This has 200K views so far, so someone in the game business will have noticed. Not all gamers will want FIFA, Madden, Hockey, or CoD. I will spend a few billion dollars,who likes Mass Effect and Witcher.
Why not regard them as “Pubisoft”? Edit: Thanks for 3.7k likes and counting. And a special thanks to Jim Sterling himself, if I ever meet a CEO of pubisoft I’ll show them this video and my comment.
'Our games are not political.' Says a company who releases more politically themed games than anyone else. It's like Nintendo saying we don't like it bright and colorful.
They have political themes but the depth of a puddle though. The premise of far cry 5 for example was very relevant and could have had something interesting to say, and then (spoilers but it shouldn't matter cos the game is shit) it just explains everything with woo wee magic drugs
What they mean by "not political" is that they're not propaganda. Jim and the games media want these companies to take a (left wing) position. They want these games to be morality tales.
@Dan oz This mans arguing that an author who's entire body of work consists of America as a world police, military exceptionalism, foreign terror, and new world orders is apolitical. That's a good joke my dude.
But that's the rub. Sane people understand that what Tom Clancy wrote is fiction on real world topics taken to the extreme. Today's media oriented politicos and left wing globalists however don't understand the differences between fictional what ifs and real life politics...All they understand is how to exploit propaganda. The additional issue for them is while they have successfully indoctrinated large portions of the millenial population, it isn't working as well for GenZ
For a novice, it almost looks like they've made and released a "controversial" game, just to make sure the allegations of abuse aren't the first thing people come across.
And isn't that the most cynical corporate fuckery? They've decided that they'd rather be stoking controversy over promoting barely disguised fascist, antisemitic conspiracy theories, than being known for harboring predators.
When it was this 2013? It's the last year from which i played a ubi game i genuinely enjoyed. And that was far cry 3 blood dragon. With a slight mention to ac4.
I get the feeling that JoshScorcher's next video on Ubisoft 2021 might not be so all hunky-dory. ... U-Play being considered malware should've been FORESHADOWING.
I never understood how people could say the Tom Clancy games are "unpolitical" the guy writes POLITICAL THRILLERS. he basically *only* writes political thrillers! it's in the name!
@@jigmewangchuk4085 I was kind of hoping Jim would make some hay about how fucking weird it is that Ubisoft keeps putting Tom Clancey's name on shit. Like, the dude is dead as fuck, he probably didn't contribute much.
@@wppb50 I'm pretty sure he has talked about that in another episode. I wonder if the guy would call out this shit if he was still alive, it would be so fucking funny to see that but no since he's dead they can just crap all over his name with shitty shitty games.
Ubisoft writers: "What should Farcry 6's story be about?" Ubisoft CEO: "Just write what you know". Writers: "Oh so oppression, suppressing the truth, or evil leadership?" CEO: "Yes."
I mean how many movies about female empowerment did the Weinstein group greenlight? How often does Fox News carp on about how awful Bill Clinton is while shielding people like Bill O and Handsyity? People can be ludicrous hypocrites all day as long as it still makes them money.
"Eh, just redo Far Cry 4's story somewhere in Latin America and call it a day. Don't forget to blow the 'Violence never solves anything!' horn while making violence the ONLY way to play the game!"
THERES A KNIFE STICKING OUT OF YOUR CHEST Ubisoft: no there’s not Me: dude. It’s literally gushing blood Ubisoft: there’s no knife Ubifan: hey man he said there isn’t a knife in his chest
Speaking of ubisoft where the hell is Skull and Xbones? BLM isn't funded by global terror people it's funded by one rich guy who hates America and the democrat party. OH and JIm theres no such thing as social justice. There is justice and injustice. It needs no modifier.
@Jimmy What?! ARE? YOU? TALKING? ABOUT?! That game looked awesome as hell! A whole game based on black flags ship combat where you can get all sorts of different ships and upgrades etc. I am waiting with baited breath!
Now, see, if you go against white supremacists, it's clearly political, and we can't have that. But if you are on the white supremacists' side, then it's perfectly apolitical. Ubisoft don't see the problem with this, and you shouldn't see it either. L-look! Here! Another shiny Open World game! Wow! Don't think, be hyped!
Don't forget that in the newest Watch Dogs Legion trailer about a post Brexit London, they feature the use of the "First they came..." poem from German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. A poem about the rise of Nazi's in 1930's Germany but don't worry, there is NOTHING political about THAT either
I dont trust ANYTHING that uses the words Experience, Premium, Legion, Deluxe, Service(s) or any other bullshit corporate buzzward every companies boring 40 something suits were able to come up with. And if companies are fine not giving a damn & ripping people off im just fine doing the exact same thing in return.
Remember when Jim had a segment called "oh, Ubisoft", where there was kind of a playful tone to Jim commenting on how bad Ubisoft was? We can never go back to those days.
@@ashantaluah144 wait, weren't you the one who was saying Joel was bad because he's a straight white male and arguing that he can't feel empathy because of that? Seems like some pathetic sad shit you like to spout.
I wouldn’t say strange, just different. Personally, I think these glasses really brighten up his face! Gives him a friendly look, which I suppose isn’t really the effect he wants for his show lol
"Wars, corruption, and poverty have left the world in an unstable state" Things definitely not the fault of the most powerful governments in the world, for sure
Or powerful, multi billion dollar per year in profit corporations....they COULD pay very well, alleviate a lot of that poverty, a lot of that civil unrest and strife But!.....thats not how to become a multi billion dollar per year in profit juggernaut of of a corporation....unless you want to show your tits?
@DANIEL BIN OMAR - Governments getting stronger? What planet do you live on? Here on earth, the corporations own every government. And no government can scratch their ass without the explicit permission of the corporations that own them. What's it like on your world? Is it much different?
You could make the same argument about leftists. They're the ones who insist that "everything is political", but get assmad when they encounter politics that they don't agree with.
@@scottoliv737 Are you genuinely trying to say you don't see the difference between holding and advocating for a political stance, whether or not it's one you agree with, compared to advocating for a political stance but throwing up a paper-thin "NOT POLITICAL!" defense to cower behind if you're called on it?
@@wppb50 BLM isn't a political stance. It is a social issue. Similar to pro-life. Being pro-BLM doesn't make you a democrat. Being anti-BLM doesn't make you a republican. It is not political. Now, being forced to apologize because you wanted to make a narrative that suggests being anti-blm due to whatever intimidation techniques is called terrorism. Hm, terrorism isn't political either.
@@katserizawa4122 "Now, being forced to apologize because you wanted to make a narrative that suggests being anti-blm due to whatever intimidation techniques is called terrorism. Hm, terrorism isn't political either. " Is this purposeful Orwellian ministry of truth doublespeak, or are you completely unfamiliar with what the word "terrorism" means in English? www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism
How is having a political story - the same as trying to promote a non-sequitur sexist and racist agenda (e.g BF5)? Try to tell a military story that isn't political in any-way-shape-or-form. lol. I guess The Division was ok, because the antagonist was a whiteboy, ey? Is that your inherent racism I see shimmering through your vague facade? Then again BLM and ANTIFA are terrorists, by definition, so this game is actually de-facto more historically accurate than BF5... :D
@@YammoYammamoto Depends who you ask about "the definition". Right wing nut jobs? Sure. Back in real world? Noope. But I'm guessing you're one of the former, though I'm surprised you managed to actually spell. :D
@@TheJunnutin My definition isn't really departing from the dictionary definition: I.e: _-Using violence and threats of violence to push a political agenda._ Ball is in your court, quisling.
@@YammoYammamoto I mean The Division's story wasn't ok and that had nothing to do with Aaron Keener or whatever his name was. It had a lot more to do with lethal vigilantism justified by a macguffin ai who somehow knows whether or not someone deserves to be executed with impunity and a couple of audio logs portraying them as comic book level evil despite the the player characters not being all that much better. But sure, ignore any actual criticism of the game.
"Ubisoft presents: *TOM CLANCY´s FISHER TOYS* A Non-political game that teaches children the importance of non-political topics within Political Media"
We apoligize a symbol of a terorrist organization was recognized as a symbol of terrorist organization. We dont want to offend terrorist so we will remove the symbol.
It's really not though. They aren't saying "don't look at us", which is what the effect really comes from. They were caught, publicly shamed and made to pay recompense (they threw some "christians to the lions" to satisfy their public image) and moved on. The world doesn't care how big of a shithead these people are for no other reason than people move on almost instantly due to how the news cycle works. As soon as you are sufficiently angry about something, they give something else to think about.
@Dan oz So it's perfectly ok for employers to work their staff to death, underpay them, and make their working conditions barely tolerable, by bullying and assaulting them? Well done you neo-corporate boot licker.
@@alejandroocampo2714 I thought you were trying to say that the wrestling industry's problems were fixed, but then I realised what you meant and smdh, man
i mean with american patriots like donnie two scoops backing him how can there be any doubt... “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
“dON’t aTTRIbuTe TO mAliCE wHAt COuLd BE InCOMpETEnCE InstEAd.” Yeah. Like they didn’t know what they were doing. Either way, if a company is so incompetent as to make “mistake” after “mistake” time and time again, maybe it should see some repercussions for being so awful at it’s job.
Idno, let me be devil's advocate but US is not a whole world. So EU located Ubisoft's leaders-owners can not know, or not care at all about US situation. Elite Squad - announced on E3 2019. US 'situation' - released this spring.
Hanlon's Razor is still useful, but really, what we're seeing and what we have seen *can't*, in any good faith, be attributed to incompetence. Or better yet, Hanlon's razor lets us narrow our focus to say that some people lower down might be inept or lack the power to call out abuse, but that just lays even more blame on those who created the power structure that lets them get away with anything.
It's always been shit after Prince of Persia. The second farcry game, which I have to admit was my most played one and my favourite. Already suffered from being undercooked buggy shite. Not minor stuff like oh, usual Ubisoft shit. Like our soft bigotry of low expectations has lead us to. Like glitchy animations or pop ins. NO. The 27% bug or other crucial NPCs not spawning etc was plaugeing that game. They never fixed that btw. If you are affected, you can't even load an older save file. You ether fix it on pc yourself. Or you delete your safe file.
