You missed the big reason they don't want to have employees in public in Japan right now: They got caught basing merch on a Nagasaki memorial and having a character sit on it. I keep thinking Ubisoft can't get lower, but it keeps going down.
It is a war memorial, and the society is big on respect - and hard on disrespect. It's probably looking to them as 2 kinds of disrespect (merchandising memorial - aka - a gravestone, and portraying someone climbing on same, which I **think** is portraying someone committing a crime with said memorial) - don't expect good reactions from the merch.
So I have to wonder, how big of a reaction would we see a from the politician of the D.I.E.T committee? Before they were doing a wait and see position, so are they going to take some preemptive action due this disrespect?
Wait! Wasn't the narrative up until now that it's only western "wacists", pretending to be japanese, that were "offended" by strong independent black queers that don't need no huwite cis males, or something? Why then cancel Tokyo game Show? Does not compute.
There was already 1-2 months ago quite the heat in japanese news that even the government was involved primarly about this one professor who faked japanese wiki history pages since ~2012 and used these sources in his lecture books which now got banned because of altered history. Ubisofts Yasuke was a smaller part of his fakes. Which means that Ubisoft could just have been another victom of him because they did a sloppy research like using chinese architecture, wrong flags etc.
This wouldn't have been a problem if it was meant to be an obvious memorial in the game if it were an Easter egg or something. Everything else just made this a cherry 🍒
The Japanese “expert” was also member of Sweet Baby Inc, I love watching fire shows and meltdowns of companies I used to respect. It was well deserved 🪦
For real man, the Japanese used to call the British and Americans dogs.. and every country back in the day was systemically racist.. there’s no way in hell they had a black samurai which a Samurai was considered the highest honor for a Japanese citizen back in the day.
@@thelegendofbardock3816 well yasuke was a real individual, but his story within the historical records is very sparse and almost nothing is known about his life and how he lived it, the main reason he was known in history was because of his massive size and colour of skin, both of which was a rare and exotic sight in sengoku japan. And it’s clear that Ubisoft choose this character for his skin colour, rather than his place in history.
Fun fact: SW Outlaws fell to the bottom of the PSN Top 40 list for this week, from 32nd to 39th place. This is Sony’s self published ranking. No one GAF about that game and combined with this news Ubi has got to be in a panic right now.
Sweet Baby Inc and the rest of these activists need to get out of the business. This garbage experiment that they crapped upon gamers with has failed. It's over. Just take the L and rebuild the trust they had with their fanbase. that's it. I knew that Star Wars Outlwas was going to be a colossal failure. Just looking at the main character, Who wants to look at her for hours of gameplay?
Only the western weebs that convinced themselves they are entitled to dictate Japanese culture. Classic case of "Anne Wilkes" syndrome. If you are familiar with the Stephen King story, Misery, about the delusional lady that kidnaps an author to force him to alter the canon of his story to her personal version.
If they didn’t want to make money that would make sense, but Ubisoft needs it after Star Wars outlaw flopped. I feel it’s a mix laziness, pride, and toxic positivity in the workplace.
Wouldn't sursprise me in the slightest. They have talked themselves into a moral panic and are now on a crusade for the "soul of civilization" itself in a sense. They want to offend "all the right people". That is everyone that doesn't share their perception of the world and their vision for it going forward. It is called a culture WAR for a reason. And WE are the enemy. We need to keep that in mind.
they are absolutely intentional. SBI's execs have been on video praising black violence against asians in places like NYC, Rochester, and Chicago these past 4 years. This is their tumblr fan-fic in game form.
Anyone can tell that is a sign of the game being a failure. But woke people will just think a game for Japanese that insult Japanese is a perfect game because they hate Japanese.
This only tells us that the girl who is more realistic than the guy who was a proud exotic pet for the emperor in actual history. It also tells us she will take the back seat for most of the important parts. Probably fall in love with Yasuke too. JFC, the guy is literally standing there in public with face revealed as he wears the full samurai body armor out in public. Imagine we go in full plate armor to go grocery shopping. “Man, I sure am stealthy 🤓 “
I love how they keep trying to say its just fiction but on their website, they brag that they won awards for teaching history through their games and how teachers use their games as an interactive way to teach. The gaslighting is unreal.
Like an exotic pet, he was literally a living conversation piece for dinner guests. The guy had one fight he partook in and he died in it. BECAUSE HE WASNT A SAMURAI! But let’s have “experts” from Sweet Baby Inc tell the world that black people were samurai too, racist!
Ubislop is selling merch with a destroyed Torii Gate. The reason this is bad is because it's from the bombing of Nagasaki in WW2. Another day of Ubislop showing arrogance and disdain for the Japanese.
😔😔they are f**king pathetic. how long would it have taken them to research that? average joes like you guys did it. man, Ubisoft needs to use this as a tax write-off. They need to start restructuring the game by taking Yasuke out and making him optional DLC. The entire game could have been the Japanese ninja girl and it would have been fine.
This game will flop hard in Japan and very likely in the rest of the world as well! This is the first time I'm excited for an Ubisoft release in years and I'm not even planning to play the game... 😅
I was ecstatic when I heard the newest assassins creed was finally gonna be set in Japan, something we’ve been wanting for decades now. And I cannot quite put into words the derection I got when I heard about the main character.
Be prepared for the false sales numbers to be pushed in the media. Game journos will lie about it, add fake award nominations, and “best game of the year” for games to sell like suicide squad
@@jjc5871 Yep, honestly we need a 1983 style video game shut down in order to jettison all the woche nonsense. Bunch of studios that have embraced ESG & DEI just need to be gone - CDPR, Ubisoft, BioWare, Crystal Dynamix, 343, Guerrilla, etc. etc. etc.
