Ubisoft thought we wouldn't notice..

[@KingOfHarems]

Having “Work for Sweet Baby Inc, IGN, and Polygon” in your work history is like having “I’m a red flag” as the header in your resume

Why she not black listed in Japan? Like seriously. She’s as welcome as vodka is at a mosque.

[@hitler69]

pronouns in bio too.

[@DeltaDragon79]

Almost as big a red flag as colored hair.

[@TheHuggableEmpire]

BLACKlisted

[@Plexplay]

Ubisoft too. On an article that defends Ubisoft's game. Can't make this shit up lol

[@hamdinger7145]

Asmongold's Editor should be in charge of Ubisoft.

[@bjornsteelside]

Amongold's Editor should in charge of the FBI

[@RafitoOoO]

They don't deserve him.

[@N.K.---]

Editor should be the president of USA 🇺🇸

[@johndonovan7018]

which one of them all. he has several. this is a big commercial operation, its not 1 dude in a basement and 1 dude editing clips of it....

[@muhammadagengnugroho3387]

Nah, Ubisoft won't give a chance unless his editor is woman or non-binary

[@No_OneV]

"only westerns don't like the game" When there is literally x10 more Japanese gaming channels that said don't play the game.

[@FZJanimated]

Is the narrative they are going with. Play dumb and play victim. Ubisoft time and time again showing their true colors, they hate japan. To be so dishonet that they pretend japanese people are okay with all this is so imperialistic that you cant make this shit up. A bunch of french telling another culture that their voices dont matter

[@-ratto-]

In Japan, Assassin's Creed Mirage's first week sales were only 20,000 units for the PS5 and PS4 versions combined. And now there are over 100,000 signatures demanding that Assassin's Creed Shadows be canceled. This game is not appreciated by the Japanese at all

[@windflare1637]

​@@-ratto-i think the game will still perform better than the previous title in japan. But not that much. Maybe 30k or something. Of course that number wouldn't be impressive given a fact that the game is set in japanese

[@TruthSpeaker-zz1yg]

@@windflare1637 think all you like; it wont Japanese people dont like playing or looking at Blacks they have a beauty standard that doesnt apply to apes

[@fallennarcotic6981]

And as if that somehow makes the game better

[@boxtears]

At this point Ubisoft's attempts to give this game Japanese credentials is more like a running sitcom gag.

[@Foatizenknechtl]

..."at this point" ? it was a a joke when it got first announced xD doors were flying in the original trailer.

[@F1rstNameLastName]

Their first japanese historian that they used to advertise this game was a lady who wrote about the positives of buddhist monks sexually abusing young boys. Now their next japanese historian is a former sweet baby inc employee lmao.

[@-ratto-]

UBIは日本人がわざわざ日本語でトレーラーに文句言ってるのが見えてない😂

[@rayemra]

Remember that Ubisoft sitcom, what is called? mystic quest?

[@infernaldaedra]

@@Foatizenknechtl the gay black Samurai wasn't historical enough for you guys?

[@IcyBlaze616]

That former Sweet Baby IGN/Polygon "writer" has the MOST unhinged takes, too. They wrote an article saying Animal Crossing was problematic because it failed to address Japan's colonizing history. They also wrote an article complaining The Last of Us 2 was transphobic because people in game were mean and assaulted the trans character in that game. It's amazing they let this person walk around unsupervised in public, let alone be a "consultant" for the New York Times.

[@jejxkxk]

I feel like this is a person who provides criticism for hire. If you want to have something negative to say about something or somebody, you hire this guy, and he can write endlessly about non existent problems for you to use in your spin.

[@sungleong]

probably all polygon writers are unhinged, I am not even joking. Their cyberpunk 2077 "review" was all about character genital selection!! I mean the entire fucking review!! They didn't talk about the game at all, they just bitch about genitals in the game. I have never seen a more unhinged review my entire life! Since then, I swore to god I would never visit that site again.

[@-ratto-]

彼の名はハシモト　カズマ

[@Erik-Winters]

"They"?

[@jakestablettableto9453]

20 yrs ago they would be in a straight jacket

[@Handles_AreStupid]

The funny part is that the "historic proof" for black samurai existing was actually made up by a guy that wanted to make japanese history "more diverse", so he took records of a single slave being sold to a japanese warlord and basically said "it's entirely possible he was a samurai" with zero evidence. It's super racist. Look it up.

[@VegetoStevieD]

There are a lot of Horde loyalists helping Orcs invade cultures.

[@crustman5982]

Who controls the past now controls the future

[@lars7747]

He was executed about 2 months into his slavery actually. There are records of him being bought and records of a non Japanese speaking slave being executed for not following commands

[@Handles_AreStupid]

@@lars7747 It's not confirmed that it was the same guy, but slaves were so rare in japan that it's very likely that it was him.

[@lars7747]

@@Handles_AreStupid yeah, I feel bad for the guy who bought him, probably paid more for less

[@renarenacat]

As a japanese,the hate against this game is bigger then the west. I haven't seen a single person say anything positive about it.

[@windflare1637]

How's your fellow japanese reaction regarding this game in the last few weeks?. Barely any interest or something...

[@notenoughcalories]

Yeah I would assume that Japan, a nation that holds great importance to culture and respect, wont be taking this kind of disrespect to their culture

[@TcGroenestege]

Thats good to know, do you feel like the Japanese are also in some way a bit insulted by this game? or mostly just critisism

[@Cliffem82]

Another Japanese here. I've been following the KZbinr mentioned in this video and you just need to check the Japanese comments. I've never seen a backlash like this.

[@theriseofyousafzai]

I understand that I would hate the game too if they did the same to my country

[@Vyshada]

The "Context" is becoming one of my favourite words. Good job, Editor!