@rodrigo ...do you actually know what "communist" means? Ubisoft's protection of abusers and association of political movements with conspiracy theories is horrid, but it is not remotely communist. To put it bluntly, no company of any reasonable size is going to be communist in the slightest, since that (making profit, competing in a free market) is literally the opposite of what communism is about.
@rodrigo In other words, you're breathtakingly ignorant about politics, economics, and history. Words have meaning. "Communist" refers to something very specific, sort of like "fascist," and using either as if they mean "thing I don't like" is really stupid and lessens the impact of them when you do apply them appropriately.
@@alexanderflack566 not the easiest words of wisdom to give in a public forum such as this, but at least know one person appreciates what you've said. ✌️
It's so weird to me to see a story with the preamble of "War, poverty and inequality has torn the world apart, people are fighting for their rights." followed up with "Those people are the enemy." WHAT ABOUT THE CAUSE OF AFOREMENTIONED WAR POVERTY AND INEQUALITY???
Here's the thing, even IF Ubisoft didn't realize it was using BLM iconography, that's STILL bad. That's a dangerous level of incompetence on display, and seems to show a dev team where either nobody on the team knew what was going on or nobody in power cared.
It's also Nazi iconography, soviet iconography the list is endless. IDK, I wouldn't be so keen to claim ownership of the fist for my political movement unless I was massively ignorant of history. Oh wait.. its a US movement, nevermind, nothing to see here. :)
The Raised Fist is a symbol that has been used by many movements in History... but then again, History doesn't exist for BLM (unless if they can rewrite it!)since History is inconvenient for the movement and its Marxist cousins.
@@Shiftshapercat well, of course BLM isn't the first movement to use it. Symbols change over time, like the swastika moving from a Hindu and Buddhist symbol to become a symbol of hate and fear. Right now, in this moment, the raised fist is being used as a symbol against racism.
The whole point of the game is about killing protest leaders. It's definitely about BLM. This is not an accident, this is marketing to fascist wannabes.
I REALLY love how the Elite Squad trailer starts with how bad things have gotten with war, corruption and poverty, and ends up with "all the governments are banding together to make a team to combat these evil people who use the protests about terrible things these governments caused instead of solving the terrible things :)"
You forgot to mention that including poverty in that list vilifies poor people who, you know, are completely powerless in capitalism (especially the two-tiered capitalism in the US, where wealth consolidation forces the working class and the poor to feel the worst combination of inflation and deflation: money is both worth less and harder to get over time).
Controversy is publicity. The advertising department probably intentionally did this to generate controversy just like how "woke" ads milk the outrage of right-wingers to boost their own profile in the news and public consciousness.
There's no 'even if' here. This was a deliberate attempt to get away with making a product to push a fascist conspiracy theory. People don't just YOLO $100 million entertainment products.
It becomes a touchier subject when it comes to the integrity of a game people actually like. News of it exploded far more quickly and gained traction before a wider audience. Your media outlets are scum and only want to fervently cover the subjects that get them the most possible clicks. I.E, I''ve never even heard of this game or its alleged, political statement until I watched this episode of Jim Sterling, yet I immediately heard of the Last of Us 2 incident because gaming urinalists scrambled to get coverage on it as soon as possible and pushed it as hard as possible to milk it for as much as possible. It has much less to do with the perceived hypocrisy of some opposing, political party and their personal views than you might think and that's frankly kind of the situation of the world as a whole at the moment; on some analogical level, anyway. Just a bunch of people with blinders slapped on them while constantly being herded into one side or the other of some garbage political spectrum as media outlets and politicians harvest the hatred they cultivate within them.
The thing is, TLOU 2 wasn't even political. You can say you didn't like the story, writing or characters, but it's this attitude that if something has characters who aren't stereotypical or heterosexual, it's automatically political.
The Brazilian soldier girl wears an skull mask? If you know anything about the history of the police in Brazil, you know that is also an alarming sign. She might as well have a Bolsonaro lower back tattoo.
This video is kinda stupid a game even if it's a shitty mobile one, takes at least a year to make no one from black lives matter were doing all these riots, also who cares it a alternate reality
rafa marafa the reason it matters is because in some countries, people are actively hunted and killed because of their race. Genocide is a real thing that is really happening in real places to real people, and this fiction is reinforcing world views that casts the downtrodden racial minority as the enemy. That does not necessarily lead to violence or violent behavior, but it does dismiss the underlying plight of those marginalized people, and it can reinforce harmful views which excuse real world violence against those people when it does happen in reality. This reinforcement of violent norms against the weak and the downtrodden is actively polluting modern political discourse. Politics all forms of fiction can shape popular perception of a topic, change the way people vote, alter who they see as friend or foe in the political sphere, and in conjunction with national propaganda can warp peoples perception of reality. It doesn’t necessarily raise the likelihood of something like a shooting, but other crimes, like kneeling on a man’s chest until he suffocates, might be something a player is more likely to excuse if they see it happening to a group of people that they classify as an enemy. That has an observable negative effect on how justice is carried out in the long term.
The part I find especially egregious is that in a kotaku article about this, the game's narrative designer allegedly knew nothing about this aspect of the plot and was confused by the change, since as far as they knew Umbra had always just been a Spectre-inspired secret organization. So it's not just that Ubisoft "didn't mean" to make it political. They actively changed it to add in the aspects in question, then pleaded ignorance. "Oh no! We suddenly retooled the game to reflect actual world events and actual conspiracy theories going on right now. What a funny coincidence!" Just wow. ...could they maybe sell the Rabbids to Nintendo before getting dragged down into the void? I think that would be best for everyone. And congrats on the title being restored to it's rightful place. Regent sounds way better then interim, though I'd probably still go with the latter since it's just one of my favorite words for some reason. No idea why, just always loved that word.
Absolutely nothing wrong with a SPECTRE type organization, or even one based out of real-world activities like SMERSH. But this...holy crap. This is bad, like, really bad.
I'm so glad that Tom Clancy has stayed nonpolitical throughout the years. I hope his next Ubisoft radio tower game has a Freedom Ultimate Gold Edition(tm) that comes with an M32A1 and a lifetime supply of 40mm grenades. That'll keep those bl- I mean bad guys- quiet!
@@StrazdasLT Nope. Hitler didn't. Mussolini didn't. Franco didn't. Salazar didn't. Castelo Branco didn't. Stroessner didn't. Papadopoulos didn't. Rafael Videla didn't. Bordaberry didn't. I can go on for a while, but I think you get the message.
@@StrazdasLT "promising to save the people and make their lives better" is not "claiming to be egalitarianist". You can be radically against egalitarianism, as they were, and still make those claims. Trump came into power saying he was going to make peoples lives better(as did, pretty much, every president ever), that does not make him an "egalitarianist".
@@GeusGames I think you are misunderstanding something here. Im not claiming they are egalitarian, im saying they claimed to be one. As in - they lied about it.
Wow. That trailer was alarming. It is really pissing me off that everyone is focusing on the "raised fist imagery" as if THAT is the primary concern with this brazen undisguised propaganda. This would be tasteless ten years in the future, but right now it's just...horrifying.
The trailer is basically saying that it’s cool to play as fascist protagonists, and that any group that advocates for equality/equity amongst peoples is 1) aiming for a pipe dream (note the use of the word “utopia”, which has historically been derided as impossible to achieve in American domestic-facing propaganda) and 2) actually terrorists who just want to kill innocent people. Yikes, yikes, and more yikes. What next, Ubisoft goes full mask-off and makes a pro-Nazi game where the goals are to find and kill as many Üntermensch and Resistance members as possible??
@@Leroset Just a side note: I hope you're not one of those people that call your political opponents CHUDS, because it basically means untermensch (look it up if you didn't know).
I do find it ironic how blm is basically asking for communism, but it's not ok to make them the bad guys just like we've done with russia and china for around 30 years.. and people completely miss the fact that it is a chinese backed group.. before you yell bullshit, google "alicia garza chinese progressive association". That's the dear blm founder Not to mention the fact that china supports the blm movement and is distributing propaganda for them
I don't understand how people DON'T see Elite Squad as problematic. I don't mean the fist, I mean the whole premise. The government, in response to protests, decides to create a secret police, rather than adress the issues the protesters may have. It's a Gestapo Simulator, how could it NOT make people angry?!
Because we are living in a Gestapo simulator. When protestors are kidnapped by body armor clad jackboots and then deposited in interrogation rooms, pressed for information, never read rights, never told why they are there, and released when the prisoner demands a lawyer...
@@AdamIsUrqed Thats not how the police work. There can be corrupt police just like corruption in anything. Also there is difference between protests and riots. Learn the difference, check the source. Riots are violent, destructive. Protests are peaceful and trying to come to a solution to a problem. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE!
I don't know if there is a law for it, but malicious people also love to pretend they are incompetent to excuse their misdeeds. Corporations and politicians are more often malicious than incompetent. If they were that incompetent they would not have power.
@@twilightvulpine ehhh, incompetent politicians are placed into power because they are incompetent, and can easily be controlled then blamed for the results
@@rhoell2050 I mean, that only works if you assume "willfully putting yourself in a position of authority to do harm for money & status" is not a malicious act which... you might find some people would argue against.
There was a time when I was still a much younger man where a job in the game industry would be my dream job. I eventually failed out of my computer science course and now work in publishing, but holy shit did I dodge a bullet.
I was about to make a joke about it being fair play since the Québécois have been massacring French for years, but I saw that Yves is actually French. I thought Ubisoft got started in Montreal, so it'd make sense that he's from there as well, but that isn't the case.
@@LarsBlitzer Ubisoft actually started and still has its headquarters in France. An old joke/rumor stated that "UBI" standed for "Union des Bretons Indépendants".