You gotta remember HOW 👏 MUCH 👏 TIME 👏 AND 👏 MONEY 👏 is put into developing games. It was planned out before the decision to go to Japan for the story was even discussed. It was NEVER 👏 ABOUT 👏 JAPAN 👏!!!
It's kinda insane to think that when you trace back every step to it's origins it basically started on TUMBLR and that toxic woke sludge breached containment there. Mind blowing, really. What could have been avoided if mentally ill people weren't allowed to coalesce around each other to form the Rainbow-Borg...
Well they had two "experts". One was a guy who made everything up on Wikipedia and the other was a woman who wrote books about relationships between boys and monks
No spine, no bravado, no confidence in their beautiful baby project that was made close to the heart. This only tells us that the game puts Japanese culture in the back while keeping ONLY Yasuke as the main focus of the game. Wouldn’t doubt we will have evil white man show up and need to be stopped. Well, Asians aren’t considered humans by the leftists even though THEY started the “stop the Asian hate” movement. That disappeared after 2 weeks and back to BLM of course. speaks volumes
"We just wantu talkuh to them. We just wantu talkuh to them." said the Japanese, practising their traditional draw cuts for...no reason, don't worry about it.
@@harbl99 Japanese people's question will be: Will UBI fix things that are strange in terms of Japanese history? If they don't fix it, isn't it a lie to say that Japan has respect? Isn't it a lie that they are trying to be as accurate as possible to Japanese history? Will the infringing content be removed from the product? Will he publicly correct the false interview that beheading was common in Japan? , and so on. I'm sure there are a lot of things like that, but it may be more like denunciation than question.
@@harbl99 I'm sorry if I made you nervous. Japan is a safe country. And in Japan, there are almost no murders based on religious insults or defamation of honor. Please come to Japan with peace of mind.
Assassin's Creed mapped the inside of Notre Dame so meticulously that the map is being used as an aide to restoration of the cathedral. What was different about that development team as opposed to this game's development team?
I think the woman who created AC and led the Altair and Ezio saga left. After that only Black flags holds a candle to the franchise, its an amazing pirate game with some boring AC side quests you have to do to progress the pirate story.
What is more confusing about Ubisoft's non-historical representation of Japan, is how the "museum mode" of Assassin's Creed Origins went over, with so many inaccuracies there as well... and it seems it was promoted as an educational tool... they haven't learned a thing.
I would not be surprised if their families' wealth originally comes from their ancestors' “foreign investments". It is so obvious that the same arrogance and greed run through their veins.
I’m Black, and I was fortunate enough to study ninjutsu and bushido for 20 years under one of the greatest Japanese masters I’ve ever known. From all the documents and scrolls I’ve come across, Yasuke is only mentioned as Nobunaga’s sword bearer, nothing more. There’s no historical evidence that he was a samurai or fought in any wars. If you look at Miyamoto Musashi, you can see records of all the battles he fought as a samurai. The same goes for Jubei Yagyu. From the shin kage ryu So, show me where Yasuke fought or any source that claims he was a samurai and Wikipedia doesn’t count I’ll wait right here until someone can.
It's amazing how there's people so confident about Yasuke's existence and status, yet literally no one can tell you where Yasuke went after Honnoji temple. You're telling me there are absolutely no records of someone capturing or killing a giant black samurai who was apparently Nobunaga's right hand?
Hollywood has dramatized an exotic pet for the emperor so much because LOOK!!! We have more fantastical stories about him and based around him (like Afro samurai) than we do of Chuck Norris jokes.
His former fellow retainer and likely bitter rival Hideyoshi, whom Jasuke technically outranked, made him disappear one way or another after becoming Daimyo. Ironically, Yasuke joining the Brotherhood after this would have been the ideal way to incorporate him into the story. Also, Hideyoshi was so awful, he'd have fit right in with the Templars. But no, they felt like they just couldn't not have Nobunaga in the game...
Ubisoft: -Japanese have no problem with Assassin's Creed Shadows! The critics are westerners on Google translate Also Ubisoft: * Shat in their pants * * Withdraws from TGS *
Oh but an ex-SBI consultant that wrote an article for NYT told me it was just Americans using Google translate...... don't tell me they were lying. Say it ain't so!
Ubi probably realized the Japanese will eat them alive “Live” and there will be footage of it for the gamers worldwide to point at this and destroyed their talking point “Japanese loved this game” too bad Ubi chicken out otherwise we would all have a good laugh out of it.
This is the stupidest move a company whose stocks are crashing right now can do. Not only are they loosing the current investors but also all the potential investors they could get if they did take part of the events.
Man, it's hilarious how they messed up on that figure. And I guarantee you, it happened because whatever Ubi-slop employee commissioned it to be made just Googled "Japanese architecture" and went with the first interesting looking pic they can find to base the figure on.
💯 💯 💯 it’s that level of game journo research where after 13 years of Skyrim they finally realize you could pick up and item without putting it in their inventory after watching a RUclips video. They have demonstrated their lack of gaming prowess with games like Cup Head and Doom.
The creative studio that brought us Rayman has now become a shadow of its former self, a pathetic joke. This serves as a reminder of how the political landscape in America can dismantle even the most successful ventures. Ubisoft is on a downward spiral, and it may soon face closure or be acquired by another company, possibly Microsoft. They have a history of purchasing studios at high prices only to shut them down shortly after.
I dont get how this is the same company that got the culture and architecture right for AC games set in Greece Italy England France America Egypt Baghdad India Russia China So how the hell did they F up Japan
Ghost of Tsushima succeeded, despite the fact a white guy made that game, was because they at least showed respect to tbe culture, and didn't pretend it was completely historically accurate
You hit the key point. They didn't pretend that's it's historically accurate and they didn't attack critics who point out it's inaccuracy. Ubisoft insisted their game was accurate and they did not have the ability anymore to admit fault.
