literally children that go lalalalala can't hear you lmao
Putting on my tinfoil hat pushing it to Feb when Monster hunter Wilds and Kingdom come deliverance 2 come out let them use the excuse of "Oh it was a highly competitive launch window' when it under performs to try and calm down investors
And they can use the Black History Month excuse too....
For real. I hate how even with all the criticisms and advice that could be turned into a good game, they just turn off comments and then the game comes out and completely flops and they go “what da hek, why our game no do gud?”
They just don't understand why they are failing. This kind of stuff is why, they just don't understand that doing all this stuff that you just said is the problem. If it isn't private, it dies.
8:52 "How soft we've gotten"
Now we know why the company was named so.
You be soft that’s the name right
Ubisoft ruined something so beautiful. RIP to the original assassin's creed
Outstanding post.
I teach a senior-level CS class on real-world software engineering (BYU M, CS 428). I’m also an old-school game developer myself (SunDog: Frozen Legacy).
Back in 2008, I wrote two articles that describe aspects of what these developers describe within Ubisoft:
The Dead Sea Effect (driving away your best developers)
The Thermocline of Truth (information suppression as you move up the management hierarchy)
YT doesn’t like multiple links in comments, but you can find them easily w/a web search.
Ive read them both and would like to discuss something about it, what would be the best place to do so
What pisses me off the most about this is that it not only does "DEI" Crap like this looks bad for Black people like me, but *it makes us look bad WORLDWIDE* . It's not us, we didn't ask for this, and CERTAINLY aren't the ones calling everyone racist and shaming everyone who disagrees with the choice of Yasuke. I'm so sick of Narcissistic "woke" People using minorities as a political meat shield to protect themselves from valid criticism. As long is its "for the greater good", These hypocrites think they have diplomatic immunity or something.😂
Preach!
Well said
I think most people noticed it's generally white women behind that shit.
I'm not minority myself, but i believe the minorities can speak for themselves. Forcing something that doesn't fit into the game under the excuse of "spreading the message of equality" can actually make things worse.
So you dont like Afro Samurai becauce DEI?
8:52 the fact they made japanese people bow in respect for a foreigner character (race is inconsequential) is not a slap but a sucker punch to the face of japanese people.
Said "foreigner" is a samurai. You're supposed to bow to samurai. They aren't bowing out of respect towards his superiority over Japanese people as a foreigner, they're bowing out of respect for his standing in Japanese society.
@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs said foreigner is a retainer.
@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Yasuke was NEVER a samurai. Japanese historians recently dug deep to find any evidence of it because of this controversy and they found nothing about him being a samurai. Disrespect to Japanese history and culture is putting it lightly. It's sickening
THEY MADE A HALF TORII GATE FIGURE??!! WILL MAKE ANNE FRANK SITTING ON TWIN TOWER FIGURE NEXT??!!
Lmao 🤣
That would make for a great meme
She'd better be T posing if so.
Sounds like an idea. Any good ai image app?
@@Leverchadsyes, a very good app i know is called "commissioning", you have to pay and wait for them to generate the art but it's far better than any other AI right now
Japan is one of the few county's i can think of that DEEPY cares about it culture enough where they have entire government departments dedicated to preserving it.
And GOOD ON THEM!!
Imagine if they banned this in Japan.
Wait you guys don't have those department in your country?
@@fadel_rama No we have departments dedicated to destroying and subverting our culture. Welcome to the >current year west.
They are still lil fascists, that the problem there 😅
A bud of mine asked a very obvious question. "Why is Shadows an Assassin Creed game? It has nothing to do with the Creed, samurai don't do stealth so why are we here?"
Valid. It could have been called something else. Wouldn't have helped much, but still.
“Assassin’s Creed” just means “historical fantasy” now. I loved AC Odyssey but you can’t do stealth in full hoplite panoply.
It's like Valhalla all over again
Ghost of Tsushima is a game about a Samurai doing stealth kills, let's not pretend authenticity is the name of any game.
Ah for the most part, that'd be correct. Hanzo Hattori (A famous ninja) wasn't actually a ninja, he was actually a Samurai who was taught ninjitsu and became the most famous ninja because of his skill.