*Fully clothed woman of average attractivenes enters* Chuds: "I'm tired of them injecting politics into games" *Game promotes actual false propaganda that is spouted in contemporary politics* Chuds:
Do you mean "chad"? Or are you actually calling incels *C*anibalistic-*H*umanoid-*U*nderground-*D*wellers? Cause I'm totally cool with and down for either, like seriously fuck em, but I've just never seen someone throw around CHUD as an insult before ahahaha Edit: used through instead of throw like a dumbass
@@declaringpond2276 So I just did some digging I could barely find anything on what you meant. I searched urban dictionary, searched the term, put it in different contexts to try and narrow the search down. Nothing except the aforementioned C.H.U.D. movie really. Well that's not completely true. I did see that people used it as an old slang insult for an ugly person for a while after the movies had a cult following and that some people use it as an insult for far right extremists and domestic terrorists. But it didn't seem hugely common nor did it intersect much with gaming. I think the only thing I saw on Twitter was some shit about a Crash character having blue streaks in her hair triggering some guy and causing him to use pejoratives and get up in arms over nothing so one guy awkwardly called him a CHUD. Interesting I guess.
@@lordkameguru7851 yeah, its in the online left community, and not the theory part of it. Probably more common in communities like breadtube or twitch channels like vaush or hasanabi. I first heard it from vaush after being radicalized by Destiny.
Umbra is Lunafraya’s dog in FFXV, too, how dare they? Umbra is the best version of Excalibur in Warframe, who suffered fighting the bad guys. How could they?
I know it's rough, but I want to thank you for not letting up on these topics, and especially for continuing to remind everyone of how vile Ubisoft is. So many people want to move on to buying the next game after a week of being mad at the company, but there are real people who have been horribly affected by the people at Ubisoft, and they need their feet held to the fire. My heart goes out to them. Ubisoft daring to imply that people who just want to live their lives without fearing police killing them for no reason and the protesters who support their right to exist as people are actually terrorists, it's so freaking harmful. And then they make money off of that implication. They've never lived in fear of anything. They've never had to do a check-in call on their brother to make sure he's OK after noticing that police presence around his home area was heightened. (Which I just had to do this month! Even though he works for the freaking NAVY!) They've probably never even spoken to a black person before in their lives, but want to take advantage of our pain to make money and shit on us at the same time. Fuck Ubisoft. I liked AC2 and Mario+Rabbids, but I'm not supporting them anymore, and thankfully I bought those games used when I did, and those are the only 2 Ubisoft games I own. You think you can just sit down and play some funny video games, and then the company makes a statement that you, who played some of their games, are scum that needs to be suppressed, and by the way you pay THEM for making that statement. Go to hell.
@azorel azorel The left never wanted anything to be political, they simply pointed out existing politics within games and said that it kinda sucked, and that maybe it should change. The left always wanted more of their politics in games, it's just that their opponents framed the issue as politics vs non-politics, rather than it just being left vs right, in order to get undecided gamers on their side.
@azorel azorel I have never heard this complaint. I have heard people complain that the game marketed itself as being a game about fighting a radical Christian cult modelled after far-right movements, and then set up the villains to be barely Christian at all, but that doesn't mean they were complaining about a lack of politics. They were complaining that the politics of the game ended up skewing right and even apologising for the cult to an extent, when it appeared to have been leaning left.
@azorel azorel I dunno that Polygon are that left-wing. They've got a flavour of progressive liberalism, but I wouldn't call them representative of left-wing thought.
The good old scheme. Deride perfectly validate concerns with pure cartoon evil. "They fight for equity, but they kicked a puppy! Therefore wanting everyone to be treated correctly is morally wrong!"
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 The funny thing is: Ubisoft is doing the exact opposite with its AC and Watchdogs games. There, the corporate overlords and politicians are two-dimensional bad guys and the anarchists are the heroes. "We show how rich people, police officers and politicians do lots of evil and kick puppies for no reason ==> every rich man, police officer and politician is EVIL" [Just to be clear, this is not me devaluing that Ubisoft just criminalized a movement aiming for equality. My point here is that Ubisoft probably only cares about politics as far as it can make money of political sentiments. Be that left-wingers wanting to overthrow the system or right-wingers wanting to uphold the status quo. Ubisoft's behavior is careless nonetheless and the least they could do is to fucking admit that they are harvesting political power-fantasies of both sides.
@@wjzav1971 You're right. They are "apolitical" in the most cynical way (like most AAA game companies). They really don't believe in anything but money.
Here's something I've realized over the years: When Americans say "political" they actually mean "partisan". So basically anything the Dems and Cons are perceived to disagree on (whether or not they actually disagree on it is somewhat irrelevant, this is about media optics, not actually voting records).
Exactly. How is BF5 political while CODMW not? Both are political. One is about pushing a fake 'female war hero' narrative, the other is about pushing a fake 'USA is the good guys world police' narrative.
@@raz1572 Which means, hilariously, that a corporation that actually strains itself to create the "least political possible product" is actually creating an extremely political product which actually needs the most intense political analysis in both creation and reception.
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@@diegowushu well it is not political because game is based on YEARS OLD BOOK. What influence Ubisoft has on fucking democrats? Did Ubisoft tell them to support domestic terrorists and rioters? Did Ubisoft wrote script how Antifa is ought to fight? No.
"Here at Ubisoft we promise that our games based on the books made by a conservative nutcase with one of them being about how a bunch of elites are trying to take down an organization of ecoterrorists who want to release a super ebola, are totally not political."
@@kaistzar2831 Solo Man never said Clancy was evil, just that he was a conservative nutcase. From what I've read of his work, I'd say that's an apt description.
@@kaistzar2831 the guy who made his fortune on portraying progressive ideas as twisted villainous conspiracies and terrorists for decades....yea. I'd say DECADES of established behavior and yknow, interviews of him preaching said conservative nutcase conspiracies, is a safe bet to say he believes the things he says he believes in
And like...the irony of commenting on a video about a corporation that publishes nothing but conspiracy nutcase scenario games while saying they aren't political, and then saying that source material isn't political either--yknow, the "political thriller" industry that was Tom Clancy's only bread and butter for his entire career, is just...well, on the nose
Mark my words people like you will miss conservatives when we are all finally put up against a wall and shot simply cause we have our own beliefs. When that time comes you'll have nobody coming to save you when your in trouble cause all that will be left is weak men and woman who will just stand by as your victimized and forced into servitude by the wolfs lurking in every human population. They will eat you and they will do it with a smile and there will be nothing you can do. Good luck cause you'll need it
Okay, so with the imagery for this "Umbra" organisation in the game, are you seriously trying to tell me that no one, not one single designer or supervisor or director or anybody looked at the collected design work or even the trailer and at least said "Um....guys? Maybe not?!" Are you telling me *no one* watched the trailer when it was done and thought it was a bad idea, or even recognised the iconography as something else?! That nobody said anything?! Bullshit!
why though? are we so sensitive that we cant look at something from a different perspective? or see a symbol that is widely used as a revolution symbol all across the world and not associate it with BLM straight away? honestly I was even against the removal of swastikas in all media, it does nothing but hide history and assume that people will get upset seeing it...
@Eternal Ah yes, the video game news of "One of the biggest companies within the gaming industry has been protecting abusers for years and are currently using anti-semitic conspiracy theory logic to demonize protestors working for equality" shouldn't be depressing in the slightest. Thank you for reminding me that I did the wrong thing by reacting emotionally to the reality of serial abusers being the ones with most of the power within these types of companies.
@@daniellewasdelayed8921 Why do people not understand that the fact that a good chunk of the genre of entertainment I enjoy the most is produced through bread, water, sexual abuse and kicks in the mouth is incredibly depressing?
Thanks for taking the time to remind people that in addition to scummy business practices, lazy game design, and exploitative micro-transactions, they also buried credible allegations of SEXUAL ASSAULT. Keep bringing this up. Never be not bringing this up. You are a credit to your profession. Thanks.
You just know "Umbra" was their backup name and they originally wanted to call the villain organization "The Internationale Clique" before someone told them they weren't allowed to
Turns out there was a post-civil rights black literacy group called Umbra so that’s another layer of crap to this whole ordeal. Not that I’m saying they intentionally referenced that group though.
@@jackvac1918 That's the joke. The whole trailer sounds disturbingly like the content of a Hitler speech, so I made a joke about changing the terminology
If it makes you feel better Jim, I don't wait for the YT algorithm to recommend me you I search you out literally every day and manually check to see if you've published a new video. Granted I don't always watch, but I do look!
"They have hacked social media, to discredit world leaders [...]" Are you telling me, that is this game, the heroes are the people in power? Also, the entire Tom Clancy series in general is something they should consider moving away from. It's crazy imperialist. In Splinter Cell they could have gone with undefined bad guys, but nope. In Chaos Theory they go out of their way to declare the enemies a cell of communists. You know, so you can play CIA.
@@grafphal5103 Too bad that the left-wing terrorism pales in comparison to right-wing and religious terrorism... Only presenting the bad guys coming from the Left makes it look like there's no trouble from the Right, which isn't the case.
@rodrigo communist dictatorships in Latin America? Which ones? Also the BLM protests have turned to riots when they were instigated by white supremacist agitators my dude... but hey, I only read the Police reports ;-)
Ubisoft spokesthing: "See, we've listened to you! We got rid of that insensitive 'clenched fist' symbol! Look at this cool new logo for UMBRA, it's an octopus clutching the globe in its tentacles! Isn't it awesome?! Wait, what?"
I'm curious to know how you feel about CDPR recently saying they're designing the microtransactions for Cyberpunk in a way that "makes players feel good about spending money".
I'm sure what CDPR is trying to say is that we, the consumers/gamers, will actually feel what we pay $ for will have value beyond what other companies provide for their mtx. But only time will tell what that might look like.
"makes players feel good about spending money" honestly kinda sounds like something that fits a cyberpunk dystopia. Then again, we're sort of living in one.
@@Monochromatic_Spider They also defend crunch and regularly let abuses slide, so............. There's a little CAAApitalism in ALL the garmes industry.
CDPR is a company. I wish people stoped idolizing them. Yes, they make incredible games, and I'm pretty sure Cyberpunk will be an incredible experience. But they're a company, sooner or later they'll go the EA, Blizzard, Bethesda route. They always do. So let's hope they get a few good games out before the inevitable mask slip.
My brother showed me one of your videos and now I can't stop. I enjoy them a lot even if I always come out of them enraged and/or depressed. Now that I've started getting into gaming, it really helps me to keep in mind who is behind the games, to know which companies I would never ever want to support. Thank you, James Stephanie!
