nah, they just need to be comfortable not owning a company, just working for someone else... it's like their games! we can at long last get a realistic experience if they know how that works
Ubisoft would do a lot better as a company if they stopped making games and maybe start focusing on what they are good at, World building. They actually make some really good open world sand boxes but when it comes to filling them, they lose it. They should act as contractors for other studios to build their sandboxes and license out their engines ( SnowDrop Anvil)
@@shirokane0153 there's Prince of Persia, there's Rrayman, HoMM, Settlers, Far Cry is mostly good i love that series for their shooting feel a lot of good franchises gathering dust for no reason
@@darknesswave100 you mean like how they had marketed Assassin's Creed at the start and all through until origins. How they claimed it was those words you just said 😂.
It's actually insane that ubisoft won't take accountability for their truly garbage decision, even after the entire country of Japan, the exact people whos history they are picking from, tell them they are wrong and stupid
Social justice dust is a very strong narctoic It was always obvious their "goal" was to shove dei ideology down our throats and we were supposed to sit back and take it. the way they're handling the rejection is just icing on the cake But they made a mistake. In any form of consumer industry, the consumer's opinion is law. Our business keeps them afloat. They need us - not the other way. And I'm getting a little taken aback at just how many are resorting to insulting their fans and viewers when they stop sucking down their kool-aid. It shows just how they really see us.
Any game with that lunatic or anyone like him on the team who attacks his customers, I don't pay for. And it ain't that hard because the games look crap usually.
@@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS I haven't supported Ubisoft since Division 2 went on sale after that atrocious launch. And imo, the last "decent" game they made, I ran around as the Magi of Siwa... and it was glorious. This nutjob's just like Bob Iger from Datelbow, stubborn and stupid. 2024 has been... eye opening. The fall of Disney, the disappointment of BioWare, and the bullshet of Ubisoft... but at least we had Deadpool & Poolverine, and Journey to the West 3D*, so not a total failure at least. Oh, and CrowdStrike happened... just kinda wished that happend to Ubi/Bio and not the airports! *In case someone doesn't get the reference, I'm talking about Black Myth Wukong... aka, Journey to the West 3D.
The problem wasn't just historical inaccuracy, it was them claiming it was accurate while it wasn't. Assassin's creed was never very accurate, but they also didn't claim previous games to be accurate.
Not to mention that the only "solid" source they had to justify how they implemented Yasuke came from one of the clearest cases of cultural appropiation of all time, all while claiming it's for the sake of inclusivity.
This is how DEI in infrastructure jobs has put coworkers lives at risk. I would know, I survived it and was called a whistleblower for standing up for myself. I guess that message was just let DEI make a mess for the sake of inclusion. The fact it is so aggressive in video games now does not surprise me anymore. It kind of stirs up my PTSD from DEI hazards which I could say is the opposite of an industries DEI priority because it OBVIOUSLY ISNT A FLAWLESS IDEA!
Remember Battlefield V? The director straight up re-wrote history about combat operations that actually happened then said HIS version of events were real.
history is not very diverse at all. every nation was essentially racist... just a little less so now. in history nations and people were far more divided than ever. history is diverse because people were separate and held to the idea of specific areas
History is more diverse than we think but not as diverse as these guys would like it to be. There's reason to everything and people seem to have forgotten how to be reasonable. Like, racism is, at it's very core, bad and downright stupid. Thinking someone else is worth less than you because they have a different skin colour or come from a different country is dumb af, why would you do that? But pretending it never existed is just factually incorrect. It shouldn't exist, sure, but it does and that's the reality we have to deal with.
Lol that's untrue. While separate countries were racist towards barbarians and hostile countries, advanced civs were extremely generous in the descriptions of each other. It was to the extent where civilisations were so nice in their description of other civs they traded with, that they exaggerated most of what they spoke about. Biggest example of this are greek philosophers and relevant speakers. This was typically done to give their own a better standard to aspire to. So you can be as racist as you like, but stop the cope. Thanks.
@bibeeeek if places were as diverse as you claim where do all these different cultures come from ? Literally wouldnt exist. Its not racist to see history for what it was. If accepting a few different people into their country meant there was no longer racism between those people the world would be a much different place.
@@xhappymasksalesmenx4092 I said nothing about diversity. Read my comment again. No surprise a guy making excuses for racism lacks reading comprehension.
@@Trehlas Thats... The same thing. When we say "problem", we mean "a thing that we do not want to have here". Blaming that fact over us as people who want something, or on ubislop that will not deliver that thing, is just a matter of perspective.
@@sinner5452 You're right. And in HIS mind, he is not adding to the problem. In HIS mind, he is the solution to the problem. It is a matter of perspective, indeed.
a lot of the ppl involved with DEI are trying to sabatoge the companies they work for. many of them are openly anti-capitalism. i wouldn't hire someone who is always talking about overthrowing the rich and destroying hierarchy and stuff but what do I know?
It's hard to believe he could say that with a straight face. Uhh, dude, your company has lost 90% of it's value because of these very policies. He's going to be living in his car and still running his mouth about how virtuous the company was...
@@SgtLube818I think he meant what he said, although it is a far-fetched idea. They are aiming not for us but the next generation who they think will be much more amiable to these things, being already addled with Cocomelon and all that.
This guy knowing that DEI is hurting his game, but is still going to use DEI is like someone knowing that drugs are bad, but is still going to inject that stuff into them. Ubisoft fully deserves to shut down at this point.
@@jasperzanovich2504 I think it's a perfect analogy. They're way too addicted to actually get themselves together as a company. They're an embarrassment to the industry, hopefully someone who loves them will do an intervention
They are getting PAID to do this. Why? to inject DEI into society long enough that it has been normalized for younger generations. They know older gamers will not agree and do what they are told. But Young and impressionable children will if not closely supervised by their parents. The DEI people are playing the LONG GAME. So Gamers better recognize this and teach and protect their children.
"It has always been diverse" At least the older AC games made sense. We got arabic guy in a story told in Arabia, adewale and Aveline there to address the issues of human rights back in golden era of piracy. Meanwhile, there's only one doubtful source that Yasuke existed, and that was because of stories of Oda Nobunaga being weird, and were to believe he had some fictional impact in AC history?
You don't make a game to appeal to only 2% of gamers and whine when the other 98% will never buy it or they buy it just to refund it. You learn or go out of business.
I love how a group that was started from France is talking to us about democracy when they don't even adhere to their own standards of democracy if they did we would have a say in the game instead of being called biggest and hateful people
2:58 that is exactly it though. yasuke's history is not enough. because he isnt heroic, he's not a fighter, he's just a tall black guy that got fancied by a nobunaga. but since he's the only black guy they know, they made up some story and told people not only is he a samurai, he's a legendary samurai!
