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Will Ubisot Ever Live Down Their Assassin's Creed Gender Blunder?

In June, Ubisoft made the error of dismissing female playabloe characters as "a lot of extra production work." Six weeks later, the company is still getting criticized for it, most recently by Ashley Johnson (Ellie in The Last of Us). Will Ubisoft ever live down its gender blunder?

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EvilWay3563d ago

I don't see why this is a big deal. Who cares if we play as a female or male? I like playing as a male because let's be honest it seems more likely, than a female taking on a whole army by them self. I don't have a problem with a female character (I love Tomb Raider) but female characters are hard to make there personality, because people want someone badass but pretty at the same time

zeal0us3563d ago

It wasn't a big deal until Ubisoft got caught with their foot in their mouth. Talks about more assets,animators and resources need to be pulled just to create a female character. When you say things like that, it makes your company looks lazy. Especially when another company go to create a female character with ease.

All Ubisoft had to say was "AC:Unity doesn't have female character at this time but we're considering it for the future" and left it at that.

This remind me of the time when Ubisoft stated pc gaming had a 93-95% piracy rate and people called them out for it.

Ariamythe3563d ago

This. It wasn't so much that they excluded them, but the stupid and ultimately offensive and dismissive way they did it.

JackOfAllBlades3562d ago

Come on! We all know how hard it is to program good breast jiggle physics!

joab7773562d ago

Its absurd. This is the company that made an AC game w/ a female lead, child of light and has done well with AC dlc etc. of representing diversity. So, yeah one person made up excuses as to why there wasn't a female in Unity, other than the fact that there probably wouldnt have been.

So, yeah. They will get over it assuming ppl dont continue rehashing old irrelevant stories.

AgentSmithPS43562d ago

More boobs are better than less boobs, I'd rather look at an attractive female while I play. It's still me playing the game no matter what gender I am.

JeffGUNZ3562d ago

Really? Who gives a whoot. It's their game, their vision, their right to put whoever they want in the game. I don't care the excuse they used, probably just made something up so they didn;t have to reploy with "hahahahaha" when asked why they don't have females.

hkgamer3562d ago

i think their excuse was that the other assassins in mp is basically the same main character, but others will see it as a different npc. so basically everyone plays as the same character. if there was a female, than that means they have to make another storyline. which would take months and not worth the effort.

others took it the wrong way and are just thinking of a simple character/pallete swap.

hkgamer3562d ago

where the fuck are the chinese people in this game. i want to play as a chinese assassin, also with a ninja costume. fuck you ubisoft you racist fuck.

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Ubisoft's Recent Antics Have Me Fearful For The Sands of Time Remake

Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."

thorstein5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.

*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*

Chocoburger5d ago

At this point, only dummies have any hope left for Ubi-junk games.

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Disney adds Blizzard and Ubisoft veterans to its games leadership team

Top executives including games boss Sean Shoptaw have also been promoted…

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Behind XDefiant's Toxic Work Culture, Crunch, and Years of Delays

Behind XDefiant's toxic work culture, crunch, delays, and a group of directors and managers internally referred to as 'The Boys Club'.

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just_looken25d ago

Man the industry just keeps on going with all this bs and to think this is ubisoft again remember what happened with that skull bones team same crap.
https://www.theverge.com/20...

This game will be tossed out broken unplolished with a bloated budget trying to be cod but will fail sense ubi can get there shit in order. If i was me i would have gotten rid of this boys club asap there is alot looking for work out there.

jznrpg25d ago (Edited 25d ago )

Every industry has these issues

Some companies I’ve worked for were great and some were toxic as hell (UPS when I was a teenager was extremely toxic and I have heard it still is) It all starts at the top. They either hold people accountable , set standards and treat people with respect or the crap rolls downhill.