[@neutchain7838]

it's super useful too, I dont have time to be up to date with the daily 120 clips lol

[@cotesia7931]

asmon clips become faster news and entertainment show

[@inciacci549]

CAWHHNNTEEXX

[@shafaet1194]

"yay mom! I learned the word context from asmongold today!"

[@shafaet1194]

"A for Asmongold, B for Blizzard, and C for Context! Yay!"

[@Crikky]

That's ridiculous. All Japanese history teachers say that Yasuke was just a decoration of Nobunaga.

[@VegetoStevieD]

@@usarhabilidade2697 "Nobunaga should be criticized" Meh.

[@WCCXtra]

@@usarhabilidade2697 , this isn't unheard of. Having people from foreign lands, disabled people as oddities, etc. was a flex for wealthy people. These people weren't all treated badly and lived better than a lot of the commoners (shelter, food, hygiene, etc). The most famous example I know of was a Cameroonian nicknamed 'Gannibal' who was bought by the Czar(?) of Russia. There's an interesting mini-doc about him here on KZbin.

[@z-accountlogic8913]

@@usarhabilidade2697 In order to criticize Nobunaga in a "special" way, black people need to be "specially" victims compared to other races. Whether you praise Nobunaga for the fabricated story that he turned Yasuke into a samurai, or criticize him as a villain who made Yasuke into pets, it's ultimately only a Western perspective. That is no different to the arrogance of UBI.

[@bobshanery5152]

@@z-accountlogic8913 I just go by what is written about him and its is very little...Oddly according to recent MSM articles he is "The most well documented Africa samurai" He was a slave, bodyguard and was taken because he looked different. Was given some money/house and died shortly. Dont see how on earth this made him a samurai. There is no documentation of it. No marrying into a family of samurai, no training, nothing and yet "most well documented African samurai" Good old rewriting history. To me this is horrifying that MSM keeps doing this. In time no one will know real history and we will end up repeating all our mistakes.

[@dylan4125]

​@bobshanery5152 the dude who wrote that article is a fraud

[@RedspadesX]

Ubisoft is on fire. Not in a good way, like your childhood home is on fire.

[@echoesofmalachor3700]

Maybe if you moved out and watched your childhood home turn into a meth house over the years and then caught fire

[@N7krogan9]

Even their false narrative is buggy😂😂😂

[@kanaria-cu3uv]

this is fine.

[@Bleg94]

But ... Ubisoft burning down and vanishing IS a good way of it being on fire They already shat on our childhood IPs they had, atleast for me no good feelings for ubisoft remain anymore

[@lullaby218]

The whole world is one fire. And it's no accident either.

[@argnator]

[Why Yasuke?] is a really good song. They broke it down in the comments but the wordplay behind "UBI Sunshine" is fire. UBI is obviously Ubisoft, but it goes further. Split "Sunshine" into two words. "UBI-Sun" is UBI-san, addressing the company like a person. Mr. Ubisoft. "Shine" in English means to be bright, but if you show that word the way it's spelled to a Japanese person they will pronounced it "Shi Ne" as two syllables. "shine" means "Fucking Die" it's extremely rude, even offensive, to say in Japanese. The lyrics are telling Ubisoft to Die. And I bet Ubisoft's professional Japanese language experts don't even know it.

[@riofernando9414]

I thought it's only in my head lmao. Glad to know that i catch the sarcasm on ubi 😂

[@wedgeantilles8575]

That's a great and helpful comment! Much appreciated!

[@TheSleyar]

They’d probably mistranslate it into sexism

[@biggoathorns]

That’s incredible. This context is awesome, thank you.

[@Transformers2Fan1]

Hilarious - couldn't find that in the comments tho

[@n7sorcerer419]

Fun fact: Game Science designed Sun Wukong’s appearance for Black Myth: Wukong after observing Ubisoft employees in their natural habitats.

[@skibbitybebop]

I don't care what anybody told ya, the Japanese were Black - Ubisoft/Netflix

[@ricardohoang8452]

Uh oh bankruptcy alert, bankruptcy alert 🤣

[@annodomini2616]

egyptian : "prepare for trouble, netflix " japanese : "make it double, ubisoft"

[@bukelos2804]

Also Vikings, English kings, all Slavs, Celts, Italians and Greeks. Just everybody were black and their societies looked like modern New York, without the European and east Asian pple ofc.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Tbf Yasuke is a historical figure. However he was also the only one - a VERY odd one out. You'd have to be specifically looking for a black man in Japanese history to find him.

[@ricardohoang8452]

​@@ArawnOfAnnwn Nah he's one sad freelancer with his own sbi and ubi history😂

[@AnyMEmdq]

Best part, he's from the USA. So the new "Japanese expert" is a SBI, "journalist" 'Murican

[@bulletxwound3559]

From LA

[@godemperorofmankind5874]

@@bulletxwound3559 Even worse. He's also gay.

[@HI-cc6jf]

I want to know historical Japanese experts in UBI.

[@wedgeantilles8575]

Well, that he is from the US is not a problem in itself. You do not need to be born in a specific region to become an expert on it. The problem with Ubisofts "experts" is that they are lying actvsts. In no original source document is he labeled Samurai, to claim the contrary is a blatant lie by those "experts".

[@parklife27]

they are too lazy to recruit a REAL LOCAL JAPANESE EXPERT for their own game

[@pablopablo3834]

The funniest thing was everyone was saying they want a white samurai where in reality people were saying William Adams would make more sense as he was actually a Samurai and there are multiple historical sources stating that he was (Strange that?) unlike a certain Yasuke but I saw nobody saying we wanted that just it made more sense but every comment I saw said they wanted a Japanese Samurai because god forbid we are in Japan you know the place where Japanese Samurai came from.

