Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening

• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Disgusting.

  This isn’t about being diverse. It’s about making bad games.

  As a matter of fact, the new assassin’s Creed is so offensive that the Japanese government is in an uproar about it.

  Ubisofts attempt to be so inclusive and sexually neutral is what’s making their games bad because they’re stifling good game design in the process.

  That’s not to say that it’s not possible to make a good game while adhering to diversification and inclusion.

  Hellblade and horizon zero Dawn are two excellent examples of incredibly good games that don’t expound sexism. Hell, look at destiny 2. They handle these kinds of situations perfectly!

  But to simply imply people are upset because they don’t like “woke politics” is a gross over simplification of what’s happening to Ubisoft!

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  • Odum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In response to the whole bit about the Japanese government, it seems that the quotes were taken way more seriously than they should have been. Pretty cookie cutter responses that also say that It isn’t really their concern.

    gamesradar.com/…/assassins-creed-shadows-debate-s…

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  • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No one here said that people are upset because “woke politics”. Original comment is saying that those people are probably celebrating right now because they were “right” and I’m simply pointing out that whenever this happens, the anti-woke crowd think that it’s because of the woke politics. Neither of us said that people are ONLY upset because “woke politics”.

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  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nah, the Japaneses government doesn’t care about fictional characters in a videogame. Neither are French-Canadians mad about being depicted as mimes with bread sticks in South Park.

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    • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They already delayed the release due to so much negative feedback. It’s going to be a bad game. There should never have been a black person in this game at all. It’s 1600s Japan. It makes no fucking sense!

      There are so many layers as to why Ubisoft is going through what it’s going through I don’t have the energy to express it here in this comment.

      I can assure you, however, if they worried more about making good games and less of inclusion politics their stock would be worth a lot more than 2 bucks!

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