Can Ubisoft Survive This?

[@svhp5099]

I'm milky white eastern European. I loved to play with CJ in San Andreas, to this day Blade is one of my favorite superheroes. Diversity is not an issue, forced hypocritical shit is.

[@jerrikhead8045]

My friends are black i cant be racist

[@mothbreeder641]

There's nothing diverse about different shades of skin. Stop falling for it. There's a far, far, far bigger difference between white rRussians and white Finns than different shades of American.

[@W.Isarnorix.D]

@mothbreeder641 This. In The States we have "Regional Culture". I have more in common with every other ethnicity in the South East than I do with a "White" city boy from the North East or West Coast. Some cultural stuff overlaps regardless the region, but usually those regions are alike despite State location.

[@ElevenDollarCheese]

That's just it, if it were Assassin's Creed South Philly, it would be good, not 1600s Japan.

[@JohnofGwinnett]

The more the masses are divided amongst each other the better the media is doing at pitting us against each other like it’s that fkn episode of the Twilight Zone where the whole neighborhood turns on each other even though they were all innocent…

[@AnimeBinger370]

Ubisoft and ign going down together is a heavenly coincidence.

[@ilikemoney5183]

Dude your community tab polls are so fun to do lmao, that tournament is absolute heat man. I'm subscribing to not miss any rounds in the future. Please continue it again! Btw Light & L > fraudohan

[@miorioff]

Ign is going down too?

[@space.raider.2271]

and they're only the first two dominoes to fall

[@riofernando9414]

Big W 😊

[@Gakki_Aniki]

Gaming is healing

[@ariq5258]

Ubishit should get comfortable of not ,,owning“ their company.

[@DemonCore618]

Tencent: "I'm buynary. Look at me im the cap now"

[@arthurh6325]

The said that we should get used to not own there games. I guess they were right

[@H0LL0WHearteD]

More like they should get confortable not having any customers and players ahahah

[@reyzafany1992]

It's called mandate of heaven

[@Rengokuo4o6]

😂😂😂😂

[@pretender7778]

As a Chinese person, I feel obligated to tell you that whenever Tencent sees a game gaining popularity, they will try to buy out the entire studio. If you refuse, they will copy your game and create a nearly identical version, turning it into a pay-to-win model. Since the country doesn’t care much about copyright issues, many small studios have been driven to bankruptcy this way. Tencent isn’t creating games; they’ve always been copying them. Asmongold's statement is completely wrong. By the way, a significant portion of the Black Myth: Wukong development team consists of people who left Tencent because they were fed up with copying other people's games. Later, as their funding was nearly exhausted, they agreed to accept Tencent's investment on the condition that Tencent would not interfere in any development matters. Please like this comment so that everyone can know the real situation.

[@Toto-95]

megabased comment

[@marcobonizzi6479]

Asmongold is wrong on a lot of things. He even prefer to believe that there's a conspiracy in act to tank Ubisoft, rather than accepting that DEI has killed the company. His desire to be always in the center often makes him delusional.

[@312trapstar]

I’m so sorry that you are Chinese. 😢

[@awolr]

@@marcobonizzi6479 It can't be a little bit of both? These are two independent things able to tank the company and there is a fundamental incentive for both to exist independently of each other. DEI clearly has had its impact but it was likely reinforced and pushed further by the execs who are suspected to want to take control of their company by purposely tanking it. Both can definitely be true, feeding into each other. Clearly, there's been some cost cutting that happened at Ubisoft when we look at the first trailers for AC: Shadows, reinforced by the statement of the exec who mentioned a lot of the devs have little to no experience. Things need to change, that's for sure.

[@ryanmorrissette27]

So then asmongold is kinda right...

[@DMS1791]

What I don’t understand about AC Shadows, is if your setting is Japan, make the characters Japanese. If you want “representation” of Africans, then make a story set in AFRICA. It’s a massive continent with as much history as all of Europe. Like, are none of the stories from their heritage worth telling? You have to take stories from other cultures and MAKE them fit for the “representation”? Hand-me-down stories are an insult to those of African descent, because it shows that you don’t value the actual heritage and culture and stories of their ancestors.

[@raisedbyaspaceinvader]

"you will appreciate our crap representation and be grateful"... it all seems rather insulting to me. More importantly, insulting to the very folks it's supposed to be uplifting.

[@EriaAri]

​@@raisedbyaspaceinvader Not at all. I don't think you know what fascist means.

[@actually5004]

None of the African stories are any good once you strip away the rape and murder and slavery and starvation and beatings and burnings and wild animal attacks., but there's a board on 4chan where you can watch plenty of videos of real African stories.

[@Medieval_Dead]

As much history as all of Europe? We have a comedian on our hands, ladies and gentlemen 🤣

[@jjojon7072]

​@@Medieval_Dead what's funny?

[@Jumpboots_Jamstrang]

Gaming at large needs a reset. Between all the journalists getting fired, and companies like Ubisoft flailing, it may finally happen.

[@HeavyMetalfps]

Not gaming at large, just the triple A ones really, indie games have been great tbh

[@TheJohn_Highway]

@@HeavyMetalfps SOME indie games have been great. But most of them are either unfinished trash, chronically early access or unoptimized slop.

[@charg1nmalaz0r51]

@@TheJohn_Highway Yeah thats kind of how it goes, you get all these new companies, some will do good thing and others will die and then those that succeeded will eventually be the new ea and ubisoft and then we are back to where we are again lol. I still remember ea when they were one of hundreds of companies trying to make it in the industry

[@sashkas8792]

There will be no reset: Fortnite and COD Battle Passes, GTA Shark Cards and Ultimate Team Gold Packs are still doing well. Without Ubisoft there only will be no Ubisoft Single Player Game during Christmas season any more.

[@reggaetonjones1988]

I've been saying this since 2008, as well as vote with your wallet. I'm very happy the chickens are finally coming home to roost. The sooner corrupt companies and publications collapse, the sooner we can be free of that crap.

[@MINETURNNOWGamingRblxOnYT]

Ubisoft: “Are we this out of touch?” Also Ubisoft: “No. It’s the customers who are wrong.”

[@glovesgunpla]

Yep, blaming the customers instead blaming the one who's working the product.

[@nickf8268]

Literally. I questioned the whole woke push in their games and was permanently banned from their subreddit. When asking why, I was told asking that was being a whiny little asshole and I need to touch grass and go out into the real world instead of complaining about a game. A Reddit mod told me to touch grass 😂 I just think that’s fucking rich

[@joshuatonjes]

That's the liberal language.

[@Jabarri74]

Make whatever you want but unless you target it an audience you won't be around long. You want their money and they have a choice over consuming their slop

[@tgerule]

Brilliant 😂😂 good old Seymour

[@MM-lu2zk]

Ubisoft can't survive because people have decided it should not. Many companies feel they have self determination, the truth is when the consumers quit that the company is done. Death by a thousand cuts. Ubisoft ignored 9,999 cuts.

[@AsaelTheBeast]

It's not "questionable" if yasuke was a samurai. This escalated until they straight up checked the Imperial Archive in Japan for Yasuke. And the thing is? The imperial archive was neutral during the war and kept tabs of *every* samurai and noble family for the purposes of not only maintaining an accurate historical record, but so that it was harder to show false allegiances. Yasuke was never listed among the Samurai retainers to Nobunaga. Keep in mind, the fact that he didn't have a last name is a *big* indicator. In this period of Japans history, it was very normal to change your name as your position in society rose. Heck, even the *name* Yasuke was given to him by Oda, and just giving him a clan name with the supposed promotion wouldn't have even been unusual. THe original author of this "story" is just a glorified fanfiction writer trying to pass his OC off as real history. (youtube doesn't seem to like it when I post names- though Yasuke seems to be alright?)