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

I still wouldn't be ok with that though tbh. Like when I saw the Ancient one from Docter Strange was a Bald white women I nearly walked out the Theater. It just takes you out of the Immersion seeing white or black or any other color or race\ethnicity representing Asian culture. The race and ethnicities need to match the cultures.

[@KevinOnEarth_]

Nioh made Williams the main samurai protagonist. Though they made him Irish in the game for some weird reason.

[@z-accountlogic8913]

Nioh's William was chosen by the Japanese studio because they thought a Japanese person would not be eye-catching. and The novel Shogun was also written by the author when learned of an Englishman who had once visited Japan. UBI said that ”We prepared our samurai because could not empathize with the Japanese”, then he imitated the pioneers. Well, I wonder whether the White man of UBI can empathize with a gay hip-hop African-American who dresses like a historically impossible Gundam, when he cannot empathize with a Japanese samurai.

[@hadenman5]

Ubisoft just keep digging themselves a deeper grave

[@johnmosley9376]

But they're so bad at it they've accidentally built a hill.

[@Stevo.100]

You can tell they're incredibly desperate that this game succeeds. With the fake comments and now this. If Assassin's Creed fails it might be the end of Ubisoft 😊🎉

[@DarkXessZ]

@@johnmosley9376 they are so bad that they accidentally united the whole world of gamers to trash on this game. The Yasuke song made by that Japanese KZbinr is evidence lol.

[@OscaReyLich]

at this rate they'll end up in hell... Which i think they're very close to it

[@tokunboayodele1599]

Asides pay to play issues and little flips lately they still remain one of the best in gaming especially the old franchise in AC …. Leave them alone!

[@xWhackoJacko]

I'm loving this "Fuck Ubisoft" arc from the Japanese. They aren't messin' around

[@DubberRucks]

That's what happens when you try to teach them about their own culture. And make ish up about it.

[@김태환-s2i]

East-Asian cultures in general are not that uncomfortable about attacking foreigners or foreign entities, if they see them as hostile or harmful to their own kind. They might have a higher boiling point than your average twitter/X haters, but if they start hating they can become one of your worst abnoxious and in-your-face enemies. Ubisoft fucked up big-time 😂

[@ricardohoang8452]

@@DubberRucks And one who wrote that shit on ny times is originally from ... cordova, Alaska. Not REAL JAPANESE 🤣

[@vinnier777]

​@@ricardohoang8452 LMAO 🤣 😂

[@ricardohoang8452]

@@vinnier777 That irony 😅

[@gravemind883]

Its especially infuriating when you go to the subreddit and its full of people denying that the Japanese hate this, had someone ask me "Are the Japanese in the room with us now?" The people defending this shit are beyond crimincally incompetent. I was about to say theyre handicapped but no, thats an insult to handicapped people.

[@JohnSmith-zb7ri]

Show them the video of the yasuke song. Yes they are in the room right now.

[@frankieseward8667]

The racism is truly sickening with how the West is disrespectful towards the feeling of Japanese

[@christopherbangay6680]

I'm gunna play it idc

[@JohnSmith-zb7ri]

@@christopherbangay6680 ok racist

[@jazzabighits4473]

Anyone who uses reddit is incompetent or a pRedditor, or both.

[@j45cbee]

日本では、今でも毎日のようにゲームトレーラー内の変な表現、あり得ない表現が発見されています。 著作権無視疑惑も関ヶ原鉄砲隊以外に複数発見されています。 このゲームは狂った間違いだらけ、著作権違反だらけです。 もしあなたの国でUBIが「日本では好評」と言っていたら、嘘に騙されないでください。

[@veritas4698]

Arigatou gozaimasu (I don't know how to write Japanese sorry)

[@nickcarroll8565]

Ubisoft isn’t popular anywhere these days

[@vedasisme]

I did my best to translate: In Japan, every day there are more inconsistencies found in the game trailer, representations of things that never happened. In addition to the Sekigahara Rifle Corps, several instances of ignored copyright have been discovered. The game is littered with flagrant mistakes and copyright violations. If Ubisoft tried to say "there are no complaints in Japan," do not be fooled by their lies.

[@ED-gw9rg]

​@@veritas4698Thank you for trying!

[@danielantony1882]

@@veritas4698 The Japanese keyboard is free and is a default option on most devices, and it uses the QWERTY keyboard which obeys the very logical phonetic rules of Japanese. If you were to type “arigatougozaimasu” with a Japanese keyboard, it would give you “ありがとうございます.” It’s not actually as hard as you think it is. Just a small tip, since you don’t know how to write it.

[@RainFox]

_Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake._ -Napoleon Bonaparte

[@XatubaX]

Never forget that SBI was originally formed by EX UBISOFT EMPLOYEES 🤡

[@Trehek]

Yeah, who were mistreated by Ubisoft as I recall it. They're playing the long game, getting their revenge by bringing the company down! 🤣

[@waterking74]

So these weirdos just came back to work with ubisoft again whats the point in quitting then?

[@zardians_of_galaxy]

​@@waterking74taking over the company by any means necessary

[@DerMeisterEdits]

​@@TrehekAnd all the other studios they messed up were just collateral damage?

[@pixavier9746]

​@@DerMeisterEdits this is all just big vengeance plot

[@yasumakabe5615]

UBI showed ancient Chinese instruments called "xun" in the latest AC Shadows trailer, even though the game is set in middle ages Japan. Most Japanese people including me, we have never knew such instrument untill we saw it in the trailer. I couldn't believe what UBI has done. It is pretty natural that Japanese reject the game and vote in thum down.