If you actually dig into AC Shadows the whole Yasuke thing is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many inaccuracies- some of which border on being either disrespectful or insulting. Even ignoring that side of things the trailers have so many issues of objects clipping through each other and one part where a door is floating off the ground. This game is a mess and Ubisoft is using Yasuke as a shield to make people ignore all the other issues people have noticed.
If UBI anticipated a significant decline in the quality of the game and chose a black protagonist to shield itself from criticism, then it would mean that they have a great planner, but looking at the story of Concord, it makes more sense to think that UBI probably has a similar "professor" working within it.
@@bluefang62 Indeed, this is a recent pattern, not just with UBI, of trying to replace a decline in game quality with an agenda issue. When the quality of the game itself was still being maintained.... In Last of Us Part 2 was first released, it was chaos.
Does ubisoft even have anything profitable left? Even R6S is probably in the gutter yeah? AC, trash Splinter cell, dead Ghost recon, mediocre Far cry, woke asf Anything else?
Where they messed up big time as well is defiling a country that many people admire. Many people love Japanese games, manga, anime, culture ECT. They have not only pissed of Japan, but much of their audience. So dumb. If it was set in New Zealand and defiled that country's history, sure New Zealanders would be pissed and it would definitely be wrong. But most people wouldn't care half as much. This is just a baffling move by a video game developer to disrespect Japan.
@@Efgand0894 Why does he have to be an npc or cameo. Nioh depicts him as a samurai, samurai warriors 5 depicts him as a samurai, the netflix anime depicted him as a samurai. But lets focus on the games. So hes already appeared in other japanese games as a side character and there is never a point in time where he can serve as a protagonist in a story? Let alone a co protagonist to a japanese protagonist?
@@Efgand0894 So theyre bad for making him a protagonist because hes black but you want him to be a side character/ cameo because hes black. How the fuck are you not exactly the same?
Even if they had played it off as historical fiction from the get-go, people would still be upset because this one is completely different from all the other Assassin's Creed games where are the protagonist was of the typical ethnicity of the region. This one is not and we all know why. It shows tremendous disrespect for the Japanese people.
I can't believe the amount of people who actually defend all this blatant disrespect of the Japanese and Japanese culture, saying things like: "It's not that bad" or " You're just nitpicking", but they wouldn't be saying that if something they liked was treated in such a disrespectful and disgusting way. They would be screeching at the top of their lungs.
are they really comparing Abraham Lincoln vampire Hunter to Yasuke? One is obviously historical fantasy and one is rewriting fanfiction as fact. It's a false comparison
i dont care what they told u at school, my black jewish he-grany told me the half destroyed arc in japan is a symbol of historically accurate black samurais
so you can kind of see how the Metro is controlling the narrative. The sentence reads "an African samurai named Yasuke, who is a real historic figure, and a fictional female shinobi named Naoe". Let's see a new sentence in the same structure and you can see what's wrong with it. "As the sun circles around earth, which is part of the solar system". The contention is the "African samurai" part, but it's treated as a *fact*.
should've gotten who ever's idea this was, the approval team to be the ones attending. facing the wrath of the people whose culture yiu've insulted an attempted to rewrite THEIR history oght to be a good learning exp. but noooo....the hid like the cowords they are behind their corpos skirt.
Ac was never historical fiction, it's historical fantasy, fiction is making stuff up whole cloth, fantasy is taking facts and making them fantastical The problem with yasuke is that he is a dei hire and everyone knows it
They know their game was going to get booed out of the building. they knew. if you stand by your game, you would proudly show up there with it. Naughty Dog didn't have this problem with Ghost of Tsushima....oh yeah, that's right. that game was historically accurate (for the most part) and a better game than this slop Ubisoft is about to crap on the public with
The metro article is painful to read with people who know what's really going on. But for the general public, there is a lot of assumptions that is implied as fact. This is too numerous to point out and it's tiring there is simply stating "African samurai" without listing out the contentious nature of that statement. There is the mention of historical accuracy fast and loose, but without mentioning this is the first game ever to use an actual historical character as main protagonist, and the first time they constantly promoting how accurate their game is. There is mention a vocal minority, without mentioning the Japanese government actually is now involved. There is no mention about how the "researchers and historians" consist of basically a few people, with most of them already disappeared and not defending the position... You got to give it to the people who knows how to write a good propaganda article that does a good job misleading the general public.
I expected this… Ubisoft doesn’t want to go there and either show game footage for said game and hearing a wave of boos from the crowd OR not show said footage and the crowd still boo.
Thar statue is beyond BAAAAAAAAAAD Like insanely offensive to the point I don't think it's possible to attribute to simple stupidity But either way they definitely didn't talk to any native Japanese person about this game that's for sure now
Right now the only press they can generate is bad press - that's brand damage for you. They need to distance themselves from the controversies and then generate neutral press around unrelated properties - which is going to be difficult since everyone is going to be looking for hidden insults and disrespect in anything they do.
Someone at Ubi has finally realized their goose is cooked. I think this may also have something to do with the upcoming proxy battle coming up in the next few weeks. I am also hearing Ubi may delay the game now ? Probably a smart move if they want to keep their stock price where it's at for the upcoming proxy battle.
It’s interesting how the western woke media keeps saying that only straight white men are the problem with this assasins creed drama, and that Japanese people love the gay black ninja, but then they just happen to be hiding from the same Japanese gamers who supposedly love it? Very interesting
You almost think they *wanted* to be this offensive to japan with these many *mistakes*. I mean past a certain point sure smells like someone had a axe to grind to make a game with this much trash in it.
