Dr. Samuel Hayden
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I wish Ubisoft would quit the industry
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Peroroncino
Member
Imagine shitting the bed so bad you'd have to cancel your marketing plans xD
Dr.Morris79
Member
You just know they had some big big plans for it too
StereoVsn
Member
As with any Ubi game, waiting a year for patches and DLCs, and then grabbing it for $20 or on the Ubi service to mess around for a bit is the way to go.
Plague Doctor
Member
Guys, we are all being too hard on Ubisoft.
You know what would help win the Japanese consumers over?
High quality collectible art promoting AC: Shadows! Maybe of a Torrii gate! But it has to include something distinct and dramatic. Maybe one that's only has one pillar and looks pretty close to the one... that... was... destroyed when the atomic bomb dropped..... dude what the fuck.
Ubisoft, you are fucking stupid! HOLY SHIT!
You know what would help win the Japanese consumers over?
High quality collectible art promoting AC: Shadows! Maybe of a Torrii gate! But it has to include something distinct and dramatic. Maybe one that's only has one pillar and looks pretty close to the one... that... was... destroyed when the atomic bomb dropped..... dude what the fuck.
Ubisoft, you are fucking stupid! HOLY SHIT!
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BbMajor7th
Member
You can have sympathy with individuals while thinking a company's failure is predictable, understandable, and even justified. 99.9% of all companies that have ever existed have already gone broke; new companies replaced them. This is normal - and in the case of bloated, ailing companies like Ubisoft it's even healthy. Expecting a company to persist far beyond its natural lifespan is merely status quo bias; advocating that people should actively support it beyond that point is protectionism.
Tango Gameworks is a whole different beast. An otherwise successful company, acquired by one of the world's wealthiest companies, produces a critically acclaimed new IP only to be shut down shortly thereafter. This was a studio on the up, producing its best work to date, closed down by a company that had only recently acquired it. This decision was the latest in a long line of poor decisions by the parent company. People were understandably pissed.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
hinch7
Member
They couldn't even do basic research on Japan and that period, before making a whole game on it. A lot of it is insultingly bad and downright disrespectful. Aplenty of art and pieces just blatenty copied without acknowledgement or permission, small nuances to their culture and not to publicise certain landmarks and statues. But did anyway.. because they are a) too lazy b) couldn't give a shit - probably a mix of both. Then there's the MC based on a fictional piece written by Thomas Lockley, to pass as a historical piece. And kept that charade on Wiki before being found out.
And thats after a lot of decisions at Ubi obviously chosen (for Shadows); in bad faith for brownie points. Which makes it even more hilarious. Absolutely clueless folks on this game.
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YuLY
Member
For the people that are saying the backlash is exaggerated. That tori gate is a symbol of the japanese people's endurance, it still stood on one leg after the Nagasaki atomic bomb. To put that into a game set well before that time si not only dumb but also disrespectful. Shows how much they fucking cared, just copy pasted shit they saw around.
Fuck Ubisoft.
Fuck Ubisoft.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
“Japan, we have heard your pleas. For years you asked, and today we are proud to announce the game Japan has been waiting for.”You just know they had some big big plans for it too
[hip hop music starts playing]
“Finally, the Assassins Creed Japan can call its own. For the glory of Nippon, I give you….. ASSASSINS CREED: SHADOWS!! No, no need to thank me, oh you’re so welcome!!”
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
UBI might be gone from a lot more than a game show in the future.
Team Andromeda
Banned
There is no difference, it's still people jobs not that for once sec do I think Ubisoft going under and lay off its staff
It's funny how some who complain the most about how horrible the video game industry is when it comes to layoffs don't seem to care when it comes to Ubisoft or EA and almost celebrate any of their games flopping
Also, if one looks at the cold hard facts of Tango Works none of their games have been massive commercial successes and the likes of HI-Fi Rush, and Ghost Wire dire failures even when Ghost Wire was a SONY exclusive
And people need to get their heads around that quality and rave reviews don't always equal good sales as the likes of Okami prove.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
I don’t think putting up giant posters and demo kiosks with a big black guy being a samurai in Japan would go over well.
Lesson learned UBI.
Just make products with no politics and it can be shown and sold anywhere.
Lesson learned UBI.
Just make products with no politics and it can be shown and sold anywhere.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
I like how real audiences are giving these handicapped companies some heat finally
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Well when your "consultants" get outed as frauds for a game you've already taken very strong, potentially agenda-driven artistic liberties in WRT representing Japanese culture, of course you'd yeet.
Kinda hope this game isn't a big part of the SOP later today; even if it didn't have some of its optics problems, it's still "just another" AssCreed at the end of the day. Not exactly a super-exciting display.
They probably care most about the inaccuracies of things that are clearly meant to represent historical stuff.
IMO most aren't upset that Yasuke's in the game; he's been in a lot of other Japanese media over the decades one form or another. They're not upset there's a female samurai, either. But they're probably at least a bit upset how the first AssCreed game set in Japan seemed to deliberately go out of its way to not have a single Japanese male protagonist....for a game set in feudal Japan where Japanese men were like 99% of the samurai.
