He Talked To Ubisoft Devs. It's Far Worse Than We Thought.

[@LegendaryDrops]

Thanks for watching guys, if it wasn't for your support as an audience, videos like these and discussions like these couldn't happen. I don't just want better games, I want better workplaces that let developers make great games.

[@justadood6329]

Watched your video the day it dropped! I agreed with everything you said and had no problem watching it again to listen to Zack’s thoughts! Glad to know there’s a least people on the inside who feel the same way as us. My dad’s buddy is working on far cry and it’s sadly the same thing even tho there’s no info out there as of right now. They’re burning their devs out with this consulting firm

[@zippydingding5558]

Activision has this coming big time it’s horrendous

[@Argondo]

Asmon made me find you! Great content! Keep it up both for the work but also so i can see asmon react to it!

[@MrDrekki]

thanks to asmon, i discovered your channel, and you earned a sub, also anyone with iron maiden shirts is by default based and right.

[@zippydingding5558]

I’m offended

[@bflippsytrance]

Using Chinese architecture is almost like them saying "looks Asian enough, good to go"..

[@matthewmosier8439]

.. or, it was the same Chinese people making the game as make other Ubisoft games. This situation isn't between w people and the Japanese

[@DarkXessZ]

or.. 3D scan a model and makes them ugly to the point it no longer looks like the original model. Most of the sane 3D artist would think "What did we use the 3D scan for?"

[@worksonweekends]

​@@DarkXessZ iPhone probably

[@aitharel3009]

​@@matthewmosier8439🤨

[@Nuggetfinatic2166]

As Jo Koy’s dad used to say “rice is rice” 😂

[@ARZZiO]

Imagine how much better and cooler a japanese AC game would turn out if late 2000s or early 2010s ubisoft made it

[@zafreeti1738]

What could have been...

[@reegyreegz]

Ubisoft devs read your comment as, "how cool would it be if ubisoft made a gender inclusive and woketranny version of AC that usurps the worst race over one that's been around for thousands of years."

[@tiko4621]

If they had kept on with what they built in unity… we could have had something incredible.

[@_MaZTeR_]

I just wish technology was at the state it's now 20 years ago, when greed wasn't the main drive for games.

[@joshuaklaue7484]

Tenchu, Activision 1998.

[@mewsplanet]

Ubisoft Toronto and Ubisoft Montreal don't really like each other either. Toronto was in charge of the Farcry series. While they were working with Farcry Primal, they had an argument with the Montreal division about their choice of the animal they used for scouting and marking targets. The animal of choice was an eagle but Montreal cried about it because it's "Assassin's Creed's", so Toronto had to change it to an owl. Everybody hates Montreal

[@thefakecat8340]

Wait really? Thats dumb

[@luciusirving5926]

Two sides of the same AAA animal anyway.

[@Marryjanesbud]

They HAVE to be petty as hell then. Seeing how Bayek got a hawk in AC origins, I think it’s safe to say they’re pretty petty

[@Justacatlmao]

“Ubisoft should become comfortable with not existing” - Gamers

[@richcast66]

What goes around, comes around ☕

[@lawjef]

Yeah but anyone waiting for Ubisoft’s bankruptcy is smoking something. They make $300 mm a quarter in cash, despite being massively overstaffed. They fire half their corporate overhead, outsource to Ai and add another $100 mm in cash flow a year. Just based on their existing IP and not future game releases. Their debt is 2x EBITDA (prior to the mass staff layoffs that are inevitable). They will be around for decades.

[@AVisionofTruth]

Mantra: I can stay uninterested far longer than they can stay solvent.

[@theunknowman12]

They need to realize that they're not the only game studio in this world and people can play other game from better studio

[@bulbinking]

Can’t wait for this. Ubisoft has been piling shit on the western market for almost a decade now and killed too many good smaller studies they cannibalized then abandoned after having them pump out crap. But what else to expect from a gaming company thats not owned or ran by people who actually play videogames.

[@newworldforward1842]

Everyone knows the Samurais were gay men from Africa.

[@FutabaBiggestSimp]

Historical revisionism aside, assuming that all of yasuke is exaggerated and fictionalized, just like Nioh (for both Yasuke and William) Then do you hate Yasuke solely because he's black? Why Japan is allowed to make their own twisted version of European Folklore but the west can't make one black samurai?

[@akshatkumar7938]

@@FutabaBiggestSimpWell in the real world we live in right now, Black on Asian violence is a real concern that isn’t reported as it doesn’t fit the media’s narrative. On the other hand, Japan respects European cultures as evident from FromSoftware games and even if they appropriate it at least there’s no real world consequence.

[@MrPwncake]

@@FutabaBiggestSimpoh they can do it alright. whether the market responds to it positively is another thing altogether. And it appears that the market is rejecting the gay black assassin in feudal Japan as a premise. And it’s astonishing how people can go “omg why are you making it about his race”, when the entire premise by Ubisoft was about his race.

[@鎖骨好き]

@@FutabaBiggestSimp That's because UBI said those things were "faithful to historical facts." Japan works always have the phrase "It has nothing to do with real people or organizations."

[@svovy5358]

@@FutabaBiggestSimp Previous promotional material for this game was very "YES, Yasuke was a real Samurai! It's Historical Fact!" and never walked it back Theres no way to separate that from the issue here

[@Firestorm4fuul]

Ubisoft are dropping Assassin Creed : White flag real soon

[@Jordanbiggs1473]

The uninstall button. The game is great and all that, but god it is hard to fully remove all the junk it leaves behind on your system. You really need to check out that mod when the time comes to get rid of it. Otherwise, I think AC Shadows delay is a nice start.

[@chiquita683]

I remember 20 years ago when Western people were up in arms at Call of Duty because there were no zombies in WW2.

[@victorhayes5471]

Underrated Comment

[@gabrielarseneau8662]

Underrated comment

[@moreicestreaming]

They already did an AC game in France though.

[@eeldridge5xy4ze]

I'm a professional Alpha & Beta Tester I Alpha & Beta tested both XDefiant and Skull & Bones, and seen lots of problems that Ubisoft was told about but did nothing to fix until waaay after the games were released. which just shows you they arent even really listening to the testers on certain things because they say its just a small problem, if they aren't listening to us then what makes you think they are listening to the players after the release of these games and future ones.

[@Zantetsuken94]

No offense to you or your comment but everything you just said is unverified heresay. Nobody reading your comment can verify you are "A professional Alpha & Beta Tester". Please next time include some proof or just leave your comment out as it really doesn't add anything to the discussion without your veracity verified.

[@xKamiiii]

​@@Zantetsuken94how do you expect him to prove it over a youtube comment? if you don't believe it that's your issue, just move on

[@Zantetsuken94]

@@xKamiiii you wasted your time asking me that question - it's not my issue it's the fact there is no proof for their claim. Maybe you should move on

[@7GamesUnlimited7]

​@Zantetsuken94 it's true I was there

[@Zantetsuken94]

@@7GamesUnlimited7 congratulations

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*When I hear “AAAA game”, I hear, “We wasted too much money. It’s subpar, don’t buy it.”*

[@vuton7670]

AAAAAA games = DEI

[@Jordanbiggs1473]

The uninstall button. The game is great and all that, but god it is hard to fully remove all the junk it leaves behind on your system. You really need to check out that mod when the time comes to get rid of it. Otherwise, I think AC Shadows delay is a nice start.

[@dylan4125]

Only one person had ever claimed AAAA for skull and bones. I think you mean AAA.

[@AerysTMD]

Dear future game devs, do indeed make your company a "boy's club". Screw the haters & the screaming banshees. You will definitely make great games.

[@Jordanbiggs1473]

@@AerysTMD The uninstall button...The game is great, Ubisoft goes Steamworks bye bye, always on DRM. But you oft go work, always on work DR. Check out the junk it leaves behind in you.

[@MINETURNNOWGamingRblxOnYT]

Gamers: “Ubisoft, you sucks!” Ubisoft: “We prefer toxic positivity” Gamers: “Oh sorry, Ubisoft. You are very good at sucking”

[@Willrocs]

😂😂😂

[@dylan4125]

That's not toxic positivity. That's not even a back handed compliment.

[@kaydenvortex1984]

Thank you!

[@VouesolaR]

that's being positively toxic not toxic positivity

[@theMatch111]

Believe me when I say, none of those women suck😉

[@junechevalier]

Ubisoft bragging about an IGN review is like me paying a person to call me handsome and bragging about “you hear that??? Someone called me handsome!”

[@MuggleKarp]

Hot damn, that gave me 1000% Trump vibes man lol, scary

[@-Gax-]

​@@MuggleKarp Found the American't talk about anything without bringing it back to politics 😂

[@oompalumpus699]

Used to have a job where I got paid to make fake Amazon reviews.

[@304enjoyer3]

@@junechevalier and then if someone points that out , you call them toxic and racist

[@junechevalier]

@@304enjoyer3 “Oh you don’t agree with these reviewers I paid?? You’re handsomephobic”

[@AlexRoivas]

Ubisoft will be bought by Tencent. I worked for Ubisoft 2015-2019. Trash company , treated it's low level employees like trash

[@ououkuaipao]

Chinese Tencent is too big on itself. I dont know how many mobile games they release got killed shortly. They do have riot games and the other most revenue earned mobile moba (but not global mobile moba). At least Tencent is good at maintain pvp player base. The same case apply to netcase.