[@josie_the_valkyrie]

Also, it was a grift. He created the Wikipedia entry, and then cited it as a source.

[@BlueBD]

There is only 3 verified documents with Yasuke mentioned at all and the Longest of those 3 documents only mentioned Yasuke Once. The others are only a single paragraph. Quite literally. Anything we hear about yasuke that is not referenced in those 3 paragraphs is fiction There is no way you can write a Historically accurate book about a person with no information. the Entire novel is all fanfiction for a man that existed in name only.

[@CK0547]

dont let the yasuke samurai fanboys catch you saying that, it is already hard to cope for them.

[@w1se_w0lf]

The guy who claimed he was Samurai falsificated everything about him and his proof was his fanfiction claimed to be based on fake historical record.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@CK0547 let them hear thay the first non japanese samurai was an englishman.

[@jonwilliams9755]

"Idk why this is an issue assassin's creed has always been loosely associated with history" In the first Assassin's Creed, you played a middle eastern man in the middle east In Assassin's Creed 2 you played an Italian man in Italy In Assassin's Creed 3 you played a Native American man in America In Assassin's Creed Origins you play an Egyptian man in Egypt And in the newest Assassin's Creed you play a black man in Japan

[@RoyalStarlord]

I would be surprised as hell if the next Assassin's Creed has you play as a caveman assassin main character in a science fiction alien civilization.

[@Himamoto-bl3yn]

Naoe: Guess I don't exist. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The mental gymnastics to say you don't like a black character is comical.

[@jonwilliams9755]

@Himamoto-bl3yn Ok.

[@GamerModz123]

​@Himamoto-bl3yn What? Do you genuinely think that was like an own or something? Literally this has no fundamental impact on his point. Also Naoe doesn't make sense either, it's just less egregious than Yasuke.

[@axolotl3883]

​@@Himamoto-bl3ynall gameplay footage is centered around yasuke so yeah she isn't playable

[@IvorineDJ]

Ubislop needs to end.

[@GruntoSkunko]

Capitalism in general needs to end.

[@irishbob26]

​@GruntoSkunko and replaced with what?

[@who41683]

@@irishbob26 mass starvation obviously

[@Cythius]

@@who41683 real

[@GruntoSkunko]

@@irishbob26 Market socialism. Swap capitalist business firms with worker-owned cooperatives managed democratically by their employees which compete with eachother in a market setting.

[@saemonno-suke9959]

In a different timeline Ubisoft makes Assassin's creed shadows with Hattori Hanzo and you kill Yoshimoto Imagawa, Shingen Takeda, Kenshin Uesugi, Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, and Toshiie Maeda in chronological order to finish at Sekigahara and earn Tokugawa his Shogunate. If I was in charge their stock would be hundreds of dollars a share.

[@pilodrou4213]

And maybe just maybe, a mini boss for Oda would be Yasuke... and no one would have given a crap about it.

[@St0neyWanKenobi]

​@pilodrou4213 it be pretty tight if you got to be friends with yasuke then you both find out you're working against each other and his loyalty to oda causes him to fight you.

[@irishbob26]

Ubisoft and ign going down together. Poetic.

[@aurecueil]

two chicken on one stove. double kill. captain sinks with his ship

[@jobanajoestar435]

take kotaku too

[@trollingisasport]

I rate their fall a 7/10.

[@irishbob26]

@@jobanajoestar435 we could do with a Christmas miracle

[@devilinthebelfry7292]

Hes right it is diverse, when we were in Egypt we played as a black guy, As a Priate a Welshman, In Italy we were an Italian, in N Europe we were a Viking, in the US an American Indian, in Arabia we were an Arab. Now in Japan, one of the most ethnically NOT DIVERSE places on earth we're playing as an African who was brought there by the Portuguese, or Dutch!? WTF.

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

It's like one of those ideas that never should have left the drawing board when spitballing but the culture of the company meant you cannot say it's a bad idea without losing your job so it just goes ahead. It's probably why it's being pawned off to complete newbies as anyone passionate enough to make it good is probably disillusioned that they could make any good out of it, it sets the precedent that every disagreement would just be resolved by who can appeal more to identity politics than the actual merit.

[@oriongear2499]

People have literally been begging Ubisoft for a good while for a AC game set in Japan and they got slapped in the face with “Yasuke” of all people as the protagonist.

[@barrahittamm7277]

It's about the narative you see...😊

[@donbcorleone]

Played as a black guy in Egypt? What??? The character was greek

[@Zeel23]

@@donbcorleone They're talking about Bayek in Origins. The greek character was in Odyssey. You can discuss how black he was, but he was pretty much color propriate for the setting.

[@iainperkins2085]

I had my Assassin's Creed in Feudal Japan. It's called Ghost of Tsushima. I'm not buying this trash.

[@WardenOfTerra]

'Ghost of Tsushima' is nothing like 'Assassin's Creed'.

[@hudo108]

And going by Ghost of Yotei, it seems that it will remain to be just Ghost of Tsushima.

[@1Jack22]

​@@WardenOfTerra it's 100% assassin's creed

[@jericho5253]

@@WardenOfTerrait’s damn close enough to scratch that itch for AC, so it fits.

[@brotbrotsen1100]

You had Assassin's creed in Japan ages ago, it was called Tenchu and it was better then Assassin's Creed ever was.

[@teletesselator]

1:50 - the reasons my gamer friends dislike and distrust Ubisoft is because they buy up smaller studios and then almost immediately dismantle said studios firing the talent that produced the IP we all loved in the first place. They keep canning our heroes and then ruining the IP or messing it up with their "economic" ideologies and practices. They're a wrecking ball and a destructive force in the industry - very worthy of disdain!

[@Glory264]

During the era of Facebook games back in ~2011, Ubisoft was buying every great/good fb game and then instantly close it without any reason. I never forgot it...

[@angelmessenger8240]

All of these old companies no longer have the original devs, they've moved on and subsequent to dei hires they will lose everything and I think that's deliberate.

[@KazaiTV]

First these companies started to cutting costs and hiring cheaper devs. Then ESG came to be and hiring based on DEI was the thing ALL of these companies started doing, because that is the easiest way in boosting the companys ESG-score. DEI is nothing more than the "S" (Social) in ESG.

[@johnsmithers8913]

Not sure it's deliberate, but just "evolutionary". I think highly successful companies start behaving like governments and employees start behaving like entrenched bureaucracy. A company may stumble into great success and almost have a license to print money, similar to a government to tax at will. With an endless supply of money the owners and C-suite start "cruising" and would rather just cave in to rather ridiculous demands of a few vocal HR employees than actually getting into an awkward situation or simply firing them. Eventually, the HR department and Activists start hiring more HR and Activists and take control of the company. The owners and C-suite just bury their heads in the sand and collect their bonuses and dividends. So long as the money rolls end, they would rather party than get their hands dirty cleaning house. Elon's take over of Twitter and firing 80% of the staff, mostly women, revealed what's actually going on in these companies.

[@AlequeVision]

That's what happens when you want to save money by getting rid of talented staff and replacing it with cheap labour force

[@merchant_of_kek5697]

Or just fired for not bending the knee to leftist rhetoric

[@stanislavkimov2779]

Ironically, the old devs may find new jobs in new studios, that rise when old AAA slop collapses. So it won't be new studios replacing the old, it will be old devs returning to the top of the industry, after they were chased away by suits in old AAA studios.

