Ubisoft is totally compromised, just look at the recent Watch Dogs and Assassins Creed games.
It's important to know that companies that are only buying into progressive politics to avoid controversy are also compromised by low level employees. They will continue to get pressured from them as well as from up above by banks and government to implement more "diversity" until the upper management has been totally subverted as well.
Basically if they have staff that speak in English and have an HR department they are on the path to being totally ruined.
Tbh, my only experience with Ubisoft is from R6 Siege and The Crew 2. There's a few too many female operators in the former and far too many female drivers in the latter.
I don't disagree, that's why I don't make these distinctions when buying, any support of feminism is blacklisted, unless it's Microsoft, because I have to use and pay for everything they make anyway.
A lot of female characters mean nothing though. Black desert online has 2 female char for every male char, but female char gets sexy outfits and most can be customized to be supermodels.
Japanese games often have all female characters as well. But usually they all are sexy, cute or look like females.
Sidenote: is it weird that I stopped caring about Assassin's Creed after they killed off Desmond Miles? I never finished AC4, because the gameplay was repetitive and the story did nothing for me. How the hell did the framing character become more important to me than the "main" playable characters?
Also, I couldn't help notice the under current of "authoritarianism is actually good when you really think about it," that pervaded all of the games. Like the Templars were these great moral heroes, and those well-meaning idiots, the assassins kept screwing everything up.
The Coalition is part of that initiative as well, which is why Gears 5 was so feminist and why future Gears games will be all about feminist lesbianism. Here's the She Talks Gaming panel, where they discuss more about it and Gears 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvpOXaZxOo
Even Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games -- full of wokeness these days -- have fallen off the cliff in terms of long term sales. They've been on a decline funnily enough ever since Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, where they let you play as a girl. All those cries about "Ubisoft is ignoring 50% of the market" was just that... cries. Actual sales data for Syndicate tanked compared to Assassin's Creed: Unity:
https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/assassins-creed-syndicate-is-no-1-but-sales-are-well-down-on-previous-years/
So while it had a hot start during the first week, sales tapered off real quick right after launch, so much so it was getting beat by Mario Kart 8 in the sales charts a couple months later. Assassin's Creed 3 didn't have a long tail end either, but it still managed to move 12 million units from November to December of 2012. Ubisoft has been mum on Valhalla's sales after touting the launch week numbers, same as they did with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, which also didn't perform as well as past games.
Oh, I know Gears 5 sucked. I had to play through it for the 10,000 reward points deal MS were doing. One of the worst games I ever played, why do people shit on Epic so much? They would have made something far better.
Nothing they've done there is more than the typical "we'll do this so you don't destroy us." attitude of all Nasdaq companies since the Nasdaq CEO threatened to delist companies that didn't bow to a feminist agenda.
If Microsoft were true believers, they'd have taken Five Nights at Freddy's off Game Pass when there was the big push to cancel the creator. There's a lot of times they could have gone full retard and chose not to, I still consider them the most sane of the big tech companies.
It wouldn't matter if they weren't though, through work and prior purchases, I'm tied to Microsoft for life anyway.
If Microsoft were true believers, they'd have taken Five Nights at Freddy's off Game Pass when there was the big push to cancel the creator. There's a lot of times they could have gone full retard and chose not to, I still consider them the most sane of the big tech companies.
Nothing they've done there is more than the typical "we'll do this so you don't destroy us." attitude of all Nasdaq companies since the Nasdaq CEO threatened to delist companies that didn't bow to a feminist agenda.
Putting out a basic message is one thing, opening up entire divisions and joining a coalition with Facebook to displace male employees for female hires is a whole other thing.
Gears of War 4 was terrible, but adding in an "empowered" female sidekick is the kind of lip service you would expect to keep the harpies off your back.
Rebranding their most masculine franchise into a feminist power-trip and using it to promote the globohomo agenda is way beyond the pale.
It wouldn't matter if they weren't though, through work and prior purchases, I'm tied to Microsoft for life anyway.
Ah, so you're just a fanboy. I can understand that. I used to be one way back in the day, but I have more of a zero tolerance policy these days for any company openly supporting the globohomo agenda and advocating to replace skilled (male) workers with female diversity hires.
Notch did some questionable things that implied anti-Semitism, which is a lot more likely to get you canceled than being anti-SJW.
It's still less than most other tech companies have done, unbelievably.
All the Gears games since Epic lost the license have been total shit. That's why they turned it into a propaganda mill, at least it has a use that way. Look at Microsoft at E3, they were nowhere near the level of insanity that others reached. They did their show and left, others did massive zoom meetings about racism and sexism for people to watch.
I'm not a fanboy, I just understand that I'm stuck with Office and Windows and I'll never play PC so I'm stuck with Xbox.