[@Al-tanin]

​@@ououkuaipao they aren't. League of Legends has abysmal Playrate right now

[@ououkuaipao]

@@Al-tanin mobile lol is too late for the market. and moba market as whole is dropping players

[@madprops4615]

This comment aged beautifully

[@SolidSnake240]

Damn you called it 😂

[@AgentSmith911]

Stellar Blade recently got a free update where they improved the boob physics. Ubisoft should take note.

[@tr1bes]

Dead or Alive?

[@Bakino0]

@@tr1bes slim chance DoA comes back unfortunately

[@sumg8694]

Are you serious? Nice!

[@codykensington1424]

​@@Bakino0yea DoA is rip. Go look at DoA 5 costumes vs DoA 6.....and 6 came out in 2019. Pretty sure I remember them saying they were pivoting away from the old "design". Like bruh, your IP was most famous for a fucking beach volleyball spinoff. 90% of your playerbase was there for the hot women in little pieces of cloth pretending to be clothes. You ain't Tekken homie, bring back the ridiculous outfits and you'd print money. Imagine DoA 5 style but on modern consoles with updated " physics". The fucking federal reserve would be jealous of how fast that printer would be running.

[@remzsauntie9471]

@@Bakino0they just announced a new game

[@azrogue286]

Normal people are the majority and we don't push back enough on companies pandering to the fringes.

[@fierce8943]

and when we push back we get called toxic. when the dust settles, the money will sort it out. the people they hate are the ones who buy games (or don't).

[@GeneralProfessor]

"We didn't love freedom enough." - Solzhenitsyn

[@Beezkneez187]

@@azrogue286 now everyone stopped talking and pushing back. Now we just watch the gameplay after it comes out and don’t purchase the game. Next they will start copy write striking bad reviews and getting videos deleted. That’s how we will know it’s over once companies really start to panic and go nuclear on damage control

[@wiliestrogue2924]

Bring back insane asylums.

[@Thicc_Gaming]

What is normal people?? Please describe a normal person.

[@snakeinabox7220]

AA= Amazing adventure AAA(in the past) = Above Amazing Adventure AAAA= Advertised Absolute Asbestos Ass-cancer

[@Vandassar]

This reminded me to make a note. I need to buy some batteries in the morning.

[@Syls1989]

AAAA is a scream of horror from both players and developers

[@richcast66]

AAAA, a publisher that is trying too hard to sell a game, not to ensure a great game is made. Devs aren't magicians, most are not pushing the boundaries of what AAA can already produce.

[@Kolket1389]

Ther are still amazing AAA games and companies, it’s just that the OG’s have gotten to big and corrupted and are slowly shutting down, but there are more and more new studios

[@Xirpzy]

@@snakeinabox7220 tbh I think that statement is even worse than "do you guys not have phones?" its like giving mcdonalds 5 michelin stars.

[@Sliider36]

asmon isn't always right... he still hasn't played Ghost of Tsushima.

[@BobSapp-qk2bn]

Sony sucks Microsoft sucks that's why we only play on pc

[@Sliider36]

@@BobSapp-qk2bn irrelevant. GoT is on pc.

[@BobSapp-qk2bn]

@@Sliider36 its a playstation exclusive

[@Sliider36]

@@BobSapp-qk2bn it was. sony releases many of their 1st-party games on pc, one or two years after initial release on PlayStation. look it up, instead of embarrassing yourself here.

[@luciusirving5926]

Anything that's AAA so far is garbage. I wouldn't touch that game if I were in his shoes.

[@etroudoudou]

I worked at Ubisoft. The report to Hr for not adding smiley faces ( or adding angry faces on certain subjects ) would get you a visit from your manager the following day. This is absolutely true.

[@machinedieselx4767]

Did u have a personal experience with something like that?

[@Vaguer_Weevil]

I truly don't understand.. What would they even say? Surely nobody takes that seriously

[@GrievousReborn]

Really you can get in trouble for not using stupid facial expression emojis the cringiest of emojis?

[@TheRealOAFs]

The replies back to this comment don't seem to understand the gravity of the situation this industry is in

[@kgonepostl]

Sounds like a living hell.

[@smokingowly3607]

Love how these game journalists cant make up their minds. The evil and bigoted gamers are everywhere and mass harass the industry while simultaneously being a tiny minority of entitled man children which doesnt represent ``real´´ gamers and have no influence. Which is it? are they inconsequential or a massive threat?

[@fierce8943]

good call. I think the sales figures of their big releases wrought with dei tell the tale, better than any youtube video or article written. we are many. we buy games, or don't.

[@Vandassar]

Apparently none of us get laid either. Most people tend to leave that "insult" back in their school days.

[@MjollTheLioness-o4y]

Don't forget it's aways blamed on just men too. I'm a woman and I hate this shit as much as anyone else. I'm more in tune to what is going on in gaming than my husband is. Everything he's learned about DEI he's heard from the political channels he watches.

[@fierce8943]

@@MjollTheLioness-o4y I love that :). I know we have many sisters in the family too, it’s awesome. Same goes for any LGBT people fighting against this (there are gay people at least on board). They misunderstand what we’re pissed about. It’s not as simple as gender related stuff or the wussafication of gaming. We want culture war, DEI, quota driven devs and forced fed gospel dogma out of our hobby we love. We want to escape this shit through gaming, not be force fed it. We want to be masculine and have sexy characters and have risky, edgy, offensive games available. We want high quality shit pumped out by top tier talent, not quota filled positions who are under qualified. And they will learn. We will teach them.

[@Ewil.Bluetooth]

​@@MjollTheLioness-o4yThank God for normal women like you.

[@Jonas_æ]

This is what actual journalism looks like btw. Having several sources within the company reach out and corroborate what the consumers have been speculating and worrying about, then report on that. The outlets writing articles just calling people toxic bigots for voicing criticism in the first place have never been journalists - they are activists.

[@donutbevil9669]

Oh, and I'm talking about the mainstream media. Not LD.

[@VF0312]

I totally agree. this "journos" Does not do their job right they used their Job to mask their BS.

[@Defhrone]

these days, when you hear "We've tried to reach out, but they haven't responded" means: "We've tweeted at them 2 hours ago, and didn't get a reply before publishing this article" One time, they even reached out to someone without a twitter, on twitter. And once they've reached out to someone who died ages ago. Back in the day, journalists spend days or even weeks on prepairing an article, nowadays they pump out multiple stories a day by just sourcing other articles online

[@havlos7199]

If anyone reads ign, kotaku, etc. articles to look for a good game to play are just brainwashed and stupid. They rate the game based on how they like you as a company and if you are woke or not and they are just sheep making sure they are not too far away from "opinions" of their colleagues. These "journalists" dont love games but they sure do love to stay in the "right" lane where everyone else goes.

[@RSK412]

*PULLS OFF HR'S MASK* "HeHe! Like, wow Scoob! They were the Fascists all along, man!!" "ROT ROW SHAGGY!"

[@Lee_zus]

I was thinking a while ago: "It's too bad there hasn't been a new Splinter Cell game in a while." Now I'm realizing, " Thank god there hasn't been a new Splinter Cell game in a while."

[@oompalumpus699]

Sam Fisher needs to be protected.

[@TaliZVasTyria]

​@@oompalumpus699wasn't sam fisher in rainbow six siege? It was one of the reason i stop playing siege years ago. They can't even make him look right

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

The latest one was got garbage compared to Chaos Theory

[@starscream007]

@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great either. What made me pissed is that they even decided to make the game without Mike Ironside who had cancer at the time of Blacklist being made

[@xohnoezxgaming1402]

It's hard to think this company released chaos theory. Probably the only other stealth game that can be held in the same regards as mgs3. The animations felt so organic in that game. The way sam moved. The way he reaches for his knife inch by inch as enemies get closer. Blacklist was already a shell of it's former self. Those modern ubianimations were already there.

[@TurtleChad1]

Ubisoft is finally getting the results of their greed and incompetence. They're starting to feel it financially.

[@SquirrelMaster69]

Anti-capitalists suck at profit. 🐿️

[@waitwho3074]

imagine commenting 24/7 on every single video available on youtube... What a life

[@Syrin23]

It's actually the opposite. Corporate greed is good for customers because if they want to make money, they have to make something people want to buy. These people don't care a bit about making money. All they care about is preaching "the message" to people who don't want to hear it, don't like it, and aggressively reject it.

[@ToniCiprianiX007]

​@waitwho3074 Wouldn't that also mean that you watch every youtube video available?

[@Quasar-fv8to]

@@waitwho3074 dont worry, your life is more miserable.

[@OGJDMZ]

Harvesting season on the Ubisoft content farm

[@sergiarilla8608]

More content than the Johnny Depp / Amber arc

[@Bonesawisready926]

They brought it all on themselves

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

Z has to farm something. This is a slow week.

[@randomxgen6167]

Ubisoft finally providing entertainment value for the public.

[@zombine7103]

I think whats happening is interesting, the situation NEEDS the attention of everyone that asmon is giving to it.