Definitely seen this coming. Shows exactly where you be. Soft is headed and let it be a lesson to any other developers out there of games who choose to push the bar in regards to the woke narrative. Or the slogan that rains down supreme, get woke go broke. I’m truly enjoying how consumers may not be voice in their opinion on Twitter/X however they’re taking it to the best possible level and voting with their wallets. NUFF SAID
In 2010 in the way back machine, Yasuke was not labeled a samurai. So where did the new information come from? All the information on him was already known. Why label him a samurai in more recent years?
Have to start watching through blockers, at least until after early November. For some reason, I keep getting the same smear ads against one politician.
Not just Tokyo Game Show, but the new update is that they've cancelled all their press events.
its afraid lmao
That's always a good sign🤣🤣🤣
Awesome!!
@@Exlayer-pk8hy They should be!
They are scared shitless.
You missed the big reason they don't want to have employees in public in Japan right now: They got caught basing merch on a Nagasaki memorial and having a character sit on it. I keep thinking Ubisoft can't get lower, but it keeps going down.
Yup they used a on legged torii on a statue. It has a very specific meaning in japan.
It'd be like if Japan made a Funko pop with two destroyed skyscrapers and an airplane
Not just that. They also made the ninja character to perch on the top of the torii/gate. It's a traditional, sacred gate & they put feet on it.
It is a war memorial, and the society is big on respect - and hard on disrespect. It's probably looking to them as 2 kinds of disrespect (merchandising memorial - aka - a gravestone, and portraying someone climbing on same, which I **think** is portraying someone committing a crime with said memorial) - don't expect good reactions from the merch.
So I have to wonder, how big of a reaction would we see a from the politician of the D.I.E.T committee? Before they were doing a wait and see position, so are they going to take some preemptive action due this disrespect?
Wait! Wasn't the narrative up until now that it's only western "wacists", pretending to be japanese, that were "offended" by strong independent black queers that don't need no huwite cis males, or something?
Why then cancel Tokyo game Show? Does not compute.
There was already 1-2 months ago quite the heat in japanese news that even the government was involved primarly about this one professor who faked japanese wiki history pages since ~2012 and used these sources in his lecture books which now got banned because of altered history. Ubisofts Yasuke was a smaller part of his fakes. Which means that Ubisoft could just have been another victom of him because they did a sloppy research like using chinese architecture, wrong flags etc.
I like how it shifted from:
- Only westerners dislike it
- Small minorty in Japan dislike it
- Canceled Tokyo game show
Next stage: -"Yes, the whole of Japan is upset and offended by our woke game, but that's actually a good thing. Here's why..."
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@@baumgartnerrogerri dare them to say that lol
@@baumgartnerrogerr L O L
That sounds so real
@@baumgartnerrogerr the whole country is inhabited by only toxic strait white men. Somehow.
Ubisoft won’t say it, they tucked their tails and ran but journos like Kotaku and friends will certainly try it.
Ubisoft: We Respect the Japanese culture.
Also Ubisoft: Make a statue of the iconic symbol of the Nagasaki's destruction by Nuclear Bomb.
Also ubisoft: let's steal a japan flag without asking premision like we are ment to and use Chinese buildings
The real Yasuke would disapprove.
@@wesmcinerny4524he likely wouldn't care.
This wouldn't have been a problem if it was meant to be an obvious memorial in the game if it were an Easter egg or something. Everything else just made this a cherry 🍒
That is the least egregious thing about it all
They stole designs from One Piece, a reenactment group, the Oda family, a Nagasaki memorial, etc. THEY ARE THIEVES.
Thieves, Liars, and Cowards. They were THIS 👌🏼 close to calling themselves pirates THIS 👌🏼 close!!
This is what happens when you get your "historical experts" from Tik Tok & DEI
The Japanese “expert” was also member of Sweet Baby Inc, I love watching fire shows and meltdowns of companies I used to respect. It was well deserved 🪦
@@Zeoran Got their advice from the same grandma that said Cleopatra was black.
For real man, the Japanese used to call the British and Americans dogs.. and every country back in the day was systemically racist.. there’s no way in hell they had a black samurai which a Samurai was considered the highest honor for a Japanese citizen back in the day.
@@thelegendofbardock3816 well yasuke was a real individual, but his story within the historical records is very sparse and almost nothing is known about his life and how he lived it, the main reason he was known in history was because of his massive size and colour of skin, both of which was a rare and exotic sight in sengoku japan. And it’s clear that Ubisoft choose this character for his skin colour, rather than his place in history.
Fun fact: SW Outlaws fell to the bottom of the PSN Top 40 list for this week, from 32nd to 39th place. This is Sony’s self published ranking. No one GAF about that game and combined with this news Ubi has got to be in a panic right now.
Sweet Baby Inc and the rest of these activists need to get out of the business. This garbage experiment that they crapped upon gamers with has failed. It's over. Just take the L and rebuild the trust they had with their fanbase. that's it. I knew that Star Wars Outlwas was going to be a colossal failure. Just looking at the main character, Who wants to look at her for hours of gameplay?
"it's only western gamers offended"
yup
that was clearly as true as we all suspected :)
They said the comments were poorly translated into Japanese as if they know Japanese.
Only the western weebs that convinced themselves they are entitled to dictate Japanese culture. Classic case of "Anne Wilkes" syndrome. If you are familiar with the Stephen King story, Misery, about the delusional lady that kidnaps an author to force him to alter the canon of his story to her personal version.
Yes, only gamers west of France are offended. :p
At this point, one has to wonder whether the insults to Japan and its culture aren't actually intentional.