[@moonhaewon6689]

"History is diverse" ah yes, japan was ahead of its time with many foreigners that werent japanese and were still respected samurais, how could we forget that guys

[@xenotypos]

Yeah, I'm a history buff and I've always disliked that rhetorical argument, which is dishonest. Even if history as a whole is diverse since there were so many civilizations, ancient societies taken separately were rarely diverse. And even when it was like the Romans, it wasn't on the scale of USA today and it only concerned populations that were already neighbours to begin with. Most societies were homogenous overall, with sometimes the neighbours or some tribes immigrating and assimilating. Until from that mix they became homogenous again.

[@Todo776]

History is diverse, I mean, some of the slave owners in America were black. I say that's pretty diverse my friend.

[@EonsEternity]

​@@Todo776Nah that was just Django, it was all an act 🥶

[@taxicorky]

@@moonhaewon6689 y'all realize it's not a documentary right?? It's a fictional story in a historical setting... just like this has been done dozens times before but with white protagonists in foreign settings.... but that never was a problem before?? So why is it this time????

[@cuttlefish6839]

​​@@taxicorkywtf do you mean white protagonist in foreign settings? We had a middle eastern man in the first game an italian in the follow up games, a native American in another, an egyptian in origins and a greek in odyssey. The only european that wasnt native to the lands was black flag but thats a naval pirate game taking place in the Caribbean and we had a diverse cast of characters who fit with that setting which makes sense based on historical precedence. The new ac is just a racist fanfic based on bs information from someone who was using himself as a source that japan itself after this mess was revealed has disavowed.

[@may]

Ubisoft surviving? Bro, they’d sell the respawn button as DLC if they could.

[@mathewunknown8266]

nah, DLC is sold once, respawn should be repeatable micro-transaction. And you can buy 10 pack for price of 9.

[@dylansinyamom]

@@mathewunknown8266dlcs are micro transactions bud hence why it’s called downloadable content

[@mathewunknown8266]

@@dylansinyamom "repeatable" hence why I edited my comment for comprehension. Try reading more

[@enricod.7198]

Don't fortet how they tried to put ads when you open the map, those fuckers tried it and then said "oops a bug" when people raged.

[@Takumii79]

years ago, because of my job, I took part in a future development plan Ubisoft was going to role out. Using WoW as their model, they said their future as a purely subscriptions based gaming company and had tailored all of their future plans to encompass microtransactions and subscriptions while also cutting back on the quality of artists for projects. Since being part of that meeting, I swore that I would never buy another Ubisoft game and I didn't, so the current predicament that they're in doesn't surprise me one bit.

[@Jobocan.]

For the people making the "AC was never 100% accurate to history" nonsense argument... It was. That's the thing. Ubisoft, at the time, really cared about most aspects of historical accuracy. They create fictional events within that history, usually closer to more climactic moments and, you know, the whole assassin group thing... But the real-life characters are in roles that make sense, the architecture and environments were extremely accurate (AC2 went as far as making sure the hairstyle of prostitute NPCs were accurate, which is not a detail most people would even know), and people were of races that make sense for that time period and area. Goofy shit does end up happening, but the actual characters and history up to that point, largely made sense. Yasuke being a samurai goes completely against reality (as far as we know from historical records, rather than the fiction written by Thomas Lockley). If he was an assassin rather than a samurai, instantly that makes more sense. Heck, making him playable, in and of itself, is kinda weird. AC is a series where you interact with historical people, not where you are one. Why not have Yasuke as a character who you interact with and help within his tasks under Nobunaga? Why make him gay? Him being there isn't the problem. How they're using him, and trying to gaslight us into believing he's accurate, is.

[@swordinhand8356]

They got greedy getting away with all the BS people let slide in Assassins creed odyssey. So many things people didn't notice like the female spartans. Ragnarok too, things like every block in the city there was a gay couple.

[@kylegoyak]

Exactly! Ubisoft even took the extra time to put in little post it notes about each significant landmark! They were crazy history buffs. They made sure everything was accurate as possible. And then they'd weave their story in and around historical events. Thats why in AC2 you go after the Pazzi family and then the Barbarigos. The Pazzis historically died in 1476-1478. And there are numerous sources citing Barbarigo deaths throughout the 1480s. Thats why we NEVER got a choice in mission order before Odyssey. Because everything was historically recorded

[@anthonylowe8819]

W take

[@ryucartel351]

They don't view history as what was, but rather what they wish it could have been. Historical fanfic.

[@ryucartel351]

​@@swordinhand8356 There "could have been" female Spartans, "hypothetically", therefore, you have to acknowledge and appreciate the possibility of that hypothetical theoretical subjective desire of historical potential.

[@Steak514]

Jordan Peterson talked about death spirals of corporations once the good people leave. He mentioned how unbelievably fast a company can go from invincible to bankrupt once the good people go.

[@Jordabrz]

And now we see it in real time

[@ghostblackmormor8120]

That's what I wanted people to talk about, I am sure the biggest reason for the downfalls are the talents leaving.

[@zaadbaad541]

Too bad he sold himself out to the juice.

[@Gutvald]

@@ghostblackmormor8120 In Ubisoft, Obsidian, Blizzard, Rocksteady, one day Rockstar ...

[@Mr.Heller]

​@@zaadbaad541 He's a brilliant psychologist, but like with celebrities and other media figures - just ignore them when they speak politics.

[@Justacatlmao]

Ubisoft is in the "Found out" stage.

[@kruruneiwyn2107]

lol stolen comment

[@CatTroll21]

Ubisoft is at bald stage

[@sp1ashy345]

I'm curious if KCD 2 will outsell Shadows by a huge amount

[@AnOwlfie]

Ubisoft represents the death of an era, where the most oppressed group of them all, gamers finally rise up.

[@tiagoandreguerra2950]

No Man's Sky gave the formula to success. They turned a hyped shit game into something good by listening to critics. Ubisoft did the opposite.

[@jsonkody]

It was not shit .. they just released it unfinished caise they did not have the money for more years of development

[@Katniss0000]

Sony forced them to release during the hype. they don't care no man sky devs office was flooded. Thankfully they were able to get away from sony. Now they are proud to be a independent company. If devs always need to answer to shareholders, executive,MBAs = bad game.

[@youtubeistarm]

No mans sky was infact shit in the beginning not only unfinished

[@alphach1mp]

Still shit to what they promised. I say that they are about halfway done to what they promised.

[@The.Nasty.]

@@jsonkodyit was unfinished shit. Better?

[@Chesslover69420]

Sweet Baby Inc was birthed from Ubisoft. This does not surprise me and hope that someone with a better grip with reality will take over it.

[@neutronshiva2498]

Tencent

[@cg3868]

They got MtG too. been queering it up for a decade.

[@KazaiTV]

Sweet Baby Inc is a tiny part of the problem. The root cause is and always has been ESG. DEI is the "S" (Social) in ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance). Most companys (going way beyond only the gaming industry or even the entertainment industry as a whole) mainly rely on the Social part in order to boost their ESG-scores. The very first step every company did that starts to chase that sweet ESG money is hiring based on DEI. Then shortly after they are put into leadership positions and take over HR, after that the entire work-culture inside the company is fked. It's only at the very end after so many Activists are brought in, when the Agenda is pushed into the Product (in our case the Game) itself. So when you see these Red Flags in the first trailers in games, that's when your alarmbells should ring. That tells you everything you need to know about the Developers and the Studio, therefore also everything about the game itself.

