Do people really trust Ubisoft to fairly portrait American Civil War? I think cancelling is the right choice.
Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game partly due to ‘political concerns’ | VGC
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sculd@beehaw.org 12 hours ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 hours ago
of course they would. on the cinema side disney allegedly removed some of thier “minorities” from a show recently.
Rose@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
The only games I can think of where you fight back against racists as a Black person are Mafia 3 and Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry. It’s wild that there isn’t more after so many years of video games. It makes the news of the cancelation incredibly sad.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 21 hours ago
Cowards.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 18 hours 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.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 14 hours ago
Personally, I don’t see a lot of reasons to be fair towards Ubisoft executives.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 14 hours 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.