[@gazz3867]

They only have a checkbox for "asian" so that makes perfect sense.

[@Jordan-Ramses]

I listen to a lot of Japanese music. I don't recognize any of the instruments I hear in the game. There are synthetic versions of a lot of Japanese traditional instruments. They couldn't even be bothered with that.

[@MrNukedawhales]

now.. i dont want to defend ubisoft... but the "xun" is just the chinese version of an ocarina. i assume "most japanese people including you" have heard of zelda before. secondly, there have been chinese immigrants in japan since 200BC and additionally trade routes, so claiming its impossible to have someone play a chinese instrument in japan is almost as nonsensical as claiming that the chinese (written) language and the japanese (written) language have nothing in common and that its impossible that there have been chinese words written in japan at that time.

[@ED-gw9rg]

​@@MrNukedawhalesBut wasn't Japan known for their isolation policies back in the old ages? How would they GET those Chinese instruments if they were considered illegal to import and play in public? Edit: Oof, shows what I know/got from school that this was apparently possible.

[@normalguy5583]

@@MrNukedawhales nice thought, now you just need to back it up with proof.

[@leonkool123]

As a fellow Asian, I was extremely offended as soon as I saw the very first trailer already, can’t imagine the scale of hate and disgust the Japanese people have felt to this point

[@frankieseward8667]

It may compell them to breed more to protect their heritage

[@Stickmon_]

@@frankieseward8667 bruh lmao

[@billylukman3839]

@@frankieseward8667 yeah and no interacial breed

[@altaccount9716]

If you truly were a Asian you'd harbour no love for the Japanese because of what they did to the rest of Asia during ww2. Haven't even apoglised for it.

[@ruifaria8871]

He also lives in LA btw

[@stormssc]

that explains a lot

[@Revolution5268]

Shocking. That also explains the insult japan culture.

[@AverageMojaveMailman]

Every single time.

[@parklife27]

perhaps this Kazuma guy is an American weeb with a fake Japanese name

[@alestane2]

@@parklife27 No. His father is American but his mother is Japanese (and he is a transgender male, which explains varying pronouns in the comments).

[@andreaspooky6183]

Notice that now that NYT article Is cited as a source in the Yasuke wiki page, as a proof he was a samurai.

[@gusty9053]

And no doubt the next NYT article will cite Wikipedia as proof. Because of course they will since the launch is approaching and the flop is looming closer and closer.

[@zaroko8105]

​@@zoeherriotproven to be false, "source" guy was found to be a fraud who recursively used his Fanfictions as factual reference

[@disalazarg]

Wikipedia was taken over by the far left during Obama, they invest most of their donations on far-left political groups since what they already have in the bank is estimated to be enough to run the website at $0 income for close to 20 years.

[@BullyMaguireTheAbsolute]

@@zoeherriot Close but so far away. He's a retainer at most.

[@ruifaria8871]

@@zoeherriot >Foreign exists in Japan >Instantly becomes samurai

[@Brolly5]

Man, the spectrum between Ghost of Tsushima and Assassin's Creed Shadows is really expansive. On one hand, Ghost of Tsushima was a major love letter to old Japanese samurai films and the culture. A great effort was taken to ensure Japanese culture was respected, and it paid off big time. On the other end of the spectrum, we have Assassin's Creed Shadows. Which doesn't bother with any sort of respect or care at all. I can't wait to see it crash and burn.

[@rpg_haven]

The ONLY way to make Ubisoft change is to not buy AC Shadows. That's it. Just don't buy it.

[@tokunboayodele1599]

Your loss bro … had pre-ordered it already besides its high time for folks who can’t even make a sandwich be criticizing a whole game development. Star Wars outlaw ended up been the best with its space fights, story & even mechanics believe it it not this ppl are doing their best too make ppl smile you guys need to stop all this bull **its you ppl do!

[@deanchur]

@@tokunboayodele1599 Thank you for your pro-Ubisoft comment. 50c has been deposited into your account. -Ubisoft PR team

[@SWY1356]

@@tokunboayodele1599 no

[@KnightGamer724]

​@@tokunboayodele1599Okay bot. Enjoy your slop.

[@killermario8458]

​@@tokunboayodele1599yooo, I found one of the so-called 'modern audiences'. Such a rare sighting, where have you been bro?

[@Supperdude9]

Asmon is right. Ubisoft, and we've all seen who is working there, can't do a single thing right. A single thing. I wonder why that is.

[@SarthorS]

It reminds me of that men vs women survival island thing. The women sucked because they refused to choose a leader, did everything by committee and spent most of their time crying and whining.

[@ZeredHeizien]

Everyone with talent left Ubisoft after Black Flag

[@Steir12]

The funniest shit is that ubi also have this obscure game called "For honor" that has entire fraction of cooler than cucumber samurai that everyone likes. This is surreal.

[@CalciumChief]

They can still do one thing - go bankrupt.

[@frenchfriedbagel7035]

@@ZeredHeizien*left after Origins.

[@nobody8717]

"journalists" aren't doing articles defending the game, they are doing paid advertisements for the game. an important distinction

[@AncestorEmpire1]

The French: Those silly French Canadians, they never learn

[@Javitomanzano]

The Little Mushroom People of Nova Scotia should take over.

[@g0tsp33d]

you mean indians?

[@gabrielouellette933]

Noonono, don't involve us. All of Quebec is against this except a few Montreal cancer nodules.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

@@Javitomanzano Newfoundland should channel the rage of their ancestors and march west.

[@IpadAcc.]