[@Aiphiae]

4:52 I'm a high school teacher. The average student at my school is reading at a grade 6 level. That's 3 to 5 years behind where they ought to be when they enter high school. We also have a decent number of kids who are reading at a grade 2 level. Grade *TWO.* Literacy rates are worse now than when I started teaching over 10 years ago and, in my opinion, so is the capacity for the average person to think critically.

[@Aureilius2112]

People have said stuff like this for decades. It’s nothing new. I figured a teacher would know that. I think you need to look at yourself before you criticize others for lack of critical thinking.

[@Aiphiae]

@@Aureilius2112 Sorry champ, but if you look at declining literacy rates, declining aptitude in mathematics, and the general loss of basic skills, it becomes pretty clear there's a long term, growing problem that has been spanning multiple cohorts and likely generations. Now, the knee-jerk response is "hurr durr teachers aren't doing their jobs!" but the reality is we can only do so much when students (and parents) put in basically zero effort to learn or develop themselves. The trope "people have always said this" is a tired one. Sure, they have but I posit this option to you: *what if the people saying this stuff for decades were right?* The evidence seems to line up with the fact that they were. Things are worse (as they predicted) not better.

[@Aureilius2112]

@@Aiphiae You’re way over-simplifying the issue. The “declining literacy rates” is heavily influenced by influxes of people who don’t speak English as a first language which influences the average. Literacy rates have never been higher when you correct for some basic things you’re overlooking. Every generation has been more educated than the last and that trend continues. The issue is the education system has been re-orienting itself to portray a lot of the ideological positions that were brought up in this video. Saying it’s because people can’t read as well just doesn’t track with reality. The point about attention span and ideological capture are the reasons for these issues. It’s not because people can’t read which is an absolutely wild take. People will just disengage with anything that doesn’t agree with them and simply not read it.

[@Aiphiae]

@@Aureilius2112 ​ Declining literacy rates aren't a simple result of an influx of new English speakers. The literacy rates are declining in regions where immigration is negligible. Your point also fails to address the decline in mathematics which are a universal "language" and are taught similarly in most countries immigrants come from. I don't disagree that the education system has some god-awful ideological positions (most of which I reject entirely) but this scale (and time span) of declining academic ability is not the result of those policies. Moreover, I never said "people can't read" I said we have "declining literacy rates," and literacy involves far more than simply reading - and *all* of the facets involved are in decline. Again, the long standing trend of declining academic skills was predicted ages ago by the very people you claim were screaming that the sky was falling. They weren't wrong.

[@reiack158]

As an Asian I absolutely hated looking at yasuke in the game trailer he looks so out of place.. SBI lying their ass out to stay in business is so fkn pathetic. Don't give a rats patootee about inclusivity give me characters like ezio, geralt, arthur morgan

[@fierce8943]

fuck yes. the industry has backlisted the talented people who made all the games we used to love years ago. The people making our games now are incompetent and hate us.

[@Sombriage]

There will always be those who are like parasites in that they try to find somewhere to latch onto for gaining money and staying relevant. Game Companies have in the past looked into ways in "figuring out" the gamer or how to better monopolize said gamers - it was inevitable for companies like Sweet Baby Inc. to eventually surface. Sometimes games aren't damaged by it but it looks like others definitely are. Consulting companies shouldn't be needed unless your own game company is insecure for some reason.

[@GeorgeMonet]

If inclusivity is important then doesn't that mean every game needs a straight white male protagonist? Otherwise straight white males aren't represented and the game has failed to include them.

[@TwistedFireX]

Thanks for reminding me to finish the RDR2 campaign.

[@thegreatpoo2electricboogal318]

A rats patootie 😂

[@chief664]

The really stupid thing about ignoring all fan criticism is that they forget that casual fans can hear what the hardcore fans are saying. if I'm a casual fan of something and I'm on the fence about getting more into said thing and I hear the hardcore fans are upset, why would I waste my money on something that's alienating its fan base and risk becoming just another angry fan.

[@draxxzakuto5735]

Which is why they are going after gamers and working really hard to find ways to keep us from communicating freely with one another. They want to be the authority so they will cancel, censor, lie to/about people, anything they can to make you stop talking. They just haven't found a way to shut off our headsets....yet.

[@thahirshibu5042]

That's a point I don't hear being said often enough

[@jdgoesham5381]

Great point.

[@gunawanputera6443]

That the problem with DEI and Woke thing, they blame everyone but themself

[@theminerwithin9316]

Wow. That's actually an amazing point. If I'm getting into a game, I usually go onto a subreddit or website to see how it is and whether or not the hardcores are happy with it, and if i see that there's a problem, I don't play the game, yet I still forgot that other people would be doing the same. It makes sense that people with common sense usually check if the people that live and breathe those franchises are satisfied first since they definitely know what they are talking about.

[@JTJ-wm4cm]

At 26:22. I'm a welder in the oilfield myself. It's a rough crowd. These people would literally shit themselves if they heard how we talked to each other.

[@93Klok]

If people knew the stuff we say in the restaurant on the cook line then they would think we’re pissing in their food.

[@coloradoruffneck4230]

I work on a rig. You’re definitely right

[@seth7174]

Being a liberal is for people with jobs that don’t matter to humanities existence

[@NightmareCo666]

​@@93Klokthat moment when someone wants to order off menu....or you're doing a 250person, 4course wedding banquet, and 5 people say they're allergic to fish and 2 of the dishes are crab/fish based and 2 say they're vegan. Many swears were uttered that day, was insane yet hilarious

[@SiriusSphynx]

Ironworker, and you better believe we say whatever we want or need to get through the day. You're not worried about someone's feelings, not even your boss, when you're monkeying around on a half build building a hundred feet in the air. Or pumping out 400 tons of rebar on an interstate bridge slab.

[@eduardomacedo8937]

The moment you said "You can't reason with unreasonable people" is the moment I started disagreeing. The reason is that this is the same concept they live by, the difference is that they are brainwashed to believe that you are the unreasonable person for not believing or defending this or that. And what happens when reasonable people adhere to this? Then we have 2 opposing sets of unreasonable people on a pointless tug-of-war for whatever bullshit they decide it's worth ruining everything around them. And I accidentally described modern politics. At the bare minimum don't imitate each other.

[@Kamawan0]

I think it's still a case by case basis, but there is a lot of truth in that. Try working in a customer service job, where the only type of person you encounter for 90% of your job will be someone unreasonable. No amount of calm, fact-based discussion around policies will change the fact that they hate you and your company, want to see you burn down even if you are able to solve their problem.

[@TAGyourit]

Imagine being called into HR and they tell you, "We understand that you failed to add a smiley face to some of your emails" WHAT THE ACTUAL.......

[@nowayjosedaniel]

Is this the appropriate time to goto jail for Assault on a coworker? If it were me, that would be the moment I brought a laptop to work every day to work on my own projects while doing nothing but emailing and getting super in with the power players. That way... 1.) I can do minimal to no work while cashing a paycheck. 2.) I can do work on my own project so I have real value and start way ahead. 3.) I have no fear of being fired, and will immediately sue with a lawyer lined up, as I document every email. 4.) 1 year after being fired, suddenly all of Ubisoft's source code goes public. Leaked anonymously by a Russian.

[@nowayjosedaniel]

Then when Ubisoft goes bankrupt or on death bed, release a video of what I did to fuck Ubisoft over, citing the HR meeting being lectured about not being happy enough as the breaking point.

[@donutbevil9669]

It genuinely sounds like something out of an Orwell novel. These guys are so unbelievably unreal I'm getting whiplash laughing at how absurdly "progressive" and "corporate" that is.

[@janelle4455]

Just goes to show how absolutely stupid nitpicky HR can be. They are not your friends, period.

[@valmet.r]

ubiのCEOが我々日本人をレイシストと有害なゲーマー扱いしたことは忘れない

[@DrakenFire]

And we stand behind you brother 🤝

[@Vegas-3301]

Don't worry, we got you man 💪

[@palapapa0201]

Hi US man

[@SyncF]

@@palapapa0201Cope

[@adolfolerito6744]

@@palapapa0201 did you even look at his channel? He literally has only videos of him that go back years written in Japanese, playing in Japanese while speaking Japanese. So no, this isn’t some guy from the US, and you should at least try to do your homework before making that claim.

[@asdfxc]

Asmongold, the philosopher of our times. He's even as filthy as Diogenes!

[@dunrossb]

Ask him if owns a barrel.

[@AA-sw5pb]

Truly up there with Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato

[@somepersonsomewhereonearth]

you used an explanation mark and not ending with a smiley, reporting you to HR :P

[@Derax2]

Would be even more awesome if he wasn't exaggerating so much.

[@YANNI_777]

Not a philosopher, just a man with common sense…

[@jrwolf4955]

There are many differences between Japanese style and Chinese style. In ancient China, people abandoned kneeling and used more comfortable chairs instead. Therefore, there are not many chairs, beds and other furniture, and it looks more tidy.

[@DuckyNobu]

Ubisoft its pretty much dead. I already forgot about them until now.

[@TCHrulez]

Been dead for nearly a decade but people keep giving them another chance over and over again. Telling themselves it’ll be different this time

[@JaneyJ229]

Uh huh

[@Dregomz02]

Haven't bought anything from them since Anno 1800 and AC Origins so 5 years with zero cash given to them. It's obvious that they alienated millions of their previous fans like me by making uninspired and politized games.

