For some time Ubisoft It does not navigate in good waters, and this is now well known. The company is in crisis after a series of bankruptcy outputs and, with the controversies that broke out around the choices made regarding Assassin’s Creed: Shadowsdoes not seem that the route has been reversed towards happy ports.
Following the numerous controversies that broke out over the past few months, in fact, the French company has prepared a “anti-moral plan“For their developers. An anonymous employee explained to BFMTV That Ubisoft has collaborated with the Body for the safety of Canada’s communications, to create a dedicated protection system against direct attacks has people who have worked on creating the game. And precisely these were advised not to reveal their affiliation to the project on social networks. This news is only the last chapter of the History already very troubled Of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, Despite not yet arrived on the shelves.
The new game of the famous series will be set in Feudal Japanand precisely in the communication strategy towards the Japanese public the French company has made several false steps. Last, the choice to move the launch date of the video game to March 20, the day in which, in 1995, the members of the religious sect increases Shinrikyo carried out a Attack on the Tokyo Metro With the nerve gas Sarin, which caused the death of 13 people and the intoxication of another 6,200. To date, it is one of the most serious terrorist attacks ever in Japan.
In addition, after the publication of a gameplay video of the game inside the Sanctuary of Itate Hyozu In which the possibility for users to destroy parts of the structure is shown, the religious authorities of the sacred place have declared that “they will take measures“Against Ubisoft for the fact that the setting was inserted without their consent.“ If they had contacted us, we would have refused.
And then, the queen of all controversial decisions: make the protagonist’s cloak fit a Yasukean African arrived in Japan with the Jesuits around 1579 and elevated to the rank of samurai by Oda Nobunaga, who wanted him as his bodyguard. The decision did not go down to a large slice of the public, both in the land of the Rising Sun, and in the rest of the world. Just to try to appease at least the potential Japanese players, Ubisoft has decided to update the product description on the Steam in Japanese page, in which Yasuke is now simply indicated as “legendary warrior“And not as samurai.
Now, it is important to emphasize that threatening or harassing the team that worked on the game is a wrong behavior, without if and without but. What we want to highlight, however, is how the gamers have now reached the limit. The decision to make Yasuke the protagonist odor of politically correct and useless exasperated and uselessespecially if we consider the fact that Ubisoft could have safely created a Japanese main character and thus check the “representation of minorities” box. And nobody would have beaten an eye.
Just mention examples like Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice or Ghost of Tsushima To show how most users are not inherently ugly, bad and racist. Instead, already like many other times, it took place go further. We will see how much this choice will penalize sales and the success of the game. And if he puts the tomb stone on the Saint-Mandé company.