@@g0tsp33d that doesn’t even make sense

[@strady0]

Ubisoft: The bankruptcy speedrun

[@tokunboayodele1599]

Stop following silly trends if you don’t understand a thing or can’t give a “SPECIFIC” reasons dude!

[@ricardohoang8452]

​@@tokunboayodele1599 AC: Bankruptcy nail

[@callummoran6497]

Assassin's creed: Black company

[@janisir4529]

@@tokunboayodele1599 Is Ubisoft paying you?

[@misty_misty]

With how Star Wars game bombed, it will be very interesting come November.

[@shem44]

Ubisoft + IGN = RUBBISH Being a South East Asian, seeing a black Samurai disgust me.

[@Dushess]

that's why the current inclusivity trend is a mistake, it should not squis its nose in everything with no knowledge if it's good or bad.

[@Cabbage22927]

Bc you’re racist actually. If you were normal it wouldn’t disgust you 🤷‍♂️

[@z-accountlogic8913]

Because he has a Japanese-sounding name, he has been able to manipulate public opinion by pretending to be Japanese when talking about politics. But this was a miscalculation on his part, as gamers focus on the title SBI rather than his Japanese-sounding name.

[@justlloyd7881]

That song mocking the game slaps harder than the hip-hop beats in AC Shadows..

[@ischmidt]

That's not hard. The AC Shadows beats are lazy and generic, at least from what I've heard in the trailer.

[@MarineCorpzor1]

You know it's bad when even Ubisoft can't properly attack the fans.

[@GamerConnoisseurRei]

that Yasuke song is 🔥🔥🔥

[@Filterdeez]

Second greatest Diss track of 2024

[@neutchain7838]

@@Filterdeez rofl :D

[@ricardohoang8452]

​@@Filterdeez better than whatever that Japanese ex-freelancer from sbi said 😂

[@GigglingPlutonium]

Suno does make bangers

[@TheMightyCrucibleKnight184]

I am going to that Yasuke song after this

[@DarkXessZ]

The best part is Ubisoft united every gamer from many different country against this game.

[@zoeherriot]

the amount of actual "gamers" that care is small. It's a vocal minority and nothing will happen to the game. It will come out. And be successful.

[@DarkXessZ]

@@zoeherriot Yeah the people who said about Star Wars Outlaw said the same thing and still flopped.

[@zoeherriot]

@@DarkXessZ Star Wars Outlaw was a different kettle of fish. It was clearly a broken game. But it hasn't flopped yet. It has sold a lot more units than I thought it would. The bigger criteria to whether a game sells well is actually the Metacritic score - and because that was low, it's sales have been middle of the road. But not a flop. It's likely sold more than a million copies (the last numbers were at 800,000, but that's a month old).

[@DarkXessZ]

@@zoeherriot Let me tell you this, if the game didnt sell more than expected criteria at the beginning of the month, the next month it will be less than the previous month and keeps going. This has been proven by many many games and the only way it ever surge in numbers is when the game got an overhaul or some kind of HUGE improvement to make the game alive. If it sell less than a million first month, the next month it will sell even less than a million like half or only 75% less than previous month. If you ever seen the graph of how many copies sold of a game each month, you will know. Star Wars Outlaw clearly not gonna make their money back after seeing Ubisoft Stock still going down after it came out and after a month still going down.

[@nazzem4043]

@@DarkXessZ That guy is a troll, he is defending ubisoft and saying Yasuke was a samurai in nearly every comment here He will just make up lies to upset you

[@radandpaisley]

"CONTEXT" is music to my ears

[@Bjarkenb]

"Don't lie to the internet.They *will* catch it, and they'll never let it go" - a very young Gaben

[@wisp6826]

They could have just made an average AC with a mid revenge story of some peasant, who went ninja after some generic lord burnt his village. It would have been fine. People would have bought it.

[@archeops.]

Ikr - Assassin's Creed in a Japan setting was the easiest money-printing game and they fumbled it

[@thor1829]

​@archeops. Exactly. Ninjas are the most famous assassins ever, so I have no idea why they didn't choose to make a game about them. It could've been a possibility to return the series to its roots after so many games which were called Assassins Creed but had almost nothing to do with stealth and assassination.

[@DubberRucks]

Apparently Ubisoft, like Sony lately, must be allergic to free money.

[@shortyned7140]

​@@thor1829 It's simple. They were waiting and saving AC Japan for years as a golden ticket, even though fans have been begging constantly for it. Then, Ghost of Tsushima came out and stole their thunder, becoming a massive success. In panic and fear of any comparisons to g.o.t, including the prtotag, they brought this slop out, trying to appeal to a different market.

[@MrMichalMalek]

If you take out ninjas and set the story into the medieval Bohemia - boom, Kingdom Come Deliverance is fitting right there! Realistic sword combat in accurate representation of the 14th century central Europe is a blast worth giving a go.

[@user-ij4ig9ev7e]

Somebody recently posted that if Ubisoft wasn't literally getting government funds from Quebec taxpayers that the studio would fold overnight.

[@Amaroq64]

There it is. The reason why they can go woke and not go broke.

[@MaskedDragon]

People sniffing out pretenders like this almost instantly is a much more compelling narrative than AC Shadows.

[@yungzhe]

People have been starved of good detective games, so Ubisoft really gave everyone a great detective ARG, all for free too!

[@JohnDabs420]

This is why I caved and built a PC. Indie developers are the future of gaming now.

[@mr.j8356]

A lot of mid-tier games (not quite indie) are amazing aswell. Focus Home has lot's of great games like Space Marine, Boltgun, Plague Tale, Atomimc Heart, Ship Breaker etc. I think if we just look away from the flashy 100mil budget ad campaigns, there is a lot of great games to find. From amazing Indies to great AA-Games. No one need stuff like what Ubisoft or really any other publicly traded company churns out anymore.