Thank god I have notifications turned on so I don’t miss these videos even with TH-cams attempts to bury them. Genuinely sickening what ubi is doing, makes me feel bad for having supported in them in the past.
they can't fess up to it because some of their trash supporters are trying to turn "political" into a code word that can be used to make games that don't cater to white guys Automatically Bad And In Need Of Rejection On Moral Principle & if they start admitting their games are political then deflecting that codeword becomes effortless
Jim you're looking good, you're more energetic and you have more color in your face. Way to go. Please outlive me, my future children will need your wisdom.
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Remember when Jim had the "oh ubisoft" segment when we thought they were just incompetent and a bit shit. That was a simpler time
2020 man, it’s been a HELL of a year
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I've always thought it was just too nice.
It's better this way. Ubisoft deserves all of the bad things that happen to it and more.
This has 200K views so far, so someone in the game business will have noticed. Not all gamers will want FIFA, Madden, Hockey, or CoD. I will spend a few billion dollars,who likes Mass Effect and Witcher.
I fondly remember the barfing sound.
Why not regard them as “Pubisoft”?
Edit: Thanks for 3.7k likes and counting. And a special thanks to Jim Sterling himself, if I ever meet a CEO of pubisoft I’ll show them this video and my comment.
Okay, so this is brilliant.
Pubes are a good thing though.
POOOOO BEE SOFT
They've always been "Newbiesoft" to me. Not sure why, it just felt right.
Makes me wanna spewbisoft, but not the kind of spew that the CEO does without concent
'Our games are not political.' Says a company who releases more politically themed games than anyone else. It's like Nintendo saying we don't like it bright and colorful.
They have political themes but the depth of a puddle though. The premise of far cry 5 for example was very relevant and could have had something interesting to say, and then (spoilers but it shouldn't matter cos the game is shit) it just explains everything with woo wee magic drugs
“We’re sorry we were too clear in expressing Tom Clancy’s actual real-world policies.”
“Not political” is code for right-wing, if not fascist. Always
It's like me saying I don't like dramatics. 😞
What they mean by "not political" is that they're not propaganda. Jim and the games media want these companies to take a (left wing) position. They want these games to be morality tales.
@@trevingrayek1671 Or cowardice
"Tom Clancy isn't political" And Karl Marx was just writing down a thought experiment.
"It's just a prank bro! Capital is fine bro I swear!"
Maybe Microsoft should just buy Ubisoft as well. They got a thing for buying morally bankrupt, inept, and moronic companies. Just ask Bethesda.
@Dan oz This mans arguing that an author who's entire body of work consists of America as a world police, military exceptionalism, foreign terror, and new world orders is apolitical. That's a good joke my dude.
@Dan oz What does Karl Marx has to do with the senate, legislation and voting? Yeah, I don't think you know what politics means.
@Dan oz And I suppose you believe that 1984 was an apolitical work of fiction then? If a book isn't 100% based in fact it can't be political?
Tom Clancy wrote political fiction. Nothing with the tom clancy label can be said to not involve politics
But that's the rub. Sane people understand that what Tom Clancy wrote is fiction on real world topics taken to the extreme. Today's media oriented politicos and left wing globalists however don't understand the differences between fictional what ifs and real life politics...All they understand is how to exploit propaganda. The additional issue for them is while they have successfully indoctrinated large portions of the millenial population, it isn't working as well for GenZ
@@Shiftshapercat
You are way way too confident in how clever you are.
@@Graknorke Dumb people usually are, yeah
@@Shiftshapercat Please tell me something he wrote that is too extreme to happen in real life.
@@09philj Governmental competence.
For a novice, it almost looks like they've made and released a "controversial" game, just to make sure the allegations of abuse aren't the first thing people come across.
whaaaat, clearly noone would ever use "bad publicity is publicity" policy. ;)
The biggest meme is blm apparently owning the revolution fist. Which was around way before them,
I just chalk it up to colossal tone deafness.
I can't hear what YOU'RE talking about, but my dog's going CRAZY!
And isn't that the most cynical corporate fuckery? They've decided that they'd rather be stoking controversy over promoting barely disguised fascist, antisemitic conspiracy theories, than being known for harboring predators.
Remember when we thought Ubisoft was just horribly out of touch and inept? The 'oh ubisoft' days are long gone...
Damn it was sad but now its scarry
When it was this 2013? It's the last year from which i played a ubi game i genuinely enjoyed. And that was far cry 3 blood dragon. With a slight mention to ac4.
@@returnedtomonkey8886 I also don't like Ubisoft give me a medal now plz.
I get the feeling that JoshScorcher's next video on Ubisoft 2021 might not be so all hunky-dory.
... U-Play being considered malware should've been FORESHADOWING.
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
I never understood how people could say the Tom Clancy games are "unpolitical" the guy writes POLITICAL THRILLERS. he basically *only* writes political thrillers! it's in the name!
He "wrote". Man passed away years ago. I used to read a lot of his books growing up. Now Ubisoft is tarnishing his name with these horrible games.
@@jigmewangchuk4085 I was kind of hoping Jim would make some hay about how fucking weird it is that Ubisoft keeps putting Tom Clancey's name on shit.
Like, the dude is dead as fuck, he probably didn't contribute much.
@@wppb50 I'm pretty sure he has talked about that in another episode. I wonder if the guy would call out this shit if he was still alive, it would be so fucking funny to see that but no since he's dead they can just crap all over his name with shitty shitty games.
@@mrcheesemunch what a nightmare
Tom Clancy is to political thrillers what Air Supply is to love songs.
Ubisoft writers: "What should Farcry 6's story be about?"
Ubisoft CEO: "Just write what you know".
Writers: "Oh so oppression, suppressing the truth, or evil leadership?"
CEO: "Yes."
"Feel free to do them all."
I mean how many movies about female empowerment did the Weinstein group greenlight? How often does Fox News carp on about how awful Bill Clinton is while shielding people like Bill O and Handsyity?
People can be ludicrous hypocrites all day as long as it still makes them money.
"Eh, just redo Far Cry 4's story somewhere in Latin America and call it a day. Don't forget to blow the 'Violence never solves anything!' horn while making violence the ONLY way to play the game!"
"The white, the off-white, the ivory, or the grey, love?"
"Yes thanks love"
@@louisduarte8763 Got to play adventure games if you want to find non-violent solutions to problems. But these games don't come from big publishers.
THERES A KNIFE STICKING OUT OF YOUR CHEST
Ubisoft: no there’s not
Me: dude. It’s literally gushing blood
Ubisoft: there’s no knife
Ubifan: hey man he said there isn’t a knife in his chest
Ubisoft: would you like to buy "a just cosmetic" knife to put in your chest?
It's okay, they took the clenched hand holding the knife away. That was really the only offensive element of the stabbing.
Speaking of ubisoft where the hell is Skull and Xbones? BLM isn't funded by global terror people it's funded by one rich guy who hates America and the democrat party. OH and JIm theres no such thing as social justice. There is justice and injustice. It needs no modifier.
@Jimmy What?! ARE? YOU? TALKING? ABOUT?! That game looked awesome as hell! A whole game based on black flags ship combat where you can get all sorts of different ships and upgrades etc. I am waiting with baited breath!
@@Andronicus87 Cool story bro
"Ubisoft's not political, just look at all our Tom Clancy games."
Now, see, if you go against white supremacists, it's clearly political, and we can't have that.
But if you are on the white supremacists' side, then it's perfectly apolitical.
Ubisoft don't see the problem with this, and you shouldn't see it either.
L-look! Here! Another shiny Open World game! Wow! Don't think, be hyped!
"And our Far Cry games."
Do the Gamers think Tom Clancy is like....Sid Meiyer or Miusmoto or something.
Better example would be their woke bs th-cam.com/video/LOd4KCrbAUo/w-d-xo.html&t=
That game ad was political and also seem done form right wing view point it seeing how it playing off current events
Don't forget that in the newest Watch Dogs Legion trailer about a post Brexit London, they feature the use of the "First they came..." poem from German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller. A poem about the rise of Nazi's in 1930's Germany but don't worry, there is NOTHING political about THAT either
I will wait til the game is actually out. Ubisoft games have a tendency to miss obvious political messages.
What's political about Nazi Germany?!
Also set Post Brexit. Def not political then.
I dont trust ANYTHING that uses the words Experience, Premium, Legion, Deluxe, Service(s) or any other bullshit corporate buzzward every companies boring 40 something suits were able to come up with. And if companies are fine not giving a damn & ripping people off im just fine doing the exact same thing in return.
Nazis? Political? Pahhhhhh dont be siiiiiillllyyyyy
Remember when Jim had a segment called "oh, Ubisoft", where there was kind of a playful tone to Jim commenting on how bad Ubisoft was?
We can never go back to those days.
Straight white men ruined that too.
They're 2020's "Fuck Konami" but somehow even worse. I didn't think that was possible.
Found the fash :D
Sadly to serious now for that.
@@ashantaluah144 wait, weren't you the one who was saying Joel was bad because he's a straight white male and arguing that he can't feel empathy because of that? Seems like some pathetic sad shit you like to spout.
I've been sat here trying to figure out why Jim looks so strange and have just realised it's because he's wearing normal glasses
That...
My god, you're fucking right. I thought it was the belt.
This was bugging the fuck out of me
I wouldn’t say strange, just different. Personally, I think these glasses really brighten up his face! Gives him a friendly look, which I suppose isn’t really the effect he wants for his show lol
And no lipstick! WTF? I thought it was great vaudevillian touch.
I thought it was that he had a beard I hadnt noticed and then had shaved that beard. My brain
"Wars, corruption, and poverty have left the world in an unstable state"
Things definitely not the fault of the most powerful governments in the world, for sure
Or powerful, multi billion dollar per year in profit corporations....they COULD pay very well, alleviate a lot of that poverty, a lot of that civil unrest and strife But!.....thats not how to become a multi billion dollar per year in profit juggernaut of of a corporation....unless you want to show your tits?
Anyone that thinks governments actually have any power in 2020 hasn't been paying attention.
@@Supernautiloid what do you mean?
@@MrGamelover23 cooperations, what else?
@DANIEL BIN OMAR -
Governments getting stronger? What planet do you live on? Here on earth, the corporations own every government. And no government can scratch their ass without the explicit permission of the corporations that own them. What's it like on your world? Is it much different?