@@jboyler1 if they said from the start that it's a fantasy, there would be less problems. But they said it's historical.
Personally, I feel like companies are going to company. I blame the people who keep buying this slop.
They had the easiest lay up in AC Shadows. Easiest, and they chose the Disney route and ruined a sure thing. I will give them credit where it is due, they wish to bring the world together (at least thats what they say, not what they do) and in this situation they are bringing gamers all over the world together to support our friends in Japan. Most of us loathe their disrespect.
They all want to bring the world together. They want the whole world in misery with no culture or identity of their own.
One could argue they managed to not only rally gamers globally but a large sum of the eastern side of the world to virtually riot 😂
@@jamellfreeman7875 good they should, the vast majority of the West doesn't want this, so you know with good chance that they LOATHE it out East (as they should) 😂
As an Egyptian,
I was amazed by AC Origins not just for the story and how amazing that game was and its dlcs.
But its portrayal of Egyptians, phenotypically they looked Egyptian the protagonists and npc were not whitewashed or blackwashed as we see a lot in Western media, the lifestyle of the farmers shown in their side missions and npc scripts is accurate to the history and the Egyptian character as the farmer is the best representation of Egypt for 80% of Egyptians were farmers up until the industrial revolution, the class clashes between Egyptians and the Greeks and Romans perfectly captured the Egyptian spirit, they even portrayed the sarcasm in the face of hardship and oppression which is a common trait in Egyptian culture. Their portrayal of ancient Egypt and the Egyptian character was what we all want, Authentic.
Back then there were ACTUAL racist posts about Bayek's voice actor being black and they were all bs imo as Bayek is an Egyptian character, who cares what his voice actor looks like and Abubakr exceeded all expectations in his performance anyways, back then UBI was right to ignore these people, but ever since Odyssey the excessive DEI nonsense is enough reason for people to boycott Ubisoft like they've done.
I miss AC Origins Ubi, That is the Ubisoft I want, the Ubisoft that actually cares about their games' story, world, gameplay, and authenticity!
Its kinda weird how they managed to get western and middle eastern cultures so right and then absolutely shit the bed with Japanese culture.
The best in the series in my opinion, it even dethroned AC2 and Black Flag for me personally.
@DoomsdayMayBeOkay Same and Bayek has the potential to bypass Ezio, the dlc character development is proof of that
egyptians are not african.
get that straight first.
p.s. this game is not about egyptians.
it was about japanese , show some respect.
@Vampirat3 You're right we're secretly martians 👽 🚀
"Hmm there's a video this guy uploaded not even a week ago and has roughly 950k views on how we're just awful"
Ubisoft: "nah, not happening."
We are "a vocal minority" 😆
I just bought AC odyssey, Valhalla, and mirage because they were on sale on steam. Now I feel stupid.
Don’t feel too bad if you like rpgs odyssey is still great and Valhalla was not for me but there’s still a love for it others have and if you’re talking about the problems that people are having with the games not working on windows 11 odyssey just might crash here and there but nothing crazy and idk about Valhalla
Exact reason I left Ubisoft. Terrible work enviroment.
Story?
damn. on what game have u worked?
Does ubisoft discriminate towards men because that's what I heard?
Well, they have special programs to only benefit anything other than men so, yes, by default. @@dravenmartinez6311
@@dravenmartinez6311 Kinda comical, because the higher-ups, people who are on the upper echelon are all male dominants. Shit's wild, bro.
Sweet Baby Inc should be outlawed from the gaming industry imo.
This is what they get for being dumb enough to hire SBI
The'yre on track to become just that right now. Problem is to persistently keep out similar DEI enforcement outfits and their personnel out of the industry for good. Problem is, ESG investment money is just too powerful and seductive for corporations to pass up on. At least for the big ones. And it always comes with DEI strings attached.
This is actually good. It helps the customer to know whats up. Like these initiatives need to be exposed.