[@DarkXessZ]

Yes, this is the way man. You finally notice the PC is master race. Consoles at this point are basically a scam to force you to buy it just to play their exclusive games.

[@weed75black35]

>indie games are the future even though all the woke stuff in AAA games now came from indie games

[@TheMrToxin]

Nah, China and Korea are the future of gaming, and they make mostly mobile games, now having open worlds on mobile as well.

[@archeops.]

Ikr, honestly even Genshin Impact is 100x better than these new AAAA releases

[@razanon4373]

Man, you know news media is horrible when Asmon's editor is legit one of the most reliable sources. He actually researches and gives context.

[@ProfessionalRacist007]

That fanmade parody song is more entertaining than anything Ubisoft has created in the past 10 years

[@Cursedpeopleakajuice]

Anno 1800 was great tho

[@Murtagh653]

apparently the "Japanese" consultant is only half Japanese, they are also half Korean and have said in the past that they identify as Korean, not Japanese.

[@gokiguni]

0:10 CONTEXT!!!

[@kingqunt8567]

0:10 CONTEXT!!!

[@Foxhound_709]

0:10 CONTEXT!!!!

[@SCHIZOSHACO]

It was at 11 s lol noobs!

[@briannjoroge4297]

0:10 CONTEXT!!!

[@At0ThEb]

CONTEXT 🗿🗿🗿

[@donn2527]

The "Context" is already in line with "Objection!" or "I activate my trap card". I love it.

[@SavantPete]

This channel has more authentic news than the actual news articles

[@DubberRucks]

And lately it's reporting faster than it too lol

[@HamSandwich277]

Imagine being Japanese, getting excited about ancient Japanese culture featuring in next installment of Assassin's Creed, and then finding out the main character is a black guy.

[@jacktheripper7935]

I love how Ubisoft created one of the biggest scandal because of a game not even released yet and fails at damage control to a level never met. Ubisoft is more entertaining themselves than their own games lmao.

[@bobshanery5152]

I dont understand why? There is no real documentation on this person either. Its like they just wanted to make a black samurai for "Woke credits" and then all the MSM articles followed along and said "Yup African Samurai was a thing" so they can get their "woke credits" We truly have the illusion of choice.

[@NorseGraphic]

‘Shi ne’ to Ubisoft. It means ‘ducking die’

[@hihijetstar]

kazuma hashimoto は一般的に男性名です。しかしこの方は女性みたいなので偽名か芸名でしょう。 もしくはUBIが好むDEIの人。

[@浦晶]

もしくはbot達みたいにどっかの女性の写真を無断使用しているのかも

[@hihijetstar]

@@浦晶 botよりは自己主張ありますけどbotなんでしょうか。 コスプレの写真は本人じゃ無いんですかね？あれは女性性に見えましたが男性に生まれて性転換したのでしょうか。

[@ZeAnderson-en4qu]

たしかプロフにノンバイナリーとか書いてた気がします

[@hihijetstar]

@@ZeAnderson-en4quありがとう。なるほどUBI好みの方なんですね

[@Erduk]

Evil has succeeded for so long on the most basic of lies because people took them at face value. Once people started realizing that information has been weaponized against them, they started to "challenge everything".

[@helix6206]

just to remind you all that yasuke being a samurai was created BY A WESTENER, talk about cUltUrAl aPropIaTiOn huh!? 😂😂😂

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

Yes, but he's not deemed "White" so it's ok for him. Only "White men" can't do that, oh and Women who buy a food truck and sell Tacos, that's Immoral! Not Joking "Two white women in Portland, Oregon, who operated a burrito food cart called Kooks Burritos, were forced to shut down their business after facing accusations of cultural appropriation and recipe stealing. Critics claimed that the women had "stolen recipes from Mexico" and profited from them without giving anything in return to the original culture."

[@kaj7135]

anti-racists being peak racists, as usual.

[@PewPew_McPewster]

I love how SBI has become a name to avoid. They did this to themselves.

[@chilomine839]

The triple A landscape is going to be barren once they are done. Good indie is where it's at.

[@slimeplort]

I'm still amazed they thought their first representation of a culture should centre around a foreigner. Even if they truly existed in history, which they didn't, nothing could be more disrespectful than telling a culture that this singular foreigner is more important than the entirety of their own people. What did they expect to happen? It's like spitting in someone's face and being surprised they're angry.

[@FZJanimated]

They know it. But they didnt made this game for japan, is for the west. So you can see how many times they gave the finger to the japanese complaining. For ubisoft this game is not about japan, is about yasuke. They truly dont care what japan have to say about it.

[@Filterdeez]

Ubislop being Ubislop

[@blackcat-fr6lu]

Ubifrog

[@KingJojoB]

Ubisoft is burning down faster then Chris from Mr beast career

[@ricardohoang8452]

A whole gaming company 😅

[@Geo_Riddler]

I mean Chris started the fire that burnt him and Mr beast down, Ubisoft is a slow burn that got really flammable after Shadows and Outlaw

[@InfectedByZanza]

If somebody has never heard of Assassins Creed games and have read the below: Assassins Creed 3 based in America, main character is Native American. Assassins Creed 2 based in Italy, Main character is Italian. Assassins Creed Valhalla based on Nordic history, main character is Scandinavian. Assassins Creed Origins based in Egypt, main character is Egyptian. Assassins Creed Syndicate based in England, main characters are English. Assassins Creed 1 based in Middle East, main character is Middle Eastern. Assassins Creed Odyssey based in Greece, main character is Greek. Now, Assassins Creed Shadow, set in feudal Japan, what would a person who has never played any Assassins Creed games and have read the above history of assassins creed, based on where the story was set and the ethnicity of the main character, would they think Assassins Creed Shadow main character would be? Assassins Creed Shadow based in Japan, main character is African.