"Not political" is code for "not offensive to people of a certain political leaning".
You could make the same argument about leftists. They're the ones who insist that "everything is political", but get assmad when they encounter politics that they don't agree with.
@@scottoliv737 Are you genuinely trying to say you don't see the difference between holding and advocating for a political stance, whether or not it's one you agree with, compared to advocating for a political stance but throwing up a paper-thin "NOT POLITICAL!" defense to cower behind if you're called on it?
"You could make the same argument about leftists."
Not if you understand what words mean.
@@wppb50 BLM isn't a political stance. It is a social issue. Similar to pro-life. Being pro-BLM doesn't make you a democrat. Being anti-BLM doesn't make you a republican. It is not political. Now, being forced to apologize because you wanted to make a narrative that suggests being anti-blm due to whatever intimidation techniques is called terrorism. Hm, terrorism isn't political either.
@@katserizawa4122 "Now, being forced to apologize because you wanted to make a narrative that suggests being anti-blm due to whatever intimidation techniques is called terrorism. Hm, terrorism isn't political either.
"
Is this purposeful Orwellian ministry of truth doublespeak, or are you completely unfamiliar with what the word "terrorism" means in English?
www.dictionary.com/browse/terrorism
I wonder if their bad employee practices are "time savers" and new employees are a "limited edition"?
no, theyre sex objects
Aragorn7884 sexual harassment is a surprise mechanic.
First Tom Clancy is doing really well for someone who died in 2013. Second, how do you put his name on a game and call it “non political”?
When you're selling to people who ACTUALLY have no brain
How is having a political story - the same as trying to promote a non-sequitur sexist and racist agenda (e.g BF5)?
Try to tell a military story that isn't political in any-way-shape-or-form. lol.
I guess The Division was ok, because the antagonist was a whiteboy, ey?
Is that your inherent racism I see shimmering through your vague facade?
Then again BLM and ANTIFA are terrorists, by definition, so this game is actually de-facto more historically accurate than BF5... :D
@@YammoYammamoto Depends who you ask about "the definition". Right wing nut jobs? Sure.
Back in real world? Noope. But I'm guessing you're one of the former, though I'm surprised you managed to actually spell.
:D
@@TheJunnutin
My definition isn't really departing from the dictionary definition: I.e:
_-Using violence and threats of violence to push a political agenda._
Ball is in your court, quisling.
@@YammoYammamoto I mean The Division's story wasn't ok and that had nothing to do with Aaron Keener or whatever his name was. It had a lot more to do with lethal vigilantism justified by a macguffin ai who somehow knows whether or not someone deserves to be executed with impunity and a couple of audio logs portraying them as comic book level evil despite the the player characters not being all that much better. But sure, ignore any actual criticism of the game.
I don't know why, but the fact that Jim is not wearing his usual stained glasses but just normal ones is rather distracting to me.
I didn't even directly notice, just looking at him, going "Something is off..."
He is missing his Pink lipstick aswell.
THAT's why he looked different. I couldn't figure out why until you pointed that out, lol...just saw something was different.
@@misterjay292 did the same and had to bring up another thumbnail to work out what was off 😅
That's what it is
"Ubisoft presents:
*TOM CLANCY´s FISHER TOYS*
A Non-political game that teaches children the importance of non-political topics within Political Media"
"... Pictured here as a wasp with a mushroom for a head,"
I love how your mind works you beautiful bastard
Thank you for quoting that so I could avoid seeing it.
Ubisoft likes to paint themselves as the Assassins, but the reality is that they are in fact the Templars.
I think Ubisoft would sell weapons and information to both sides.
@@kglguy Do you mean like the Americans during both ww?
I mean, abstergos office in Montreal is the ubisoft office in montreal
@james paul complete control and authority and no oversight?
@@heykak Ubisoft is Abstergo . They are one and the same
Ubisoft "we apologise, next time we will try better to get away with it"
Totally!!!!! 1000% true!
Every corporate apology is pretty much just "We're sorry we got caught."
Haha, right.
You could always pull a channel awesome and say “we’re sorry you felt that way”
We apoligize a symbol of a terorrist organization was recognized as a symbol of terrorist organization. We dont want to offend terrorist so we will remove the symbol.
Lmao the world needs more of Jim yelling "Ubisoft's games aren't political, though!" over political Ubisoft trailers.
" I really, REALLY hate ubisoft"
*Sees Jim smiling in the thumbnail*
Me: This is gonna be good.
Jim sterling: I really, really, _really_ hate ubisoft.
The internet: we know😏 but do go on.
given you the 70ths like, just so you know :P
Accidentally clicked Dislike first (thanks YT app...), but corrected it to like.
It's hard to say, but i think he already hates Ubi more then Konami.
That's some impressive ass-holery from Ubi.
The Streisand effect is strong with this one. Let's keep talking about Abusisoft.
Abusisoft is genius , sir. Thanks for that :)
It's really not though. They aren't saying "don't look at us", which is what the effect really comes from. They were caught, publicly shamed and made to pay recompense (they threw some "christians to the lions" to satisfy their public image) and moved on. The world doesn't care how big of a shithead these people are for no other reason than people move on almost instantly due to how the news cycle works. As soon as you are sufficiently angry about something, they give something else to think about.
@@BaresarkSlayne Very true unfortunately... And they got some free marketing as well. Because hey, they apologised.
Abusisoft is what I shall call the hence forth.
Really annoying how Ubisoft continues to force video games into its politics.
@Dan oz So it's perfectly ok for employers to work their staff to death, underpay them, and make their working conditions barely tolerable, by bullying and assaulting them? Well done you neo-corporate boot licker.
@@jean-lucpicard5510 uhhh
Really? Which Ubisoft games have you found have had "politics" forced into
@@kingsley3208 Read their sentence again...
@@janedoe4929 I get it, but it's a joke based on the premise that video games have become too "political" no?
Gotta love how their logo is a turd seen from above.
(un)holy shit you are right!
bwahhh!
Furthermore, their logo is really bad vector line width selections on turd shapes. Like, it's lazy, just like their their writing.
Or like the swirl of a flushing toilet?
"Dookiesoft"
I think Jim has a better chance of fixing Wrestling than the gaming industry at this point...
Nah Jim would just be another Cornette.
It's already fixed
@@alejandroocampo2714 I thought you were trying to say that the wrestling industry's problems were fixed, but then I realised what you meant and smdh, man
I'd agree with you if it wasn't for the wildly large amount of sexual abusers that got called out in the wresting industry this year.
@@Venomous9 hahahahahaha 😂
Can't wait for their next game "Far Cry 7: Epstein was innocent"
Is this before or after Assassin's Creed: Free Rittenhouse?
i mean with american patriots like donnie two scoops backing him how can there be any doubt...
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr. Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Not political obviously
Driver 5 adds a series of missions where Tanner mows protestors down in his iconic car.
Stop beein political!
It will be called: "Far Cry Epstein: innocent until prooven guilty"
“dON’t aTTRIbuTe TO mAliCE wHAt COuLd BE InCOMpETEnCE InstEAd.”
Yeah. Like they didn’t know what they were doing. Either way, if a company is so incompetent as to make “mistake” after “mistake” time and time again, maybe it should see some repercussions for being so awful at it’s job.
Idno, let me be devil's advocate but US is not a whole world. So EU located Ubisoft's leaders-owners can not know, or not care at all about US situation. Elite Squad - announced on E3 2019. US 'situation' - released this spring.
Hanlon's Razor is still useful, but really, what we're seeing and what we have seen *can't*, in any good faith, be attributed to incompetence.
Or better yet, Hanlon's razor lets us narrow our focus to say that some people lower down might be inept or lack the power to call out abuse, but that just lays even more blame on those who created the power structure that lets them get away with anything.
Sometimes that phrase is just misdirection
Remember *Oh, Ubisoft* ?
More like *Ew, Ubisoft* these days...
Ewbisoft, then?
Man I'm still waiting for the name Activision and EA will get
@@AlphaladZXA Ewbisoft, Cracktivision and REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A.
It's always been shit after Prince of Persia. The second farcry game, which I have to admit was my most played one and my favourite. Already suffered from being undercooked buggy shite. Not minor stuff like oh, usual Ubisoft shit. Like our soft bigotry of low expectations has lead us to. Like glitchy animations or pop ins. NO. The 27% bug or other crucial NPCs not spawning etc was plaugeing that game. They never fixed that btw. If you are affected, you can't even load an older save file. You ether fix it on pc yourself. Or you delete your safe file.
Here's a Tom that looks like a Clancy
*wheeze*
Idk haven't played Tom Clancy
Cry like a Tom fan in Clancy night.
"Wasp with a Mushroom for a Head" sounds like an Earthworm Jim villain but looks like a Mario enemy and I'm here for it
I try to bring up Ubisoft's horribleness in every article and opportunity I can get, and I refuse to buy any Ubisoft games going forward.
😆
@rodrigo ...do you actually know what "communist" means? Ubisoft's protection of abusers and association of political movements with conspiracy theories is horrid, but it is not remotely communist. To put it bluntly, no company of any reasonable size is going to be communist in the slightest, since that (making profit, competing in a free market) is literally the opposite of what communism is about.
@rodrigo In other words, you're breathtakingly ignorant about politics, economics, and history. Words have meaning. "Communist" refers to something very specific, sort of like "fascist," and using either as if they mean "thing I don't like" is really stupid and lessens the impact of them when you do apply them appropriately.
@@alexanderflack566 not the easiest words of wisdom to give in a public forum such as this, but at least know one person appreciates what you've said. ✌️
@rodrigo Genuine question: How do you manage to not crap your pants every day?
It's so weird to me to see a story with the preamble of "War, poverty and inequality has torn the world apart, people are fighting for their rights." followed up with "Those people are the enemy." WHAT ABOUT THE CAUSE OF AFOREMENTIONED WAR POVERTY AND INEQUALITY???
To be fair, some people do the exact same thing in real life.
Remember: If you buy a poor man a hot meal, they call you a saint.
But if you ask: "why is this man poor?" they call you a communist.
@@Bird_Dog00 nah man ppl use socialist more these days lol
DON'T ASK QUESTIONS THIS IS AMERICA
One of the protesters in that clip just casually standing there with a "No more corruption" sign.