[@devinward461]

​@@neutronshiva2498 and NetEase

[@whenpigsfly8178]

Enviro only gets away with it because of the constant resort to 'in 20 years the world ends' threats. Social & governance are basically the same thing and are a more obvious overreach, though they resort to the harm/compassion rhetoric.

[@Chrisfragger1]

Yasuke was basically an exotic pet for Oda Nobunaga. NO ONE considered him a Samurai. He was NOT Japanese and ONLY the Japanese could be a Samurai.

[@Chrisfragger1]

By ALL means, stand firm. Stand firm as your companies bank accounts dry up.

[@Anton-r6q]

Everyone who knows Japanese culture knows he could have never ever been a real Samurai. It is so obvious

[@derantorkiarig4592]

@@Anton-r6q Yes, but instead of actually engaging with history, they're "erasing historic black oppression - literally whitewashing history". You know, in the original sense of whitewashing.

[@Envy_the_Darksider]

He was the equivalent to a shiny Pokemon that you never use and only keep in your box. A really cool oddity but not someone you want in your lineup of fighters, especially because ACTUAL samurai have DECADES of training and discipline. Someone like Yasuke who only lived in Japan for only like 3 years would never have the skills of a samurai.

[@HarbingerOfTruth1]

William Adams became a samurai despite not being Japanese, but Adams was not a combatant.

[@alrightbro]

I have mourned 2 of my favorite franchises in Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell. Ubisoft can't die quick enough in my opinion.

[@UnitedWeStandFreedom]

Their first mistake was telling gamers get used to not owning what you pay for !

[@w1se_w0lf]

They were right. You don't own any of games or microtransactions you paid for. You just bought the license to use the software, but for example Valve could decide they are closing business today and it will be completely legal if they delete all Steam accounts with game access and in game purchases.

[@chandlerkeck6361]

It’ doesn’t matter whether it was true or not. It was said as a threat and showed how little the company actually cares about their consumers

[@fellowninja]

No one wants Tencent to have so much power over Western media that they can single-handedly shape its future. Just because the studios they now own are making popular games, it doesn’t mean that Tencent isn’t absolutely about the things that players are tired of in gaming. Tencent = micro transactions. Always has been, always will be.

[@totower9597]

Idk why people like asmond drop the corporate criticism on tencent because of China hate. To be clear, Sony has made a lot of good games. I still absolutely hate them. Tencent deserves all the hate in the world these big studios are horrible for everyone. CCP is just a cherry on top.

[@Schlittlenutacus]

​@totower9597 when did he drop the hate from the Chinese?

[@boneyardghoul931]

and yet the people who are there now are doing just that

[@conflictclips]

Hey atleast the woke stuff will be over lmao

[@nashooo5903]

​@@totower9597 fun fact: the comment you are replying to doesn't even mention the word "China" but nice try anyways lol

[@masterbeef981]

The best excuse for Yasuke being the main character is he arrived in Japan with a fucking jesuit priest. The whole series is about templars and biblical artifacts. But instead they just say "yasuke was a samurai" and call everyone who disagrees racist even though its a disputed interpretation of historical documents. This makes it feel like they are farming outrage on purpose because they're hemorrhaging money. They have a perfectly good reason to make Yasuke the main character but instead they use these shit excuses that aren't even really verified

[@Goshjij]

You see and hear the people promoting socialism and can instantly tell theyre lazy and have zero drive or aspirations. I grew up in straight poverty, but i learned real quick that poverty is a choice something my parents never learned. Now im a machinist making 60k a year, i didnt go to school or online classes i saw a trade that interest me walked into a shop where machining was happening and said hey i dont know nothing but i really want to learn. 6 years later im a legit machinist making more money than anyone in my family has in generations. I wanted something so i worked my ass off to get it. People have to be hungry for something if they want it. Too many people nowadays are so lazy its unreal.

[@IAmTheOriginalVintage]

Assassins Creed was by far my most favourite gaming franchise yet 6 months ago I decided to boycott it and I won't ever buy a single title of it ever again. Ubisoft chose to crap all over their player base and I hope they go to zero.

[@JustBill82]

Call me a fascist i guess, but I wasn't able to get past 6 foot clothed female spartan warriors in the millions.

[@AnEagle]

​@@JustBill82I mean it wasn't exactly the most aggregious thing in Odyssey, the fact is that Kassandra had magical powers. +Odyssey wasn't an assassin's creed game, but it was honestly a genuinely fun game

[@chrisgraal7319]

I always wanted to love AC games but the controls always seemed a bit off for me.

[@chrisgraal7319]

@@JustBill82 You're a monster.

[@lemming9984]

I got bored with AC after Revelations. The same ol' same ol' copy/paste over and over again. That was the last Ubislop game I bought.

[@Nurix09]

So this is how Ubisoft dies, with thunderous applause.

[@Propane_Acccessories]

You're sounding like a separatist

[@scubasteve3032]

👏👏👏👏👏😂👍

[@cath6851]

cdpr is next. just grab your popcorn and watch.

[@AmiliaCaraMia]

@@Propane_AcccessoriesI call it aggressive negotiations.

[@enricod.7198]

​@@cath6851for what lmao

[@TinchoFigue]

35:35 reminds me of analysis on WHY Sauron didn't protect the entrance to mount doom.. He couldn't even fathom that someone would want to destroy the One Ring, and not use it for oneself/power .. The thought is soooo far removed of what Sauron was, it was an impossible idea someone could have

[@Chr.Skagvard]

+1 Love that analysis, used it to explain things myself

[@Sphoonx]

tbf, the entrance of mount doom WAS protected. It was called 'Mordor' lol

[@liarwithagun]

What is interesting is that he was right as well. Frodo in the end doesn't destroy the ring. Not that I think it applies to the ideologues IRL in this case, as proven by the most recent election cycle

[@Chr.Skagvard]

@ Let’s get rid of security vaults we’ve got security guards 🙌

[@TacticalDimples]

@@Chr.Skagvard stupid analogy. we expect people to steal from the vaults. Sauron didn’t expect anyone would even think of destroying the ring. That’s the difference.

[@nickmajora]

Idk why Ubisoft would shut down. It's got enough popular IPs so just rewind 10 years and start making games people want to play again.

[@theInfra-Recon]

I don't work for Ubisoft but I am a Game Dev and studied game companies for years. And I can say that the only way Ubisoft will turn around is if they do a full 180 of their company(Which simply does not happen, ever) They will have to close offices and drop every monetizable element in their games. That includes: - Game Exclusivity - Microtransactions - DRM - AI and Blockchain Projects - A large number of Junior Developers - Agenda Based Marketing - The number of Executives and Investors - and more Money isn't in the Products you sell, they are in the customers you care about. What Ubisoft needs is a game that is nearly perfect to save them, but with so many Studios and Offices that lack passion, commitment, Dedication and Skill, it is impossible to do this. Most Games Developed by Ubisoft especially the ones in Development hell go through different employees, Directors, and Producers and that's why projects end up being unfinished, low quality and in most cases, scattered amongst different teams. Then there is the Junior to Senior employee ratio. There are not enough Veterans to train Juniors and develop the project smoothly, and most of the Junior Devs are not there to make games, they are there for paychecks. Before Developers would crunch and do unpaid hours not because they were forced to, but because they wanted their hard work to pay off. They worked hard, learned and were passionate enough to stay after hours because they wanted to. Now if you ask a New dev to do something they've never done before they will tell you that they can't do it or it can't be done, when in the meantime it would just take 20 minutes of Research and another 20 minutes to implement it. It's just pure incompetence. This is why Ubisoft will fail, this is why any studio/Company that does the same will end up losing. Look at Sony right now, they are losing millions because they do not want to listen to the wider audience telling them to do something... But that's a Comment for another time. Anyway, nobody reads this so I'm done, Ubisoft will get exactly what they deserve, and to be honest, it's quite entertaining seeing the flames.