Eh, can't really say he wasn't a fighter as a blanket statement, with supposedly being trained in India and being a bodyguard, albeit a slave, to the Jesuits
Though seriously, they could make such a story even from that. The first time I read about Yasuke I was intrigued about how he did managed to struggle the brutal hard life of feudal Japan era since he was probably treated very differently by the locals and other samurai. They could make localized fictional fights or unknown secret missions under the shadows rather than making him a legendary samurai that massacres the local guards in the open while wearing a glamorous historically fancy armor.
@@vanadot What? 🤷🏾♂️Yeah, he was not a samurai, but he was favoured by the nobunaga so much that people around the city started to assume that he might be granted the status of a noble. He was given a house and a personal guide with whom he used to go out for walks around the city so, everyone knew him as an important figure. Sadly all that fortune ran out after Nobunagas death. After which he got deported with the French missionaries to God knows where. He was under Nobunagas service for only 10 months but those those days may have been the best life he had outside the french slavery.
honestly I prefer these people suffering in the game industry instead of them having some actually important positions as government officials or like literally any other positions with power they may ruin a few of our games, but at least they can't ruin our lives
From what i recall, it was proven that historically kunoichis (female ninjas) never existed. They were mentioned in a book and since then somehow people thought they existed. The controversy is that Naoe would never have existed as a female ninja in addition to the Yasuke controversy. The whole problem stems from them claiming it to be historically accurate.
To be fair, there is no actual proof of ninjas in general existing, given what they are. And there is about as much proof of female ones as male ones, given their nature. Honestly, even if not under the title, that role does seem pretty logical and likely
@@christophermonteith2774 Well, unlike people at Ubisoft, i do admit i am no expert and i might be wrong. The point being they did pretend having an expert and the story having historical accuracy, which is objectively false.
"grounded in historical authenticity" the f*cking gall of saying their fanfic is historically accurate when we only know like 3-4 sentences of Yasuke in the shincho koki and Ietada nikki and NONE of them portrayed him as what they try to make him look
Im from Latvija, and tho Ive never used the term Ubislop, Assasins creed 1 was the last game from that company I liked. And I absolutely hate the fact they hold the Might and Magic IP.
The last game i bought form Ubisoft was the first ever assassins creed. The last money i gave EA was for Anthem. And before that, it was need for speed most wanted. That's it. And i will never give them money ever again.
Ubisoft went super scummy towards customers long before the Marxist disease showed its symptoms strong enough to oovershadow the games they used to push it
3:45 Dude you game's protagonist was literally birthed from division that lead to the 'summer of love', the only ones twisting it into a symbol of division is you!
Step one: make some shit nobody wants Step two: call critics bigots and say if you don’t like it don’t buy it, we are creating this for us Step three: act surprised when you flop and play victim Step four: repeat step one
Remember AC 2, where they lovingly recreated Italian cities and landmarks, they included all kinds of historical art pieces and artifacts that you could collect? That game made me feel like I was in renaissance Italy. Let's not forget that even then, they left out an entire chapter of the game for the sake of DLC, only for it to not need to be a chapter at all, thus tricking players into thinking they were missing out. They once had artistic integrity, but they have been greedy.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Ubisoft got trashed WAY too much for games they made with a lot of passion like AC3 and Unity, and now they distanced themselves from the gaming community on purpose, giving us the shit games that we deserve.
I’m happy to hear how brave and courageous all the Ubislop employees are, hopefully that’ll help them find a job when this joke of a studio goes belly-up
He's right, Assassin's Creed *could* be used as a platform for discussions and all that gibberish. The problem is that writers have lost the art of subtlety. Pre-Kurtzman Star Trek was subtle in its political commentary. These days, political commentary is as subtle as a brick through your window. It's gone from "here are the arguments for the issue being explored. Discuss." to "here's a lecture."
This is clearly the problem here, they see releasing such a game as a moral grandstanding move of activism rather than just make art and make some money out of it
"Human history is diverse." Ehh... obviously. That's not what we, gamers, are criticizing. We welcome diversity, but game studios and publishers chose the laziest, most in-your-face way of portraying diversity. For example, in Mass Effect 3, there is this communication specialist, and she is lesbian, but she never, ever told Shepard explicitly that she is, but we, as players, can infer her sexual orientation through the way she interacts with other characters, specifically, the ship's AI. That's good writing. In Veilguard, some character needs to tell you, explicitly, that she is non-binary, and the whole scene is about that character being non-binary. That's lazy, contrived writing. The point is, diversity was never the issue. It's how it's executed that we have a problem with.
It's crazy how Bioware pioneered how to positively write diverse characters in games by making sure they are a person first and that every aspect about them doesn't revolve around their diversity. The way they handle it in DA:V is not only directly opposed to that, it's also counter to the very thing they claim they are trying to champion. It's lazy, shallow, and insulting. TLOU 2 did a great job of having a trans character where the fact that they are trans is pertinent to the story, but wasn't the entire focus of the character. It also wasn't put in to appeal to "modern audiences".
@@whuzzzup yes, it is. Just not what woke people expect. Remember, these people think "diverse" only means gender, race, sexual orientation, among other things. If anything, diversity is one of the defining traits of the human being, but these people bastardized the concept to their convenience.
He is getting PAID large sums of money to do this. They are attempting to change the thinking of younger generations so that it is normalized by the time they have become adults. This is how they always fundamentally change society to their will. They KNOW older gamers will not bite, but older gamers are not the target, CHILDREN are the target.
0:20 Co-tay. Any time in French you see an E with that particular accent mark on it, it's pronounced like a hard A. Well, more like something between an "ay" and an "eh". I don't think this sound exists in English, so it can be difficult to pronounce, but then we return the favor with TH sounds (which very few other languages have and are notoriously difficult). No one is mad that Yasuke is in the game, people are mad that they decided to make him a playable character instead of Japanese man specifically _because_ of "muh diversity". As far as I'm aware, AC protagonists have always been fictional characters, in no small part because the story itself is fiction. Yasuke could have been a great side character, but now they ruined him.
Don't forget the whole bit about Yasuke being an African-American Gangsta When Cote mentioned "...those who seek to silence creativity, to stoke fear and incite hatred..." he was talking about Ubisoft management's behaviour towards their staff right? 🤔
It would had solved 80-90% of the problems. But the female ninja/samurai wasn't historical accurate either. What could help is they put a disclaimer before the game, stating this game is 100% fictional. Pure fanfic.
@@yunusgokcen174 Their total lack of care was obvious when the very first scene of the gameplay trailer had a flawed animation, causing the female main character to stab herself, instead of sheathing her sword.
@@ShaggyRogers1 Ubisoft should take the L and just axe the entire game. Releasing this game will harm their reputation even more. All that money spend is lost, it will never be earned back.
thanks for reading up that bullsh*t. I almost died 4 times just hearing it. Corpos shouldn't play the victim card, especially when they doing the bad deeds.
Ubisoft as a game company your sole responsibility is to make a product that sells not to use that product as a soapbox to drive your political ideology.