If they didn’t want to make money that would make sense, but Ubisoft needs it after Star Wars outlaw flopped. I feel it’s a mix laziness, pride, and toxic positivity in the workplace.
Wouldn't sursprise me in the slightest.
They have talked themselves into a moral panic and are now on a crusade for the "soul of civilization" itself in a sense. They want to offend "all the right people". That is everyone that doesn't share their perception of the world and their vision for it going forward.
It is called a culture WAR for a reason.
And WE are the enemy.
We need to keep that in mind.
It's 100% intentional
Remember this is a game made by liberals
They're very open about their hatred of Japan
I think they are and the plan is to sell UbiSoft WHOLE to Tencent.
they are absolutely intentional. SBI's execs have been on video praising black violence against asians in places like NYC, Rochester, and Chicago these past 4 years. This is their tumblr fan-fic in game form.
Imagine being so cowardly that you know you cant show the game to the people who its supposed to be based on.
Exactly a complete fail on every level.
Anyone can tell that is a sign of the game being a failure.
But woke people will just think a game for Japanese that insult Japanese is a perfect game because they hate Japanese.
They can't even go and say Sorry.
This only tells us that the girl who is more realistic than the guy who was a proud exotic pet for the emperor in actual history. It also tells us she will take the back seat for most of the important parts. Probably fall in love with Yasuke too. JFC, the guy is literally standing there in public with face revealed as he wears the full samurai body armor out in public. Imagine we go in full plate armor to go grocery shopping. “Man, I sure am stealthy 🤓 “
@@KingRumar She is just as bad as yuckgay. She is a progressive lesbian who rejects Japanese culture.
I love how they keep trying to say its just fiction but on their website, they brag that they won awards for teaching history through their games and how teachers use their games as an interactive way to teach. The gaslighting is unreal.
there was no black Samurai in feudal Japan. Some black slave was bought by a Lord who dressed him up like a Ken doll for shits ang giggles.
Like an exotic pet, he was literally a living conversation piece for dinner guests. The guy had one fight he partook in and he died in it. BECAUSE HE WASNT A SAMURAI! But let’s have “experts” from Sweet Baby Inc tell the world that black people were samurai too, racist!
Ubislop is selling merch with a destroyed Torii Gate. The reason this is bad is because it's from the bombing of Nagasaki in WW2. Another day of Ubislop showing arrogance and disdain for the Japanese.
Yup the one legged torii is a symbol of the bombing of Nagisaki.
It shows how ignorant and incompetent they are
😔😔they are f**king pathetic. how long would it have taken them to research that? average joes like you guys did it. man, Ubisoft needs to use this as a tax write-off. They need to start restructuring the game by taking Yasuke out and making him optional DLC. The entire game could have been the Japanese ninja girl and it would have been fine.
@@Efgand0894 I don't believe it was an accident. They think they're smart.
It's afraid, IT'S AFRAID!
The most insane part about this is they have a Japaneese branch, I can only imagine it's filled with westerners.
Probably fat white women with shaved heads and blue hair.
To think they are having a great time having a (western) job and living in japan, while connected to those that would disrespect the Japanese.
They're TERRIFIED of all the awful press they've managed to stir up.
All that bravado until the dogs come up on the porch, am I right?
The cowards hide from the truth. Even blizzard was braver and they had the "don't you have phones?" Debacle.
Funny how diversity only counts when the powers that be decides it does. Lol
This game will flop hard in Japan and very likely in the rest of the world as well! This is the first time I'm excited for an Ubisoft release in years and I'm not even planning to play the game... 😅
@D3K018 Can't wait for it to flop!
I'm still astonished how they could f up an Assassins Creed taking place in Japan.
create male japanese shinobi
name him Hanzo
make money
I was ecstatic when I heard the newest assassins creed was finally gonna be set in Japan, something we’ve been wanting for decades now. And I cannot quite put into words the derection I got when I heard about the main character.
Be prepared for the false sales numbers to be pushed in the media. Game journos will lie about it, add fake award nominations, and “best game of the year” for games to sell like suicide squad
Hopefully Ubisoft goes out of business.
it would really help if a couple of these players would at least have to file under chapter 11.
That’s the only way this shit will finally stop.
@@jjc5871 Yep, honestly we need a 1983 style video game shut down in order to jettison all the woche nonsense. Bunch of studios that have embraced ESG & DEI just need to be gone - CDPR, Ubisoft, BioWare, Crystal Dynamix, 343, Guerrilla, etc. etc. etc.
Ubisoft did not think this through.
No, they did. Their marketing teams just told them lies. Likely those marketing teams were schoolmates of SBI's people.
You gotta remember HOW 👏 MUCH 👏 TIME 👏 AND 👏 MONEY 👏 is put into developing games. It was planned out before the decision to go to Japan for the story was even discussed. It was NEVER 👏 ABOUT 👏 JAPAN 👏!!!
This is gonna flop as hard as Star Wars Outlaws.
@@corvega_joe harder I think
This is what happens when you base your research on a search engine and fanfics
It's kinda insane to think that when you trace back every step to it's origins it basically started on TUMBLR and that toxic woke sludge breached containment there.
Mind blowing, really.
What could have been avoided if mentally ill people weren't allowed to coalesce around each other to form the Rainbow-Borg...
Well they had two "experts". One was a guy who made everything up on Wikipedia and the other was a woman who wrote books about relationships between boys and monks
The REAL cultural appropriators got caught and are in hiding.
@@jimmyv3170 lol - sounds like exactly the kind of references left wing lunatic diversity hires like those at Ubisoft would use as "sources". :)
Even worse: Historical PDF BL fanfics! 😱
Many Japanese people were looking forward to the Tokyo Game Show because they wanted to ask UBI questions. UBI should not have run away.
