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Alebrije
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Laptop1991
Member
LOL, did they quit or did Japan tell them to "Something Off" lol, for some strange reason!.
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Kacho
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Trilobit
Member
I saw this is a common deragotary epiteth on people they don't like on Era and I take offence at that as a Finno-Ugric person.
Chud - Wikipedia
Wtf have Finns and Estonians done to Era to deserve it?
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Team Andromeda
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True, but I get so many love virtual signalling when it comes to EA or Ubisoft, only to cry when Tango Works face job losses or closureYeah it’s pretty bad.
Maybe he should have looked at what he said before hitting post.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Fake
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Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows
Ubisoft has cancelled the press previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows ahead of its officially launch on November 12, 2024.
insider-gaming.com
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GHG
Member
You have to be joking, Ubisoft make plenty of references to historical accuracy and authenticity in their official communication/PR for the game.
Klayzer
Member
Same shit happens here as well.Saw a comment on Era
I can't believe that somebody posted that on Era, a place where they like to be offended on behalf of others
ChuckeRearmed
Member
I still find it hilarious that AC Shadows is a pure form of western attitude towards Japan. Like from figurines to the characters. Absolutely hilarious.
I wonder if Ubisoft is so used to bastardisation of the western history (without backlash) so they thought that it would with Japan. I dare them try them with China (the game would be banned from the market altogether probably).
I wonder if Ubisoft is so used to bastardisation of the western history (without backlash) so they thought that it would with Japan. I dare them try them with China (the game would be banned from the market altogether probably).
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YukiOnna
Member
Have you figured out whether your message is that it's completely fictional or as authentic as possible yet, Ubisoft? Is every hater still a bigot and foreigner faking it? Ready to admit your expert wasn't actually an expert? What about the architecture, customs and seasonal discrepancies? No?
semiconscious
Member
there's over-extending yourself... & then, there's ubisoft...
ExtendEmbraceExtinguish
Member
Copypasta.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Horrible angle too that looks like a rope/noose behind his head and the deadpan eyes.
For $500k/year I'll advise them on how not to have the worst PR of all time. I've been to the Sanno Jinja Torii in Nagasaki. It has a lot of cultural significance related to the atomic bombing. What a blunder.
Go_Ly_Dow
Member
I used to live about a 2min walk away from that Shrine
Therefore I'm an expert and honour and shame are huge parts of it etc. etc.
Ubisoft please apologise to me or you can kiss your business goodbye.
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Saber
Member
Evilore unrelated comment from my part, but is there anyway for people to post picture from tweets? There nothing I can do to see them from my country. So everytime someone brings a tweet I can't see them.
Hmm. Your best bet is probably to use a VPN while browsing. Hopefully the situation between the government and Twitter can be resolved soon.
BehemothBlade
Member
That will cause another outrage which I would really love to see.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
We laugh about it, but Ubi is in a dire situation, it's shares have fallen in value 3-4 times in 3 years and the entire market cap of the company is less than 2 billion. They just cannot afford to fuckup anymore and they really needed this year to turn around with a star wars license and assassins creed in japan.
BehemothBlade
Member
We are laughing because Ubisoft are in a dire situation.
newtypepilot
Member
so they canceled it even though it's just an online stream? It must be really shit then even by their standards (and they have none).
Kurotri
Member
As someone who has been playing these games since the first game I'm still in disbelief how they fucked up their "research" to this degree. It's comical and doesn't feel real. Almost like they had a team of interns that didn't give two shits about anything and decided to plaster the game with stuff that just looks remotely asian. AC was never historically accurate, but there was a certain level of accuracy that was always maintained. To say that that aspect has completely flown off the window would be an understatement. NOTHING in this game seems accurate whatsoever. It feels completely out of character for AC developers. I really would love to know the behind-the-scenes for this game. Like how the fuck is any of this even real?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
That’s what you get when your typical western game studio which is probably 90% white people do their DEI push thinking they are minority know it alls.
Most of them are women try hard a who think they know the world by doing a google image search. Suddenly they are Japanese experts based in Montreal! It’s like when you hear about an incorrect national anthem at a track and field event because the guy working at the stadium found something on YouTube and thought it was correct.
That’s video game employees for ya.
I bet they didn’t even have one Japanese person working on the game. They game was made by UBI Quebec. You aren’t going to get many Japanese people in Montreal.
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Toons
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I thought ppl liked outlaws?
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Looks like the game was made by UBI Quebec based in Quebec city, not Montreal.
Based on a quick census check, the Quebec metro area only has about 500 Japanese people.
Who knew a bunch of French people knew so much about Japanese culture.
Based on a quick census check, the Quebec metro area only has about 500 Japanese people.
Who knew a bunch of French people knew so much about Japanese culture.
Hey, no need to say that, here at Unisoft we have a diverse diversity team with soo many backgrounds, sure we don't have any actual Japanese people on the team but we can ensure our DEI team is top notch! Some if them are that dedicated that they even watch Anime! Some of it Subbed too, so you know it's authentic.
BehemothBlade
Member
Journalists and Twitter liked outlaws. Also GPT bots on the comment section.
Cyberpunkd
Member
No, they absolutely don’t give a fuck. My guess is still on an exec just molesting some Japanese gal and having to quit Japan asap.
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Trilobit
Member
I saw a youtuber having a good point about Ubisoft ditching a Japanese convention which is one of the world's biggest shows where they were going to show their first AC game that takes place in Japan.
There must be a huge reason they ditched it just a couple of days before. Some people try to downplay it, but it's a fuckup of the highest magnitude and gives incredibly poor optics. I can't see any other reason for it other than them feeling like it would risk being a clusterfuck they couldn't afford this close to release. And that possibly speaks volumes at the state of Ubisoft and the whole mess they've created.