"From Altair to Ratonhake:ton weve consistently introduced protagonists from diverse racial, ethnic and gender identities" Ah yes...this argument... Altair, the Arab in the game that takes place in the middle east. Connor (Ratonhake:ton), the native American in America. Ezio, the Italian in Italy. Kassandra, the Greek in Greece. French in Grance British in Britain etc. And...Yasuke...the African in Japan.
They erased and replaced Yamauchi Taka, the assassin monk for black servant in feudal Japan. Yeah, Coté is a dumbass. Do we need to mention how you guys ignored the thousand of real Japanese samurai and the legendary Sengoku samurai next, Ubi?
@@phoenixflamegames1 He should admit the truth and show his true color like the director Dumont : "we were first looking for our samurai, who could be non-japanese eyes". Yeah racyst Ubi just admit DEI, etc, and yours political agenda as well for real next time.
Then people try to throw the Welsh guy in Edward Kenway in AC black flag not knowing that in the Caribbean at the time of black flag you had a crazy amount of diverse people from all over the world coming there to make money. So that argument they have falls flat
@@darknesswave100 Edward is also a fictional protagonist. We all know they chose Yasuke, a historical figure, to try to get around the obvious blackwashing of Japanese samurai. Because yeah, all Sengoku heroes were Japanese men. The legendary ones and forgotten ones.
2:01 That's all these people can do. Move goalposts. Gaslight. Muddy waters. They have no merit. So the use obfuscation and confusing as their only attack vector for arguments. Now that those are basically useless as people see right through them, they are in serious trouble.
If they wanted diversity of different Races or skin colors. Then don’t pick a setting in SENGOKU ERA JAPAN. Even though many stuff they used in the game was from the EDO period 🙄. This is what REAL cultural appropriation looks like. There is no appreciation or love for the Japanese culture or history.
When I CEO bows that they are doing something that negatively impacts their product and decides to “double down”… they should probably be replaced. It’s not courageous, it’s stupidity.
This is the equivalent of someone knowing the Titanic was gonna sink and still decided to board it because all that mattered was the "message" behind it.
Nah, Yasuke did actually exist, thats a fact. Whats debated is : Was he a Samurai or not. The historically accurate answer is : We don't know. From what we know, its most likely a "no" but we cant say for sure.
When I played Assassin's Creed 1, 2 and brotherhood many moons ago - not for amoment did I ever think it was about displaying diversity among human history. Those were just really, good, games. In 2019 I started boycutting Ubisoft, as they declined merging two accounts, after showing all receipts, identity and "ownership", and saying they could erase all achievements/data if they needed to. I've merged accounts on other platforms with no trouble. In Ubisoft games, you get cross-game items, so of course they'd want me to pay for the games AGAIN if I wanted that, as if I didn't own and pay FULL price for the games in the first place. F ubisoft fr.
It most likely was ai, but to be fair to Ubisoft corporate issued statements that try to sound deep or meaningful have always sounded forced robotic and dumb.
@@finnmarr-heenan2397 yeah but I’m a avid user of janitor ai and this is literally what it sounds like when it you try talking to it using fancy words and corporate language in every single word and this literally looks like something i would get from one of those sites
TLDR: "Dont worry about the money, historical fact, or cultural accuracy, we are saving the Asians and the Blacks from themselves with our Progressive White Liberal ideology. We are very important." - Ubisoft
Notice how he doesn't talk about game but some "diverse richness of human experience". ??? Who tf cares bro I just want to play japanese dude ninja or samurai in medieval japan not wakanda forever like how difficult is this concept to grasp???
@@rowanthearchitect3227 I already have all the achievements in that game for years now. And I won't play AC anyways, it's just hypotetical lol. I haven't played valhalla, mirage and I won't play this but if I were for sure I'd like to play as japanese dude not african lmao.
When you've lived your entire life on meds because you were born "depressed", you've never had anyone to tell you "no" and never had to deal with your own errors, yeah, the Internet rising up as one and telling you to take a leap would 'traumatize' you.
And thus he didn't only lose Japan but also the support of huge parts of Europe as well, since all the talks about how great open societies are massivley clash with the real world no matter how many times it gets repeated by people with access to personal security and armored vehicles
Listen, don't lump the Frenchies in with the rest of us Canadians; Quebec is a fucking silly place with literal language police that threaten small mom and pop shops for posting on social media in English (horror of horrors, I know), and I don't want to be associated with them.
I nearly disliked the video on impulse because of what kind of nonsense was written in the OG article, holy shit, I really felt it, I nearly died of cringe too...
What hurts is my partners little brother is disabled and was so excited for this game; he loves japanese stuff and assassins creed (history is a huge interest area for him) Benny isn’t going to understand anything past them knowingly not caring about tweaking the history side for somehting else he doesn’t understand (mentally he’s never going to get past like 10) He’s the most kind beautiful soul and it seems like a matter of time before he notices the stories not being accurate to the one’s he’s familiar with and other things that’d ruin it for him I’m not mad, just disappointed yknow? He was so excited for Shadows
No one is saying Yasuke didn’t exist. But, they are lying about his history, and his impact. He was never a samurai, and did absolutely nothing of note. Never participated in battle. He was returned, like possession, when his master fell. Never to be heard from again.
I can't believe they are still letting ubisoft employees talk publicly about the game. Whenever you see anything about this game, the situation around it always gets worse. At this point if I was a publicity person at ubisoft I would plead for them to shut their mouth and silently wait for the game release and pray that enough ppl forgot about it.
For real if I was their PR person I'd hold a company wide meeting and tell every single one of them to shut the f*ck up. Cause every time they speak it's like the hole they've dug gets 6 feet deeper
I love how nobody said a thing about Naoe, and the only problem, I guarantee it, that people have it with Yasuke is the fact he's not Japanese and playable instead of a fictional Japanese samurai. Give us a Japanese samurai and make Yasuke the head of the Creed in Japan, not only would make him very important, you could make him a defensive agent against the templars in order to avoid the templar control of the shogunate (literally the reason why Japan closed itself off for centuries was because they were afraid of the lunacy brought over by the religious fanatics of the Portuguese sailors [same sailors that left Yasuke in Japan]), obviously there is a parallel where instead of religion, you'd have the Templars. Not only it would be more parallel with real history, nobody would have a single problem with the game, hell, I'd wager it would be praised instead.
"Côté" is pronounced "Cot-ay". It's the same "é" sound that you can hear from "super sayan rosé"...i'm sorry that's about as accurate as i can imagine...
@@AretaicGames To be more specific the "Cô" was pronounced well in the video, it's the "té' part that was a bit off. Since the "é" sound is pretty close to the english "-ay" in words like "day" or "stay", something like "Co-Tay" or "Coh-Tay" would be more accurate.