[@VRGamingTherapy]

Imagine if Ubisoft put this same amount of energy into actually making a decent game.

[@madman026]

instead of calling thier player base racist pigs gee I wonder what that would be like

[@TheLegendaryBillCipher]

Ubisoft thinks we'll get comfortable not owning our games too. Boy are they oblivious...

[@DragonHeart613]

If ubisoft collapses, hopefully they'll take sweet baby inc with them.

[@gafadin_578]

Asmongold insulting monkeys💀

[@tiamatnotrealname3084]

even monkeys are smart enough to know what makes us happy and give them more treats

[@ricardohoang8452]

​@@tiamatnotrealname3084 I guess those monkes in black myth 😅

[@exgrinder]

Sun Wukong has entered the chat

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

Waiting for the Out of Context slapped together clip to make him seem racist LOL

[@Truck_Kun_Driver]

"Kazuma Hashimoto, a GAME CONSULTANT" Yup, that's exactly the problem.

[@Vanaris.]

at this point I think the investors should take over and do the games themselves, they'd probably do better

[@grannysint1625]

Tencent here we come. Absorbs Ubisoft to Gamescience.

[@bakstabbath]

The investors created the monster. It's the snake eating its own tail

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@bakstabbath No they didn't. They gave money to people they THOUGHT Knew how to build a game. They listened to marketers who're trying to gain the "Modern audience" to increase their sales Caps. That's it.

[@ShyBiiteVT]

These people out here trying to gaslight us into thinking Japanese gamers don't exist.

[@gazz3867]

Of course not. They sit in pagodas and paint and compose harakiris or something. I should apply to be a consultant for Ubisoft.

[@joefer5360]

@@gazz3867 At the rate the industry is going, a pagoda where people can converge at to paint, eat rice, watch fish in a pond, and read and write, all wearing kimonos. Sign me tf up.

[@jazzabighits4473]

@@gazz3867 >compose harakiris

[@Amaroq64]

It's one of these leftist's strategies to advance propaganda. They have people in one country lie about the state of that country to foreigners in another country, and since you don't live in the country they're lying about, you can't check to see what the truth is. I've seen it first hand in threads about, say, UK free healthcare or Australian gun control. Their leftists will lie to us Americans and say "Everything's been great here ever since we blah blah" and then a right-winger from that country came in and started explaining how that's a lie and what the result really has been. American leftists will also lie to foreigners and say things like "Our healthcare is bankrupting people and letting them die, and our schools are constantly being shot up." And foreigners from other countries will not get the truth about those subjects unless another American comes in to correct the record.

[@jonsku6662]

"I have investigated and found myself innocent" - Ubisoft trying to frame themselves innocent of everything

[@2psah2]

I'm from the future & i can proudly say i'm the new Ubisoft owner in 2026. I bought it for 13 Euros.

[@riofernando9414]

I'm interested to buy it from you with 13 euro and 1 cent. I'm willing to go as high 13 euro and 5 cent but no more than that

[@tokunboayodele1599]

Drunk state of mind 😂😂😂😂

[@DubberRucks]

That much? Yeah you got scammed.

[@littleluxia]

Was it worth it?😅

[@Erblack3]

We need a "Connnntext:"-shirt for Mr. Editor

[@Mewseeker]

Asmongold : "We've got a bunch of monkeys working over there." Sun Wukong :"And I took offense to that."

[@lovelysharma3553]

We already had AC Shadows and its called Ghost of Tsushima

[@riofernando9414]

I prefer to play those browser flash game than AC:S

[@ElewIV]

I've been thinking of picking up Ghost of Tsushima when/if it goes on sale. Worth it?

[@obligatoryusername7239]

​@@ElewIV It is worth it on PS. If the PC port is good, its worth it on there too. The gameplay is great, some story decisions were weird but it was nothing terribly egregious. And if it isn't dead yet, there was a fun PVE mode once the main campaign is done.

[@nightmarishcompositions4536]

Sekiro was also dope.

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

@@ElewIV 100% man buy that shit even if it's not on sale it's worth though if you hurting for money always wait for sales no matter your impulse.

[@かなやん-t3m]

As far as I know, UBI's reputation in Japan has fallen to the bottom of the earth. I don't know how it is among self-proclaimed Japanese who don't speak Japanese. 私の知るかぎり日本でのUBIの評価は地の底に落ちています 日本語を話せない自称日本人の間ではどうなのか知りませんが

[@misty_misty]

Ubisoft probably don't care much since they haven't been selling much in Japan compared to the rest of the world, but we're glad the world is noticing this bullshit and sharing Japan's anger, big or small. Thx u all!

[@Cookingclover420]

Ubisoft is like an employee perpetually on their first day of work they can't do anything right.

[@Koushin9915]

Ubisoft think their Japanese audience are dumb dumb, while in reality they’re looking at a mirror

[@milleniumadam8643]

they thought they are dumb because they can't speak english ... or know history like how they envisioned it ... Japan knows its own history, including its tyranny... white people, black people in the west such as USA and UK are oblivious to their own history.

[@ActuallyNotARobot]

Bro, literally all Japanese hate that game because that's ruining their culture. Not about the black assassin, but the other part. Even i've ever see a real Japanese man talking about this game and he said it's bad. Edit: The channel name is Shohei Kondo

[@MrAmazYnGaMiNg]

Whats the other part lol?

