Kotaku's Ethan Gach is such a huge soyboy simp. Also, Rhiannon Bevan of TheGamer also wrote an article about it.Ubisoft Shareholder Confronts Boss About 'Woke' Assassin's Creed (archive.ph)
Gatekeeping directly to the CEO’s face
Whoever it is running this smear campaign it's weird they've not been able to similarly impact any of the other massive shitty AAA companies like EA or Activision. Weird they just target Ubisoft.
The other missing ingredient is that even if the president was still in the picture if he's not a gamer then it isn't worth fuck. Having someone like Satoru Iwata or Shuhei Yoshida stick his head in the door and have a look was valuable because they understood gaming and could offer valuable feedback. Their opinions were respected.
Hollow Knight was made by a dozen people with a budget of $50k and has sold over 6 million copies on Steam alone. It's regarded by many as the greatest metroidvania ever made and currently has 6,881 active players on Steam.
At least Leslie Benzies hilariously blamed Rockstar Games for a smear campaign about his Mindseye bullshit months before the game even launched, even though his marketing was next to non-existent for the game prior to launch and doesn't explain why it was a boring and buggy game either. But this Ubisoft statement comes off as one of those that needs a reply of "are 'they' in the room with us now?" memes.
I loved that for him. It could have only been funnier if he'd went full schizo and said 'actually if you don't buy my game it's because you're a pedophile'.
That's the point. Tencent is biding their time till they can buy out the rest of the company and get full control. For all intents and purposes, Ubisoft is on life support and the moment that arbitrary deadline when Tencent can buy more shares comes, they're getting unplugged.
This is unironically the best outcome.
The damned Guillemot family running ubisoft and assigning nepo babies to run shit is certainly an issue, but it won't stop till that family is finally ousted somehow. The moment they put one of the sons in charge of the new business unit, it was obvious to anyone with a brain that the whole thing is a waste of time and tencent must have some long term plan to try and grapple control over it.
Far Cry, Assassins Creed, Ghost Recon, The Division, Watch Dogs, it's literally all the same game with a different skin thrown on top and that's been the case for years now. Outlaws was just the same shit but with a Star Wars skin thrown over it. The only game they've had that's been a success in ages that doesn't fit that basic formula is Rainbow 6 Siege, but people tend to forget that game was a fucking flop when it launched and only took off a year later after basically a soft re-launch of the game.
Ubisoft got outed using some derivative of Scratch back in 2020 for Watch Dogs Legion
They don't even do that. Ubisoft actually released 2 fucking NFT based games last year.
Of course, because they've got at least another 5 years of bullshit still in the development pipeline that isn't going to be cancelled any time soon.
Not far enough, they need to remake those games and remove the niggers and ugly dykes from them, a reverse "remaster for the modern audiences" if you will.
I wouldn't want their games even without any of those things.
Jesus Christ that's even more horrifying/hilarious than I could have ever imagined. Ubisoft is adult daycare.
Well, Dying Light 2 added the option to replace the ugly nigger woman with a good-looking Asian model for the Chinese market, so there's hope.
Negative. Those games need to be abandoned and forgotten. Fixing the player and NPC models won't change a damned thing about everything else wrong with them, including the gameplay.
Progressives have a weird blind spot when it comes to China, same as how Disney never get dragged for removing any sign of black people from their Chinese marketing and editing out gay shit or ghoulie ghosts.
It would still mean releasing shit games a second time and still being shit. The only way to appropriately deal with the diversity hires is ignoring their bullshit and moving on. Removing Yasuke from ACS to replace him with an actually appropriate character, and making the ninja chick not some beat up looking wreck, doesn't fix 90% of what's actually wrong with those games.
I wish someone would make a proper pirate sandbox in the vein of Sid Meier's Pirates!, but with the gameplay of AssCreed 4 (though the stealth and land combat would need a complete overhaul).
That might be a symptom of these long development cycles. Back in the day, a game may have taken 2-3 years. So you'd know in a few months that a game was gonna suck ass. You also had less money into it so it wasn't as hard to just start working on something else.
Remember when Iwata himself fixed Earthbound's code so it could actually be made? Remember when Iwata took a pay cut to help his staff out during the WiiU days? They just don't make them like that anymore, one of many reasons why goytendo is fellating kosher greed so deeply.
Unless the Larry "der juden" Fink is removed from the room, it will keep happening regardless of the hurt sales. It's one of my main issues with streaming monopolies and the nuBusiness Model. Due to subs for a wide variety of things, companies like Netfux can shit out blatant propaganda, at cost, because the sub money they make from sportsball or some other gay shit keeps their bottom line up. Streaming models are a gay two-front assault on you, removing your property rights, and allowing Kosher monopolists to propagandize you without fear of hurting their finances.
That pay cut was a sign of faith in his own vision, directed solely at investors, aimed at keepinghis own job. People saying it somehow actually helped Nintendo balance its books are off-base with reality.
That's true, still doesn't change the fact that it was more noble than the western CEOs who airdrop in, tank the company, then exit with a golden handshake despite doing absolutely fuck all.
