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David Kirk Ginder said:
I read a few comments on reddit/youtube that one of the main writers or devs on the Ubisoft team is a fat White woman with an ace of spades tattoo (likes to fuck Black guys). The source is apparently her twitter account before it got privated. Can anyone confirm?

It would make a heck lot of sense for her to insert a Black guy into the game because she can fulfill her racial fetish for Blacks while also letting him kill Asians who she hates.
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I don't know about the ace of spades tattoo but people already posted comments about her BLM love and her hatred of whites in like the first few pages of this thread after the reveal trailer was posted.
 
Naoe makes sense as a character and it definitely looks like her gameplay will be most like the original stealth idea. She is getting the better reception. The downside is that some are bitching about wanting a Japanese male playable. This is of course despite the fact there are dozens of Japanese men protagonists in games.

Yasuke was a bad idea on paper. One note. Fictional. Just total bullshit as an idea.
 
in an ideal world, yasuke would've been a disguise you wear as you play as the real japanese assassin, as well as kabuki stagehand as you kill target during a play
 
Found this on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AsianMasculinity/comments/1cuixbk/deleted_by_user/
The original title was "Sachi Schmidt-Hori: The self hating Lu and LGBTQ+ activist behind Assassin's Creed Shadows" and if you don't remember, she is the only known Japanese person hired for this game.

Apparently she asked someone else to post a reply on her behalf:

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whatanHPoP said:
I’ve been asked to post Professor Hori’s reply to your thread as she doesn’t have enough karma to comment (she just made her Reddit account today):

“Hi everyone! I am the college professor being described here as the "self-hating Lu and LGBTQ+ behind Assassins' Creed Shadows." I was not a Reddit user but I created an account so I can talk to you. I reached out to the author of this thread but he did not respond. For the record, I don't hate myself and I am not an LGBTQ+ activist. My husband is biracial (Japanese and German American) and my last name is like this for a reason you would never guess. I know that truths don't matter to some of you but I just wanted to let you know my truths. Please do not get me wrong; even if I were married to a white man or chose to hyphenate my name like mine because I hate my Asianness and love whiteness, that would not make it OK for you to talk about a stranger whom everyone can identify (while you guys are all anonymous). I do teach about various racial and gender-based stereotypes in the Western media and many of my students are Asian American men, who appreciate what I have to say about the things this community seems to care a lot. Some of you may think what you are doing here is harmless. But it's not. Even if you don't wish to see me physically attacked by a crazed person (remember: people know where I work, where my office is, and what I look like, etc.) or I become depressed and commit suicide, what you are doing does contribute to making such outcomes a real possibility.

Many people who have never read my book make assumptions about it. If you are curious why anyone would write a book like mine, you can read a freely available review of my book: https://wapercyfoundation.org/?p=1133 (other reviews were published in academic journals so they are not easily accessible). This book is only one of the many things I have written. I study representations of gender, sexuality, and class in premodern Japanese literature. It is part of Asian Studies and again, most of my students are Asian or Asian American. They seem to get a lot from what I teach.

Anyways, if it was your goal to make me sad or angry, congratulations, you succeeded. But I really, really admire the few people who defended me even if they did not have to. If you are one of them, thank you :-).

Now, when the game comes out in November, this kind of hate will likely resurface. I would like to ask this community's members for a favor. When you see a short Asian woman being kicked around by a bunch of masked men, please do not join the mob or watch silently. Be the person who tells the masked men to stop or at least ask them why. It does not matter who she is married to or what she studies as a scholar; a bunch of masked men should not be cyber-bullying an individual with a public profile. It's dangerous. I have received so many hate mails and messages. Even if I am a happy-go-lucky person, the amount of hate compromised my mental health and I had to cancel my class.

Thank you for your attention.

Sachi *********”
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"Now, when the game comes out in November"
That didn't age so well.

I don't know what she's getting at about getting "kicked around by a bunch of masked men"
 
https://youtu.be/dN4WMQARc_A

New video from Endymion with info from his insiders, so big grain of salt with that but it feels believable enough.

