Assassin’s creed needs to go away. They are milking it and are trying to find any genre of history to exploit next. It doesn’t even make sense anymore. I’m not surprised they we weak and folded. They are just cash grabbing and have no backbone
Cowards.
To be fair, Ubisoft isn’t in a good position right now, to be able to experiment or do whatever they want. So the cancellation is understandable, if they expect it to be controversial and flop because of that. In the end, its the fault of the people who had political issues with prior games. I wish people would stop, so that companies can experiment and be more creative.
Personally, I don’t see a lot of reasons to be fair towards Ubisoft executives. They haven’t earned that.
Which does not change how logical a decision from a company is. To me, the decision to cancel the game makes sense. I wish they would not, but I understand why. And my understanding is not affected by my feelings about how much I like or dislike the company.
They have gone the safest path for over a decade now, making reskins of the same three games over and over to the point where Assassin’s Creed and FarCry which used to be real innovations in their fields are now just boring copies of copies. They haven’t taken a single risk since AC2.
They got negative feedback to including Yasuke - a real historical figure who did exist in the era the game depicts - and now they’d rather preemptively cancel their own game than tell a story about freedom and rebellion from an unusual perspective.
Cowards.
Do people really trust Ubisoft to fairly portrait American Civil War? I think cancelling is the right choice.
The only games I can think of where you fight back against racists as a Black person are Mafia 3 and Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry. Maybe Dustborn too, if you count alternative history fascism. It’s wild that there isn’t more after so many years of video games. It makes the news of the cancelation incredibly sad.
of course they would. on the cinema side disney allegedly removed some of thier “minorities” from a show recently.