[@Unchainedful]

Unfortunately you cannot drop an investor. Not unless you are willing to pay them a large amount of money that they would have made, even then it is still very iffy because that investor can sue the company and pull a number out of their ass. There are high chances that the investor wins in court. This is why it is so hard to go back to a private company once you go public.

[@NameName-ll2yx]

@@theInfra-Recon You forget they are a French company. Working for extra hours without additional pay because of passion for the project is actually illegal in Europe. Even the best games studios only do the regular ol’ 8-16 and have 5-8 weeks paid vacation a year.

[@CS2newb]

I pray that CS players and Valve bootlickers come to this level of action. The apathy and copium within the customer base of Valve is fucking insane.

[@echomjp]

Sadly, they have ruined their reputation I think too much to really recover while also making such mediocre games. If they could have a game as good as Elden Ring come out tomorrow they might be able to salvage things somewhat, but it's impossible for a company that badly run to make a great game anytime soon. It takes YEARS for larger development studios to be properly formed, gain enough experience, then make really good games. Their development studios clearly aren't very competent, so even if they course corrected immediately it could take them another 5+ years to release good games again. They won't last that long.

[@RuddFoxx]

They could make a game with none of that then slowly add all that again but if they liked the first game probably would forgive them.

[@Mooki_14]

Ubisoft stock: 2018: 103,20€ 2024: 12,53€ 6 years of downfall.

[@jontronics7676]

what a shame - i still think the fam short it internally

[@kpsk8031]

Ubisoft has more than 18,000 employees. How many of these people only have social science degrees? How many of these people are not working in game development?

[@michaelh878]

I wish companies weren't allowed to spend more than 1% on advertising and marketing.

[@AnEagle]

You'd be surprised how much of the people there are actual developers. You have to keep in mind that Ubisoft is actually tons of studios (massive, nadeo, Montreal, Bordeaux, Paris, Montpellier, Singapore, Sofia....). All of these studios work on completely different titles, and have their own teams that worked completely separately until recently. Then there's a small team of people who work to try and increase communication between studios, which has developed a lot since COVID. The main problem is that a lot of the talent was lost in purges over workplace abuse in the last 10 years, because a lot of those employees were genuinely horrible people

[@ri-jo]

@@michaelh878marketing is not the problem. Admin is.

[@cheveyo2403]

@@AnEaglea you know these people personally. Or you are just parroting? It is clear that most talent is gone and most people have never made a game before

[@AnEagle]

@cheveyo2403 I have family working there, so I am sort of parroting, but I do know more than most

[@chargers0001]

Being a retainer under Nobunaga did not make you a samurai just FYI.

[@moonlightransom]

They've killed or forgetten almost every great concept and franchise they had. Ghost recon, the division, assassins creed, splinter cell, watch dogs, far cry... Just these alone are absolute gold mines of ideas but they let them merge into one collective slop. Open world garbage with no life, genre switching assassins creed into a bad-mediocore rpg instead of a action stealth adventure, putting no further effort into ghost recon, soulless recreations of far cry over and over, leaving splinter cell to the wolves, absolutely phoning in watch dogs then giving up, giving up on the division. Blizz and activision are just as bad but at least theyre compentent enough to still milk WoW and Call of duty for everything it has. Ubisoft had multiple golden gooses then decided to take them out back and gun them down. Its a shame but its time ubisoft also gets sent to the farm

[@dazykuri]

OGs remember Ray Man

[@noisyguy4013]

To be fair, division still a good game and franchise, div 2 is a better game than the first one. AND Ghost recon Wildlands was good too. But thats about it. Far cry is dead btw and the last good one was FC3.

[@disalazarg]

​@@noisyguy4013Breakpoint was also pretty good after execs forgot the devs existed, and they released a patch that was not only free, but enabled players to disable almost every source of microtransactions in the game (as well as customize every aspect of its difficulty separately).

[@Fxrrxt2x]

I'll never forget what we could've had with Rainbow Six Patriots...

[@aguyontheinternet1532]

Let's just hope to God that Ubisoft doesn't remember Rayman or Spliter Cell and ruin those great franchises to

[@LACHY-oz7vv]

Shhhh don't remind them

[@andreivaughn1468]

When was the last good Rayman game? I remember Origins being a solid 10/10, and then Legends a few years later being a significant downgrade but still playable. If Legends was the last big game, then you're right, they forgot about Rayman and haven't ruined it yet.

[@Fxrrxt2x]

Man, those games were so good. I might just binge Splinter Cell and Rayman since you reminded me of them...

[@andreivaughn1468]

@@Fxrrxt2x I still need to visit the splinter cell games - but man, I'm an fps dude mostly, with a touch of strategy, turn-based, but rayman origins knocked me off my feet back when it came out in 2011 and I was 11 years old. I revisited it a few years ago to properly beat it, and I will always hold that game to a high regard, 1) great art style (hand drawn), 2) great music (with real instruments), 3) challenging and fun for both children and adults, 4) no bugs, 5) very fluid game-play from the era of 30fps games (I played it on ps3). It was the only "kids game" that my other friends in school actually talked about, everything else was ghost recon/cod/battlefield.

[@Poptart_Prime]

“Can Ubisoft survive this?” We hope not.

[@TriViuM2k22]

You don't seem to care about people losing their jobs because CEOs make terrible decisions.

[@AngelBlade69]

@@TriViuM2k22if their job is to make shtty game and force people to buy what they dont want and go crazy on twitter yeh they all should get fired,may be go do something more productive like garbage cleaning

[@TriViuM2k22]

@@AngelBlade69 they do what their bosses tell them to. Just like you do.

[@BaronSterling]

​@@TriViuM2k22You have absolutely no knowledge of how game development works, and it *shows.*

[@TriViuM2k22]

@@BaronSterling we can't all be experts while having 0 experience in the field like you apparently do.

[@CoderMonkeyNathan]

45 studios owned by Ubisoft. If each one produces a game every 4 years that's a bit over 10 games from Ubisoft a year, Where are the rest of their games, what're the rest of the studios doing. That's a lot of game devs not producing a lot.

[@neneodonkor]

The math ain't mathing.

[@mb-kh2nb]

you have to understand...all dies at the alter of THE MESSAGE

[@mr.noonoo1003]

Someone watches Critical Drinker

[@NB-zv5mf]

No their allies don't "die" they get re-hired somewhere else with the exact same kind of people and they always get the funding somehow.

[@mothbreeder641]

But Asmongoloid defends it every chance he gets. Clearly the DLC is the REAL PROBLEM even though single player DLC has been around since 2007 in Oblivion. Wonder what the difference between what he considers the "golden age" and now is when it very obviously isn't singleplayer DLC.. One look at a picture of average AAA dev studio now and the nerds back then should be enough of a hint. Never in the history of gaming has a circus of literal freaks made a good game.

[@W.Isarnorix.D]

@@NB-zv5mf It's about killing the product.

[@axxura5286]

20,000 employees with 19000 of them doing tiktok clips called day in the life of a ceo were they show up and use the 500$ coffee maker all day every day

[@JonathanVachon777]

Majority of them are probably in Quebec. And our province cant be more woke than that.

