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Ubisoft scores a legendary ratio against Elon Musk on his own platform—which hopefully marks a final end to all the Assassin's Creed Shadows' culture war nonsense (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (26 children)

This game has been such a hard litmus test for "what would it take to get you to purchase another Assassins Creed game?" for me.

Like, "Would you buy it if it was just a genuienly good Assassins Creed game?" - Paid Ubisoft Reviewer

"No, I've played them during their heyday and I'm a bit over the formula" - Tired Inner gamer

"But what if it had Samurai, including the certified BAMF Yasuke?" - Ubi Devs

"hmm... I do love Samurai and Yasuke... but no, I don't think that would do it. I don't like Ubisoft's business practices and would rather not support it even if it speaks to my inner Chanbara nerd." - Inner Anti-corpo voice

"Not even if Ubisoft was taking a strong stance against the Anti-Woke nonsense culture wars? You couldn't even let their business practices go for just one game?" - Ubi Marketing team

"No no no, I know that businesses only take these stances when it's profitable. They would just as easily take the opposite opinion if that was where the money was at." - Inner cynic voice

"But what if we dunked on Elon, on his own platform no less?" - AC twiiter account

"okay...I'm in... but only when it goes on a good Steam sale" - Defeated sense of self

[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Who fucking cares? I dont play videogames to learn about history." - frustrated inner gamer that doesn't give two shits about what color the pixels are.

[–] doomcanoe@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

lol, that's a fair take. Though I do love learning about history in games. And I enjoy when games allow me the chance to live out some childhood fantasy. So in that sense, I do care about the color of pixels, and shape, and implied fiction behind it all.

But different strokes for different folks.

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