If they *really* want to be diverse, maybe they should’ve, oh I don’t know, NOT disrespect a whole country or its history just to give us a black samurai. I don’t mind having a black samurai, in fact, I encourage anyone to make a black samurai, but the way they went about it for Assassin’s Creed Shadows was bad.
Ubisoft shareholders should find his comments very intriguing. “Yeah this ruins us, but it’s SO worth it”. Worth it to whom? It’s the elitist mindset. The only value is their social cache.
DEI brigades goal is to influence younger generations long enough that they can change the fundamental way of thinking in Society. They know the future is the children, older gamers do not matter because they are not the future. This is how they control societies, it has been done many times before. WW2 was actually a very similar situation but used very difference means to reach their goal.
He was right about one thing, “When we self censor, we hand over our power, piece by piece, until freedom and creativity both wither away.” I can think of no more apt description of the past decade of self censoring for fear of offending people and being cancelled for it.
Even pirating it isn't worth it lmao. So what's the point if you still can't see the problem. You learn nothing at all. Additional note the launch nft on paris branch silently
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Ubisoft needs to be comfortable not being part of the gaming industry anymore.
Ubisoft CEO needs to be comfortable selling a few yachts next fiscal quarter.
nah, they just need to be comfortable not owning a company, just working for someone else... it's like their games! we can at long last get a realistic experience if they know how that works
@@1Grainer1 they need to sell anno series to another game studio. that's the only good game series they have.
Ubisoft would do a lot better as a company if they stopped making games and maybe start focusing on what they are good at, World building. They actually make some really good open world sand boxes but when it comes to filling them, they lose it. They should act as contractors for other studios to build their sandboxes and license out their engines ( SnowDrop Anvil)
@@shirokane0153 there's Prince of Persia, there's Rrayman, HoMM, Settlers, Far Cry is mostly good i love that series for their shooting feel
a lot of good franchises gathering dust for no reason
so far, they argued that
"it is historically accurate"
"it is just a game, who cares about historical accuracy"
"it is more than a game"
Yeah, doesn't make sense, like at all. But hey... it is Ubisoft, so no suprise here.
All they had to do was call it historical fantasy and been done with it 😂
Hah, what's next?
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" *The real Assassin's Creed was the friends we made along the way* "?
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@@darknesswave100 you mean like how they had marketed Assassin's Creed at the start and all through until origins. How they claimed it was those words you just said 😂.
He did get bought and sold to japanese slave owner not sure if he became a samurai but I do think was a ronin at the very least
Ubisoft: if you dont like our game, don't buy it
gamers: okay
Ubisoft: Angry
More like:
"They are attacking us! We are victims!"
The Indomitable shall never yield to evil.
This reminds me of BattleField 5, when they told us not to buy the game because they tried to change history...
😂 History looks to repeat itself
Hold on, this whole operation was your idea Ubi
@@bobbobber4810 Also them: *attack DEI*
Well, 10cents should've just sealed this deal!
It's actually insane that ubisoft won't take accountability for their truly garbage decision, even after the entire country of Japan, the exact people whos history they are picking from, tell them they are wrong and stupid
Social justice dust is a very strong narctoic
It was always obvious their "goal" was to shove dei ideology down our throats and we were supposed to sit back and take it. the way they're handling the rejection is just icing on the cake
But they made a mistake. In any form of consumer industry, the consumer's opinion is law. Our business keeps them afloat. They need us - not the other way. And I'm getting a little taken aback at just how many are resorting to insulting their fans and viewers when they stop sucking down their kool-aid. It shows just how they really see us.
Truth, beauty, and goodness. These are divine values, and conspicuously absent.
And i will double down on not giving Ubisoft my money.
Divert your money from the diverse who serve us not! I came I saw and I conquered DEI because it was French.
Any game with that lunatic or anyone like him on the team who attacks his customers, I don't pay for. And it ain't that hard because the games look crap usually.
I swear, there's something wrong with France this year.
@@I-ONLY-BUILD-MECHS-AND-DUSTERS I haven't supported Ubisoft since Division 2 went on sale after that atrocious launch. And imo, the last "decent" game they made, I ran around as the Magi of Siwa... and it was glorious. This nutjob's just like Bob Iger from Datelbow, stubborn and stupid.
2024 has been... eye opening. The fall of Disney, the disappointment of BioWare, and the bullshet of Ubisoft... but at least we had Deadpool & Poolverine, and Journey to the West 3D*, so not a total failure at least. Oh, and CrowdStrike happened... just kinda wished that happend to Ubi/Bio and not the airports!
*In case someone doesn't get the reference, I'm talking about Black Myth Wukong... aka, Journey to the West 3D.
@@CrystalWings12 its been like this for a while now...sadly
They wanted us to get used to not owning their games, now nobody wants to own their games. I guess they won???
Ya'll dumbasses are already used to not owning your games, just moaning when they said it
Shouldn't they be thanking us all?
The problem wasn't just historical inaccuracy, it was them claiming it was accurate while it wasn't. Assassin's creed was never very accurate, but they also didn't claim previous games to be accurate.
Which only made the lengths they went to to insure some measure of accuracy all the more note worthy and impressive.
Not to mention that the only "solid" source they had to justify how they implemented Yasuke came from one of the clearest cases of cultural appropiation of all time, all while claiming it's for the sake of inclusivity.
Assassin's creed used to respect history though.
This is how DEI in infrastructure jobs has put coworkers lives at risk. I would know, I survived it and was called a whistleblower for standing up for myself. I guess that message was just let DEI make a mess for the sake of inclusion. The fact it is so aggressive in video games now does not surprise me anymore. It kind of stirs up my PTSD from DEI hazards which I could say is the opposite of an industries DEI priority because it OBVIOUSLY ISNT A FLAWLESS IDEA!
Remember Battlefield V? The director straight up re-wrote history about combat operations that actually happened then said HIS version of events were real.
history is not very diverse at all. every nation was essentially racist... just a little less so now. in history nations and people were far more divided than ever. history is diverse because people were separate and held to the idea of specific areas
If we would have proper freedom of speech you would see much more racists, people afraid of being canceled/losing jobs.
History is more diverse than we think but not as diverse as these guys would like it to be. There's reason to everything and people seem to have forgotten how to be reasonable. Like, racism is, at it's very core, bad and downright stupid. Thinking someone else is worth less than you because they have a different skin colour or come from a different country is dumb af, why would you do that? But pretending it never existed is just factually incorrect. It shouldn't exist, sure, but it does and that's the reality we have to deal with.
Lol that's untrue. While separate countries were racist towards barbarians and hostile countries, advanced civs were extremely generous in the descriptions of each other.
It was to the extent where civilisations were so nice in their description of other civs they traded with, that they exaggerated most of what they spoke about.
Biggest example of this are greek philosophers and relevant speakers.
This was typically done to give their own a better standard to aspire to.
So you can be as racist as you like, but stop the cope. Thanks.