[@nashooo5903]

I'm too lazy to look it up again, but I read sonewhere that in their golden era (2013-14), they had like 8k employees. Now they have 2.5x as much and getting way less work done.

[@KenKaneki_Kibutsuji]

Why Tencent the micro transaction hell? Wouldn't it be better to just remove the activists from company and let actual developers work on the game. Form better communication and listen to player feedback instead of calling them lame? Why would anyone except to succeed while insulting customer and refusing to give what customers want? Tencent is not the solution, removing activists is.

[@SnowmanTF2]

From the investors point of view, pretty much any competent organization taking over is likely more profitable than current management.

[@Senumunu]

The activists are there bad they are the condition for the massive ESg investment. Most of the ads you see under asmonbalds videos are from esg corporatioms.

[@YoidRage]

depends on who's making that call. if the ceo doesn't care for games, makes more sense to just sell out the company than worry about rebuilding it. Ubisoft got some big money ip's

[@arsyfoox]

As a proud Montenegrin Indi Gamedev I can say with 100% accuracy that 62K for a character in a game is a scam.

[@neondystopian]

Ubisoft has not been on my radar for almost a decade.

[@CasualCauldron]

Same, my last game from them was black flag.

[@FadiMARc]

​@@CasualCauldronI enjoyed Valhalla and origins tbh aside from the transactions

[@lemming9984]

My last UBislop game was AC Revelations. I never finished it as it was so same ol' - same ol' boring .

[@ruirodrigues3596]

Same here ​@@CasualCauldron

[@eldenarmortem975]

@@CasualCauldron The Division 2 for me, it was fun RPG shooter with decent lore and story, enought fun for 100-300 game hours.

[@FadingBlack43]

AC Shadows is their final nail on the coffin. It will just be like SW Outlaws when it released. Dead, buried and forgotten.

[@vipergaming6965]

Which low-key sucks. Wish they didn't get ruined. I loved ac odyssey because of the story but was never able to finish the game. It started to feel bland and repetitive. I got Star wars outlaws and that just completely killed all interest in ubi now.

[@Prophet_36]

next stop: bioware

[@mako3197]

As an old DA fan I hope they get acquired out of EA and undergo massive restructuring.

[@miorioff]

​@@mako3197what's the point. People who made old DA don't work there

[@yipperdeyip]

And Obsidian. And Naughty Dog. And Rocksteady. They've all gone to shit

[@smh-]

bioware has been dead for couple of years now

[@interdictr3657]

@@smh- Much longer than that, at least 10 years since they have made anything decent, plus its different people now anyways.

[@CodenameDoubleL7]

Tencent has been investing in Ubisoft since 2018. The company has been shitting the bed ever since. Coincidence?

[@fenglihei]

Don't forget, Tencent bought into Ubisoft because Ubisoft opposed hostile takeovers.

[@CptWhit3y]

BEEN SAYING THIS FOR AWHILE.....THEATER KIDS NEED TO BE STOPPED!

[@OriginalOneLastDab]

if star wars outlaws was amazing, Ubisoft wouldnt have demanded steam remove player counts and reviews off steam -.-

[@wickian9571]

Wasn't Yasuke spared from execution and given back to the ones who brought him over when the Japanese considered him to be a lower form of person and not worthy of that honor?

[@neutronshiva2498]

He was probably treated like a expensive furniture. Something interesting to look at for a few seconds and move on.

[@Jordabrz]

Yes, they viewed him as a lesser being, like a pet. He was never a samurai, never trained to fight, and so he was not treated as a warrior

[@xdragoonzero0]

​​@Jordabrz Supposedly he was given a (single) sword because he was physically strong, but that could just be a simple method of additional security. Essentially if he's going to be in the general vicinity of Nobunaga extremely often, might as well give the physically strong guy a sword in case someone shows up to fuck around. Probably also part of the reason why they'd tell him to just f' off instead of execution. Sure he had a weapon but because he's not actually a warrior, he doesn't deserve a warrior's death.

[@Temperans]

The history is murky, he was there for roughly 1-3 years and while Nabunaga liked him, others didn't (for a variety of reasons). Without Nabunaga there is no reason to keep him. Then you run into the situation where for the JP a samurai should self-die and not doing so is a dishonor, while sending a non-samurai away is effectively an exile (again a dishonor). So regardless of his actual title sending him away is a logical conclusion. (Also keep in mind that missionaries where also disliked, so they could have also sent him away because he was part of that group). History is messy, specially when there are so few sources. Ex: Many norse sagas as we know them where written ~100 years after the christians took over; Hence the many Christian parallels.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@xdragoonzero0 didn't he give up on his first real fight? Hence he was let go instead of honorably executed.

[@Xorthis]

Single player games with microtransactions for cosmetics. "Fuck you" This is the most based comment on why they deserve to fail. Everything else just cements their downfall. I can't agree hard enough over this.

[@Aethelhald]

I honestly don't understand how Ubisoft lasted this long. Far Cry 3 was the last time they made any sort of innovation whatsoever, and FC3 was a LONG time ago. Since then it has been nothing but the same exact game re-skinned with the same old stale gameplay.

[@michaelh878]

You think the new AC are similar to the old ones?

[@raisedbyaspaceinvader]

Because it was a good formula well exectued.... or at least it was up until about 5-6 years ago then the quality started to drop as they started to purge the talent.

[@Gutvald]

Because people keep buying Assassin's creed and Far cry every year. Like Fifa, CoD and other games. It's the power of inertia and social imitation.

[@youtubeistarm]

​@@michaelh878the new acs are shit.

[@YungSteambuns]

Personally I like the formula, its simple but fun, I don't have time in my life to relearn a million different games trying to innovate Not a fan of games overly complex with sub categories of sub categories so you can customize every molecule of your character with randomly generated loot so you can grind for 10000hrs Far cry 6 was too much with that crap and I stopped after a couple hours sadly

[@nyatzee4562]

Everybody talking how microtransactions are bad in single player games. But why is it acceptable in multiplayer games that cost 50$??? Gamers need to stop buying skins etc. because all games made have their microtransactions first then the gameplay.

[@gaborcsuzi4504]

Well, i generally have no issue with cheating in single player games, and in AC games you can just cheatengine your way to any purchasable power up to make the game feel less of a grind. In multiplayer games often the microtransactions are the power keeping the game f2p. OFC they put less effort to bugfixing because of that, but it is f2p nonetheless.

[@goofballjim6167]

Tell that to the casual playerbase who gives little to no shits about that the crap you are spewing. They don’t follow the news about whats happening they just buy games and play them if they are good or not if they are terrible.

[@KurgerBing-p5i]

@@gaborcsuzi4504 they added anti cheat in the new AC game to make you buy the xp boosters lmao

[@gaborcsuzi4504]

@KurgerBing-p5i I will try to act like i knew that and i played with that game, but it will be hard because i didn't.

[@zuriyel5368]

Bcos multiplayer games require a continued source of funding to continue updates and keep them alive.

[@nemonada1323]

You said it yourself, that they are writing a stage play rather than a game. Think what that means. They believe they are avante garde artists, the acclaim of critics is what they have conditioned themselves to pursue because of that self image. They fundamentally do not have the same understanding of what a video game is that most games have.

[@michaelh878]

AC games have 0 artistic value.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@michaelh878the originals did. There was SOME merit afterwards, but lost it all with Odyssey and Valhalla.

[@nemonada1323]

@@michaelh878 That's part of the point. The artistic value, or lack thereof, that you perceive is not relevant to someone with that self image. They think they are a fancy pants artist (with the overinflection on the second syllable) that needs to make their art appealing to the critic so that the critic can explain it to all of us peasants.

