Comment on Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC

dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, Ubisoft isn’t in a good position right now, to be able to experiment or do whatever they want. So the cancellation is understandable, if they expect it to be controversial and flop because of that. In the end, its the fault of the people who had political issues with prior games. I wish people would stop, so that companies can experiment and be more creative.

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  • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally, I don’t see a lot of reasons to be fair towards Ubisoft executives.

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    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which does not change how logical a decision from a company is. To me, the decision to cancel the game makes sense. I wish they would not, but I understand why. And my understanding is not affected by my feelings about how much I like or dislike the company.

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  • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have gone the safest path for over a decade now, making reskins of the same three games over and over to the point where Assassin’s Creed and FarCry which used to be real innovations in their fields are now just boring copies of copies. They haven’t taken a single risk since AC2.

    They got negative feedback to including Yasuke - a real historical figure who did exist in the area the game exists - and now they’d rather preemptively cancel their own game than tell a story about freedom and rebellion from an unusual perspective.

    Cowards.

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