[@atnguyenquy1331]

​@@Dregomz02I haven't bought anything Ubisoft made after AC Syndicate and Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Their game is just horrible now, and I stopped playing R6S even though at one point it was my favorite

[@MacheteSideral6969]

Concord? Dead Ubisoft? Dead Sweet Baby Inc? Almost dead

[@ViktorScberg]

No no you're wrong Sweet baby Inc is the cause why those two companies are dying

[@peterfyal4998]

​@@ViktorScberg no no you're wrong Blackrock funds all of these ESG initiatives by giving money to push this marxist agenda in a free captalist society and, therefore, the reason.

[@crisschan2463]

​@@ViktorScbergSBI came from Ubi

[@fartloudYT]

i think the cancer has spread beyound a single malicious company like SBI. just like in every other entertainment industry.

[@LuisSierra42]

Sweet Baby is just going to rebrand

[@sigmundfreud7903]

Like Asmongold said, Trying to guilt trip players isn’t the same as guilt tripping governments and company HR.

[@michaelgiertz-rath7994]

Fun fact: we gamers don't need to buy games. If a game doesn't feel right, we won't buy it. Since when does "no" require a statement? It's my money and my decision. If I don't want to spend on "political correct games", it's my decision, no statement required. Actually, publishers should hand out statements why they need to make "political correct games" - and why they refuse to make FUN games with as little politics as possible.

[@georgemihalascu9849]

I'm a Romanian 3D artist with 7 years of experience in the industry. I had an interview with Ubisoft Romania for Star Wars Outlaws. They didn't accept me, and now it makes sense why. I probably have too much experience and asked for way too much money, and they prefer to hire someone with 1-2 years of experience. There was a time when having Ubisoft in your portfolio was a door opener. I think now it's a door stopper, and I'm glad I dodged a bullet and didn’t leave my current studio.

[@SD78]

3:25 Kazuma Hashimoto is a CANADIAN transgendered activist and freelance journalist. Who wrote an article on how Animal Crossing(!) should be viewed through the lens of Japanese colonialism...

[@skibidi.G]

😂 what a character

[@donutbevil9669]

@@skibidi.G That's it. I'm no longer that liberal anymore. I've reached my limit.

[@skibidi.G]

@@donutbevil9669 stay strong ✌️😊

[@notscullytv]

36:47 this happened at a McDonald’s i work at ffs. They hired a hotel manager to be the business manager for our restaurant and he was still learning up until he left. Everything was delegated to lower managers and by the time he was gone, 60% of the experienced staff had left cos 1. They would’ve had that position if it wasn’t for him 2. They were TRAINING him on how to do the job cos they were more experienced. Shit makes no fucking sense at all

[@Vandassar]

Sadly I've been in a few workplaces with this exact story.

[@Randomper279]

Ya I had something similar happen to me so I left the company

[@mainscape6619]

Black Myth Wukong : Chinese culture game made by Chinese. AC Shadow : Japanese culture game made by Westerners.

[@gunsarefun4618]

Made by French Canadians to be exact

[@cannadaddoit7460]

French Canadians doing the work of the jooz

[@ZakuZuko]

French Canadian white women 😂

[@npcimknot958]

Ghost of Tsushima - japanese culture and praised made by westerners

[@Moonmonkian]

Much wow, such appropriation.

[@VespasianOfTheThird]

Sorry asmon but I dont watch you because of your "insanly good memory" or because "you're right". I watch you, because you show what the avergae person says. You represent the normal guy. Thats the point of your videos.

[@jonathanwilkinson4299]

Yeah he is kind of like Pungion 0. He is popular for being normal. which is weird because of his poor health and hygiene habits are nothing but normal.

[@some_random_wallaby]

Same for me but, more specifically, to get a feel for what the average yank thinks.

[@Josh-sz8ip]

​@@jonathanwilkinson4299 Penguinz0 thinks the vaccine didn't harm people and covid was a serious virus and he thinks children should be able to have puberty blockers. He fully supports the LGBT agenda and thinks Tate - who actually represents normal people - is an extremist for having opinions that were not controversial just 2 decades ago. He thinks any damning conclusions about collusion between governments and corporations are crazy conspiracy theories and everything is a coincidence

[@johnrodgers2171]

Always remember Larry Fink saying- "Behaviors are gonna have to change and this is one thing we're asking companies. You have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock we are forcing behaviors".

[@Dex2024]

Every fookin time

[@RJhobbs99]

Not enough people talking about this, especially when Blackrock, and others like it, has all the money that these companies get their loans.

[@bismarck5537]

My question, what does he gain by changing people’s behaviors? Is he building a dystopian cooperate world in which people act according to his whims or behave like he wants them to? Is it some kind of brainwash? A collective mind control?

[@oompalumpus699]

​​​@@bismarck5537 Whelp, here's my tinfoil hat theory: Globalization is purely held up by leftist politics and politicians. That is the new world order. There is no country, only one single entity driven by "modern and progressive" thinking. However, this is being put in danger by right wing politics which are mostly derived from traditional values: nationalism, religion, chivalry, and traditional gender roles. That's why anything "right wing" is seen as dangerous by the woke. This endangers the global world order. Powerful people like Larry Fink are then affected by anti-woke politics because this creates social movements that would put their worldwide influence at risk. So what is their response? Blackrock pushes more woke politics to strengthen their supporter base. The best way being to gather people who can be seen as disadvantaged or victimized (People of color, rainbow people, women) and give them administrative influence while using these people also as a tool to censor anyone who might have "wrong think" ideologies. ------------------- TLDR: Blackrock wants to remain a global power but fear anti-woke politics or right-wing politics could endanger that so they double-down on censorship and publishing propaganda.

[@skibidi.G]

Oy vey

[@TheNooburai]

I said this on another video, but as someone who studies User Experience Design, to see a company such as Ubisoft NOT do it's fucking homework when it comes to historical accuracy (for the given era), NOT care enough to get their architecture, cultural pieces, or anything like that correct is absurd, and an absolute slap in the face ( not just to the Japanese people and it's incredibly rich culture, but to anyone that they would do that to). While I don't usually care for the whole race thing like what's his fluff mentioned in the video, I do think it was disrespectful to the literal HUNDREDS of incredible stories they could've told, but instead, chose that one in accordance with the agenda they claim not to push. I've been to Japan, I have friends who are Japanese, and I speak a little myself. Not saying that gives me credibility by any means, but certainly more than the colossal fuck-up that a once-multi-million-dollar company could muster at this point.

[@Jordanbiggs1473]

The uninstall button. The game is great and all that, but god it is hard to fully remove all the junk it leaves behind on your system. You really need to check out that mod when the time comes to get rid of it. Otherwise, I think AC Shadows delay is a nice start.

[@SquirrelMaster69]

3 9 (San kyu). 🐿️

[@Lurker_Z]

And as I've said in other videos, it's a top-down problem where the competent people are fired because they want salaries worthy of their talent, and incompetents are hired, with the 2020s meta being that they have to be DEI hires. If that meta didn't exist, ACS would still be hot garbage, it'd just be generic hot garbage.

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

I wish to add that the inaccuracies isn’t completely unforgivable, AS LONG AS THEY ARE PLAUSIBLE. A big problem for Ubisoft is that people know a lot about Japanese history, or at least have some notion of it, and when this is combined with completely inept buildings with hovering doors, platforms that lead nowhere and only exist for the player to parkour on, it starts to fall apart. Plausibility is what matters, and ubi’s world design isn’t plausible in Shadows, their whole premise isn’t plausible (stealth, but you’re playing the two most eye-drawing people in the entire country, ninja chick and the only black giant.) This could perhaps be forgiven if there’s a plausible explanation for this choice, but combined with bugs and the crappy world design makes it another death stroke.

[@Axiasart]

To be honest even their past works while having a disclaimer of being fictional still had better historical accuracy than this one ironically being advertised as historically accurate

[@Syrin23]

Anyone who brushes off gamers not liking your game as "toxic gamer talk" should be fired immediately. Those "toxic gamers" are the people who are would be customers.

[@rohanroos1495]

I don’t have a problem with a black main character, I have a problem with a game about a samurai who is not Japanese. The hip hop music, the wrong architecture then on top of it they use a guy who lived his whole life outside Japan, arrived in 1579, served Nobunaga for 1 year in an unknown capacity….and suddenly he is called a samurai? Samurai culture was that shallow?

[@fears4tears]

I've read historical Japanese documents (translated into English obv) that basically demonstrate him as a samurai. Like his pay, his position, his command, etc was all consistent with a samurai and using words that typically referred to samurai. so for all intents and purposes he was one. I don't really have a problem with it at all, but yeah the music and apparently using Chinese architecture?? And also it is a *little* weird to make a game set in Japan about ninja and samurai and pick that particular era, it just feels a bit disingenuous. But i think Yosuke's inclusion is kind of a nothingburger. If the game is good, who cares.