Highlights include.

- Game used to have a Japanese male samurai lead that was removed for sociopolitical reasons in 2020 due to George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. Yes, really.
- Japanese male was fully modeled and animated
- First showcase of Yasuke was them testing out the physics engine by having Yasuke smash up a grocery store.
- Skill and Bones is what sank the company since it cost 800 million to make.
- Ubisoft higher ups are contemplating removing Yasuke entirely but it is unlikely because the workforce is woke and will revolt/political backlash
- Are removing a line from Yasuke about how he was enslaved by white men and white supremacy must be eradicated violently to avoid getting shit on.
- Ubisoft doesn't plan to change any of the political stuff IN their games but will (and apparently this is an industry wide decision) no longer market these political elements. They're basically planning on tricking people from here on out.
 
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Deus Exica said:
First showcase of Yasuke was them testing out the physics engine by having Yasuke smash up a grocery store.
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No fucking way. Next we're gonna find out there they did the same thing with box stores and department stores. In the event Ubisoft kicks the bucket sometime neat year, on please oh please some disgruntled employee had better leak footage of this.
Deus Exica said:
Skill and Bones is what sank the company since it cost 800 million to make.
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:stress: Is it time to revive that thread?
Deus Exica said:
Ubisoft higher ups are contemplating removing Yasuke entirely but it is unlikely because the workforce is woke and will revolt/political backlash
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They better not. Stick to your guns and ride this sinking ship into Davy Jones' Locker. I'm here for a shitshow and by God, I will have one!
 
- Ubisoft doesn't plan to change any of the political stuff IN their games but will (and apparently this is an industry wide decision) no longer market these political elements. They're basically planning on tricking people from here on out.
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in other words, an evil disguised as good...
 
Deus Exica said:
- Game used to have a Japanese male samurai lead that was removed for sociopolitical reasons in 2020 due to George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. Yes, really.
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This has been mentioned before. Supposedly Ubisoft contracted a company to write the story and after talking with Ubisoft's narrative leads, they submitted it around 2014 and it was approved, only to find that it got thrown out in favor of black Samurai. Your character was a monk named was named Taka, as Taka translates to Hawk and that follows the whole "eagle name" scheme. The primary conflict was suppose to be about the Sword of Eden. Your mentor, Hanzo Hattori, assassinates Oda Nobunaga and acquires the sword. As the brotherhood tries to get it out of Japan, the Jesuits (the Templars) intercept it and Hanzo is assassinated. Hideyoshi, who is working with the Jesuits, gets the sword and tries to conquer Korea. The invasion is initially successful because he has the sword but eventually Taka gets it back, which causes the Korean invasion to fall apart and Hideyoshi to go insane as he kills the Jesuits because he thinks they betrayed him.
Deus Exica said:
- First showcase of Yasuke was them testing out the physics engine by having Yasuke smash up a grocery store.
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This feels like exaggerating. Maybe it was a misunderstanding and they meant Yasuke was smashing up feudal era wooden grocery stands because of how fragile they were and how many moving parts there were.
Deus Exica said:
- Skill and Bones is what sank the company since it cost 800 million to make.
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Wasn't the game heavily subsidized by the Singapore government? They tried to cancel the game but the government kept funneling money into that pit and it just grew into an enormous bomb.
 
Colress said:
A dev journal of Assassin's Creed shadows has been leaked on IGN China. Can't find an archive of the video, but here's one of many articles talking about it.

The game has been delayed to February 2025 (A) , following a series of rumors that stemmed from Ubisoft pulling out of the Tokyo Game Show (A). Japanese users are goofing on Ubisoft in the replies.

Hopefully the delay will result in a decentass game, but probably not.
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Unless they plan on scrapping Yasuke or adding in a Japanese male samurai as a playable character, the delay will make little difference imo. In fact, the delay is even worse - people will just sleep on this for Ghost of Yotei, because even if that game looks a little pozzed as well it has a better reputation for good gameplay and design.
 