No spine, no bravado, no confidence in their beautiful baby project that was made close to the heart.
This only tells us that the game puts Japanese culture in the back while keeping ONLY Yasuke as the main focus of the game. Wouldn’t doubt we will have evil white man show up and need to be stopped. Well, Asians aren’t considered humans by the leftists even though THEY started the “stop the Asian hate” movement. That disappeared after 2 weeks and back to BLM of course. speaks volumes
"We just wantu talkuh to them. We just wantu talkuh to them." said the Japanese, practising their traditional draw cuts for...no reason, don't worry about it.
@@harbl99 Japanese people's question will be: Will UBI fix things that are strange in terms of Japanese history? If they don't fix it, isn't it a lie to say that Japan has respect? Isn't it a lie that they are trying to be as accurate as possible to Japanese history? Will the infringing content be removed from the product? Will he publicly correct the false interview that beheading was common in Japan? , and so on.
I'm sure there are a lot of things like that, but it may be more like denunciation than question.
@@harbl99 I'm sorry if I made you nervous. Japan is a safe country. And in Japan, there are almost no murders based on religious insults or defamation of honor. Please come to Japan with peace of mind.
Assassin's Creed mapped the inside of Notre Dame so meticulously that the map is being used as an aide to restoration of the cathedral. What was different about that development team as opposed to this game's development team?
I think the woman who created AC and led the Altair and Ezio saga left. After that only Black flags holds a candle to the franchise, its an amazing pirate game with some boring AC side quests you have to do to progress the pirate story.
DEI hires wanting to take shortcuts.
What is more confusing about Ubisoft's non-historical representation of Japan, is how the "museum mode" of Assassin's Creed Origins went over, with so many inaccuracies there as well... and it seems it was promoted as an educational tool... they haven't learned a thing.
For ppl who complain about western colonialism they sure have no hesitation or problem with forcing their woke ideology on the rest of the world.
"It's okay when we do it!"
“Don’t compare us to those rayciss BIGOTS! All we want to do is modernize the east to modern standards- wait..”
"Rules for thee, but not for me"
I would not be surprised if their families' wealth originally comes from their ancestors' “foreign investments". It is so obvious that the same arrogance and greed run through their veins.
They spoke to the damn fake Japanese sweet baby inc contractor from Alaska. They didn’t speak to actual Japanese people
Ubifrauds "it's only western gamers angry" hmmm
When they realize Japanese are still not-white and can be classified as minorities. 😮
I’m Black, and I was fortunate enough to study ninjutsu and bushido for 20 years under one of the greatest Japanese masters I’ve ever known. From all the documents and scrolls I’ve come across, Yasuke is only mentioned as Nobunaga’s sword bearer, nothing more. There’s no historical evidence that he was a samurai or fought in any wars. If you look at Miyamoto Musashi, you can see records of all the battles he fought as a samurai. The same goes for Jubei Yagyu. From the shin kage ryu So, show me where Yasuke fought or any source that claims he was a samurai and Wikipedia doesn’t count I’ll wait right here until someone can.
It's amazing how there's people so confident about Yasuke's existence and status, yet literally no one can tell you where Yasuke went after Honnoji temple.
You're telling me there are absolutely no records of someone capturing or killing a giant black samurai who was apparently Nobunaga's right hand?
This is how you know they’re outright lying. Dude isn’t spending less than a year in Japan and being made a samurai.
Hollywood has dramatized an exotic pet for the emperor so much because LOOK!!! We have more fantastical stories about him and based around him (like Afro samurai) than we do of Chuck Norris jokes.
His former fellow retainer and likely bitter rival Hideyoshi, whom Jasuke technically outranked, made him disappear one way or another after becoming Daimyo.
Ironically, Yasuke joining the Brotherhood after this would have been the ideal way to incorporate him into the story. Also, Hideyoshi was so awful, he'd have fit right in with the Templars.
But no, they felt like they just couldn't not have Nobunaga in the game...
- Japanese based game
- Can't attend a Japanese game show because of controversy...
I'm sure You-Be-Soft is perfectly A-OK and fine.
Ubisoft: -Japanese have no problem with Assassin's Creed Shadows! The critics are westerners on Google translate
Also Ubisoft: * Shat in their pants * * Withdraws from TGS *
Oh but an ex-SBI consultant that wrote an article for NYT told me it was just Americans using Google translate...... don't tell me they were lying. Say it ain't so!
Ubi probably realized the Japanese will eat them alive “Live” and there will be footage of it for the gamers worldwide to point at this and destroyed their talking point “Japanese loved this game” too bad Ubi chicken out otherwise we would all have a good laugh out of it.
This is the stupidest move a company whose stocks are crashing right now can do.
Not only are they loosing the current investors but also all the potential investors they could get if they did take part of the events.
Man, it's hilarious how they messed up on that figure. And I guarantee you, it happened because whatever Ubi-slop employee commissioned it to be made just Googled "Japanese architecture" and went with the first interesting looking pic they can find to base the figure on.
Oh 100%, there was no thought above : we need something with this figure that attaches it to the culture....erm...that one!
@@stormlightshield8169the one sbi guy said that exact thing. “Some of it involves them (bosses) saying ‘just google it’ “
💯 💯 💯 it’s that level of game journo research where after 13 years of Skyrim they finally realize you could pick up and item without putting it in their inventory after watching a RUclips video. They have demonstrated their lack of gaming prowess with games like Cup Head and Doom.