@bibeeeek if places were as diverse as you claim where do all these different cultures come from ? Literally wouldnt exist. Its not racist to see history for what it was. If accepting a few different people into their country meant there was no longer racism between those people the world would be a much different place.
@@xhappymasksalesmenx4092 I said nothing about diversity. Read my comment again. No surprise a guy making excuses for racism lacks reading comprehension.
So he identified the problem and decided to continue adding to the problem. Sounds counterproductive doesn't?
Yes, it is
That's not what he identifies as the problem though. The customer is the problem... Not what they're doing.
He's French, cut him some slack.
@@Trehlas Thats... The same thing. When we say "problem", we mean "a thing that we do not want to have here". Blaming that fact over us as people who want something, or on ubislop that will not deliver that thing, is just a matter of perspective.
@@sinner5452 You're right. And in HIS mind, he is not adding to the problem. In HIS mind, he is the solution to the problem. It is a matter of perspective, indeed.
The tantrums prove that gamers are winning.
Admitting that it harms your product but then doubling down on it should be treated as an act of sabotage against his own company
a lot of the ppl involved with DEI are trying to sabatoge the companies they work for. many of them are openly anti-capitalism. i wouldn't hire someone who is always talking about overthrowing the rich and destroying hierarchy and stuff but what do I know?
this should give their shareholders (who lost 36% in the last 6 months btw) grounds to sue
@@TomParis51 The shareholders are Blackrock and Vanguard.
@@TomParis51 someone pay this man. he has more brains than ubisoft so he HAS to make some money off of this statement.
They are a publicly traded company, They are litteraly legally obligated to do everything they can to max profit for investors, they're getting sued
"Assassin's Creed isn't a game. Ubisoft isn't part of the game market anymore. Sales will align with our vision." True words
“We are the future of entertainment” I don’t think yall are gonna be around long enough to be the future of anything.
Future statistic of another company ruined... and another lesson to those that don't fall into this pit.
Future case study in business classes on failing strategies.
It's hard to believe he could say that with a straight face. Uhh, dude, your company has lost 90% of it's value because of these very policies.
He's going to be living in his car and still running his mouth about how virtuous the company was...
@@SgtLube818I think he meant what he said, although it is a far-fetched idea. They are aiming not for us but the next generation who they think will be much more amiable to these things, being already addled with Cocomelon and all that.
Yes the future. The future case study of failed businesses and of ruinous culture
Ceo was right! I am now comfortable not owning my games, oups I meant their games. I’m very comfortable not owning their games.
This guy knowing that DEI is hurting his game, but is still going to use DEI is like someone knowing that drugs are bad, but is still going to inject that stuff into them. Ubisoft fully deserves to shut down at this point.
Not a good analogy.
...maybe it is. Could be an addiction.
@@jasperzanovich2504 I think it's a perfect analogy. They're way too addicted to actually get themselves together as a company. They're an embarrassment to the industry, hopefully someone who loves them will do an intervention
They are getting PAID to do this. Why? to inject DEI into society long enough that it has been normalized for younger generations.
They know older gamers will not agree and do what they are told. But Young and impressionable children will if not closely supervised by their parents.
The DEI people are playing the LONG GAME. So Gamers better recognize this and teach and protect their children.
But drugs make me high. DEI does not...
@@s0urcl0ut No, it's a shit analogy, because drugs are fun.
"It has always been diverse" At least the older AC games made sense. We got arabic guy in a story told in Arabia, adewale and Aveline there to address the issues of human rights back in golden era of piracy. Meanwhile, there's only one doubtful source that Yasuke existed, and that was because of stories of Oda Nobunaga being weird, and were to believe he had some fictional impact in AC history?
You don't make a game to appeal to only 2% of gamers and whine when the other 98% will never buy it or they buy it just to refund it. You learn or go out of business.
They try to appeal to the twitter crowd, that doesn't even play games.
more like 0.1% of "gamers"
@@Youwotm8Tkthey think Twitter is the reality
I love how a group that was started from France is talking to us about democracy when they don't even adhere to their own standards of democracy if they did we would have a say in the game instead of being called biggest and hateful people
2%? Did the nutcases multiply, or did we push out the less crazy part of our minorities?
2:58 that is exactly it though. yasuke's history is not enough. because he isnt heroic, he's not a fighter, he's just a tall black guy that got fancied by a nobunaga. but since he's the only black guy they know, they made up some story and told people not only is he a samurai, he's a legendary samurai!
Eh, can't really say he wasn't a fighter as a blanket statement, with supposedly being trained in India and being a bodyguard, albeit a slave, to the Jesuits
Though seriously, they could make such a story even from that. The first time I read about Yasuke I was intrigued about how he did managed to struggle the brutal hard life of feudal Japan era since he was probably treated very differently by the locals and other samurai. They could make localized fictional fights or unknown secret missions under the shadows rather than making him a legendary samurai that massacres the local guards in the open while wearing a glamorous historically fancy armor.
He will be a legend that made Ubi fail
@@vanadot What? 🤷🏾♂️Yeah, he was not a samurai, but he was favoured by the nobunaga so much that people around the city started to assume that he might be granted the status of a noble. He was given a house and a personal guide with whom he used to go out for walks around the city so, everyone knew him as an important figure. Sadly all that fortune ran out after Nobunagas death. After which he got deported with the French missionaries to God knows where. He was under Nobunagas service for only 10 months but those those days may have been the best life he had outside the french slavery.
@@vanadotNah
The copium levels are off the CHARTS.
Pretty sure this counts as an overdose.
@@Cowboycomando54 if only.... if only.... but Côté is canadian.... they've got high resistance to copium...
@@Sephiroth517 I don't know. I still think we should have a Narcan on standby for this one.
The copium level has reached infinity and beyond my friend.
Something something Vegeta something something power level.
they certainly have united all the gamers.
not how they wanted though.
*Just release your Dumb Game and take your L.*
*Never work in the gaming industry again.* 😒
I want this quote in a meme format.
honestly I prefer these people suffering in the game industry instead of them having some actually important positions as government officials or like literally any other positions with power
they may ruin a few of our games, but at least they can't ruin our lives
@@daruyamiTell that to the fan boys.
From what i recall, it was proven that historically kunoichis (female ninjas) never existed. They were mentioned in a book and since then somehow people thought they existed.
The controversy is that Naoe would never have existed as a female ninja in addition to the Yasuke controversy.
The whole problem stems from them claiming it to be historically accurate.
To be fair, there is no actual proof of ninjas in general existing, given what they are. And there is about as much proof of female ones as male ones, given their nature. Honestly, even if not under the title, that role does seem pretty logical and likely
@@christophermonteith2774 Well, unlike people at Ubisoft, i do admit i am no expert and i might be wrong. The point being they did pretend having an expert and the story having historical accuracy, which is objectively false.
"grounded in historical authenticity"
the f*cking gall of saying their fanfic is historically accurate when we only know like 3-4 sentences of Yasuke in the shincho koki and Ietada nikki and NONE of them portrayed him as what they try to make him look
Not even sure he even ever existed.