"THESE PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMY"
Here's the thing, even IF Ubisoft didn't realize it was using BLM iconography, that's STILL bad. That's a dangerous level of incompetence on display, and seems to show a dev team where either nobody on the team knew what was going on or nobody in power cared.
Or they perfectly knew but thought their consumers wouldn't care.
Yeah, no idea which one is worse...
It's also Nazi iconography, soviet iconography the list is endless. IDK, I wouldn't be so keen to claim ownership of the fist for my political movement unless I was massively ignorant of history. Oh wait.. its a US movement, nevermind, nothing to see here. :)
The Raised Fist is a symbol that has been used by many movements in History... but then again, History doesn't exist for BLM (unless if they can rewrite it!)since History is inconvenient for the movement and its Marxist cousins.
@@Shiftshapercat well, of course BLM isn't the first movement to use it. Symbols change over time, like the swastika moving from a Hindu and Buddhist symbol to become a symbol of hate and fear. Right now, in this moment, the raised fist is being used as a symbol against racism.
The whole point of the game is about killing protest leaders. It's definitely about BLM.
This is not an accident, this is marketing to fascist wannabes.
"Champion Regent" whatever weird heel storyline Jim has got going it must be excellent
If I ever get back to work, I’ll do whatever it takes to use that title.
This is like protecting political abusers at Ubisoft's house.
Oshabot 16 because it is one
I REALLY love how the Elite Squad trailer starts with how bad things have gotten with war, corruption and poverty, and ends up with "all the governments are banding together to make a team to combat these evil people who use the protests about terrible things these governments caused instead of solving the terrible things :)"
Art imitating life in the worst way
@@KayleighBourquin For the sake of realism.
You forgot to mention that including poverty in that list vilifies poor people who, you know, are completely powerless in capitalism (especially the two-tiered capitalism in the US, where wealth consolidation forces the working class and the poor to feel the worst combination of inflation and deflation: money is both worth less and harder to get over time).
@Yurt The Silent Chief You misspelt "Blm are heroes", BTW.
@Yurt The Silent Chief
Shut up
Ubisoft is really lucky EA, Activision, and Konami exist.
Bethesda ?
@@danieltentori7523 Nah, Betheada doesnt treat its own workers like how Ubisoft and Activision do
Bethesda are ass to customers but i've yet to hear about abuse going on within, of course, if anyone knows please correct me.
And nintendo and bandai namco and... Wait, guys, I think I've noticed a pattern with big corporate publishers.
Tiny Cervid they probably better at hiding abuse of their employees
Even if the developers and their managers were "ignorant", the marketing, the PR and the legal teams should have raised hell over that game's imagery.
any PR team worth its salt should have driven whoever thought that was a good idea from the office with a big stick
and Yet
The freelance writers they hired to write for the bad guys said they were given no context what they were writing for
Controversy is publicity. The advertising department probably intentionally did this to generate controversy just like how "woke" ads milk the outrage of right-wingers to boost their own profile in the news and public consciousness.
There's no 'even if' here. This was a deliberate attempt to get away with making a product to push a fascist conspiracy theory. People don't just YOLO $100 million entertainment products.
@@Kanner111 yeah, like with these big companies every move is run through like 100 people its not like 1 or 2 people who just didnt think it through
Boy I bet the people who raged online about the “politics” of The Last of Us 2 are just as angry with Ubisoft right now. Right?
...right?
Them: *crickets*
It becomes a touchier subject when it comes to the integrity of a game people actually like. News of it exploded far more quickly and gained traction before a wider audience. Your media outlets are scum and only want to fervently cover the subjects that get them the most possible clicks. I.E, I''ve never even heard of this game or its alleged, political statement until I watched this episode of Jim Sterling, yet I immediately heard of the Last of Us 2 incident because gaming urinalists scrambled to get coverage on it as soon as possible and pushed it as hard as possible to milk it for as much as possible. It has much less to do with the perceived hypocrisy of some opposing, political party and their personal views than you might think and that's frankly kind of the situation of the world as a whole at the moment; on some analogical level, anyway. Just a bunch of people with blinders slapped on them while constantly being herded into one side or the other of some garbage political spectrum as media outlets and politicians harvest the hatred they cultivate within them.
Yes, I am
Not a single gaming news channel touched this subject, unfortunately.
The thing is, TLOU 2 wasn't even political. You can say you didn't like the story, writing or characters, but it's this attitude that if something has characters who aren't stereotypical or heterosexual, it's automatically political.
God, that animated Yves head was terrifying. You should use that more often.
Sure, why not. I wasn't planning on sleeping, ever again.
Objection
Please don't encourage him..
Yves Gollumot.
Timestamp?
The Brazilian soldier girl wears an skull mask? If you know anything about the history of the police in Brazil, you know that is also an alarming sign. She might as well have a Bolsonaro lower back tattoo.
It's quite alarming how kids are probably going to be playing this game and then be pushed with this militant police good guys agendas
@@gunwantatwal1074 you know you could blame the parents for letting their five-year-old play a rated m game
might as well be wearing goddamn swastikas.
Even Brazil has communists. This plague is everywhere, damn.
@@734ch3r The cold war is over, you can stop listening to the fear mongers.
For what little it's worth, I'm glad you're still covering this stuff.
It’s why I came to this channel in the first place, and one of the reasons I stay.
This video is kinda stupid a game even if it's a shitty mobile one, takes at least a year to make no one from black lives matter were doing all these riots, also who cares it a alternate reality
@@MrRafagigapr That Black Power Fist has been used since the days of the Panthers man, it was decades ago.
rafa marafa the reason it matters is because in some countries, people are actively hunted and killed because of their race. Genocide is a real thing that is really happening in real places to real people, and this fiction is reinforcing world views that casts the downtrodden racial minority as the enemy. That does not necessarily lead to violence or violent behavior, but it does dismiss the underlying plight of those marginalized people, and it can reinforce harmful views which excuse real world violence against those people when it does happen in reality.
This reinforcement of violent norms against the weak and the downtrodden is actively polluting modern political discourse. Politics all forms of fiction can shape popular perception of a topic, change the way people vote, alter who they see as friend or foe in the political sphere, and in conjunction with national propaganda can warp peoples perception of reality. It doesn’t necessarily raise the likelihood of something like a shooting, but other crimes, like kneeling on a man’s chest until he suffocates, might be something a player is more likely to excuse if they see it happening to a group of people that they classify as an enemy. That has an observable negative effect on how justice is carried out in the long term.
@@kyr58 that is as valid as the "video games cause violence argument"
Imagine watching Jim and not wanting to hear all the toxic shit that goes on in the industry
👏👏👏👏👏 I appreciate this so much.
Imagine watching Jim
The part I find especially egregious is that in a kotaku article about this, the game's narrative designer allegedly knew nothing about this aspect of the plot and was confused by the change, since as far as they knew Umbra had always just been a Spectre-inspired secret organization. So it's not just that Ubisoft "didn't mean" to make it political. They actively changed it to add in the aspects in question, then pleaded ignorance. "Oh no! We suddenly retooled the game to reflect actual world events and actual conspiracy theories going on right now. What a funny coincidence!" Just wow.
...could they maybe sell the Rabbids to Nintendo before getting dragged down into the void? I think that would be best for everyone.
And congrats on the title being restored to it's rightful place. Regent sounds way better then interim, though I'd probably still go with the latter since it's just one of my favorite words for some reason. No idea why, just always loved that word.
Absolutely nothing wrong with a SPECTRE type organization, or even one based out of real-world activities like SMERSH. But this...holy crap. This is bad, like, really bad.
I'm so glad that Tom Clancy has stayed nonpolitical throughout the years. I hope his next Ubisoft radio tower game has a Freedom Ultimate Gold Edition(tm) that comes with an M32A1 and a lifetime supply of 40mm grenades. That'll keep those bl- I mean bad guys- quiet!
I know right? Who in their right mind would ever think anything Tom Clancy wrote was in any way political!? Crazy!
Wow its weird seeing Jim without his rose tinted glasses.
This means he's gonna go all in!
oh my god that's what's different
no longer viewing the games industry through a romanticized lens
@KAZMERTSUK 3 furlongs.
I never actually knew that Jim had real eyeballs.
I knew something was different about him in this video but I didn't notice what it was exactly.
So NRA-promoting Ubisoft is anti-egalitarianism too? Who’d have thought?
Every dictator came into power claiming to be egalitarianist.
@@StrazdasLT Nope.
Hitler didn't.
Mussolini didn't.
Franco didn't.
Salazar didn't.
Castelo Branco didn't.
Stroessner didn't.
Papadopoulos didn't.
Rafael Videla didn't.
Bordaberry didn't.
I can go on for a while, but I think you get the message.
@@GeusGames Bullshit. Both Hitler and Misollini came into power promising to save the people and make their lives better.
@@StrazdasLT "promising to save the people and make their lives better" is not "claiming to be egalitarianist". You can be radically against egalitarianism, as they were, and still make those claims.
Trump came into power saying he was going to make peoples lives better(as did, pretty much, every president ever), that does not make him an "egalitarianist".
@@GeusGames I think you are misunderstanding something here. Im not claiming they are egalitarian, im saying they claimed to be one. As in - they lied about it.
Wow. That trailer was alarming. It is really pissing me off that everyone is focusing on the "raised fist imagery" as if THAT is the primary concern with this brazen undisguised propaganda. This would be tasteless ten years in the future, but right now it's just...horrifying.
I feel a little sick to my stomach about it. Seeing something like that released by an entity so ubiquitous, so mainstream. Dear god.
The trailer is basically saying that it’s cool to play as fascist protagonists, and that any group that advocates for equality/equity amongst peoples is 1) aiming for a pipe dream (note the use of the word “utopia”, which has historically been derided as impossible to achieve in American domestic-facing propaganda) and 2) actually terrorists who just want to kill innocent people. Yikes, yikes, and more yikes. What next, Ubisoft goes full mask-off and makes a pro-Nazi game where the goals are to find and kill as many Üntermensch and Resistance members as possible??
@@Leroset Just a side note: I hope you're not one of those people that call your political opponents CHUDS, because it basically means untermensch (look it up if you didn't know).