There must be a huge reason they ditched it just a couple of days before. Some people try to downplay it, but it's a fuckup of the highest magnitude and gives incredibly poor optics. I can't see any other reason for it other than them feeling like it would risk being a clusterfuck they couldn't afford this close to release. And that possibly speaks volumes at the state of Ubisoft and the whole mess they've created.
Rambone
Member
Cancelling further public appearances of the game is probably the best move they could have made as a form of damage control. I think with this latest entry and current climate, they might be better off keeping it in the 'shadows' until it launches so they can maximize on milking all the pre-orders and blind buys they can.
Optimus Lime
(L3) + (R3) | Spartan rage activated
People in here defending the protagonist of AC Shadows are missing the point.
Ubisoft, who were woke before it was woke to be woke, with their 'multi race, multi faith team' disclaimers, and their smug, condescending statements, and their flat chested ugly women, have elected to create a game about Japanese history and culture by finding the ONE black guy who kinda sorta maybe might have been a little bit possibly there, so that they can appeal to the US market, to game journalists and woke idiots on Reddit, and can have the built-in justification of 'iTs hIsToRiCaLly AcKuRaTe'.
This is the equivalent of making a game about the history of Africa, finding the one white guy who may have been there at the time, and using HIM as the protagonist, by claiming that it's all good, there's nothing to see here, it's just about 'history'.
It's fucking ridiculous. They couldn't just write a story about a Japanese protagonist, who is visibly Japanese - they have to appeal to the race hustlers in America, because apparently, everyone on the entire planet has to give a fuck about black Americans at all times. The optics are ridiculous, the character LOOKS ridiculous, and it's Ubisoft's horribly misguided left wing obsessions coming up against Japan - a place where they don't give a fuck about this stuff, and getting a massive backlash that cannot be placated by paying Eurogamer to call people chuds and nazis. It's a perfect storm of stupidity, rank hypocrisy, and the final form of the weird racial politics that these companies and their blue haired conspirators have been peddling for a decade, and I can't fucking wait to watch this piece of shit fail. I am going to openly laugh as people lose their jobs over it.
Ubisoft, who were woke before it was woke to be woke, with their 'multi race, multi faith team' disclaimers, and their smug, condescending statements, and their flat chested ugly women, have elected to create a game about Japanese history and culture by finding the ONE black guy who kinda sorta maybe might have been a little bit possibly there, so that they can appeal to the US market, to game journalists and woke idiots on Reddit, and can have the built-in justification of 'iTs hIsToRiCaLly AcKuRaTe'.
This is the equivalent of making a game about the history of Africa, finding the one white guy who may have been there at the time, and using HIM as the protagonist, by claiming that it's all good, there's nothing to see here, it's just about 'history'.
It's fucking ridiculous. They couldn't just write a story about a Japanese protagonist, who is visibly Japanese - they have to appeal to the race hustlers in America, because apparently, everyone on the entire planet has to give a fuck about black Americans at all times. The optics are ridiculous, the character LOOKS ridiculous, and it's Ubisoft's horribly misguided left wing obsessions coming up against Japan - a place where they don't give a fuck about this stuff, and getting a massive backlash that cannot be placated by paying Eurogamer to call people chuds and nazis. It's a perfect storm of stupidity, rank hypocrisy, and the final form of the weird racial politics that these companies and their blue haired conspirators have been peddling for a decade, and I can't fucking wait to watch this piece of shit fail. I am going to openly laugh as people lose their jobs over it.
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Cyberpunkd
Member
Ok, I checked the Tori gate stuff - I take back my words, it looks like this is the reason. Absolutely hilarious / sad. The company can fucking burn.
STOP BUYING UBISOFT SHIT.
STOP BUYING UBISOFT SHIT.
Cyberpunkd
Member
Don’t even try. France is the second largest manga market after Japan, I go to Fnac i see ROWS OF manga all translated into French.
Don’t put it on us when it’s the Canadians (fake French) that fucked up.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
The one Japanese expert they did hire was an expert on classic Japanese literature featuring gay pedophile relationships...
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
If they delay it I wonder what they're gonna do?
IMO the answer's easy: just add Nobunaga as a playable character. So now there are 3 playable characters: Nobunaga, Yasuke, and the Japanese girl (sorry I forgot her name, it's it Naoua or something like that?). Preferably where for any mission you can switch between the three and they have 3 distinct playstyles and areas of missions only they could access.
However, if it's a significant delay, preferably they'd be adding a character like Nobunaga AND reworking the story to where their being there makes sense. That'd probably require a lot of new cutscenes though in addition to other stuff. Ubisoft could've avoided all of this by just goin with a 3-character playable roster from the jump that included a Japanese male samurai, but they conveniently went out of their way to exclude that type of character in a game based on a history where 99% of the people were Japanese men.
Absolutely bizarre they took that approach and thought they were going to get away with it. And I'd be questioning their intent if they did the same with some AssCreed set in Ethiopia or another African country but they didn't have an African male playable character, or one set in the Mayan or Aztec period, yet they completely avoided a male protagonist of those groups. The only way you could avoid a male protagonist in those types of games is through agenda, same as what happened here with Shadows.
Hotel Security
Member
No. Assassins Creed are fun games. Enjoyed Immortal Fenyx Rising as well. I don't care about their business practices or whatever. All I know is they have sales constantly which makes all of their games very cheap very fast. Couldn't care less about what they do as long as I'm saving cash and enjoying the games. And I sure as hell don't care about the woke stuff...this company was using minorities in its games long before anyone else.