The creative studio that brought us Rayman has now become a shadow of its former self, a pathetic joke. This serves as a reminder of how the political landscape in America can dismantle even the most successful ventures. Ubisoft is on a downward spiral, and it may soon face closure or be acquired by another company, possibly Microsoft. They have a history of purchasing studios at high prices only to shut them down shortly after.
And after the massive amount of insensitive disrespectful crap they have aimed at Japan.. Ubisoft SHOULD be in hiding!!
They don’t want to have a “is this an out of season April Fool’s joke?” situation and have themselves come off as “do you people not have phones?”
Those guys at least were able to outlast the heat while Ubisoft couldn’t even step foot in the kitchen
I dont get how this is the same company that got the culture and architecture right for AC games set in
Greece
Italy
England
France
America
Egypt
Baghdad
India
Russia
China
So how the hell did they F up Japan
I guess this is the first game to be affected by DEI.
This time, they only let the DEI hires have any say on the game.
First off... they had British voices in their game set in france.
@@Blueslyfox Did they wow lol
They screwed up Scandinavian and America.
Lying about a country's history is a blacklist waiting to happen. Japan has honor.
Ghost of Tsushima succeeded, despite the fact a white guy made that game, was because they at least showed respect to tbe culture, and didn't pretend it was completely historically accurate
You hit the key point. They didn't pretend that's it's historically accurate and they didn't attack critics who point out it's inaccuracy. Ubisoft insisted their game was accurate and they did not have the ability anymore to admit fault.
God forbid they stretch the historical realism for a bit of fantastical fun.
Reminds me I still need to buy it again on PC.
If you actually dig into AC Shadows the whole Yasuke thing is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many inaccuracies- some of which border on being either disrespectful or insulting. Even ignoring that side of things the trailers have so many issues of objects clipping through each other and one part where a door is floating off the ground. This game is a mess and Ubisoft is using Yasuke as a shield to make people ignore all the other issues people have noticed.
They are also being extremely disrespectful and stealing designs from ordinary Japanese citizens.
If UBI anticipated a significant decline in the quality of the game and chose a black protagonist to shield itself from criticism, then it would mean that they have a great planner, but looking at the story of Concord, it makes more sense to think that UBI probably has a similar "professor" working within it.
It's not just AC shadows. Most of their AC games have been doing this bullshit for years.
@@z-accountlogic8913 True, a more accurate claim is the media is using Yasuke as a shield so people don't notice all the other issues with the game.
@@bluefang62 Indeed, this is a recent pattern, not just with UBI, of trying to replace a decline in game quality with an agenda issue.
When the quality of the game itself was still being maintained....
In Last of Us Part 2 was first released, it was chaos.
My only question is who is vetting the game, vetting the marketing for the game and who did they consult with the game. Stepping in Rakes for Ubisoft.
Japanese game makers should create a game about France with crazy historical inaccuracies!
Napoleon is a black woman.
Now that would be hysterical!
Does ubisoft even have anything profitable left?
Even R6S is probably in the gutter yeah?
AC, trash
Splinter cell, dead
Ghost recon, mediocre
Far cry, woke asf
Anything else?
They have decent ips but they aren't doing anything good with them. A splinter cell movie would work.
"Paint it Black" is not an old Rolling Stone song, it's a Ubisoft design policy.
Where they messed up big time as well is defiling a country that many people admire. Many people love Japanese games, manga, anime, culture ECT. They have not only pissed of Japan, but much of their audience. So dumb. If it was set in New Zealand and defiled that country's history, sure New Zealanders would be pissed and it would definitely be wrong. But most people wouldn't care half as much. This is just a baffling move by a video game developer to disrespect Japan.
I'm still waiting for Denzel Washington to play Stalin and Jamie Foxx to play Hitler.
Not much is known about the real Yasuke, but this Assassin's Creed game is an insult to him.
They could made him an npc and have a cameo, but no... Just keep pushing the agenda
@@Efgand0894 Why does he have to be an npc or cameo. Nioh depicts him as a samurai, samurai warriors 5 depicts him as a samurai, the netflix anime depicted him as a samurai. But lets focus on the games. So hes already appeared in other japanese games as a side character and there is never a point in time where he can serve as a protagonist in a story? Let alone a co protagonist to a japanese protagonist?
@@Efgand0894 So theyre bad for making him a protagonist because hes black but you want him to be a side character/ cameo because hes black. How the fuck are you not exactly the same?
as soon as I heard Ubisoft Quebec my thought was "As someone who lives in Canada I apologize"
At this point it has to be deliberate, cause I can't believe people could be this brain dead
Even if they had played it off as historical fiction from the get-go, people would still be upset because this one is completely different from all the other Assassin's Creed games where are the protagonist was of the typical ethnicity of the region. This one is not and we all know why. It shows tremendous disrespect for the Japanese people.
Of course, they wouldn't want anyone to confront them in the open with facts.
I can't believe the amount of people who actually defend all this blatant disrespect of the Japanese and Japanese culture, saying things like: "It's not that bad" or " You're just nitpicking", but they wouldn't be saying that if something they liked was treated in such a disrespectful and disgusting way. They would be screeching at the top of their lungs.
As cowards always do.
are they really comparing Abraham Lincoln vampire Hunter to Yasuke? One is obviously historical fantasy and one is rewriting fanfiction as fact. It's a false comparison
I'll stick to tenchu a 24 year old game series
Hell the original Tenchu on PS1 is more historically accurate than this game.
The Japanese fans can’t be why they are pulling out. Those were all poorly translated western gamers complaining
They're making friends left and right.
i dont care what they told u at school, my black jewish he-grany told me the half destroyed arc in japan is a symbol of historically accurate black samurais
It was not America destroying Japan this time. It was Canada because this debacle came out of the Canadian studio!
so you can kind of see how the Metro is controlling the narrative. The sentence reads "an African samurai named Yasuke, who is a real historic figure, and a fictional female shinobi named Naoe".