Lol stay mad
I do find it ironic how blm is basically asking for communism, but it's not ok to make them the bad guys just like we've done with russia and china for around 30 years.. and people completely miss the fact that it is a chinese backed group.. before you yell bullshit, google "alicia garza chinese progressive association". That's the dear blm founder
Not to mention the fact that china supports the blm movement and is distributing propaganda for them
I don't understand how people DON'T see Elite Squad as problematic. I don't mean the fist, I mean the whole premise. The government, in response to protests, decides to create a secret police, rather than adress the issues the protesters may have. It's a Gestapo Simulator, how could it NOT make people angry?!
Because then you dont have a game
Because some people WANT a Gestapo.
Because we are living in a Gestapo simulator. When protestors are kidnapped by body armor clad jackboots and then deposited in interrogation rooms, pressed for information, never read rights, never told why they are there, and released when the prisoner demands a lawyer...
@@AdamIsUrqed all 2 of them.....
@@AdamIsUrqed Thats not how the police work. There can be corrupt police just like corruption in anything. Also there is difference between protests and riots. Learn the difference, check the source. Riots are violent, destructive. Protests are peaceful and trying to come to a solution to a problem. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE!
"pictured here as a wasp with a mushroom for a head" was inspired
"pictured here as a wasp with a mushroom for a head" is excellent
"Are you depressed? Good, buy our games." -Ubisoft, probably
The best ubisoft political message is in Far Cry Primal.
"Reject Modernity. Return to Monke."
FarCry AnPrimal
Poyais Panic Anarcho-Primitivism is tied with White Nationalism for worst (as in "most evil") political ideology.
@@NoobLord9001 Remember: If we're supposed to punch nazis, we should absolutely kick commies.
BlazingOwnager true; hence why i’m voting for Biden. communists _hate_ him.
@@NoobLord9001 Biden will be as good as AMLO in México
"Let's leave the window open for people who didn't know."
Pen's law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
You mean hanlon's razor? That's not the quote. You changed it to fit your point, you poop. I agree though.
Yes. ignoring is not ignorance. If these people ignore black lives matter relevance, they are not innocent.
I don't know if there is a law for it, but malicious people also love to pretend they are incompetent to excuse their misdeeds.
Corporations and politicians are more often malicious than incompetent. If they were that incompetent they would not have power.
@@twilightvulpine ehhh, incompetent politicians are placed into power because they are incompetent, and can easily be controlled then blamed for the results
@@rhoell2050 I mean, that only works if you assume "willfully putting yourself in a position of authority to do harm for money & status" is not a malicious act which... you might find some people would argue against.
There was a time when I was still a much younger man where a job in the game industry would be my dream job. I eventually failed out of my computer science course and now work in publishing, but holy shit did I dodge a bullet.
ditto
Every person I know who went to work in the video game industry regrets it, with the sole exception of someone who went to an indie developer.
@@Leroset so yeah, bullet successfully dodged
As a French, I love how you murder Yves Guillemot ' s name every time.
I was about to make a joke about it being fair play since the Québécois have been massacring French for years, but I saw that Yves is actually French. I thought Ubisoft got started in Montreal, so it'd make sense that he's from there as well, but that isn't the case.
@@LarsBlitzer Ubisoft actually started and still has its headquarters in France. An old joke/rumor stated that "UBI" standed for "Union des Bretons Indépendants".
We are not political.
Now read this political message before playing our non political game
our non political game beating the name of an incredibly political writer
Just what I needed in the morning. Coffee, Jim Sterling, and the horrible horrible state of Ubisoft.
I also watched while having breakfast, great way to start your day! :)
currently brewing some lol
I’ve played a Ubisoft game from the mid 2000s that featured Dinosaurs. It was made for Nintendo DS. Oh dear, it’s really crappy old fashioned now.
That's exactly how I started mine.
Exact same 💜
*Fully clothed woman of average attractivenes enters*
Chuds: "I'm tired of them injecting politics into games"
*Game promotes actual false propaganda that is spouted in contemporary politics*
Chuds:
anita sarkeesian was right; videogames were a mistake 😔
Do you mean "chad"? Or are you actually calling incels *C*anibalistic-*H*umanoid-*U*nderground-*D*wellers? Cause I'm totally cool with and down for either, like seriously fuck em, but I've just never seen someone throw around CHUD as an insult before ahahaha
Edit: used through instead of throw like a dumbass
@@lordkameguru7851 chud is a term used by online lefties to refer to gaming reactionaries.
@@declaringpond2276 So I just did some digging I could barely find anything on what you meant. I searched urban dictionary, searched the term, put it in different contexts to try and narrow the search down. Nothing except the aforementioned C.H.U.D. movie really. Well that's not completely true. I did see that people used it as an old slang insult for an ugly person for a while after the movies had a cult following and that some people use it as an insult for far right extremists and domestic terrorists. But it didn't seem hugely common nor did it intersect much with gaming. I think the only thing I saw on Twitter was some shit about a Crash character having blue streaks in her hair triggering some guy and causing him to use pejoratives and get up in arms over nothing so one guy awkwardly called him a CHUD.
Interesting I guess.
@@lordkameguru7851 yeah, its in the online left community, and not the theory part of it.
Probably more common in communities like breadtube or twitch channels like vaush or hasanabi.
I first heard it from vaush after being radicalized by Destiny.
Jim screaming in the background of the trailer fuggin killed me
Anyone remembers Umbra from Oblivion? Why would ubisoft try to ruin her name like that? Unconscionable.
Have they even heard of the high elves!?
I remember Umbra from Morrowind as well, he was pretty honorable.
@@stairmasternem An understatement friend, Umbra was the pinnacle of honorable..... Till I cut him down and claimed his sword.
Umbra is Lunafraya’s dog in FFXV, too, how dare they?
Umbra is the best version of Excalibur in Warframe, who suffered fighting the bad guys. How could they?
I know it's rough, but I want to thank you for not letting up on these topics, and especially for continuing to remind everyone of how vile Ubisoft is. So many people want to move on to buying the next game after a week of being mad at the company, but there are real people who have been horribly affected by the people at Ubisoft, and they need their feet held to the fire. My heart goes out to them.
Ubisoft daring to imply that people who just want to live their lives without fearing police killing them for no reason and the protesters who support their right to exist as people are actually terrorists, it's so freaking harmful. And then they make money off of that implication. They've never lived in fear of anything. They've never had to do a check-in call on their brother to make sure he's OK after noticing that police presence around his home area was heightened. (Which I just had to do this month! Even though he works for the freaking NAVY!) They've probably never even spoken to a black person before in their lives, but want to take advantage of our pain to make money and shit on us at the same time. Fuck Ubisoft. I liked AC2 and Mario+Rabbids, but I'm not supporting them anymore, and thankfully I bought those games used when I did, and those are the only 2 Ubisoft games I own. You think you can just sit down and play some funny video games, and then the company makes a statement that you, who played some of their games, are scum that needs to be suppressed, and by the way you pay THEM for making that statement. Go to hell.
"UBISOFT'S GAMES AREN'T POLITICAL THOUGH!"
I started crying of laughter
You made this bed, lay in it.
Pointing out something is X and *wanting* it to be X are not the same thing.
@azorel azorel The left never wanted anything to be political, they simply pointed out existing politics within games and said that it kinda sucked, and that maybe it should change. The left always wanted more of their politics in games, it's just that their opponents framed the issue as politics vs non-politics, rather than it just being left vs right, in order to get undecided gamers on their side.
@azorel azorel I have never heard this complaint. I have heard people complain that the game marketed itself as being a game about fighting a radical Christian cult modelled after far-right movements, and then set up the villains to be barely Christian at all, but that doesn't mean they were complaining about a lack of politics. They were complaining that the politics of the game ended up skewing right and even apologising for the cult to an extent, when it appeared to have been leaning left.
@azorel azorel I dunno that Polygon are that left-wing. They've got a flavour of progressive liberalism, but I wouldn't call them representative of left-wing thought.
The whole umbra trailer i was like "Yep, i still don't see how they're the bad guys" until they made them kill innocent people.
The good old scheme. Deride perfectly validate concerns with pure cartoon evil.
"They fight for equity, but they kicked a puppy! Therefore wanting everyone to be treated correctly is morally wrong!"
That didn't even do it for me. Based on the narration beforehand, you have to wonder what the propaganda on display considers to be innocent people.
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 The funny thing is: Ubisoft is doing the exact opposite with its AC and Watchdogs games. There, the corporate overlords and politicians are two-dimensional bad guys and the anarchists are the heroes.
"We show how rich people, police officers and politicians do lots of evil and kick puppies for no reason ==> every rich man, police officer and politician is EVIL"
[Just to be clear, this is not me devaluing that Ubisoft just criminalized a movement aiming for equality. My point here is that Ubisoft probably only cares about politics as far as it can make money of political sentiments. Be that left-wingers wanting to overthrow the system or right-wingers wanting to uphold the status quo. Ubisoft's behavior is careless nonetheless and the least they could do is to fucking admit that they are harvesting political power-fantasies of both sides.
@@wjzav1971 You're right. They are "apolitical" in the most cynical way (like most AAA game companies).
They really don't believe in anything but money.
UMMMBRRAAAA!! (Said in the voice of Cobra Commander)
Im not use to seeing Jim's eyes so clearly
HE HAS EYES?!
i was wondering what was different!!!
Here's something I've realized over the years: When Americans say "political" they actually mean "partisan". So basically anything the Dems and Cons are perceived to disagree on (whether or not they actually disagree on it is somewhat irrelevant, this is about media optics, not actually voting records).
It's only 'political' if it is subversive to the status quo
Exactly. How is BF5 political while CODMW not? Both are political. One is about pushing a fake 'female war hero' narrative, the other is about pushing a fake 'USA is the good guys world police' narrative.
"It's not political, we didn't even name the Democrats!" - Ubisoft, unironically.
@@raz1572 Which means, hilariously, that a corporation that actually strains itself to create the "least political possible product" is actually creating an extremely political product which actually needs the most intense political analysis in both creation and reception.
@@diegowushu well it is not political because game is based on YEARS OLD BOOK. What influence Ubisoft has on fucking democrats? Did Ubisoft tell them to support domestic terrorists and rioters? Did Ubisoft wrote script how Antifa is ought to fight? No.