"Historically authentic" and "historically accurate" aren't the same thing.
@@tonidavis1231 Ubisoft conflates the two over and over, oscillating between the terms depending on what suits them at the time marketing-wise.
@@tonidavis1231 Historically authentic means you reasonably extrapolate from historical accuracy.
@@sophiasfavorite9646 AC:Shadows is neither of those things.
There have been people who have investigated and pointed out that there were NO female Ninjas in feudal Japan and that Naoe has been gender swapped.
Cool. He can preach his religion to the game's 50 players, while the rest of us play other games. 🤷
That's why BR wants to own everything. Control and censor.
50 players? Feeling generous I see.
I'd say 13
I'd give it about 15 players. Cause some streamers have already said they're playing it just so they can see how bad it will actually be
idk dude, feels like streamers and redditors would love this game , imagine all of them buying the most expensive version, that's a lot of money
Im from Latvija, and tho Ive never used the term Ubislop, Assasins creed 1 was the last game from that company I liked. And I absolutely hate the fact they hold the Might and Magic IP.
I haven't given ubisoft money in years. I'm glad more people are getting on board.
The only downside to this is, I can't boycott ubisoft even more than I do now (especially with Ass Creed: Black edition).
The last game i bought form Ubisoft was the first ever assassins creed.
The last money i gave EA was for Anthem. And before that, it was need for speed most wanted. That's it. And i will never give them money ever again.
Ubisoft went super scummy towards customers long before the Marxist disease showed its symptoms strong enough to oovershadow the games they used to push it
The last game I bought was mario&rabbids and I bought it at a discount (€10,-) the game before that was Rayman origins on the wiiu
3:45 Dude you game's protagonist was literally birthed from division that lead to the 'summer of love', the only ones twisting it into a symbol of division is you!
"We know what's ruining our games but we're going to keep doing what ruins our games' - Ubisoft
That's what happens in a culture war.
Hopefully their shareholders will kick this guy.
Step one: make some shit nobody wants
Step two: call critics bigots and say if you don’t like it don’t buy it, we are creating this for us
Step three: act surprised when you flop and play victim
Step four: repeat step one
Ubisoft CEO "Maybe if we gaslight gamers more they'll support our garbage?"
Yes, because company attacking customer always works out in the end😂
Remember AC 2, where they lovingly recreated Italian cities and landmarks, they included all kinds of historical art pieces and artifacts that you could collect? That game made me feel like I was in renaissance Italy. Let's not forget that even then, they left out an entire chapter of the game for the sake of DLC, only for it to not need to be a chapter at all, thus tricking players into thinking they were missing out. They once had artistic integrity, but they have been greedy.
Which chapter was that?
The ones that did AC2 are probably long gone from Ubislop
My personal conspiracy theory is that Ubisoft got trashed WAY too much for games they made with a lot of passion like AC3 and Unity, and now they distanced themselves from the gaming community on purpose, giving us the shit games that we deserve.
I actually have some good news for Ubisoft, I have gotten complete used to not owning their games.
They really do make it easier for us.
They need to get comfortable not having our interest anymore too
I’m happy to hear how brave and courageous all the Ubislop employees are, hopefully that’ll help them find a job when this joke of a studio goes belly-up
"yes my son is allergic to the food, but it's healthy for him"
- some Ubisoft higher-ups probably
"My dog is vegan"
"my cat its vegan"
He's right, Assassin's Creed *could* be used as a platform for discussions and all that gibberish. The problem is that writers have lost the art of subtlety. Pre-Kurtzman Star Trek was subtle in its political commentary. These days, political commentary is as subtle as a brick through your window. It's gone from "here are the arguments for the issue being explored. Discuss." to "here's a lecture."
I'm sure there's nothing more traumatizing than basic common sense.
When your good work makes someone who doesn't do good work look bad, look out.
Being normal is a fate worse than death for them
Common sense isn't as common as we thought apparently
This is clearly the problem here, they see releasing such a game as a moral grandstanding move of activism rather than just make art and make some money out of it
"Human history is diverse."
Ehh... obviously. That's not what we, gamers, are criticizing. We welcome diversity, but game studios and publishers chose the laziest, most in-your-face way of portraying diversity.
For example, in Mass Effect 3, there is this communication specialist, and she is lesbian, but she never, ever told Shepard explicitly that she is, but we, as players, can infer her sexual orientation through the way she interacts with other characters, specifically, the ship's AI. That's good writing. In Veilguard, some character needs to tell you, explicitly, that she is non-binary, and the whole scene is about that character being non-binary. That's lazy, contrived writing.
The point is, diversity was never the issue. It's how it's executed that we have a problem with.
Their diversity is nothing more than stick a black guy in it.
It's crazy how Bioware pioneered how to positively write diverse characters in games by making sure they are a person first and that every aspect about them doesn't revolve around their diversity. The way they handle it in DA:V is not only directly opposed to that, it's also counter to the very thing they claim they are trying to champion. It's lazy, shallow, and insulting.
TLOU 2 did a great job of having a trans character where the fact that they are trans is pertinent to the story, but wasn't the entire focus of the character. It also wasn't put in to appeal to "modern audiences".
But history has never been diverse.
@@whuzzzup yes, it is. Just not what woke people expect. Remember, these people think "diverse" only means gender, race, sexual orientation, among other things. If anything, diversity is one of the defining traits of the human being, but these people bastardized the concept to their convenience.
You should prononce it as:
Marc (perfect)
Alexi ("s" is silent)
Co ( similar as "Co" in "Co-pilote)
Te (similar as "Te" in "Tennis")
look like he really wants to be unemployed
He is getting PAID large sums of money to do this.
They are attempting to change the thinking of younger generations so that it is normalized by the time they have become adults.
This is how they always fundamentally change society to their will. They KNOW older gamers will not bite, but older gamers are not the target, CHILDREN are the target.
@@Fishy-i2geven most children don’t want them
@@Fishy-i2geven kids find this bull obnoxious. We show them the old times and they learn what gameplay is.
@@Fishy-i2g thankfully any young child that sees older games will understand how good games are made. The Internet is very hard to censor.
@@ArcanistShion plus older games are growing on kids thanks to indie games
0:20 Co-tay. Any time in French you see an E with that particular accent mark on it, it's pronounced like a hard A. Well, more like something between an "ay" and an "eh". I don't think this sound exists in English, so it can be difficult to pronounce, but then we return the favor with TH sounds (which very few other languages have and are notoriously difficult).
No one is mad that Yasuke is in the game, people are mad that they decided to make him a playable character instead of Japanese man specifically _because_ of "muh diversity". As far as I'm aware, AC protagonists have always been fictional characters, in no small part because the story itself is fiction. Yasuke could have been a great side character, but now they ruined him.