One of the worst games I ever played, why do people shit on Epic so much? They would have made something far better.
Nobody was shitting on Epic in the days of the original Gears. Nobody cared about Epic in general until the EGS, and if they did it was mostly positive regard.
Funny how a major controversy like that can 180 public opinion. And not even talk about their competency as a developer, just a company.
People shit on epic because some time after leaving the gears franchise they took a massive investment from tencent which is essentially a tech arm of the Chinese communist party. Despite the claims of others tencent is a minority stake holder with Tim Sweeney holding 50+% of the stock. Tim also frequently makes claims that Epic is doing “x” thing because they care about the consumer when in reality is it’s an excuse to weasel in on market share. And trying to take a competitors market share is fine but the we care about the consumer signaling screams bs.
Gearbox has a horrific record making anything playable (Borderlands is the only franchise they seem to polish) but the last installment was so woke it was a downright betrayal to fans. Non-offensive jokes. Non-binary and openly gay or pansexual characters everywhere. PERMA-BANS for misgendering thenon-binary robot character. I'm not sorry to watch them fail but they went all in and destroyed what little they had going for them.
True believers : Soyny, Dice, Naughty Dog, Respawn.
Just hiding from controversy : Ubisoft, Microsoft, Take2.
Trading political favors with feminist governments : EA.
Ubisoft is totally compromised, just look at the recent Watch Dogs and Assassins Creed games.
It's important to know that companies that are only buying into progressive politics to avoid controversy are also compromised by low level employees. They will continue to get pressured from them as well as from up above by banks and government to implement more "diversity" until the upper management has been totally subverted as well.
Basically if they have staff that speak in English and have an HR department they are on the path to being totally ruined.
Tbh, my only experience with Ubisoft is from R6 Siege and The Crew 2. There's a few too many female operators in the former and far too many female drivers in the latter.
I don't disagree, that's why I don't make these distinctions when buying, any support of feminism is blacklisted, unless it's Microsoft, because I have to use and pay for everything they make anyway.
A lot of female characters mean nothing though. Black desert online has 2 female char for every male char, but female char gets sexy outfits and most can be customized to be supermodels.
Japanese games often have all female characters as well. But usually they all are sexy, cute or look like females.
You really love them cars eh?
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Sidenote: is it weird that I stopped caring about Assassin's Creed after they killed off Desmond Miles? I never finished AC4, because the gameplay was repetitive and the story did nothing for me. How the hell did the framing character become more important to me than the "main" playable characters?
Also, I couldn't help notice the under current of "authoritarianism is actually good when you really think about it," that pervaded all of the games. Like the Templars were these great moral heroes, and those well-meaning idiots, the assassins kept screwing everything up.
Gotta disagree. Microsoft is full-on the woke train.
They aligned with Facebook's Women In Gaming initiative to displace men in the gaming industry with more female hires: https://twitter.com/womeningaming?lang=en
The Women In Gaming initiative is a $200 million upstart from Facebook. Here's the video message from Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/business/m/women-in-gaming
The Coalition is part of that initiative as well, which is why Gears 5 was so feminist and why future Gears games will be all about feminist lesbianism. Here's the She Talks Gaming panel, where they discuss more about it and Gears 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvpOXaZxOo
Here's some more info about it: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/03/21/gdc-2019-the-women-in-gaming-rally-2019-recap/
A List of companies who are part of Facebook's initiative (notice plenty of people from EA and Ubisoft are there): https://www.facebook.com/business/m/women-in-gaming/stories
Also, Microsoft is part of the whole globohomo agenda, again using Gears 5: https://www.ibtimes.com/gears-5-opens-doors-lgbtqpia-players-19-pride-flags-2823094
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/06/01/xbox-celebrates-pride/
How they're joining globohomo organizations to provide further "inclusion" of the homo agenda in their products: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/06/01/microsoft-celebrates-pride-by-centering-on-intersectionality-donating-to-lgbtqi-non-profits-and-releasing-the-largest-and-most-inclusive-product-lineup/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/default.aspx
And the proverbial diversity initiatives: https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2021/03/08/women-of-xbox-release-video-to-encourage-diversity-in-gaming/
https://news.microsoft.com/features/xbox-ambassadors-build-community-reinforce-inclusion-and-positive-gaming/
And Microsoft joining your favorite day of the year: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/03/08/xbox-celebrates-international-womens-day/
Also, there's no money in any of this.