[@godtiermullet]

This Legendary Drops guy really loves to hear himself talk...

[@anzelmasmatutis2500]

Company, who focus on filling up "DEI Bingo card" instead of making decent product, deserve a bankruptcy.

[@denkerbosu3551]

"B-but that doesn't matter, it's the microtransactions!" Despite those being far more normalized compared to the trash writing and character designs. The latter evoked a violent rejection called cringe.

[@mao2587]

And you know what is funny….. DEI(they) wont care if the company gets a bankruptcy, they will just jump to another company trying to put their rules and repeat the cicle

[@brockbrawn1524]

Oh that's exactly what they're getting. And they don't want to admit it and be on the receiving end.

[@WigglyBro]

I think the negativity towards AC: Shadows is more with the black protagonist than the kunoichi. These women were actually important in Japan's history and it can make sense, whereas Yasuke is not. He's some insignificant dude in the grand scheme of history where nobody who is a serious, knowledgeable historian will acknowledge him as an actual samurai or who did anything noteworthy in comparison to actual historical Japanese samurai figures. He was a black dude in a homogeneous culture and, well, we all know Ubisoft wanted those woke points. If there wasn't a single historical reference of a POC in feudal Japan (because Asians are now "white-adjacent") then they'd have created a fictional character like they did for the female playable character.

[@paulodelima5705]

kunoichi does not exist, it is fantasy. This word didn't even exist during Nobunaga period. People wanted a samurai, they don't care about an extra fantasy character like the fantasy ninja or Yasuke. It was the same case for Odyssey with most players playing the male character despite Cassandra being the canon.

[@NiceDiggz]

The gameplay looks like shit

[@pierrickoger1148]

@@paulodelima5705 people wanted a samurai ? really ? samurai aren't assassin's, they're warriors. So i'd say: people doesn't want a samurai bro.

[@paulodelima5705]

@@pierrickoger1148 People wanted a samurai. The only real historical assassin's are arabs. Also, Samurai would kill anyone if their master told them to do it. it does not matter.

[@TheGnomeChildWorshiper]

How dare youtube hide this from me for 48 seconds >:(

[@Karurosagu]

52:06 The purpose of the book is to NOT BECOME THE MAIN CHARACTER, that's why the book is good, it was a warning for future generations, you're not supposed to feel identified with thst character and if you do, you have to change not end up like him

[@ujingamer]

With that being the point, you can still hate the book because you don't like the main character. You can still like the book and not like the main character. You can not get the book and hate it.

[@Dayvilish]

It's not about the BIG BOSS, it's about the numerous smaller team bosses (mainly women) that are very vocal and have some political agendas...and they are everywhere, don't you dare question them!

[@gregg6398]

Yep the downfall started when women could vote and got worse when we gave them jobs they weren't qualified for. Death by simping

[@kotrena]

They are not women, they are they/them 😂

[@VanPhan-xs7zi]

I dont care what the media says. My memaw told me the samurais were black.

[@yootoobnao]

Ubiflix

[@gtomanga]

my grandma told me that he's black and gay, and not just french.

[@MrWhiskers65]

Hannibal was a Phoenician (a group of people from modern day Lebanon, Syria, Palestine). He was a Carthaginian general. Although Carthage is in North Africa (modern day Tunis in Tunisia), the vast vast majority, then as now, are Middle Eastern in genetics and appearance. He was not black, despite what Hollywood wants you to believe. Just because he was from Africa now of course they have to make him black and listen to Rap music, like Mrs. Smith did recently with Cleopatra, regardless of what historical sources and artistic renderings actually depict. It’s insulting and the exact description of cultural appropriation. Absolute Hypocrisy.

[@Atercor-kx8hs]

>Can Ubisoft Survive This? I honestly hope not. It would set a good example.

[@DocX1000]

Ubisoft is cooked harder than a $2 steak. 😂

[@seanmacha2668]

Its been years since I played a Ubisoft game, probably a decade since I loved one.

[@Sodahiss]

Last one i liked came out in 2016 and it was the Ezio Collection XD no new game has peaked my interest

[@mad636man]

The problem is, and this is true for all viewpoints on any topic, when you have a viewpoint that says "i have this viewpoint, and when anyone disagrees with me it is because they know I'm right" then every time someone disagrees with you, it increases the delusion that you are right.

[@jayavery5104]

If Ubisoft sold assassin creed up to square enix it would be a good day

[@afficial83]

Microtransactions should not be in any game not just single player games

[@Randsjoystick]

Points at modern gaming companies, “it’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message”

[@neutronshiva2498]

In Blackrock we are forcing behaviors. 🤡

[@TheHollowBlade]

To the higher ups it is still all about money. They were convinced by companies like blackrock that esg and DEI were the future and companies with good esg scores will be the most successful companies. The well was poisoned from the top end, then they let in the activists who proceeded to make bad games because they focus more on the message than making a good game.

[@mothbreeder641]

@@TheHollowBlade No, it isn't. They weren't convinced by anyone that DEI games would sell like hotcakes. No one is so dumb that they think they can sell products to people that don't exist, especially people that have made their way to the top of a huge company.. Hasn't been about money for a long time. As if the constant stream of massive failures doing the same thing over and over again for over a decade wasn't enough to make you notice.. Never notice things and things will never improve.

[@captain-pn8yv]

Woke is not to blame? Are you actually saying that DEI hasn’t effected Ubisoft and the gaming industry? Because it most certainly did.

[@TricksterWeazel]

It is not the only thing to blame. How about we pay attention to what's being said and what has been said previously? I agree with Asmon. When this game launches, DEI will be among its lesser issues.

[@tanrata8658]

Making Yasuke a samurai was so god damned lazy. You have a game series that is supposed to be based on stealth and a character who would have to be as covert as possible. Instead they make him a fighter dude who bursts through walls like the kool-aid man.

[@JeffreyjkKlein]

and the single only black guy in a sea of Japanese people, you are not gonna be able to hide

[@ahuman7199]

Was it grape kool aid?

[@brian2554]

Not to mention it’s hilarious they call for diversity, yet they literally have never used a male Asian MC in their games, and take one out the time it would make 100% sense to make one.

[@KuLifefinn]

they shouldve made yasuke an npc or a boss

[@axon1637]

Until Shadows, the playable character is essentially in a grey area of historical events which would allow players to do what the games let them do.

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

Not gonna lie, a Shaka Zulu Game about the war against the Bantu would go hard.

[@fredshred5194]

The man was a psychopath, that got offed by his brother in law and a few others. The man who thought he was a God wearing a grass skirt and living in a mud hut and didn't even know about the wheel.

[@kornaros96]

​@@fredshred5194unless the wheel was from gold.

[@Schtoples]

Sticks and rocks don't make for very good weapons of assassination. I'm not sure if you could do much of an assassin dive off a tiny grass hut either.

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

@@Schtoples There are other games than Assassin's Creed you know.

[@Schtoples]

@@malcolm_in_the_middle true as that may be the wider context of this comment section is pretty obvious given the main topic of the video.

[@nidhoggr8193]

Ubisoft remember. Your actual money doesn't come from share holders. It comes from consumers. If you insult them and there intelligence then do not be pissy when nobody buys your stuff.

[@ColeBlueford]

And when the customers leave, the money goes with them. Then the shareholders leave, because there's no money. Then the company collapses, because there's nothing left. Unless they somehow miraculously pull a No Man's Sky on their company, there will likely be no Ubisoft this time next year.