@@tomcampbell8934they didn't just hire them, they are the one who unleashed this demon lmao
The founder of SBI was one of their employee
Absolutely not, they should be allowed to do what they're doing. People need to realize that the game devs and companies are more at fault for hiring them, the next sweet trash will be smarter and stealthier, these Canadian idiots love to parade the games they're ruining, which in turn is saving us money. Same goes for IGN, their reviews should be allowed and publicized so that the general public will know what to avoid.
Netflix: "Black Cleopatra. A documentary!"
Ubisoft: "Black Samurai. Historical!"
Cultural appropriation, for some reason always with Black person.
Ubisoft's game: "Foreigner en-masse killing local population". ..What could go wrong? :P
When you have no culture, you have to steal it from others.
Google AI... black Hitler.
Because they think the appropriation can be excused or overlooked if they use a black person
No Yasuke existed, Cleopatra was Ptolemaic, cultural appropriation doesn't - you either like or dislike a culture or an aspect of it.
They want the white race to be genocided but most of them are white too total head case these people
What on earth have they done. A samurai running around with a giant bludgeon, smashing through walls and breaking everything around him.
I studied Japanese language and culture in school, my Sensei (she was Japanese, she wasn’t just our ‘teacher’, she was our Sensei) would be appalled by the way they have used and misrepresented these honoured moments in Japanese cultural history.
Silence weeb
The choice to go with Yasuke may as well be the final choice that kills Ubisoft. It has been a series of bad decisions after bad decisions for the last few years. Assassin's Creed isn't even an Assassin's Creed series anymore. It's some weird RPG bs.
theres like a very small chance they can salvage shadows but i doubt it. They *could* save yasuke’s character if they make some major story changes but I doubt they can do that in the few months they’ve given themselves
That's my major problem with it, AC was never suposed to be an RPG. You're suposed to be reliving a hidden history, not creating one with diverse decisions.
SO TRUE. And yes, unfortunately, if they're really keen on launching Feb 2025, there's no way they have enough time to change the protagonist.
But... Samurai were blacks... And they supported Ukraine. This is history.
Word, brother.
Maybe this is just me but i feel like ive noticed a weird trend of people in the DEI "woke" (even though I hate using that word) sector of the culture taking so many liberties with Asian culture that they would never do with black or hispanic culture. From the weird shit localizers pull to an AC game set in Japan with a black protagonist whos historical influence is dubious at best, and a bunch of other stuff, it feels like Asian cultures are kind of getting the shaft from a lot of westerners rn
That's because East Asians are considered acceptable targets by those people. There's a long list of discrimination against East Asians in American and Europe by the "champions of diversity"
They like to say that Asians are white-adjacent, since they do well in school/college/jobs.
I've heard activist speak that involves classing Asian culture as 'white adjacent'. pretty much meaning many richly varied and unique Asian races are considered to be just another version of 'white' amongst activist types.
This is probably the thinking that builds a load of Chinese architecture into a game set in Feudal Japan.
It is disgusting, and sums up everything wrong with the way people like that think.
Asian are successful. They don't muck around in section 8 waiting for the DEI savior
Cause Asians tend to be more successful in Western culture they are above black and Hispanic people in the progressive stack, so its ok to violate their culture if you are doing so to benefit a group that is more "oppressed," I didn't make the rules that is just how woke works.
I wouldn't buy AC Shadows if it was on sale for a penny. Ghost of Tsushima showed us what true fans, with the right skills, can do to bring historical-fiction to life while being respectful and honoring the culture of Japan. I absolutely adore Ghost of Tsushima, I think it's a perfect game and, I am really looking forward to Ghost of Yotei.
Don't look forward too much and learn about the DEI hires they are making, specially main character actress who is a known lgbtq redical activist that hates white people.
Ghosts of Yota is probably going to suck.
@@sgtmoose1942 fear of Sonys meddling?
@@sgtmoose1942 It’s the same game director and everything from the first game, highly doubt this is going to be a bad game.