Let's see a new sentence in the same structure and you can see what's wrong with it. "As the sun circles around earth, which is part of the solar system".
The contention is the "African samurai" part, but it's treated as a *fact*.
should've gotten who ever's idea this was, the approval team to be the ones attending. facing the wrath of the people whose culture yiu've insulted an attempted to rewrite THEIR history oght to be a good learning exp.
but noooo....the hid like the cowords they are behind their corpos skirt.
Imagine having your war memorial turned into a funko pop.
Ac was never historical fiction, it's historical fantasy, fiction is making stuff up whole cloth, fantasy is taking facts and making them fantastical
The problem with yasuke is that he is a dei hire and everyone knows it
They know their game was going to get booed out of the building. they knew. if you stand by your game, you would proudly show up there with it. Naughty Dog didn't have this problem with Ghost of Tsushima....oh yeah, that's right. that game was historically accurate (for the most part) and a better game than this slop Ubisoft is about to crap on the public with
The metro article is painful to read with people who know what's really going on. But for the general public, there is a lot of assumptions that is implied as fact. This is too numerous to point out and it's tiring
there is simply stating "African samurai" without listing out the contentious nature of that statement. There is the mention of historical accuracy fast and loose, but without mentioning this is the first game ever to use an actual historical character as main protagonist, and the first time they constantly promoting how accurate their game is. There is mention a vocal minority, without mentioning the Japanese government actually is now involved. There is no mention about how the "researchers and historians" consist of basically a few people, with most of them already disappeared and not defending the position...
You got to give it to the people who knows how to write a good propaganda article that does a good job misleading the general public.
I expected this… Ubisoft doesn’t want to go there and either show game footage for said game and hearing a wave of boos from the crowd OR not show said footage and the crowd still boo.
Thar statue is beyond BAAAAAAAAAAD
Like insanely offensive to the point I don't think it's possible to attribute to simple stupidity
But either way they definitely didn't talk to any native Japanese person about this game that's for sure now
Right now the only press they can generate is bad press - that's brand damage for you. They need to distance themselves from the controversies and then generate neutral press around unrelated properties - which is going to be difficult since everyone is going to be looking for hidden insults and disrespect in anything they do.
Odd why are they cancelling that stream when they have for the past few weeks claiming that all the backlash is from Americans using google translate.
They are getting heat from people worldwide.
@@batboy555 That is true. Though they are trying to down play the back lash from Japan and saying it is coming from other places.
@Minwolf I can't wait for this to release. I'm not going to play it either.
Someone at Ubi has finally realized their goose is cooked. I think this may also have something to do with the upcoming proxy battle coming up in the next few weeks. I am also hearing Ubi may delay the game now ? Probably a smart move if they want to keep their stock price where it's at for the upcoming proxy battle.
Yasuke was literally an exotic pet that Obunaga showed off to guests like a parrot.
It’s interesting how the western woke media keeps saying that only straight white men are the problem with this assasins creed drama, and that Japanese people love the gay black ninja, but then they just happen to be hiding from the same Japanese gamers who supposedly love it? Very interesting
What if Abraham Lincoln hunted vampires. 😂😂😂
I mean, can you prove that he didn't? There was that documentary about it a few years ago.😃
You almost think they *wanted* to be this offensive to japan with these many *mistakes*. I mean past a certain point sure smells like someone had a axe to grind to make a game with this much trash in it.
Assassins creed: DEI
Certified Sweet Baby Classic
They would be BOOed off stage if they showed up in Japan 😂
The entire development of the game, could be described as putting on a blindfold and wearing earplugs, then dashing head first into a wall
This puts a smile on my face 😂😂😂
you keep missing the fact that they also stole zoro's sword from the one piece anime
Definitely seen this coming. Shows exactly where you be. Soft is headed and let it be a lesson to any other developers out there of games who choose to push the bar in regards to the woke narrative. Or the slogan that rains down supreme, get woke go broke. I’m truly enjoying how consumers may not be voice in their opinion on Twitter/X however they’re taking it to the best possible level and voting with their wallets. NUFF SAID
Ubisoft gonna be hiding next to Lockley as they write their next Historical fanfiction
In 2010 in the way back machine, Yasuke was not labeled a samurai. So where did the new information come from? All the information on him was already known. Why label him a samurai in more recent years?
It appears Ubisoft does not wish to attend their own trial.
ultimately Ubisoft realized they screwed up on a large scale and are paying for it.
The Japanese should embrace their inner African
It's like making a game set in new York with the world trade centre being depicted.
You can't spell Cultural Appropriation without Ubisoft.
Or was that Virtue Signaling🤔
Pretty sure he passed it off as real history at first, and backtracked to claim it was fiction.
"Historical fiction . . . treat it like historical fact." Kind of like Dan Brown, huh? Or that guy claiming space aliens built everything.
Really disgusting how they disrespect a whole country.
I think 1 possible reason is that they want to avoid a riot. Not more on Ubisoft's side but more on Tokyo Game Show's side.
He was a court jester for the shogun the very few documentation that is widely considered the most accurate shogun kept him as a pet.
He would've been executed after his lords defeat if he was a samurai.
Have to start watching through blockers, at least until after early November. For some reason, I keep getting the same smear ads against one politician.
That's a not a mystery at all, that politican's opposition spends massive amounts of money on internet ads and google is biased AF.
Me too. I keep seeing anti- Jen K. ads, and barely any in support.
"oh no our false narrative will be on display for everyone to see! can it!"
Ignorance is not always bliss