All they had to do was make a "Way of the Samurai" with some added in stealth elements and they would have printed money like it was 2020 all over again.
The fact they fucked up this hard every step of the way makes me think that Sweet Baby Inc. and friends and their endgame of "burning gaming to the ground" might be legit. There is no way you would make this many mistakes unless it was deliberate, to destroy the studio in question. Even Ubisoft isn't this fucking stupid.
Well, let them burn ubishit to the ground anyways, not like anything of value will be lost when they finally sink. Just make sure some studio buys out the Rayman, Splinter Cell and rest of the good IPs from them.
 
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There's no way they replace Yasuke with a Japanese dude. There might have been a few spectacular DEI flops recently but I doubt we're at the point yet where AAA company admits that removing nigger would improve their product.
 
So I haven't touched an Ass Creed since 3, and I just started replaying 1 for the hell of it. I gotta ask where the fuck does the plot go from there? Desmond is dead, the entire plotline they were building up from the beginning has been resolved, how do you dump like 20 sequels on top of that? Unless they just said fuck it, did away with the present day animus bullshit and just made it into a historical anthology series.
Kotol said:
Most of the cities Altair "frees" end up overrun by beggars, crazies and thieves since the templars and their followers were the only thing keeping order.
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Now that you mention that, I realized that on the first chapter at least I have not been bothered at all by beggar/drunk npc's I remember being annoying as shit, even in the "poor" district. That's a pretty neat little detail.
 
30+GameOvers said:
All they had to do was make a "Way of the Samurai" with some added in stealth elements and they would have printed money like it was 2020 all over again.
The fact they fucked up this hard every step of the way makes me think that Sweet Baby Inc. and friends and their endgame of "burning gaming to the ground" might be legit. There is no way you would make this many mistakes unless it was deliberate, to destroy the studio in question. Even Ubisoft isn't this fucking stupid.
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Yes, they are that stupid.

Even after the torii gate, their own employees went "don't listen to the haters" on social media. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" means jack to them since the neurodivergent fucks go "...But we aren't going to hell", truly believing their own hype. They're fine admitting their stock lost 90% of its valuation since its peak, but not the why.

Besides, it's not like anyone wants to actually admit they kept disrespecting the Japanese repeatedly.
 
IMO it's too late for them to remove Yasuke, and the easiest thing for Ubi to do from now on without excessive rework is:

- Stop advertising Yasuke, just focus on the ninja girl instead since she has the most to do with Ass Creed. Get rid of his merchandising in Japan and focus on her instead.
- Softlock Yasuke from being able to curbstomp Jap villagers or having them bow to him (the Japanese likely consider it distasteful given the false history, the rather visceral US black-on-asian crime wave, and US soldiers occasionally non-consensually blaccing Okinawan girls).
- Tweak Yasuke's story to de-emphasize his being a samurai since none of it was true in the first place.
- Do an Ass Creed Vahalla-style main character split where you choose the ninja or Yasuke at the start and the other is no longer involved in the gameplay whatsoever- in this case it may involve tweaking or even removing missions. If you choose the ninja girl, the extent of Yasuke's presence should be as an NPC and in cutscenes.

There you have it, the game is now bifurcated so that people who don't want samurais n sheetz can have their game, and those who want afrosamurais can have their game.

In my opinion, Yasuke was likely not a game-killer considering other media where he was present, but the way they tastelessly advertised him off the bat (as a samurai in full samurai armor, having villagers bow to him, hip hop music, looking like a Christmas tree in feudal Japan) is what killed initial goodwill for this game, especially in an era of post-Floyd blacc fatigue and mounting Sweet Baby DEI industry failures.

After that, everyone critical of that choice hyperfixated on other flaws seen in the trailers, creating a negative feedback loop and revealing other issues (most importantly Thomas Lockley's fake Yasuke history). The most important thing Ubisoft failed to account for in this scenario is that the Japanese are monomaniacal about their hobbies- and that they will find those flaws if you have stumbled on your first step, especially if those flaws deal with things they hold dear, like their history.
 
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