@Sainte305 he just saying that since the playable character is female
I'm in IT, too and I am very glad we have a culture where you can voice your opinion and it is heard. If I am concerned with certain requirements we can talk about it and find a solution. This agency makes it worth the stress and it feels rewarding watching the end result. Must be depressing to work at ubisoft if you can easily pinpoint what's going wrong and nobody gives a shit and speaking up gets you in trouble
Ubisoft has been a company of nepotism for decades. Relatives of the Guillemont family are hired into mangement roles with little to no experience resulting in tons of lost development time. No wonder Ubisoft has 18,000 developers with the amount of mismanagement they have.
All they had to do is cast both protagonists as Asians. That's it. Literally.
But NOO, they just had to cast a historically embellished token black guy to play the other half of the protagonist while demoting, emasculating and vilifying Asian men.
The Sengoko-jidai is one of the most illustrious and well recorded time period in Japanese history and Ubisoft freaking waded through 99.99% of the entire Sengoko-jidai period just to not cast a Japanese man. Like bruh...
"Appearnce is 75% of a business, 10% is production and 15% is quality. The fact is, people dont care how good your product is if your company looks bad."
Is something I've heard from alot of top business owners and CEO's. The fact is, it doesn't matter if you think it's "toxic criticism" or "unhelpful" or just "hateful". If you aren't listening to what those people are saying and responding accordingly and professionally. You're guaranteed to lose business.
Because while you may not want to hear it or may not want to listen or talk about it. Everyone else will hear it and talk about. And if they don't see you handling it professionally or fixing it, They won't partake in your business. It's as simple as that.
You're extra screwed if you look bad and your product's shit.
I see nothing has changed during the past 12 years after I left. Whenever we shipped yet another mediocre game, the studio boss gathered us and gave a movie-grade speech about how great we were and how all difficulties have made us stronger, only to repeat the same mistakes and bad decisions all over again on the next game. And anyone disagreeing with this was delusional and free to resign because there is nothing like this great job anywhere in the world - as a C++ programmer, all you could ever do elsewhere was bank software - this was the mindset and the culture. I got into programming because I loved games and wanted to make games - after Ubisoft, I never wanted to play any game, ever again.
February = Black History Month. Predicting "If you don't buy ACShadow you aren't celebrating Black History month correctly" lol
Only the US celebrate that holiday, so most of the world doesn’t care 😂
funny thing is they probably don't care and will still say it, to try to get people to buy their game.
Do they not realize that KCD2 comes out February 11th?
@@Jehuty256Brother I’m jumpin head first into Monster Hunter Wilds, none of these games will stand a chance. Capcom has been cooking a feast these past few years and I am famished!
Black history month is stupid as hell. Plenty of other races that have experienced centuries of hardship, blacks aren’t special in that regard. Rather than putting races on a pedestal, forgetting about race entirely and focusing on culture would be far greater a feat than any movement the West has pushed in at least a decade.
No talking anymore...
just don´t buy that game, that´s the only "language" they will understand when it´s solely about their revenue, because that´s the only power a customer has which is where and for what he spends the money in his wallet and definitively not his voice/opinion.
This has always been true. Stop buying trash games. Just like Skull and Bones was trash. Redfall, Anthem, Starfield.
Perhaps gaming needs a soft crash. A correction to the half baked garbage people have been buying for 10 years.
yet there will be always some braindead ppl buying shit games on launch or even preorder it, funniest shit ever
@@garythecyclingnerd6219ok anthem had potential but they fucked it
@@12xenn45 It underperformed and wont be a franchise cash cow. Anthem also sold a lot of copies but reached 1/10 or less of its potential
@TP-pq9xx those "ragebait channels" are literally the reason why so many people very likely including you know about this problem and why so many people won't buy this piece of trash, would you have known that thy were basically butchering Japanese/Asian history without these channels ? I would eb ready to bet you and most people would answer no, not only that but it helps point out new controversies that you might not have known (the Tori gate being one of them, if they stopped talking about it, nobody would've own since it only came up quite recently), of course it's clear what these channels doing isn't exactly the most honourable type of sh** and that they rely a lot on clickbait and that in reality it's mostly about money but on the other hand sorry to tell you that but that's standard practice for basically the entire industry of, well, everything, and on the other hand literally nobody forces you to watch and if you decide not to it's not like you're going to lose money because it's all free content anyway.