[@sulfreez]

That story with "The Crew" emphasizes that you don't buy always online singleplayer games.

[@sammatthews6896]

I think a big one people overlook is Avatar Frontiers of Pandora. Although it received ‘average’ review scores and sold 2.9 million copies, I cant be the only one who sees the lack of innovation on that game. I mean, it is literally Avatar Far Cry, there are no new innovating mechanics or anything like that. They had the opportunity to make a really special game with that IP and they settled for a copy paste.

[@neilrusling-je6zo]

There are almost no foreigners in Japan today in positions of power and influence, but lets say there was 400 years ago because that seems plausible? No, no, what are you thinking.

[@pacotrim]

The real problem about Yasuke is that he's the first main character that is an actual historical character. They chose a black guy to be the protagonist of a game in japan instead of a japanese, and their excuse for it is that the guy actually existed even though no other main character did. If he was an npc, even if he was still a samurai, no one would care, people would most probably like it.

[@wakoko11]

Also, Yasuke still needs to be proven that he is a real samurai. You can check Metatron about his explanation about it

[@zillamoon9773]

finally, someone with a BRIAN

[@pacotrim]

@@wakoko11 just as yasuke most likely wasn't a samurai, da vinci most likely didn't do half the things he did in ac. No one would care about it because it's historical fiction and they're just enriching the fantasy. The lack of accuracy only becomes a problem when that's the excuse they used to put a black guy as a protagonist in feudal Japan

[@enricod.7198]

All they had to do was to give us male/female shinobi and put yasuke as dlc/sidequest npc and people would preorder this shit like hotcakes, but they hate money.

[@Rohan_Trishan]

Oh I didn't know the details, I thoguht people were getting upset about an assasins creed game set in japan with japense people, which i think is normal since they did one in egypt before. But the MC being a black guy in japan...... def weird and wrong. Should be japense. This is what i hate with dei stuff, is that just like hollywood, they are still stuck on the "token black" character when it comes to diversity and 9/10 will have one for their diversity roles instead of a different race/ethnicity.

[@Yougottubed89]

Asmon actually mentioned my favourite multiplayer game Natural Selection 2. We will never get NS3 because COD and Battleroyal ruined the FPS space. Who would take a risk when the margins for profit are so small? Stop being braindead, stop buying soulless yearly franchises or you'll never get anything better.

[@pilouuuu]

Ubisoft is committing seppuku slowly, like a real black samurai

[@neutronshiva2498]

Ha! Brilliant 😂

[@Liyern]

Remember when we heard Vivendi tried taking over Ubisoft through a hostile takeover way back when and gamers defended Ubisoft? Jesus, times have changed.

[@EvilSlothsTony]

I imagine Tencent watching in the distance and being like Mr. Burns from the Simpson, rubbing his hands and saying "excellent." 😂😂😂

[@neutronshiva2498]

Tencent be lookin like the "happy merchant" meme.

[@junechevalier]

I don't think anybody called Asmon delusional. Everybody I know predicted Ubisoft's fall

[@antonkirilenko3116]

1:02:00 The first step would be getting rid of Guillemot family that's running Ubisoft right now, seeing as they were the ones that created the situation where a boyout is the only option of keeping the company alive in the first place. The problem is, Guillemot family doesn't want to leave.

[@ANTH00NY]

CDPR is kinda dead now, they got invaded by DEI

[@vipergaming6965]

They get the benefit of doubt though. I'll gladly buy the Witcher because I loved 3. I'm probably one of few who loved cyberpunk from launch. But I get the hesitation.

[@Katniss0000]

ubisoft is already dead to me before even DEI become a thing.

[@gabrielleander1926]

Source: voices from my head

[@ArmchairOps]

​​@@vipergaming6965 Same here. I'm very cautiously optimistic about The Witcher 4, I just need to know more about the game. I like the trailer and how Ciri looks but I'm not getting excited just yet.

[@RuddFoxx]

DEI is going to be the Dipshit-O-Meter next year. If someone complains about it they will be considered dumb. You don't want to play Witcher because Siri is "muh ugly" and that is just pathetic.

[@OddBox-t1l]

Did Asmongold get sponsored by Tencent or something? Hoolly... Why are we defending big monopolies right now? Anyway, I agree with everything else.

[@Senumunu]

He is signaling for future investment. Its also why he pivoted towards Gacha slop and doesn't call out the bad aspects of wukong. To farm the Chinese audience down the line

[@galadrhim1]

Quite a few old Star Wars games didn't have light sabers and succeeded. But they were all pre-DEI. Rogue Squadron, X-Wing, Tie-Fighter, Dark Forces, etc.

[@whitescpdr]

52:50 Our Serbian (my native language) high-school teacher enforced it (Animal Farm) ALONGSIDE the mandatory 1984. She said, "my duty is to get you brats ready for what is to come." We would spend hours making up hypothetical scenarios based on the subject, carefully analyzing every page of the two books. We enjoyed it. Seemed fun to discuss science fiction for a change (Dostoyevsky had us crying and visting the school counselors by then). No one is laughing today. That was back in 2016.

[@GNCD2099]

Tencent learned its lesson a long time ago. When they were starting out, they meddled with the studios, which caused those studios to flounder and fail. IIRC, when they bought Riot, part of the agreement was that they would not dictate or meddle with gameplay-related stuff. It worked. I don't know what the agreement was with GGG, but I'm guessing it's the same strategy.

[@Haruka_May]

I think they're smart. They know you need a good product and to build up good will before you start turning the screws. Gradually expecting more and more pushing monetization.

[@GNCD2099]

@@Haruka_May That seems to be the case but I really don't care as long as it doesn't affect gameplay. Free games need to make money. Let the whales fund them.

[@heythatmonkeyhasaspoon2636]

18:37 "I 100% was going to scam people" lol

[@koukofujiwara1196]

Tencent want to buy Ubisoft solely because of the IPs they can make more mobile games with

[@Gravewhisper]

I think there was no world in which we would have accepted a black samurai main character in a game series that has never featured an asian protagonist. You can't even claim this is diversity, when all they did was snub one minority in favour of another.

[@tk8-d32]

Best artists and engineers and other talented crews have already quit Ubisoft. The company have to hire total newbies or employees that had troubles in other game companies, that means Ubi is not able to make game like before 2020. It would take several years to restore all studios, and I think they don't have time and money anymore to survive this, sad thing but the is the reality.

[@kylespevak6781]

14:45 Instead of being told the broken torii gate was insensitive, they were told to make the main character black

[@Gunner-11]

Ubisoft, Blizzard, EA. These are the game companies I'd love to see go under.

[@paulatreides1354]

wishing the end of game companies , get a life lmao

[@OceanD4]

​@paulatreides1354 they are run by people who don't care about the happiness of us (the gamers) why would you want them to succeed?

[@Gunner-11]

@@paulatreides1354 Going under might have been a poor choice of words, these companies are too valuable with valuable IP to go under forever, plus Blizzard is owned by Microsoft so they'll never go under. And yes, these companies don't care about making a good game, they'd sell you actual shit if they thought you'd buy it. What I want more than anything is for these companies to return to their roots. Good games first. Profits and political BS second.

[@belfryluna1087]

​@@paulatreides1354I hope those companies are paying you because if you defend them for free I would feel sorry for you and laugh a lot

[@rompsa923]

Regarding XDefiant: Yes Asmongold is 100% Right about, that Mark Rubin was only informed about a week before that the game was going to get shutdown. Some of the devs even knew about it the day before Mark Rubin announced it.