IbizaPocholo
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Ubisoft Apologizes For Assassin's Creed Retrospective Ad That Includes No Women
"We clearly missed some great assassins in this video, and we apologize."
www.gamespot.com
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Ubisoft Apologizes For Assassin's Creed Retrospective Ad That Includes No Women
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J-Roderton
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Didn’t they just recently apologize about some other thing?
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Look, Ubisoft. You don't have to put female characters in all of your ads, you just have to stop raping your female employees.
WakeTheWolf
Member
This is them dying
WakeTheWolf
Member
A very small demographic of people who don't play games
sertopico
Member
They just have too much love to give... And apologies of course.
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TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Too little, too late, Ubisoft. You added about ten seconds of Female (emphasized, bolded and underlined because I am beholden to the Gash) assassins to a 40 something second clip (I didn't bother counting because most of the run time was devoted to trashy alcoholic womanizing men who all look the same)
And furthermore, with the exception of my Chinese goddess Shao Jun, all of the female clips were relegated to gameplay. What's that, Ubisoft? Too afraid to feature females in your FMV's? I suppose they don't belong in visually stunning cinematics, but rather, in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, presumably with a male, to further indulge the patriarchy and it's misogynistic antiquated heteronormative narrative, right?
I won't stand for it, and neither should you, dear reader. We must become (SJ)Warriors and take our ideology to this, the most important of battlefields - entertainment.
And furthermore, with the exception of my Chinese goddess Shao Jun, all of the female clips were relegated to gameplay. What's that, Ubisoft? Too afraid to feature females in your FMV's? I suppose they don't belong in visually stunning cinematics, but rather, in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, presumably with a male, to further indulge the patriarchy and it's misogynistic antiquated heteronormative narrative, right?
I won't stand for it, and neither should you, dear reader. We must become (SJ)Warriors and take our ideology to this, the most important of battlefields - entertainment.
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Red Rackham's Revenge
Member
Is this a new copypasta?
KingdomHeartsFan
Member
Man Ubisoft has no backbone, this is such a stupid thing to apologize for.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Why don’t they just apologize for the first 5 games if they’re seriously trying to apologize for not having female assassins. Why don’t they ask Jade Raymond (now part of Google) why Desmond wasn’t a girl? To my knowledge, the first time they did include a female star, it was a Vita game. They would literally need to kill the franchise and reboot it to make up for not having a female lead. Throwing in a female lead now makes more sense because the main timeline is a mess. It’s all basically a sim inside a sim. Why not think of this when you create an IP versus making up apologizes that don’t matter to 90% of the fan base?
sobaka770
Banned
This isn't dumb pandering, Ubi fucked up. It's extremely tone-deaf to make a collage of over 13 games and only feature male characters even for later games where you had a choice of protagonist, such as only seeing Jacob for Syndicate and for Odyssey going with Darius.
Even I noticed it and this trailer had to go through some approvals so it's not a coincidence.
In general Ubi is extremely reactionary and tone deaf, their lack of commitment to a character makes them bland and for do stuff like this where they don't market a cooler character like Kassandra in favor of Alexios for Odyssey but now they compensate by shoving female Eivor everywhere in a viking fantasy.
Even I noticed it and this trailer had to go through some approvals so it's not a coincidence.
In general Ubi is extremely reactionary and tone deaf, their lack of commitment to a character makes them bland and for do stuff like this where they don't market a cooler character like Kassandra in favor of Alexios for Odyssey but now they compensate by shoving female Eivor everywhere in a viking fantasy.
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