When I see people complaining about "ragebait channels" I can't help but see it as basically trying to cen**r the equivalent of "whistle-blowers" all this for a scummy company which is just despicable, far more so than making a few bait videos, I do hope you're not one of those "people"
From what I've heard, the half Torii gate is very disrespectful. Not because of the bombs, but the Torii gates are religious symbols, and when a Torii gate is damaged, it is immediately fixed.
The gates represent gates to shrines, and its a spiritual thing. I'm no expert on Japanese religion, but it would be akin to chopping a Christian Cross in half and parading it around.
The only Tori gate that has never been fixed, is the one from Nagasaki, in turn it was turned into a monument in memory of the people killed in the nuclear bombing.
@@MaxIronsThird which honestly makes a lot of sense from a cultural perspective
Ubislops also use the Buddha (Nara Daibutsu) statue in their game,
*THAT NO ONE gets permission to use, EVER.*
You Need to have japan and culture ministers permission to use that statue commercially (because it's a Japan national treasure)
But most of the time they give only permission for educational purposes and they need to make it culturally and historical appropriate.
*quick notes!*
Before you say anything like "but there's been a lot of buddha statue in video game especially the current one in Black myth wukong?"
There are several different buddhas and each country has their own laws on using religious artifacts in media.
@@MaxIronsThirdthat makes the figurine unbelievably fucked up. No way nobody noticed that
@@feluto7172 likely nobody knew, and well... Now nobody cares there either apparently.
Toxic positivity and intellectual dishonesty are the perfect terms for what's happening in the corporate world, but especially in corporate America. not defending true hate speech and the like, but seriously, we are terribly 'soft' right now. I don't even begin to think that I've got the solution or have any idea where to draw the line, but it's worrying to think what end stage toxic positivity and intellectual dishonesty looks like.
On the flip side, we've seen the extreme opposite, we experience daily life through an the 'Us vs. Them' lens--however valid, and necessary it can be at times to operate from that mentality, it has always resulted in someone being put down. video games have influence, so I understand the caution and ridicule that developers face from the general public, but to completely disregard the developers and gaming community isn't cool..and when you prioritize profit over people, well...look at Ubisoft. I used to be a huge Ubisoft fan, but man these last few years have been rough...I don't think there's a single Ubisoft game I've got favorited right now. That's wild.
I remember back when I was a kid in the 90's, and "Christian stuff sucks" was the joke everyone understood. The stereotype was that Non-Christians had all the cool stuff, which could be edgy and fun, and Christians were stuck with what was considered to be watered-down, vanilla, "safe" stuff like Bibleman and VeggieTales. In the stereotypical Christian media no one could say bad words, no one could be attractive, the committee-approved morals had to be front and center, and it was generally all constrained by over-sanitization on every front.
This new culture we have now is constrained by the same religious fervor, the same moralistic over-sanitization, as the "Lame Christian Content" of the past. The only difference is _which_ words are considered unforgiveable cusswords.
Yup. They are the 'pearl clutching' people now.
I get what you’re getting at, but labeling it “Christian” is a serious oversimplification. American Protestantism and Evangelicalism isn’t the same as Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy. The super cringy hyperfixation on no curse words and the like is permeated in the former and completely non-existent in the latter. That’s why just labeling it “Christian” isn’t accurate.
@@hydra1683-m7u Hey, I'm still a Christian, and I get what you're saying. I'm just talking about the stereotypes.
Ironically "American Protestantism and Evangelicalism" is also a broadly inaccurate simplification, because those categories envelop millions of people and thousands of churches that have vastly different levels of fixation on this stuff. It really just comes down to how deep into the legalistic aspects the local culture and individuals and families are.
My point was that the overarching stereotype was that the "Christian versions" of things, whether movies, music, or what have you, tended to be seen as the "We have [X] at home" knockoff versions of everything entertaining and "good." And now the "Woke versions" of everything are following the same route of legalistic hypersterilization that stifles creativity.