It takes some extreme effort to somehow conveniently not feature a single protagonist representative of the dominant demographic in a game based on their country. And that is something that can certainly be taken as disrespectful...rightfully so IMHO.
Kinda hope this game isn't a big part of the SOP later today; even if it didn't have some of its optics problems, it's still "just another" AssCreed at the end of the day. Not exactly a super-exciting display.
They probably care most about the inaccuracies of things that are clearly meant to represent historical stuff.
IMO most aren't upset that Yasuke's in the game; he's been in a lot of other Japanese media over the decades one form or another. They're not upset there's a female samurai, either. But they're probably at least a bit upset how the first AssCreed game set in Japan seemed to deliberately go out of its way to not have a single Japanese male protagonist....for a game set in feudal Japan where Japanese men were like 99% of the samurai.
It takes some extreme effort to somehow conveniently not feature a single protagonist representative of the dominant demographic in a game based on their country. And that is something that can certainly be taken as disrespectful...rightfully so IMHO.
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MayauMiao
Member
Japan absolutely hate AC: Shadows, so yeah I think it's best they stay low profile
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finalflame
Member
People really got so fucking triggered over Assassin's Creed. Top kek.
It's Assasin's Creed, set in Japan. 99.9% of people do not give a fuck what some Japanese culture warriors and their western brain-rot allies think about the game, they're just gonna buy it cause samurai AC.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Absolutely incredible how you can have a ratio skewed that bad. Almost 30:1 negative.
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Kurotri
Member
It will sell well 100%. The question is can it break Valhalla's record and save Ubi's fiscal year after how Skull and Bones, Prince of Persia and Outlaws bombed. I think it's a no on both accounts, not sure if this means Ubi is fucked now or can just continue as they were.
Dr.Morris79
Member
Dorfdad
Gold Member
Yep why showcase a game to only have a month of haters give you bad or online and hurt sales.
Assassins creed would be the biggest game to showcase but its having its me too moment. Star Wars also got slot of bad press so no wonder they skipping this
Hell yeah! I hope thousands of people lose their jobs because I don’t personally like their product too!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Gaslighting 101.
The Cockatrice
Member
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Not also for the fact it looks like he has a noose and his eyes are rolling back from asphyxiation. You just can't make this shit up.
Team Andromeda
Banned
Look nobody gets more pissed off with this woke nonsense than me, but I care more about how the games play than what sex a character is
In this day and age men can be women and children cats or wolves and that nonsense that we get these days, but the game doesn't look that bad and last year's game was really good and getting back to how the older games played
Raven117
Member
Man… the chit chat about this and Dragon Age will be pretty entertaining this fall. One way or another.
We also have absolutely zero idea if Ubi cancelled because they “hate them.”
That said, they have good reason to. After more than a decade of clamoring for AC in Japan done with the level of detail the prior entries have had (I mean, go watch how they recreated Notre Dame… historical accuracy of locations has always been a thing in AC games), and then we get this half-assed not even accurate weeb-dream of Japan with a complete departure from the series of having a native person be the protagonist (actually been big parts of the series)… yeah….
What the eff were they thinking?
We also have absolutely zero idea if Ubi cancelled because they “hate them.”
That said, they have good reason to. After more than a decade of clamoring for AC in Japan done with the level of detail the prior entries have had (I mean, go watch how they recreated Notre Dame… historical accuracy of locations has always been a thing in AC games), and then we get this half-assed not even accurate weeb-dream of Japan with a complete departure from the series of having a native person be the protagonist (actually been big parts of the series)… yeah….
What the eff were they thinking?
BaneIsPain
Member
Didn't they release Avatar game before that? It seems massive IP flew under the radar as well.
Kacho
Member
LMFAOOOOO
Kurotri
Member
Oh yeah, that one bombed as well. Completely forgot about it..
Kacho
Member
Please spread the wordAssassin's Creed Shadows figures from Ubisoft, a famous Japanese hate and criminal companyA figurine of a destroyed torii gate has been released, which is believed to be based on the "One-Leg Torii" gate that was destroyed in the Nagasaki atomic bombing.I have never seen a "One-Legged Torii" other than the one destroyed by the American atomic bomb in Nagasaki.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Kurotri
Member
The "various circumstances" on full display here
Cyberpunkd
Member
Wait, what did I miss? What's up with the half of Tori gate?
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killatopak
Gold Member
Practically all their game merch has issues. Whoever made this figure along with the One Piece Zoro sword is sweating bullets right now. Massive failure.
yazenov
Member
Typical woke assholes playbook. It is exactly what they do on twitter whenever people hold them accountable for their actions. Block everyone that disagrees with them or deactivated their accounts instead of facing the heat.
They know they are dead wrong and can't answer for their actions. Run away and hide instead.
They know they are dead wrong and can't answer for their actions. Run away and hide instead.
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Angry_Megalodon
Member
In the internet era, they can't. And pretty sure this was made on purpose, since these devs are rotten inside their heads. Let's not forget about this.
Very hard to claim the moral high ground for regretting the "losses of jobs" of people who mock genocide. They should get grilled for this.