Don't forget the whole bit about Yasuke being an African-American Gangsta
When Cote mentioned "...those who seek to silence creativity, to stoke fear and incite hatred..." he was talking about Ubisoft management's behaviour towards their staff right? 🤔
Also look up past allegations about one of Shadows's drector, Dumont.
All you had to do was make a Japanese protagonist
All they had to do was just make the main character a Japanese man. Thats literally all they had to do man
It would had solved 80-90% of the problems. But the female ninja/samurai wasn't historical accurate either. What could help is they put a disclaimer before the game, stating this game is 100% fictional. Pure fanfic.
@@yunusgokcen174 Their total lack of care was obvious when the very first scene of the gameplay trailer had a flawed animation, causing the female main character to stab herself, instead of sheathing her sword.
@@ShaggyRogers1 Ubisoft should take the L and just axe the entire game. Releasing this game will harm their reputation even more. All that money spend is lost, it will never be earned back.
But that's racist and lacking diversity. The only way to create a diverse and anti-racist world is for everything to be 100% black.
@@yunusgokcen174 maybe they were real, but since they're ninjas no one knew 🗿🤔🤔🤔🤔
The guy has no room to talk about racism, Ubisoft are the ones using racial stereotyping. Are people supposed to ignore that fact?
thanks for reading up that bullsh*t. I almost died 4 times just hearing it. Corpos shouldn't play the victim card, especially when they doing the bad deeds.
Ubisoft as a game company your sole responsibility is to make a product that sells not to use that product as a soapbox to drive your political ideology.
You can subtly drive your political ideology, but it has to fit the story.
Don't shoehorn it in where it doesn't belong.
"From Altair to Ratonhake:ton weve consistently introduced protagonists from diverse racial, ethnic and gender identities"
Ah yes...this argument...
Altair, the Arab in the game that takes place in the middle east.
Connor (Ratonhake:ton), the native American in America.
Ezio, the Italian in Italy.
Kassandra, the Greek in Greece.
French in Grance British in Britain etc.
And...Yasuke...the African in Japan.
They erased and replaced Yamauchi Taka, the assassin monk for black servant in feudal Japan. Yeah, Coté is a dumbass.
Do we need to mention how you guys ignored the thousand of real Japanese samurai and the legendary Sengoku samurai next, Ubi?
Yeah I was so confused. That makes no sense, why would you ever use that as your fundamental argument 😂
@@phoenixflamegames1 He should admit the truth and show his true color like the director Dumont : "we were first looking for our samurai, who could be non-japanese eyes". Yeah racyst Ubi just admit DEI, etc, and yours political agenda as well for real next time.
Then people try to throw the Welsh guy in Edward Kenway in AC black flag not knowing that in the Caribbean at the time of black flag you had a crazy amount of diverse people from all over the world coming there to make money. So that argument they have falls flat
@@darknesswave100 Edward is also a fictional protagonist. We all know they chose Yasuke, a historical figure, to try to get around the obvious blackwashing of Japanese samurai. Because yeah, all Sengoku heroes were Japanese men. The legendary ones and forgotten ones.
2:01 That's all these people can do. Move goalposts. Gaslight. Muddy waters.
They have no merit. So the use obfuscation and confusing as their only attack vector for arguments. Now that those are basically useless as people see right through them, they are in serious trouble.
Quadruple down on not giving your hard-earned money to people who hate you.
If they wanted diversity of different Races or skin colors. Then don’t pick a setting in SENGOKU ERA JAPAN. Even though many stuff they used in the game was from the EDO period 🙄. This is what REAL cultural appropriation looks like. There is no appreciation or love for the Japanese culture or history.
Look Ubisoft is done for… completely done for
Maybe someone can buy the IPs and give people some good games for a change (huffs *copium* )
Not until it burns down completely it's not.😅
1:09 , Nobody scrutinize Naoe, we have no problem with her.
When I CEO bows that they are doing something that negatively impacts their product and decides to “double down”… they should probably be replaced. It’s not courageous, it’s stupidity.
This is the equivalent of someone knowing the Titanic was gonna sink and still decided to board it because all that mattered was the "message" behind it.
lmaoooo
Yasuke is so much of a fact that it's debatable if he even existed.
Much history. Such wow.
Only in privileged individuals will look at other culture and think, how can we jam what we want
just like the black Cleopatra and black Egyptians and black Viking?
You know it's bad when actual Japanese historians are like yasuke is a what now?
Nah, Yasuke did actually exist, thats a fact. Whats debated is : Was he a Samurai or not.
The historically accurate answer is : We don't know.
From what we know, its most likely a "no" but we cant say for sure.
When I played Assassin's Creed 1, 2 and brotherhood many moons ago - not for amoment did I ever think it was about displaying diversity among human history. Those were just really, good, games.
In 2019 I started boycutting Ubisoft, as they declined merging two accounts, after showing all receipts, identity and "ownership", and saying they could erase all achievements/data if they needed to.
I've merged accounts on other platforms with no trouble. In Ubisoft games, you get cross-game items, so of course they'd want me to pay for the games AGAIN if I wanted that, as if I didn't own and pay FULL price for the games in the first place. F ubisoft fr.
This whole thing stinks of i used chat gpt to write a “cool” comeback
It most likely was ai, but to be fair to Ubisoft corporate issued statements that try to sound deep or meaningful have always sounded forced robotic and dumb.
@@finnmarr-heenan2397 yeah but I’m a avid user of janitor ai and this is literally what it sounds like when it you try talking to it using fancy words and corporate language in every single word and this literally looks like something i would get from one of those sites
TLDR: "Dont worry about the money, historical fact, or cultural accuracy, we are saving the Asians and the Blacks from themselves with our Progressive White Liberal ideology. We are very important." - Ubisoft
Notice how he doesn't talk about game but some "diverse richness of human experience". ??? Who tf cares bro I just want to play japanese dude ninja or samurai in medieval japan not wakanda forever like how difficult is this concept to grasp???
More like Wakanda 4 never all these woke companies deserve to go down under with their childish make-believe antics
I think Sekiro Shadows Die Twice on Steam.
@@rowanthearchitect3227 I already have all the achievements in that game for years now. And I won't play AC anyways, it's just hypotetical lol. I haven't played valhalla, mirage and I won't play this but if I were for sure I'd like to play as japanese dude not african lmao.
@@Diegoshadow85 Fair and valid
0:14 This one is obviously pronounced "coté" as you can tell by the acute accent on the e.
Ubisoft can reee as loud as they want, that won't stop them getting sold off.
For future reference: the proper pronunciation of Marc-Alexis Côté is unimportant -- much like everything else at Ubislop.
Hope this helps.
Oh no, the devs are "traumatised". Well, they did it to themselves and now Ubislop employees needs to get comfortable not having a job anymore.
When you've lived your entire life on meds because you were born "depressed", you've never had anyone to tell you "no" and never had to deal with your own errors, yeah, the Internet rising up as one and telling you to take a leap would 'traumatize' you.