@@hydra1683-m7u it's pretty easy to understand what he's talking about so you're just pointlessly arguing semantics
@@bonehed1 It’s not pointless semantics.
Refund all pre orders and release shadows sandwiched in between KCD2, GOY and MHW... ubisoft decision making is borderline self sabotaging at this point.
And S.T.A.L.K.E.R.!
@@FirstFamilyChargerstalker probably will get delayed again anyway
But hey, it's on Black history month
True. Mhw is releasing in February so to me any other game in that month is irrelevant 😂
What the fuck is GOY
They haven't ever made a historical personage playable in AC, so I'm not sure why they did with this game. Yasuke should have been a side character as we've seen in the other games. He could have had side plots, etc. But it's obvious that Ubisoft has been running on fumes for awhile. The company is an absolute hot mess and has been for years. They went from saying female player characters were "too hard", to being investigated for rampant sexual harassment, to just dialing in all of their formulaic games without any thought. They have predatory and unnecessary monetization schemes and they think you should not own their games. They need a good purge of their executive suites.
because most historical figures outside of of the Ironage are pretty well documented
@@richmondvand147 not sure what you mean by that. What I'm talking about is something like in Origins, you didn't play as Cleopatra or any of the historical personages in that time. You didn't play as a de Medici or Ivarr the Boneless, or Blackbeard or George Washington, etc. Yasuke is an historical personage, whatever you think about his story, and the decision to let you play as him is odd and literally a 180 from what they've done before.
@@richmondvand147 Your comment makes no sense though? Its a change from literally every other AC game for no reason. I honestly though odyssey was OK too. All the recent games from Ubisoft have been ass.
on the other hand, it makes sense because of the different play styles. you have one valhalla-like character and one classic-assassin-like character. so you can please both player types.
They did it because he's black.
You said it urself. They listen to DEMAND only. Don't buy their games, that's it. People here cry about all those things, yet still run like idiots buying their stuff. Don't be like those sheep.
The hamstringing by Disney for Star Wars: Outlaws is something that could have been interesting to dig in. Ubisoft might be paralyzed internally, but if they also apparently got told that Kay Vess couldn't actually be a bad guy then Outlaws being bland makes sense in a whole new way. I guess Post-Modernism and Moral Relativity are only for certain projects, and that doesn't include ones about actual criminals.
The only people that can be bad guys in Disney products are straight white males. Everyone else can do no wrong.
They did the same thing to Boba Fett as well in the Book of. A bounty hunter so dangerous and even reckless even Darth Fucking Vader tells him to take it down a notch, becomes leader of a criminal empire we never see or hear, then the whole time seems like he wants to be the police instead of an underworld spice king. Fennec the assassin is actually making the decisions the whole time too, so Fett is literally a useless fat old loser in his own show. When did he stop being a villain? BoBF should have been like The Penguin but too incompetent.
The only thing that makes sense to me is the script was originally meant for Timothy Olyfant's character to become The Sheriff of Mos Espa and crushing the spice trade (yeah give me that show)
Must... maximize.. social media prescence...
People who think like this make mediocre stories
Social media doesn't represent reality in any shape or form, it's so bizarre to witness this kind of stuff. Not even talking about these mainstream products, but everything related to it, it's so weird. Psychiatrists will have a field day studying the late 2010s and early 2020s, one of the most bizarre trends ever, make the hippies look reasonable in comparison
@@RRRRRRRRR33except that’s where marketing boosts do they not?
And compromise game quality, usually immersion, with specific manipulation
@@matteodelapaz1698 Naah, the masses in real life are not maniacally obsessed with "race" and virtue signaling, we're talking about bubbles on social media. Sometimes the stunt works, like what happened with Black Panther and Barbie, but most of the time the real world is not affected by this. Sometimes politicians try to take advantage (as always, doesn't matter the trend, they are opportunistic by nature) and so on, it is what it is. I have friends living in Japan and Singapura, people in east asia have no idea this "woke" trend even exists. To put in perspective, the emo trend was strong enough to reach asia and influence some stuff here and there, no social media, the early steps of the infamous "globalization"... and the emo was somehow charismatic enough to reach that far
Ask yourself "Would this get the most retweets?". If the answer is yes, don't do it.