[@rohanroos1495]

@@fears4tears the problem I have with him being a samurai with a whole game about him is the fact that there is almost nothing told about him in historical books. I read the letters where they all mention him in passing and how they mentioned he was made a sword bearer. Even if Nobunaga gave him a samurai title (which confuses me as the definition of a samurai is blurry depending on the Japanese period) but traditionally he would have never been considered a samurai. a samurai was to be born in the samurai family, adopted by a samurai family with the permission of authorities, or get married to a samurai. So they were a form of aristocracy as well as a warrior caste if I understand it all correctly What I did sort of understand is that he had the title/position of a samurai, but he was not considered the same rank as other samurai belonging to the warrior caste? Japanese people have strong traditions and value their own culture a lot, so i think most of us don’t understand their values enough to be able to declare what is a samurai and what is not

[@fears4tears]

@rohanroos1495 As I was writing this I delved into a rabbithole. Here is the first paragraph I initially wrote, based on information from a historian on Reddit (don't laugh yet, there's a reason I said there's a rabbit hole.) "In the Maeda clan version of Shinchōkōki, compiled by Ōta Gyūichi using notes and diary entries from Oda Nobunga, using the English translation, it is written that Yasuke is given a "stipend, a private residence, and was given a short sword with a decorative sheath. He is sometimes seen in the role of weapon bearer." The word stipend, in the original Japanese text being 扶持 (fuchi, ふち). In every other context this word is used in Shinchōkōki, it refers to the pay of a samurai or the pay used to hire samurai. He is also referred to as Nobungas's weapon bearer, which is the job koshō (小姓) had, who were samurai. The only non-samurai in the Shinchōkōki to receive a residence was given to the Jesuits." As I was trying to corroborate this with historical evidence, I realized that there is some controversy to these claims. I can not find a version of this archive online to check myself, and the interpretation of this passage as equivalent to making one a samurai is according to Thomas Lockley, who has been known for essentially taking what little information was known about Yasuke and mythologizing him as a legend and writing entire novels filled with speculation, unsubstantiated claims. The idea of Yasuke as a great samurai is largely interpretation or interpolation, and its mostly THIS GUY doing it. However, assuming the translation provided is accurate (which it at least seems to be mostly so), he was indeed given a stipend and was entrusted with carrying Nobunaga's weapons, which is indeed a job normally given to lower ranked samurai. There is a quote from the Diary of Matsudaira Ietada that says "Nobunaga was accompanied by a black man who was presented to him by the missionaries and to whom he gave a stipend. His body was black like ink, and he was 6 shaku 2 bu [182.4 cm or near 6 feet] tall, and his name was said to be Yasuke." I have found multiple translations corroborating this. It is worth noting that within the Shinchōkōki Nobunaga was accused of giving newcomers stipends without them achieving much. In the 10th year of the Tenshō era (1582), third month, 28th day, Nobunaga orders, "Send the ordinary soldiers home from here. Only unit leaders shall accompany me." It is worth mentioning that this order is BEFORE Matsudaira Ietada saw him with Nobunaga, which was in the 5th month of 1582. There are claims that after Nobunaga committed seppuku due to the rebellion of Akechi Mitsuhide (during which Yasuke was a retainer to Nobunaga), Yasuke went to Nobutada (Nobunaga's son and heir) and fought alongside him against Akechi. They lost, Nobutada was killed, but Akechi let him live, partially due to racist ideology against "a black slave" which was "bestial", and because he was not Japanese, and therefore (in Akechi's mind) not a samurai and not bound by the same code of honor, i.e did not need to be killed or commit seppuku. However, I am unable to find a primary source for this information, even when it is quoted. Some of it is attributed to Thomas Lockley, which is odd considering if anything it seems to weaken the claim that Yasuke was a samurai. What does this boil down to? To Nobunaga, the most powerful daimyō in Japan at this time, it seems that he viewed Yasuke as an honorary samurai in the year that he knew him. Perhaps due to his supposed strength (from the Shinchōkōki "his formidable strength surpassed that of ten men"), Nobunaga bestowed him the name Yasuke, a sword, a stipend, and let him sometimes bear his weapons. He served as Nobunaga's retainer seemingly even after "ordinary soldiers" were dismissed. He was one of thirty men with Nobunaga when he was betrayed. If the last claim is to believed, he fought for him and went on to fight even for his son afterwards. To Nobunaga at least, it seems that Yasuke was viewed as close to a samurai as a foreigner reasonably could. That does not mean all of Japan saw it that way, as he did not commit seppuku due to failing to protect one, maybe two, daimyō, and again if the last claim is to be believed Akechi (who was a samurai) did not view him as one. To be quite honest, if Nobunaga viewed him as a samurai during a period where samurai had a rather loose definition (it is alleged that during the Sengoku period virtually any soldier who was retainer to a lord or especially daimyō was a samurai), that's all that really matters. Yasuke predates a *formalized* concept of a samurai code of honor, bushidō, which happened during the Edo period. As for how Japan views him today, that is really up to Japanese historians. Not really the place of me, Thomas Lockley, or pretty much anyone in these comments to "decide". It is worth noting that Thomas Lockley has, since, written at least 2 historical fiction books about Yasuke that basically make up information with no primary source and have a pretense that Yasuke was a legendary warrior and samurai. There are not any primary sources I can find about Yasuke doing particularly great deeds or fighting in many battles besides two. It is very weird to write historical fanfiction and claiming it to be true with no evidence. The big thing though, with historical records cleared up, does this matter even a little for an Assassin's Creed game? No, not in the slightest. Assassin's Creed is a fictional game that uses real world locations and occasionally real historical figures in a fictional story. There is absolutely nothing wrong with them making a video game where Yasuke is a badass Assassin samurai, he was a real person who was a retainer for Nobunaga at least for some time and did see some combat, they can take that and write whatever story they want with him, they've been doing that for years. As long as the game is fun, Yasuke is not an issue at all for the game. It's cool history, I had a blast studying it to write this dumbass essay for a KZbin comment on an asmongold video.

[@fears4tears]

@rohanroos1495 tl;dr at the time samurai was not the concept you are describing, it was much looser, for all intents and purposes Nobunaga viewed him as a samurai, but it's possible some people of the time disagreed. whether history will view him as one is a decision to be made by Japanese historians. Assassin's Creed is not a history book, it is essentially historical fanfiction, and taking a real life historical figure who essentially did act as a samurai and making a game where he is one is completely fine, people don't play AC because it is meant to literally represent historical fact. All that matters is if game fun.

[@fears4tears]

@rohanroos1495 it's 5am so I just realized I basically wrote a whole essay to essentially agree with you besides a few things, but i hope the history was interesting at least. Maybe I'll make a video about what I learned because I think it gives perspective to both sides arguing over it.

[@kommandantvhs4994]

The real problem is not toxic gamers, the problem is toxic Developers.

[@MuggleKarp]

Breaking news that will surprise literally no one: Individuals and groups with a lot of capital have an insanely difficult time believing virtually anything is their fault. "I mean, how could it be? Look how successful I am!"

[@disalazarg]

​@@MuggleKarpnewsflash: that happens to almost everyone, and those managing their own money are better than most in that regard because they hold personal stakes in whatever failure occurs. Conversely, it's much worse the farther they are from the consequences, like Blackrock and the interests they represent.

[@toastedjambread]

Toxic management

[@NowThatsAnime]

Yasuke will earn Samurai title after slaying ubisoft.

[@Daniel__Nobre]

😂😂

[@Dragoneye2427]

🤣🤣🤣

[@deuswulf6193]

I'm getting DEI fatigue. Yes this includes every commercial, every TV show, every game, where the currency for DEI points is an ugly and or "diverse" dark skinned character, regardless of setting or time period.

[@Numb_]

Wait so black characters can't exist in TV shows or commercials?

[@thetruth5232]

@@Numb_ You're part of the problem.

[@Numb_]

@@thetruth5232 you guys are the minority btw you just have to go outside to see that. The fact that you get irk by seeing black people in commercials is crazy

[@dylanbaker7090]

​@@Numb_not true... look at any video and you'll get ratioed. Probably why you're numb.. you get beat daily 😂

[@dylanbaker7090]

​@Numb_ imagine an assassins creed set in the deep African Congo... now imagine instead of picking a native congonese to be the main character... they pick the only white colonist that happens to be in the country, as the main character... and he goes around slaying and killing all the native congonese whilst country music and Mozart play in the background... Do you see this now? How far are you up the WEFs ass? Do you know what ESG scoring is? Do you know what they say about us? Those very same people pushing this crap, are also pushing for us to stop eating meat but eat bug protein... and to own nothing and still be happy... and that we don't deserve free will because we don't know what to do with it so they will take it.. all for agenda 2030... this is all written fact by the people that train our world leaders...

[@letopizdetz]

Wait they just google 'samurai banner' and took one from basically a LARP group without knowing what it says on the banner? :)))

[@toastedtransistor]

Designers working on a fps who never played a fps is wild.

[@katsumoto9143]

And they put those profiles in senior position...

[@jnastywot2298]

The entire time people have been crying "racist" about people being mad about Yasuke being in this game. I have been like "Nioh 2 also has Yasuke in it as a samurai and nobody cared.. in fact everybody thought it was cool." just maybe the problem here is the intention and not the inclusion of the character.