0:16 don’t worry french isn’t a real language
Bonjour mon ami
Je ne sais pas.
And thus he didn't only lose Japan but also the support of huge parts of Europe as well, since all the talks about how great open societies are massivley clash with the real world no matter how many times it gets repeated by people with access to personal security and armored vehicles
Its funny how he speaks about protecting creativity while DEI is in its essence pure destruction of creativity.
Ubisoft doubling down on DEI
Me Doubling down on not buying their shit
A bag of coins times zero is still zero Ubisoft
> Yasuke is based on a real man.
> Difference is real person was a slave and court jester and fictional is a samurai.
As a Welshmen I'm terrified of what they will do to my boyo Edward if/when they remake blackflag.
Would actually lose hope in humanity if that happened… CYMRU AM BYTH!!!
I'd just stick to the original if I were you lol. Whatever they decide to do with it won't be good, I can tell you that.
"Our franchise has always been about diversity"
Good. Now I can mark it on my DEI cope bingo card.
hes french AND canadian explains alot
Listen, don't lump the Frenchies in with the rest of us Canadians; Quebec is a fucking silly place with literal language police that threaten small mom and pop shops for posting on social media in English (horror of horrors, I know), and I don't want to be associated with them.
i would make a statement about ableism but then i would be defending him, so im gonna let it slide
Woah there bud. As a french canadian, this guy does not represent us.
French Canadians aren't Canadians lol 😆 😂
@@lilbladeknight We were there before the English
truly a brave and bold stance. takes some real determination to speedrun ubisoft into failure like this
"Ubisoft went REEEEEEEEEE"
I nearly disliked the video on impulse because of what kind of nonsense was written in the OG article, holy shit, I really felt it, I nearly died of cringe too...
This is like saying, " I know the lead in my wine is slowly killing me, but I am going to drink even more lead now!"
the problem always starts when these guys start to see the game franchises as a "platform" for their message
What hurts is my partners little brother is disabled and was so excited for this game; he loves japanese stuff and assassins creed (history is a huge interest area for him)
Benny isn’t going to understand anything past them knowingly not caring about tweaking the history side for somehting else he doesn’t understand (mentally he’s never going to get past like 10)
He’s the most kind beautiful soul and it seems like a matter of time before he notices the stories not being accurate to the one’s he’s familiar with and other things that’d ruin it for him
I’m not mad, just disappointed yknow? He was so excited for Shadows
i'd suggest skip Shadow and try ghost of Tushima instead? I'm really sorry for Benny though.
Sounds like bs
You know how a negative times a negative equals a positive ? This guy multiplied the negative and just hit the literal deep end of negativity
Opportunity? What opportunity?
Bankruptcy?
No one is saying Yasuke didn’t exist. But, they are lying about his history, and his impact. He was never a samurai, and did absolutely nothing of note. Never participated in battle. He was returned, like possession, when his master fell. Never to be heard from again.
I can't believe they are still letting ubisoft employees talk publicly about the game. Whenever you see anything about this game, the situation around it always gets worse. At this point if I was a publicity person at ubisoft I would plead for them to shut their mouth and silently wait for the game release and pray that enough ppl forgot about it.
For real if I was their PR person I'd hold a company wide meeting and tell every single one of them to shut the f*ck up. Cause every time they speak it's like the hole they've dug gets 6 feet deeper
*French guy here.* Ubisoft Assassin's Creed boss Marc-Alexis Côté is pronounced "ko-te" (or "ko-tay" if it's easier for you)
"our message is more important than your history"
I love how nobody said a thing about Naoe, and the only problem, I guarantee it, that people have it with Yasuke is the fact he's not Japanese and playable instead of a fictional Japanese samurai. Give us a Japanese samurai and make Yasuke the head of the Creed in Japan, not only would make him very important, you could make him a defensive agent against the templars in order to avoid the templar control of the shogunate (literally the reason why Japan closed itself off for centuries was because they were afraid of the lunacy brought over by the religious fanatics of the Portuguese sailors [same sailors that left Yasuke in Japan]), obviously there is a parallel where instead of religion, you'd have the Templars.
Not only it would be more parallel with real history, nobody would have a single problem with the game, hell, I'd wager it would be praised instead.
"Côté" is pronounced "Cot-ay". It's the same "é" sound that you can hear from "super sayan rosé"...i'm sorry that's about as accurate as i can imagine...
Also, the 's' in Yves should be silent, so it's pronounced more or less like "Eve" in English.
@@AretaicGames To be more specific the "Cô" was pronounced well in the video, it's the "té' part that was a bit off.
Since the "é" sound is pretty close to the english "-ay" in words like "day" or "stay", something like "Co-Tay" or "Coh-Tay" would be more accurate.
My research says it's pronounced "coo-" like in cook, "tee". Listened to four different French people say it.
Cooh-tee
@@RENEG4DE4NGEL lol, no. Your "research" sucks.
@@RENEG4DE4NGEL I agree with the other guy, your research sucks.
Gotta admire with sticking to his guns but it's the market that dictates a product's success, not principles.
If they *really* want to be diverse, maybe they should’ve, oh I don’t know, NOT disrespect a whole country or its history just to give us a black samurai. I don’t mind having a black samurai, in fact, I encourage anyone to make a black samurai, but the way they went about it for Assassin’s Creed Shadows was bad.
a random web novel author in japan can make better black samurai character than ubisoft and that author won't claim that it's historically accurate.
If they want black ninja so much why not just have the assassin creed from south africa?
@@akira8393 it won't upset their audience enough
Oh but don't you understand? He's saying Japan is backwards and closed off.
Every other game in the series is this bad, or nearly. The difference is the Japanese don't hate themselves and Westerners do.
My man litirally thinks hes the MC in a revolution or something. My word
If only they put as much effort into their games as they put into their "right side of history" grandstanding.
His name should be pronounced COH-TAY 0:16
Cootie
Ubisoft shareholders should find his comments very intriguing. “Yeah this ruins us, but it’s SO worth it”. Worth it to whom? It’s the elitist mindset. The only value is their social cache.
Ubisoft shot themselves in the foot and said, "hold up where's that grenade?"
Of course, doubling down is all they know. Better to sink the ship than change it's direction
DEI brigades goal is to influence younger generations long enough that they can change the fundamental way of thinking in Society.
They know the future is the children, older gamers do not matter because they are not the future.
This is how they control societies, it has been done many times before. WW2 was actually a very similar situation but used very difference means to reach their goal.
He was right about one thing, “When we self censor, we hand over our power, piece by piece, until freedom and creativity both wither away.”
I can think of no more apt description of the past decade of self censoring for fear of offending people and being cancelled for it.
Even pirating it isn't worth it lmao. So what's the point if you still can't see the problem. You learn nothing at all.
Additional note the launch nft on paris branch silently