Dreadlocks and hip-hop music in feudal Japan. This is one of the worst "woke" decisions in gaming, ever. Who wants this?
Oh, come on, man, it's for the legendary "modern audience".
Tbf when i was a little weeblet, i was weirded out by post hardcore OP and ED on an anime in a medieval setting.
Yep. Japanese like Rock and Metal, because they are actually cool.
There are people today who don't know how to be tactful and make excuses for their poor behavior. I am not a gamer, too much time wasted, but the black samurai is based on a real person(s)...in Japan. My son tells me that some were whining about this. It is also shocking how many don't know what is real and what is not. Today, people are TOO sensitive and some TOO bold that they feel that they can say and do anything they want. It's usually the vocal, most loud minority that gets the attention. It's also about money money money. More independent developers need to crawl from the basements of millions of kids who do nothing but play games instead of creating something. Those developers who are pushed out need to create their own studios.
the biggest insult to all gamers is that they showed floating doors, stairs leading up to walls, swords not attaching to the hands, and incomplete animations and they say they are delivering 'the polished game we all want' as if the problem was the high expectations
I have being hating Ubisoft since 2018. And not trusting them since Assassin's Creed III.
Black Flag might have been their last "pretty good" game. Almost a decade ago 💀
@@tmbfreak_16bugs and shitty story aside I enjoyed Unity. It was the last Assassins Creed game that actually felt like an Assassins Creed game... Plus the parkour was fun lol
@@tmbfreak_16 fr that year they were pumping out bangers
@@TheKillamanJoe ACU would've been peak if they hadn't botched the servers on launch. By the time it was fixed the players had already moved on.
@@TheKillamanJoe That too. I wish they spent more time for Unity, and start making a proper main present story for It, atleast until Juno dies and then for cashgrab have anthology games without present day story.
Same for Watch_Dogs 1, I love that game.
Ubisoft went against a nation that survived not one but two atomic bombings and is the frontline against Godzilla for the rest of the world.
Great review. Awesome shirt. I have many Slayer songs uploaded to my iPod playlist titled "Margaret Thrasher". Although South of Heaven was awesome, Show No Mercy is also still my favorite album by them.
At this point Ubisoft doesn't have thin skin for criticism, they have no skin for criticism.
The main issue for me was Ubisoft's attempt to have both a shinobi and a samurai with different characters (putting aside their terrible choice of having a black samurai). To me, it would have been incredibly smart to have one character as a shinobi inducted into the brotherhood, or a samurai character slowly resorting to assassination methods throughout the game (just like jin sakai in Ghost of Tsushima)to kill templars after being inducted in the brotherhood. These could have been done with japanese characters and making sure the game will respect the japanese culture and setting.
You’re right, that is literally just ghost of tsushima, and that would also be stupid. Yasuke is a great choice for a character in a video game, it’s just that Ubisoft probably won’t do a good job with him
Keep in mind that Shinobi WERE samurai. Samurai was a social class of warriors. Shinobi were samurai that employed specialized tactics around stealth and subterfuge. Think of it like a soldier vs a navy seal. A seal is a soldier with advanced training and equipment. It's like that.
Or nix the samurai experience and have just an experienced female Assassin and a relatively normal male farmer sucked into the hidden war. As for how he'd have the combat skills? Sumo. Nobunaga was well known for his sponsorship of sumo wrestlers. Also, this was feudal Japan; they're not as large in body as they are now. The man could slowly start repurposing his farming tools for digging (kunai), cutting rice (sickles), and carrying cargo (bo staves) into brutal weapons the deeper he's inducted. The female expert would specialize in palace infiltration and social stealth, patience mechanics, as well as the more elaborate martial arts imported from China, Okinawa, etc. Each could teach the other their skills and both will wield hidden blades.
@@nellcrud8082actually yasuke isn't a great choice for a main character, even for stealth. He's the only guy in Japan with that color and height.