[@cannadaddoit7460]

I cared. I hate Mondays everywhere

[@Axiasart]

I’m not even bothered by Yasuke being a samurai I’m bothered about how lazy they were about it and how bad the game is

[@Jack-cc3qm]

​@Axiassart They didn't even get the armor right for the period and ham fisted in elements like Chinese character lanterns and having cherry trees in bloom during rice planting/harvesting.

[@TheNapster153]

Obsidian Samurai is a beast of a fight. Although, I suckass in that game depsite my enjoyment.

[@noah1535]

If Yasuke was an npc you just interacted with, I think not nearly as many people would have a problem with it

[@user-mz6sh4uo7u]

Imagine getting rung up by HR for a smiley face emoji or an exclamation mark. Jesus fucking christ what has the world come to.

[@p0llk4t07]

I think they are saying you can get a visit from HR for NOT using a smiley face emoji 😅😅😅

[@eneveasi]

I would just quit tbh.

[@vahidoph]

Don't need to imagine it, go watch corporate. One episode is just about that very issue.

[@fattzmcgee6161]

Women in the workplace

[@Numb_]

​@@eneveasimost people would rather just collect a free paycheck while doing the minimum

[@AllFnKnight]

11:35 Some of the most brilliant philosophy I've ever heard. I'm a writer and I've struggled with putting that concept into words. Good job man

[@YOUTUBE_CHRIS]

Black population 13% Asian population 6% Hispanic population 20% Gay and trans population

[@soshady9572]

60% white. (In Canada/USA, more in Europe.) It's never been supremacy, it's simply majority. The amount of people that don't understand this is crazy.

[@Rope257]

@@soshady9572 Ow my god, thank you! I've said this for so long. The chances of someone being in a leadership position and white are simply statistically higher. If it weren't that way then you could actually make the "oppression" argument.

[@MorgorDre]

And thats US

[@Codreanu_Prezent]

Hispanic and Asian are not races...

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

​@@soshady9572 and technically Hispanic is white, if Americans are white, seeing how Hispanics are Spanish colonial descendants

[@SprangMcCrang]

Ubisoft getting hit Ubihard

[@riggles]

On their ubabisoftspot

[@Bayofthe91st]

Ubisofter

[@Jordanbiggs1473]

The uninstall button. The game is great and all that, but god it is hard to fully remove all the junk it leaves behind on your system. You really need to check out that mod when the time comes to get rid of it. Otherwise, I think AC Shadows delay is a nice start.

[@Jordanbiggs1473]

@@Bayofthe91st The uninstall button. The game is great and all that, but god it is hard to fully remove all the junk it leaves behind on your system. You really need to check out that mod when the time comes to get rid of it. Otherwise, I think AC Shadows delay is a nice start.

[@SlimeFanBoi]

Ubersoft

[@peterkuever4069]

Ubisoft= you be Soft. Well and pathetic too 😂

[@Fun-Blade]

It really makes you think. Truly activates your almonds. Wow.

[@arfazero1]

It's ubiflacid

[@ПавелКратиров-ф6с]

That would never happen to Ubihard

[@capten_pickles4869]

Bring back gritty bad ass characters that dont give fuck about feelings

[@xalxika]

yes, please

[@aheahe7943]

let's look at the most popular games of 2024 and what they all have in common: Palworld - Game about shooting and capturing pokemon mixed with a survival. Helldivers 2 - Game about shooting bug aliens and defending an hyper surrealistic version of earth and it's "democratic" government. Stellar Blade - Basically Neir Automata Black Myth Wukong - Game about a monkey with a stick Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 - Game about bigger monkeys with guns, killing bugs in the name of the Emperor. Insert Anime games/gachas here - Games about waifus and anime. Elden Ring DLC - doesn't really count but sure What do all these games have in common? The number 1 reason they were made was to have fun. Let's look at the flops of this year: Concord - Hahahahahahhaha Star Wars Outlaws - Hahahahahahahahah Assassin's Creed: Shadows - Delayed to next year but still counts, HAHAHAHAHHA Dustborn - Honestly not even funny, just sad. Flintlock - Yeah I don't know what it is either. Skull and Bones - HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA Tales of Kenzera: Zau - idk, gamespot thinks its a "popular" game despite a 287 peak concurrent players on steam, typical games media outlets. What do all these games have in common? DEI bullshit whose number 1 reason they were made was to try and make money and force a politically correct message. (also half of them are from Ubisoft, which is even funnier.)

[@korhanaydemir8366]

😂f Space Marine 2 also has shooting space wizards in there which is admittedly not as fun as shooting bugs

[@arcanafool9738]

Skull and Bones should have 4 A after each H

[@macrou]

Flintlock is actually a good game and fun to play. It’s sad it got hold back by the „everything is woke“ mentality.

[@Nytzi]

And not of the good ones Will be GOTY

[@Captainaceguy00]

All the good games are epic, interesting or revolutionary in their certain genre. Any of these games could have dei influences in them, and as long as they weren’t shoved down your throat, no one would care. The problem with dei games rn is they invest way too much effort into pushing their message and forget they also need to make an epic game. Also these dei developers need to stop stereotyping their inclusive characters. They don’t seem to understand that not every lesbian or black person have the exact same look and personality

[@GelberDracheLP]

I'm from germany, born in 92... For me re ta rd.... is a word for someone who does stupid, very stupid things... Not someone who is mentally challenged

[@jacobsmith8377]

Id say both. If you are, you are. And if you only ever behave like you are, then you are.

[@ryanjohnson3881]

@@jacobsmith8377 i have heard this said about another word from yesteryear...

[@thahirshibu5042]

I still say it. But it doesn't hit right on the tongue anymore.

[@taylorcorbett8848]

I find it to be extra exquisite lately

[@buuuuuuurn-the-heretic]

Bruder, der Kaiser beschuetzt!

[@Fyshtako]

They keep calling it a "toxic minority" that hates this stuff, but in reality it's the majority. These companies are trying SO damn hard to pander to a small minority of people that actually care about any of this DEI stuff.

[@alegotronnortogela7695]

It's projection. The people who want it ARE the toxic minority.

[@Josh-sz8ip]

Why can they not understand that journalists don't represent the majority? Even Hitler knew that

[@hiroshima19]

9:50 Black samurai runs around town destroying villagers food supply... amazing, so progressive

[@seamusbaker3338]

So Han Solo straight up murdered someone 20 seconds after we meet him, and Disney wants to censor stuff... WTF

[@TheMasterblah]

Han was clearly defending himself. It's not like he's known for shooting first or anything

[@seamusbaker3338]

@@TheMasterblah yeah, being so very old I forget, half the planet didn't see what really happened :p

[@smithynoir9980]

@@TheMasterblah Self-defense doesn't have to mean you are struck or harmed first. Greedo was a clear threat justifying pre-emptive self-defense.

[@TheMasterblah]

@@smithynoir9980 wow, do you think all Rodians are inherently threatening and warrant "preemptive self defense"? Greedo was an innocent Rodian just passing a message along from his employer the Illustrious and Benevolent Jabba.

[@liamjm9278]

@@smithynoir9980 "It's coming right for us"

[@steelknigh]

Ubisoft deserves to go bankrupt, they are one of the companies responsible for the shitty state that the gaming industry has become in recent years, and not to mention that the founders of SBI are former Ubisoft employees.

[@awooga-gunga-israel]

Agreed

[@Rope257]

All of them do. Microsoft, Sony, Blizzard, EA, Ubisoft. Let them go bankrupt and from their ashes rise new gaming companies that actually want to do something interesting.

[@logansrevenge1214]

Hey I'm a causal gamer dad. I only have one wife (a girlfriend) and two kids. And diablo 4 is great... nope can't do it, I was bored with it in 6 days.😢 let these big companies fail, and the talented ones start new. These games aren't even for causals.

[@ЙорданРамчев]

Another casual gamer dad here - I have a total of 9 hours of Diablo 4 and I won't open it ever again.

[@RuecianGray]

I picked it up a second time when all of the hype about how it had improved was going around in Season 3. I still couldn't even make it past level 60 before i got bored. Slow gameplay, very little customization or interesting character progression, boring itemization. Nothing really changed. Literally the only noticeable positive change was that my gems had their own tab. The rest of the game felt exactly the same as launch.

[@daveys_gaming_corner]

6 days? I didn’t last 6 mins lol

[@wimaak]

Time to get back to D2R lads

[@nichi8404]

lol it's not your game I have 80 hours on it and the combat is more fun than Diablo 1-3 with a decent story.

[@KugleeKuglee]

And let's not forget how many third-party companies they deliberately destroyed, often for short-term profit. That's why they have so many more internal studios now than they used to-because they’ve earned such a 'great reputation' in the industry among smaller studios...

[@mrcoules]

Having worked in the industry many years back, I can say the folks from Ubisoft haven’t changed one bit. They didn’t think their farts were stinky back then, seems like they have exactly the same attitudes today. I don’t take pleasure in the company collapsing, but you reap what you sow and it’s been a long time in the making.

[@Kragoth86]

Make no mistake, that senior leader that was "let go" wasn't fired and removed from the company. He was shuffled to another internal section because he is friends with the CEO.

[@aceathor]

In fact in France you can't fire people as you want. If your company is making profit you can't fire people. You can when they make a big fault, or if your company is in big trouble. In a way they are stuck with their employees, so the company is doomed. You can force them to resign by demoting them in status.