[@katrita1146]

They hate it because of both the black samurai and the insults to the culture and also the falsification of their history.

[@eredruin]

Oh, no, he called them monkeys. They're gonna throw a hissy fit and try to cancel him again. :D

[@haoushiva]

あっという間に情報が共有される現代は凄いな。 橋本が鍵かけて逃げる訳だ（笑）

[@beachgaara]

"A bunch of monkies working there" Cue next controversy

[@diaperamess]

luckily they're all white virtue signallers

[@Voron_Aggrav]

Ubisoft will soon be a word in the Dictionary to denote "someone or something that is so special in a negative way that it needs it's own distinction" this should be criminal, and I do wonder if this wouldn't merit claims of Fraud/Scamming

[@Skycube100]

WHAT A WAY TO ADD MORE FIRE TO AN ALREADY BURNING TRASHBIN

[@BookyOnTour]

"The person that think everyone is an idiot, is the only idiot in the room" This is basically it.

[@George_Washington_]

inclusivity kills fiction

[@vergillives9890]

Im proud of Japan learning Sweet baby exists

[@Sniper_RX]

Ubisoft is literally dead if AC Shadows fails in sales. If they do die, hopefully other studios pick up their IPs like Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon and The Division, to name a few.

[@thor1829]

Don't forget Rayman!

[@Steir12]

It honestly might be a plot to bancrupt ubisoft and get hold of a lot of their IP for cheap. If we look ubi investors #1 will be tencent who has a lot of game studios under its wing.

[@Sniper_RX]

@@thor1829 personally never played it, but yeah. All these IPs must not be left to waste if Ubi crumbles.

[@Vss077]

they prob wont. ppl are stupid enough to buy games. like all the streamers buy the full game instead of use the damn subscription services (takes btw the same time to make the subscription & cancel it right after as buying the game). so they would only spent 20 bucks instead of the $130 ones. anyway they will hold for quite a while. like with 2,5 billion revenue being rank 13 they doing pretty good. ppl say Sega is dead for years now & they are somehow still at rank 19 with 2b rev. (there are publishers that i have no idea who they are or only releasing the worst games and still making somehow money)

[@useless1]

Ubisoft is pulling off the biggest marketing campaign in gaming history

[@coolcalmwhisper-go3tz]

What I love the most about the assasin's creed trailer is how there's japanese music fused with a hip hop beat when Yasuke is shown. He wasn't even african american. But I guess all black people = hip hop.

[@FrostFennec]

Racism disguised as representation. It happens more often than you'd think.

[@kaxida]

And yet, Ubisoft schlong riders still don't believe folks when they say they used Yasuke solely to attain brownie points from the western minorities. African american hip hop as his ost during fighting is the only proof you need, lmao. Side note; A porn bot has stole your comment

[@giovanniritchieputra8981]

Ubisoft is the epitome of "live long enough to become the villain". They still have same CEO and same owner, the Guillemots. Back then they're afraid of external corporation take away their creative freedom. They even said they will stand with their ideology about quality games rather than profit. Now the same Guillemots would rather kill entire franchise so he can make a fat paycheck.

[@Wolf-fighter]

"well , good recieved in japan" ah yes thats why they all hated it and even politicians sued them

[@elysiumcore]

As a foreigner living in Japan for years, I could spot the flaws a mile away. From wrong plants showing up at the odd time of the year to armor and buildings.

[@Dushess]

and as usual only QoL-tagged mods can help

[@EndyFoox]

It's like a universal race to the bottom between companies. I don't even understand how any of the publications or studios think any of these things are good.

[@SarthorS]

Because they systematically ejected all of the straight white men who built the company up, replaced them with political activists and think that most people will agree with them if only they change enough things that are traditionally liked by men to be all about their ideology.

[@gusty9053]

They still hope people bombarded with nothing but DIE will finally cave and say "communism good".

[@DubberRucks]

Because they have zero situational awareness what's REALLY worth reporting. Zero.

[@Nightdare]

Gaming is a male space, as such it must be destroyed like all other treehouses the boys built

[@UncensoredScion]

Yeah UBI, do the "we'll DIG our way out!" response, that'll work.

[@ivorytower4]

Don't insult the monkeys 😂

[@TheRealAdachi]

Asmons editor would do a way better job if they just took over Ubisoft

[@chiaohongcheng]

That piece of work locked his profile. Lol

[@bobshanery5152]

Part I do not understand is why do they call Yasuke a Samurai? There is no records I can find when searching. There are articles that will say he was a samurai because he had some land or other nonsense but that does not make one a samurai. There is ZERO documentation saying he was a samurai. If anything he was more a bodyguard who was given weapons (There is records of that). Oddly the articles saying he was a samurai think that if given a sword makes you one. If that was the case then nearly everyone was. There is little history of him because he was not around for long. What am I missing here? Is this just another case of "Lets change history to fit a narrative?" I cant believe they made a whole game from this character. There is nothing to go by and these articles say "Yasuke is the most documented Black samurai in history". If that is the case then there was ZERO African samurai.

[@OkuuRaven]

"They're making shit up!" Meanwhile: An 'expert' who has serious conflicts of interest with the topic at hand making shit up

[@Micah-w7h]

they didnt think we wouldnt notice, they HOPED we wouldn't notice

[@DubberRucks]

More like they're banking on people noticing so they can keep running with how unhinged we gamers are and this one Asmon video is yet more proof lol

[@sierraj7480]

Budget cuts happen. They finally figured out the reason why the people they let go got paid so much - because they knew what they were doing 😂

[@Angeloras7]

But we noticed!

[@sqrlmonger]

They've been doing this for decades. It's just taken this long for enough people to be cynical enough for the stories to gain traction.