Plus, a black man going around killing Japanese soldiers in the name of justice, of course the people of Japan got offended. Every assassins creed setting has a protagonist born in that setting except yasuke.
I’ve never seen a company hate making money like this before. Unreal
Disney?
engine?
Sony?
They love making money so much it's the only metric they can judge themselves on.
@@A.Singularity 5?
Their response makes it worse. They aren't lying to us, they are lying to their investors. We obviously won't buy it regardless. I wonder if what they are doing is legal?
Literally everyone: "We've been waiting SO long for a Ninja Assassin's Creed since AC1!!! So Excited! Lets see it!
Ubi: "Best I can do is a black dude larping as a samurai with a big club"
Ubi: Oh and… uh… let’s play some rap music while he’s beating up japanese dudes.
Yasuke was a real Samurai. He existed, he fought for the most important man in Japanese history. You are literally complaining that real life is too woke
@@XandateOfHeaven Lie
@@XandateOfHeaven He was never a samurai, your only source is a fraud.
Getting sent to HR over a smiley face is INSANE.
Imagine having to go have this conversation as a grown man or woman? Truly is clown world.
Hey a few of us at lunch are going grab a bite to eat at this new burrito place. Want to come with us to lunch?...smiley face emoji....
Next thing you know you are in HR fighting for your job for that emoji.
@@teddybear1342Thank the emperor this is mostly western countries issues. The studios that wanted to make fun games should move to asian countries if they still want to be creative.
@@syukrir.robert8994 That can go bad places in it's own right if Tencent or another Chinese corp gets involved.
HOW the F are major gaming publishers "unaware" of their customer opinions? IMPOSSIBLE!!! It is NOT just a fringe group that are upset about this shameless DEI injection into a Japanese setting. This is beyond stupid.
Their specialists and developers live in an echo chamber. And they lie to the executives.
They are totally aware, but they have righteous moralism on their side so they think that everything they do is okay, even if it upsets people or makes no sense.
It's the embodiment of the ends justify the means.
Two words: willful ignorance
Simple pride and greed the downfall of everything
It is simple really.... they now have filters to remove "trolls" "ists" and "phobes" (according to them).... meaning they take 1000 comments...filter out 997... and then analyze the 3 still "acceptable", anything other than those is considered "fringe group".
And let's be real here.... there is a massive corporate push for DEI stuff, google protects, youtube protects them, the gaming "journalists" are as reliable as the regular ones (not a compliment).... executives don't spend their time playing games or in the forums, they take the information given to them by "trusted sources" and their marketing team.
Besides, they stopped getting enough money from game sales (because they spend a lot of money for "consultants" and decided to add a lot of DEI stuff), so now they kinda depend on the loans / investment they get from "Yasuke-Stone"... which in a way is a genius move by Yasuke-stone. Offer them money to add your unwanted stuff in.... things sell less because of it... the company becomes reliant on your money because they are selling less.
First here bro, but the way you spoke on some of these topics was awesome.
"I am sick of people, waiting and being prepared to be offended" Imma gonna steal that line. It hits different!
Remember that regardless of all the controversy and everything else surrounding this game, it probably won't even be fun to play.
Given how much of a snore fest Valhalla was, I believe it.
This is a company that couldn't care less about it's consumers. The industry as a whole needs to change, and Ubisoft is hopefully, going to be the first domino that falls, if it isn't bought out, or forced to replace old management.
Tencent has 40% already but that have a contract not to take control of ubisoft until Yves is here
4:40 starts in on some real stuff. I can appreciate that most of us are feeling this who aren't politically driven in our escapism
That is very sad and stupid from such a company to play it that way. Ffs it was supposed to be france's most profitable company...and now, it is as hated as its government.
Most aren’t bro. We see dog crap and forced leftist politics being pushed into the games we love and demand we shut up & buy it or find a different hobby. Really? The men that created this hobby have to leave now because a small fraction of the world wants it? Make that make sense.
@@adaptivegamer9905 as somebody who despises right wing politics I can say us leftists hate it too. It’s not inclusion if you exploit minorities to excuse awful writing and game design.
Oh no, oppressed male gamers! 😭