[@snipermagoo]

@@aceathor Are they even making profit, though? Their share price is in the toilet.

[@ねるさん-c1k]

Before announcing the game’s release delay, why doesn’t UBI apologize and compensate for the copyright infringement issues involving works like Tōdai-ji, Nijō Castle, and the Sekigahara Rifle Corps? This is simply illegal behavior. It’s not about historical misrepresentation, misinterpretation of Japan, far-right ideology, or gender issues-UBI is committing illegal acts as a company.

[@julianigarcia8498]

Far Left ideology * fixed

[@123Suffering456]

Thought so too. It says a lot that they don't care at all about these copyright infringements - seems like that only matters if someone else does it to them.

[@thahirshibu5042]

In broad effing daylight

[@SuperRedNovaDragon]

Also ive heard from multiple places that nobody is allowed to use that buda statue without permission

[@ranulfthevast2180]

By the book definition of cultural appropriation

[@devereuxbirdzell]

I work for a big corporation and we now have a vice president for culture and diversity. He's a person of color of course. His job seems to consist of blowing up our inboxes with 'diversity' newsletter emails. Most big corporations these days have this kind of thing and I'm certain Ubisoft is no different.

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

My grandmother told me: "Don't listen to what they tell you in school; Samurai were trans black women who supported Kamala Harris!"

[@citiestoash]

With how bad the joke was. I’m gonna assume you didn’t go to school. Got that home schooled humour

[@TheThreatActor]

@@citiestoash yakub believer

[@ConorChaos]

@@citiestoash I think it was hilarious. You triggered?

[@citiestoash]

@@ConorChaos nope. Just common sense lmao. Sheep comment with the same format you see over and over on every shadows video

[@citiestoash]

@@TheThreatActor tf is yakub? Also why are you role playing in your YT bio?

[@alexhedstrom582]

Can’t wait to play as OJ Simpson in the new Japanese samurai game!!

[@Rockyroad321]

Afro samurai

[@oompalumpus699]

​@@Rockyroad321That one has Samuel Jackson and is actually cool.

[@oompalumpus699]

Bill Cosby in Japan simulator.

[@Rockyroad321]

@@oompalumpus699 I loved Afro samurai that’s why I was open to the idea of yasuke being in AC cuz he’s badass in his anime but clearly everyone thinks otherwise

[@vastayavoidling6027]

I watched 20 adds during this video. Never using KZbin on my iPad again gawd damn.

[@rungunninja1289]

Honestly all the dei stuff is heading for a hard time the moment someone in the industry ignores it and just fires everyone complaining about it multiple times. Toxic positivity no matter the industry results in lazy passive aggressive people surviving while everyone else is just trying not to get fired.

[@ergovisavis]

It's already happening. Google got rid of DEI initiatives and laid off thousands of employees. They made statement saying something along the lines of this isn't a place for politics. Companies are starting to realize that they're being held hostage by this culture.

[@aceathor]

In fact in France you can't fire people as you want. If your company is making is making money you can't fire people. You can when they make a big fault, or if your company is in big trouble. In a way they are stuck with their employees, so the company is doomed. You can force them to resign by demoting them in status.

[@FGEnjoyer]

Asmondgold showcasing humbleness in 9:05

[@kevin11humor]

Question 1 for an interview for becoming a game dev should be "Do you play games?" if no then gtfo.

[@arcturus64]

Actual Blizzard recruitment method back in the good ol' days

[@laszlo3547]

It should akso be vaguely related games to what the job is about. Candy Crush doesn't count as experience for someone wanting to work on AAA titles.

[@artnull13]

@@laszlo3547 what if they say dustborn was their favourite game….

[@marcwilliams9824]

​@@artnull13The second question is "So what games do you play?"

[@Skybreaker1337]

@@arcturus64 The legend of Jeff Kaplan.

[@MrMysteriousDm]

I really want a bunch of these developers who actually can put out some good content to leave companies like ubisoft And start their own company called project phoenix. Where It literally is A company that puts out a massive inbox. Where people can send in their ideas for games and if your game idea gets selected, then you're brought on to the team then help them Make it where the only focus is to make a good product. With a good story. It could drive such inspiration and give gamers a direct Method to Get more involved in their games and to hear direct feedback from the communities.

[@Odorico02]

Ubisoft is a big echo chamber

[@TechnoMinarchist]

19:03 Also how miserable must it be in the studio with that environment? No wonder their games are dull and boring and uninspiring. They're all depressed and anxious.

[@NightmareCo666]

Imagine getting called to a meeting and being accused of harassment 'cos you didn't use emojis (IN A PROFESSIONAL SETTING) Or cos you used an exclamation mark....like wow so pathetic and childish. Where did the adults go holy shizen

[@kalevipoeg6916]

Thank god for us? No, no. AS a European man living in China, thank god for devs like GAME SCIENCE who brought us ACTUAL representations of their culture like Black Myth Wukong. When you put Ubisoft's disgustingly western, hostile, race-inserting takeover of Japanese culture in this game and put it RIGHT UP NEXT TO ANOTHER GAME THAT WAS RELEASED THIS YEAR - Black Myth Wukong - which was made by ACTUAL people OF that country and culture with zero need to insert other races or ideologies? It's EMBARRASSING for them. SO f'ing humiliating. Bad timing on their part and NO WONDER they want to put off release now to 2025 - because if you put it out so close to a masterclass in how to do it RIGHT like that, it looks like colonialist, arrogant vandalism by westerners of a culture and history they don't understand.

[@tkps]

What I find amusing about this basically colonialist attitude and that's what it's broadcasting along with bigotry and chauvanism, is the very people indulging in it are the ones accusing every current Euro or Euro adjacent country of being colonialist simply for appreciating their own histories or gasp having a statue or other monument in celebration of past deeds or achievements as if we should be ashamed of them. I have never seen the level of hypocrisy I see today at any other time in my life (I'm getting on). Once people would be horrified to be accused of it so would mend their ways. Today they're almost oblivious they're guilty of it.

[@ivoryowl]

​@@tkps There's a common theme among cult and radical groups; the lower ranks tend to believe in their own self-righteousness and that of their movement, while the higher levels tend to use belief and ideology to manipulate and recruit the gullible into doing their dirty work.

[@aethelwulf7819]

Yet, the irony here is when you think of GOD Ragnarok, it was a black company colonising Scandinavian culture/folklore, yet that is perfectly fine!

[@NygesOverlord]

8:45 Welp, you called it 😂 This is absolutely why I watch you dude. Keep doing what you’re doing!

[@DreamerSouls]

Here's the one thing I don't understand about the more normal devs not pushing back, if they don't push back in the game fails they're all going to get fired laid off anyway, so why not try to course correct in mass.

[@razlad2523]

seems they are scared of getting fired aand blacklisted

[@Vandassar]

You have a much better chance to get a job elsewhere after being laid off rather than being sacked for "bigotry".

[@SongokuJidai]

You essentially view it as a gig economy job. Bad game? Do the job, take the money, have your foot ready to jump into the other boat when the chickens come home to roost.

[@goldenlizard92]

I think the reasoning was pretty well explained in the video discussing Concord wasting $400 million; if the company heads decide to go in a certain direction, all pushing back against it leads to is getting fired and replaced. Why push back when the outcome for the product will be the same (every complaint, legitimate or otherwise, will be ignored), and the only difference is that the employee loses out on salary and benefits? When you are guaranteed to lose, the only winning move is not to play. In terms of making enough money to get by and maintain personal well-being, it's better to play along and prepare to hop to another job than it is to struggle in vain against company leadership in regards to their questionable decisions. It's not ideal, but it is one of the many harsh realities of the modern workplace.

[@NikoGoKrazy]

Asmon is making more money off these ubisoft videos than ubisoft is period

[@johnbono2384]

This comment is posted on every asmon video

[@NikoGoKrazy]

@@johnbono2384 My bad, didn't realize it was

[@f687sNFM]

​@@johnbono2384doesn't make it any less true

[@MedokaLightning]

3:40 the Ubisoft version of: „There is no war in Ba Sing Se!“

[@gunsarefun4618]

Avatar reference?

[@habibsahin5730]

​@@gunsarefun4618 Yep👍🏽

[@jayblair6956]

I think after this many years on the internet that it’s safe to just say that I definitely “work in construction”. 🤣

[@stanley13579]

An artist very rarely can exist purely, and truly, in the commercial space - they can only exist freely in their own world, where their beliefs are what takes center-stage. As soon as you want to appeal to the people, and ask for their patronage in return, your beliefs have zero relevance - only your creativity can be successfully shared. Beliefs and creativity are not the same thing, and you can truly measure an artist's creativity by how effortlessly they can hide their beliefs in their work. The fact that the "artists" working on today's games CANNOT find a way to make their activism subtle, is a testament to how truly uncreative they are.

[@enzopied3015]

Well said

[@trashee973]

Jesus Christ that was well said. I'd never thought of it like that.

[@eehlohluell]

Well said. Their art stopped being about changing minds, and about letting the art be changed by minds. It's upside down with these people lmaoo

[@LambatAwal]

All they had to do was said "this game is not based on accurate representation of Japanese history" but nah they had to say its factual dont they.