Y'know, considering the current 'World Order' I'd be willing to try out a new one.
Youre in luxk i plan to run for office in 2041 & spent the next 8 years improving everything.
@@grumpyguy112 I think its really sweet you think we'll make it to 2041
@@nigelbuckthorne It works out either way. Ill live to be president or when im dead be a cosmic destroyer being.
While you have a point, communism isn't the answer. (Look up the founders of blm, they were literally backed by china while starting the organisation)
@@mithshude Don't comment about shit you don't know, you don't know what communism is.
I spent the first 3 minutes of this video wondering "why does jim look different?" then I realized IT WAS THE GLASSES.
It's unsettling how cartoony and "Fortnitey" this game marketed on a Lone-Wolf-Whistle propaganda piece this looks.
Get them young.
"lone-wolf-whistle"?
@@YammoYammamoto The piece is literally the power fantasies of those "lone wolf" alt-right shooters.
@@saulodoamordivino
I wouldn't know... but if you say it tickles you that way - I guess you should stay away from that game. :)
@@YammoYammamoto You ask what It is, I tell what It is.
"Here at Ubisoft we promise that our games based on the books made by a conservative nutcase with one of them being about how a bunch of elites are trying to take down an organization of ecoterrorists who want to release a super ebola, are totally not political."
@@kaistzar2831 Solo Man never said Clancy was evil, just that he was a conservative nutcase. From what I've read of his work, I'd say that's an apt description.
Super Ebola?? That's deadlier than regular Ebola!
@@kaistzar2831 the guy who made his fortune on portraying progressive ideas as twisted villainous conspiracies and terrorists for decades....yea. I'd say DECADES of established behavior and yknow, interviews of him preaching said conservative nutcase conspiracies, is a safe bet to say he believes the things he says he believes in
And like...the irony of commenting on a video about a corporation that publishes nothing but conspiracy nutcase scenario games while saying they aren't political, and then saying that source material isn't political either--yknow, the "political thriller" industry that was Tom Clancy's only bread and butter for his entire career, is just...well, on the nose
Mark my words people like you will miss conservatives when we are all finally put up against a wall and shot simply cause we have our own beliefs. When that time comes you'll have nobody coming to save you when your in trouble cause all that will be left is weak men and woman who will just stand by as your victimized and forced into servitude by the wolfs lurking in every human population. They will eat you and they will do it with a smile and there will be nothing you can do. Good luck cause you'll need it
Okay, so with the imagery for this "Umbra" organisation in the game, are you seriously trying to tell me that no one, not one single designer or supervisor or director or anybody looked at the collected design work or even the trailer and at least said "Um....guys? Maybe not?!"
Are you telling me *no one* watched the trailer when it was done and thought it was a bad idea, or even recognised the iconography as something else?! That nobody said anything?!
Bullshit!
It's definitely on purpose to create a controversy, so they'd get more publicity and possibly more people to play it because it 'made the libs mad'.
Do you really think anyone but the like 3 guys in HQ is listened to? 90% of the people in this company has no say on anything whatsoever
why though? are we so sensitive that we cant look at something from a different perspective? or see a symbol that is widely used as a revolution symbol all across the world and not associate it with BLM straight away? honestly I was even against the removal of swastikas in all media, it does nothing but hide history and assume that people will get upset seeing it...
@@konstantinstepanov5461 Yes, apperently we are so sensitive.
@@konstantinstepanov5461 that's stupid my man, congrats on watching a video directed squarely at you and coming out unscathed
Honestly Jim's distant protests in the background of the trailer had me cackling
Jim’s videos are somewhat depressing this year, but fortunately I was Born Depressed.
Depressing and banal are quite interchangeable it seems.
You were moulded by the depression?
Bro... same. Hope you're alright though.
@Eternal Ah yes, the video game news of "One of the biggest companies within the gaming industry has been protecting abusers for years and are currently using anti-semitic conspiracy theory logic to demonize protestors working for equality" shouldn't be depressing in the slightest. Thank you for reminding me that I did the wrong thing by reacting emotionally to the reality of serial abusers being the ones with most of the power within these types of companies.
@@daniellewasdelayed8921 Why do people not understand that the fact that a good chunk of the genre of entertainment I enjoy the most is produced through bread, water, sexual abuse and kicks in the mouth is incredibly depressing?
I was dying at "it's not political" lmao thanks Jim best way to start the day xD
Thanks for taking the time to remind people that in addition to scummy business practices, lazy game design, and exploitative micro-transactions, they also buried credible allegations of SEXUAL ASSAULT. Keep bringing this up. Never be not bringing this up. You are a credit to your profession. Thanks.
You just know "Umbra" was their backup name and they originally wanted to call the villain organization "The Internationale Clique" before someone told them they weren't allowed to
"The black jaguars" was the original name
Turns out there was a post-civil rights black literacy group called Umbra so that’s another layer of crap to this whole ordeal. Not that I’m saying they intentionally referenced that group though.
Or the ZOG.
"The International Clique" would have had _a lot_ of antisemitic undertones.
@@jackvac1918 That's the joke. The whole trailer sounds disturbingly like the content of a Hitler speech, so I made a joke about changing the terminology
It's just not the same without Jim's Iconic Glasses (pre-order Platinum Ultimate Edition exclusive)
There was just so much more face than I'm used to.
Only comes with fiffthy eight codes you got from buying assassin's creed branded pizza rolls
If it makes you feel better Jim, I don't wait for the YT algorithm to recommend me you I search you out literally every day and manually check to see if you've published a new video. Granted I don't always watch, but I do look!
Same here!
I am so glad that I haven't bought a single Ubisoft game in years.
South parks are great tho, but thats South park's magic not Ubisoft's "ubisoft magic".
"They have hacked social media, to discredit world leaders [...]"
Are you telling me, that is this game, the heroes are the people in power?
Also, the entire Tom Clancy series in general is something they should consider moving away from. It's crazy imperialist. In Splinter Cell they could have gone with undefined bad guys, but nope. In Chaos Theory they go out of their way to declare the enemies a cell of communists. You know, so you can play CIA.
God forbid that communist could be the bad guys, right?
@@grafphal5103 Too bad that the left-wing terrorism pales in comparison to right-wing and religious terrorism...
Only presenting the bad guys coming from the Left makes it look like there's no trouble from the Right, which isn't the case.
@rodrigo communist dictatorships in Latin America? Which ones?
Also the BLM protests have turned to riots when they were instigated by white supremacist agitators my dude... but hey, I only read the Police reports ;-)
@rodrigo Mainstream media of which country? You don't even know which country I am from or how I access information.
@rodrigo when the MSM has been demonising Venezuela since Day 1...
Who's reading only the MSM my friend?
I only need to look at the title to know this is gonna get spicy.
Ubisoft's logo aged exceptionally well.
It looks like a flushed toilet and accordingly everything they do is crap.
Add a couple loops around the sides and it'd be the perfect representation of the ultimate source of crap. Even change the name to goatsesoft.
*facepalm* How did I not see that?
I love how happy Jim seemed to be at that whole wrestling event. That's a really cool passion you're following there Jim, I'm glad it makes you happy!
Ubisoft spokesthing: "See, we've listened to you! We got rid of that insensitive 'clenched fist' symbol! Look at this cool new logo for UMBRA, it's an octopus clutching the globe in its tentacles! Isn't it awesome?! Wait, what?"
where is my mod to put the ubisoft logo there ;)
gotta get that core gamer:tm: demographic.
I'm curious to know how you feel about CDPR recently saying they're designing the microtransactions for Cyberpunk in a way that "makes players feel good about spending money".
I'm sure what CDPR is trying to say is that we, the consumers/gamers, will actually feel what we pay $ for will have value beyond what other companies provide for their mtx. But only time will tell what that might look like.
I'm sure they'll give us a feeling of pride and accomplishment.
"makes players feel good about spending money" honestly kinda sounds like something that fits a cyberpunk dystopia.
Then again, we're sort of living in one.
@@Monochromatic_Spider They also defend crunch and regularly let abuses slide, so.............
There's a little CAAApitalism in ALL the garmes industry.
CDPR is a company. I wish people stoped idolizing them. Yes, they make incredible games, and I'm pretty sure Cyberpunk will be an incredible experience. But they're a company, sooner or later they'll go the EA, Blizzard, Bethesda route. They always do. So let's hope they get a few good games out before the inevitable mask slip.
"I Really, Really Hate Ubisoft" - Ditto.
it’s really late and I thought this was a quote by the pokemon Ditto
LOL... You definitely need to get some rest! Sleep well.
My brother showed me one of your videos and now I can't stop. I enjoy them a lot even if I always come out of them enraged and/or depressed. Now that I've started getting into gaming, it really helps me to keep in mind who is behind the games, to know which companies I would never ever want to support. Thank you, James Stephanie!
Here here!
"Speaking of wanton abuses of power"
That was sooo smooth
I read that in Linus Sebastian's voice from Tech Tips like a segue into a sponsor.
Ubisoft expects everyone to get bored and turned away. It's what they want, and helps them get away with their shit.
Thank god I have notifications turned on so I don’t miss these videos even with TH-cams attempts to bury them. Genuinely sickening what ubi is doing, makes me feel bad for having supported in them in the past.
You know, I'd actually be perfectly fine with them having political imagery and messaging in their games as long as they owned up to it.
they can't fess up to it because some of their trash supporters are trying to turn "political" into a code word that can be used to make games that don't cater to white guys Automatically Bad And In Need Of Rejection On Moral Principle & if they start admitting their games are political then deflecting that codeword becomes effortless
When your evil wrestling alter ego who is written to be very evil is not as evil as a real video game company.
there's a saying that goes like "the bigger it is, the easier it is to swallow" and that's really how this whole scandal feels like
Jim you're looking good, you're more energetic and you have more color in your face. Way to go. Please outlive me, my future children will need your wisdom.
He's right you know
He does look in better shape ❤️❤️❤️
What if he outlives you but you die before having children?
It looks like he's lost a bit of weight as well, pretty cool.
Alternative title: "I take *Umbrage* at Ubisoft (The Jimquisition)"
that was a missed pun opportunity there