Ubisoft: Tencent, Guillemot Family Weighing Buyout

[Chazore]

LegitHyperbole said:

Ah, can't criticise the MC in black history month. Smart. They can wade of a lot of critique that way and if the game is bad they can use that talking point to stray people away from talking about how bad the game is. People will just think, ah that crowd is going at it again complaining, might as well check this game out. 

It's smart, but also such a low blow move for them at the same time. I know some on the net are saying "but it's just Feb", and well tbh they could have chosen any other month, yet they specifically chose Feb, which is BHM, and Yasuke himself is Black, meaning they want to try appealing to that market, instead of the one the game itself is based on (they also backed out of the Tokyo Game show, which tells that nation they don't care, and their bs excuse for "polish" isn't really holding much water with what is happening internally). 

It's just wild to see that someone on the inside is calling the worst possible shots, or listening to the worst advisors. We know they don't want a repeat of Outlaws, but this is totally different, because Outlaws was just "meh", but Shadows has so far been at odds with the very nation it's originally marketing towards, but also anyone else calling out their narrative. 

The stolen symbols, the Torii gate, them having journos rush to NYC papers to slander gamers, the "historian" who was publicly cited and found to be a manipulator/liar, and their weak excuse of "we were never about historical accuracy", yet they use the era, the setting and historical characters as their center pieces.

Like it's fine if you want to make a "what if?" game, but Ubisoft, ever since Creed 1 never boldly stated their franchise was a huge "what if?", not even in their trailers did they push the "what if" narrative they are now choosing to go for (since 2020, which was when they started pushing that defence point). A publisher should never swap in and out of what they think their game is or was, because it was what is was when it first spawned back in the day. It's like saying Prince of persia was never about the sands of time, or who the characters are, etc, it'd just be a clusterfuck to dick around with the blueprint.

For those that need a catch-up on what's been going on:

Last edited by Chazore - on 26 September 2024