[@MightandLight]

When I saw the "Historically there were no girls in school but we wanted representation so suck it" in odyssey I knew ubisoft didn't care about being historically accurate anymore

[@jordanwood3150]

@@MightandLight It took you until AC: Odyssey to notice that Assassins Creed games weren't accurate representations of the historical periods they were set in? So did you genuinely think Leonardo Da Vinci built a tank or that the Pope got into fisticuffs with and Assassin?

[@MightandLight]

@@jordanwood3150 Well then following that logic even the first assassin's creed wasn't accurate because I don't remember the Muslim having a magic apple that allowed them to do magic. I can accept artistic liberties that serves the story as long as the era it's set in is accurate

[@jordanwood3150]

@@MightandLight "Well then following that logic even the first assassin's creed wasn't accurate". Yeah, no shit. The AC games aren't and have never claimed to be historically accurate. I haven't played an AC game since Syndicate, but I'm pretty sure that they even state at the beginning of the game that it's a work of fiction and isn't intended to be an accurate representation of the culture and history depicted (or at least they did in the old ones). "I can accept artistic liberties that serves the story as long as the era it's set in is accurate". What you mean is that you'll pick and choose when to care about historical accuracy in historical fiction based upon vibes, just as all of the people complaining about Yasuke in AC: Shadows are doing. How on Earth does Leonardo Da Vinci building a tank pass the "historical accuracy check", but Ancient Greek girls going to school or a black dude (that did exist but wasn't a Samurai) being depicted as a samurai not?

[@MightandLight]

@@jordanwood3150 No it means I can accept a magic apple or Leonardo building flying machines (when he failed in real life) because it gave us a really cool mission But other than that Florence was accurately represented, from the buildings, the people, the culture. I mean hell in the first trailer of the first game altair had a crossbow that they later removed because it wasn't accurate to the time era, that's the kind of accuracy I respected ubisoft for You can have both, you can have an accurate time era WITH all the magical stuff with the apple of Eden

[@amnofish]

They had black Norseman in AC Valhalla, I stoped playing. Call me racist if you want, I think it's stupid.

[@PremiumJutub]

U racist bro fr

[@cirescythe]

It is. And i would have stopped playing if a AC set in Africa had random white people living in a small village and everyone pretending thats not off. But i bet they wouldnt make a change like that in a setting like that.

[@tomislavrasic7766]

​@@Cruella79 yeah "slaves" were treated with respect lol that checks out. What do you mean with that ? They gave them food so they don't die immediately from working for free ?? Woah that's so respectful and nice i guess. How about NOT HAVING SLAVES TO BEGIN WITH. The only time that happened on a big scale and it removed slavery was in America.

[@bradchambers5886]

​@@Cruella79Norsemen cannot be African. It's an ethnic group from the frigid North. You're referring to mercenaries and servants that went Viking, but even that is dubious.

[@lilmemesyy3568]

Some say there were black people idk if it’s true tho, to me it seems bit off, I don’t think there were any black folks there at that time

[@Ainglish-qj5bb]

Oof this didn't age well for Asmon: "You have to watch what you say. . . "

[@VinceP1974]

Go Woke Go Broke

[@CaptainAdmiralMango]

Funny how this proves to be true time and time again, yet nobody seems to get the memo 😅

[@Rope257]

@@CaptainAdmiralMango At the very least some investors got the memo. The guy with a minor share in Disney that tried to change who was on the board and recently a group of investors with Ubisoft. I think that we're just seeing the result of games that have been under development so long that leadership of these companies go for the sunken cost fallacy.

[@Numb_]

Didn't work for Bud light or any other company that goes rainbow 🌈

[@thatdude1435]

​@@CaptainAdmiralMangoimagine being an investor in this.. if they did 5 mins of research they would hit the 'red alert' button twice

[@VinceP1974]

@@Rope257 In the end the Disney investor sold all his shares. He was utterly defeated.

[@-LightSmit]

As a Japanese gamedev - really disgusting

[@TheChristPillFlock]

Asmongold is wrong, this issue is everywhere.

[@artnull13]

Yup he’s still in his denial phase

[@Hick_Dead]

Gamers are not opposed to diversity or inclusion. Video games already have a long history of being diverse and inclusive. Sweet Baby and their ilk are weaponizing games to solve a problem that doesn't exist, and it is obvious to the player. Nobody buys a game to be condescended to and patronized. Some of our favorite characters are women and/or minorities. Lara Croft, Samus from Metroid, CJ from San Andreas, Barrett from FF7, Alyx, Bayek, Adam Hunter, Jill Valentine, Heather Mason, the list goes on and on and on. When you try to sell your product by shaming the consumer, your product will be dually rejected.

[@elliotw4606]

All ya had to do, was make a good character Ubisoft! That reference will never get old. 😂

[@Hick_Dead]

@elliotw4606 🤣

[@SirPreyas]

How Ubisoft hasn't gone bankrupt yet is beyond my comprehension.

[@PrionicProteins]

Give it time. They've a lot of retained earnings to burn through.

[@roflBeck]

Companies take forever to go bankrupt. We're still waiting for GameStop to go under.

[@Goldmask-lm2sy]

they being back by investor or.....they purposely trying to get their stock sooo low that tecent will buy them fully this time hahaha

[@androud5147]

This​@@Goldmask-lm2sy

[@VeiLofCognition]

They need to go more woke. That would save the company.

[@wildwilco]

Put in the lore that yasuke used to be a woman. That will save the game.

[@VeiLofCognition]

@@wildwilco They should make Chaka Zulu a white woman in Assassins Creed Loin Cloth

[@MaryannLynch-z9c]

Ubisoft sourcing a paid review as a they like it, is like a celebrity sourcing their own puff piece for how great they are, same concept...

[@RTheu2109]

I think AC plots fell after they stopped connecting the past with present modern day like they did back then. It might have peaked in AC black flag, but i think Desmond "dying" in AC3 took the series with him to the Animus afterlife

[@collind7158]

Ubisoft in general is just terrible. I used to play a ton of assassin's Creed games, but they've been boring for a while. I liked origins and I liked Odyssey but the only reason why I like those was because I stopped playing a few games before that. That was during the time when I would like skip every other assassin's Creed game But after a while I didn't even watch any gameplay for mirage or the Viking one. And I wasn't even excited about shadows even before all the controversy I've always compared Bethesda and Ubisoft to each other because Bethesda is just like more creative and they still get the same kind of hate. Sometimes it's Ubisoft but the difference is that Bethesda still just has way better games Even with them messing up and stuff a lot. Ubisoft is a game company that does not know how to make an entertaining game. They are incapable of it like that is their problem. The people that work there are not capable of making something that doesn't make you roll your eyes or making something that is genuinely fun to play. The only time they ever showed any innovation was with unity and I was actually someone who always loved watch dogs when it came out. Everyone else hated it and then the others came out. Eventually people went back to missing the first one, but I always loved it. Outside of that, they've been done for I'm certainly ready for Ubisoft to die. I wouldn't even be sad about it. I stopped caring about assassin's Creed a long time ago. I don't even feel like replaying the original games to be honest, even though I was like the biggest Fanboy, I have my memories with them. I'll never forget the first time someone showed me assassin's Creed 2 and I remember just being excited to go to the store and buy different weapons but that's long gone. Gaming has moved along and they're stuck with the same game design from the PS3 era enemies are just as stupid level designs aren't finished. The story will be the most generic boring thing. You can imagine there isn't even a Templar or assassin plot anymore, so they're just going to introduce you to some cocky character that they have done a thousand times have corny dialogue like you already know what it's going to be. I would rather just play a flat out bad game from another company than play a mediocre Soul draining game from Ubisoft. I genuinely think they are worse than EA because at least EA can make an entertaining game. They just have bad business practices. Ubisoft makes the most boring games in the gaming industry like they are by far and large, the most boring dull gaming company

[@RobertMalachowski]

I had always thought that we’d have a modern game where Desmond leaves the animus, when he died I no longer understood what the series was leading up to. Then we started getting games without assassins at all, and mythology took over too much

[@MysteryScienceGaming]

11:40 the artist argument is good but is better described like this. If a painter wants to ignore criticism they can, they only need to sell their painting to one person. If a game company wants to ignore it they are screwed, the investment costs to make their game are far higher so they need to sell more than one copy like a painter would.

[@DaedLizrad]

Another reason why it can take a long time for a game developers reputation to fall to ruin is because their reputations can be compartmentalized so their rep becomes quite resilient. For example if they always release AC and people know its always gonna be a good AC game then that rep will be good, but if they always flop another series the rep of that game can be in ruin but their overall rep is most reflective in the largest current success. One exception is when they flop a licenced title with a bigger rep, like star wars. That is probably the first real total rep loss theyve suffered, add that to their staple AC failing and we'll see ruin in a much more complete manner, after that the only real tangible rep left will be in Farcry... I think.

[@mahbod4233]

lol that quote had me laughing for 10 min...build 100 bridge..😂

[@Stevenedcastle]

Also somehow despite me disagreeing with a lot of asmon’s opinions he remains one of the most middle of the road objective opinions I can find on the internet

[@stahliboi6249]

If ubisoft dies, maybe, JUST MAYBE, we'll get a decent settlers game.