That's always been a lie. Gears 5 performed so horribly they refuse to release the data on the actual product sales. Even Lefty-news outlets had to call them out for that: https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/borderlands-3-easily-outguns-gears-5-which-flops-at-uk-retail/
https://www.pcgamesn.com/gears-5/gears-5-sales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12W1_mT35NM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thH5yrx4ap8
Even Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed games -- full of wokeness these days -- have fallen off the cliff in terms of long term sales. They've been on a decline funnily enough ever since Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, where they let you play as a girl. All those cries about "Ubisoft is ignoring 50% of the market" was just that... cries. Actual sales data for Syndicate tanked compared to Assassin's Creed: Unity: https://www.mcvuk.com/business-news/publishing/assassins-creed-syndicate-is-no-1-but-sales-are-well-down-on-previous-years/
They use a lot of wordplay to mask the fact that Assassin's Creed: Valhalla had a hot start of 3.5 million sales during the quarter, but they completely fail to talk about its tail end: https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/12/21/ac-valhalla-sales-digital-uk-retail/
It had dropped into seventh place by March, 2021: https://wholesgame.com/news/best-selling-video-games-in-the-us-march-2021/
And by May, it was in 16th place: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2021/06/may_2021_npd_resident_evil_village_is_second_best-selling_game_of_2021
So while it had a hot start during the first week, sales tapered off real quick right after launch, so much so it was getting beat by Mario Kart 8 in the sales charts a couple months later. Assassin's Creed 3 didn't have a long tail end either, but it still managed to move 12 million units from November to December of 2012. Ubisoft has been mum on Valhalla's sales after touting the launch week numbers, same as they did with Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, which also didn't perform as well as past games.
Oh, I know Gears 5 sucked. I had to play through it for the 10,000 reward points deal MS were doing. One of the worst games I ever played, why do people shit on Epic so much? They would have made something far better.
Nothing they've done there is more than the typical "we'll do this so you don't destroy us." attitude of all Nasdaq companies since the Nasdaq CEO threatened to delist companies that didn't bow to a feminist agenda.
If Microsoft were true believers, they'd have taken Five Nights at Freddy's off Game Pass when there was the big push to cancel the creator. There's a lot of times they could have gone full retard and chose not to, I still consider them the most sane of the big tech companies.
It wouldn't matter if they weren't though, through work and prior purchases, I'm tied to Microsoft for life anyway.
Except they did bar Notch from attending an event for the game he created: https://www.businessinsider.com/minecraft-creator-markus-notch-persson-barred-from-10-year-anniversary-2019-4
Putting out a basic message is one thing, opening up entire divisions and joining a coalition with Facebook to displace male employees for female hires is a whole other thing.
Gears of War 4 was terrible, but adding in an "empowered" female sidekick is the kind of lip service you would expect to keep the harpies off your back. Rebranding their most masculine franchise into a feminist power-trip and using it to promote the globohomo agenda is way beyond the pale.
Ah, so you're just a fanboy. I can understand that. I used to be one way back in the day, but I have more of a zero tolerance policy these days for any company openly supporting the globohomo agenda and advocating to replace skilled (male) workers with female diversity hires.
Notch did some questionable things that implied anti-Semitism, which is a lot more likely to get you canceled than being anti-SJW.
It's still less than most other tech companies have done, unbelievably.
All the Gears games since Epic lost the license have been total shit. That's why they turned it into a propaganda mill, at least it has a use that way. Look at Microsoft at E3, they were nowhere near the level of insanity that others reached. They did their show and left, others did massive zoom meetings about racism and sexism for people to watch.
I'm not a fanboy, I just understand that I'm stuck with Office and Windows and I'll never play PC so I'm stuck with Xbox.
Nobody was shitting on Epic in the days of the original Gears. Nobody cared about Epic in general until the EGS, and if they did it was mostly positive regard.
Funny how a major controversy like that can 180 public opinion. And not even talk about their competency as a developer, just a company.
I still don't see why the EGS is such a big deal. People are acting like Epic makes them buy a new PC, all they have to do is install a program.
If it's the Tencent ties, may I remind everyone that Valve partnered with China for Chinese Steam to exist.
People shit on epic because some time after leaving the gears franchise they took a massive investment from tencent which is essentially a tech arm of the Chinese communist party. Despite the claims of others tencent is a minority stake holder with Tim Sweeney holding 50+% of the stock. Tim also frequently makes claims that Epic is doing “x” thing because they care about the consumer when in reality is it’s an excuse to weasel in on market share. And trying to take a competitors market share is fine but the we care about the consumer signaling screams bs.
Gearbox has a horrific record making anything playable (Borderlands is the only franchise they seem to polish) but the last installment was so woke it was a downright betrayal to fans. Non-offensive jokes. Non-binary and openly gay or pansexual characters everywhere. PERMA-BANS for misgendering the non-binary robot character. I'm not sorry to watch them fail but they went all in and destroyed what little they had going for them.