Ubisoft is pulling out of the Tokyo Game Show
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I mean they know to manage PR really well.
Whenever there's a national disaster, they cease rival conflicts and help the affected areas, getting the public to more tolerate them.
Can you imagine the brownie points they'd get beating up racist French game devs shitting on their culture and history. It'd be only less points than killing pedos.
They really don't care. But it'd be pretty damn funny if some mid-level boss is a gamer and was offended by this enough to go after Ubisoft.
They also got a lot of national pride so when shit like this happens or foreigners come and "johnny somali" the locals, Yakuza and Yakuza adjacent would coerce and intimidate an apology out of the moron to garner public sentiment.
Over a video game? I doubt it, I think Ubisoft is just afraid of otakus causing a scene at their events more than the Yakuza.
Not that I think anyone should go test, but I imagine that’s overstated because as far as I know, they didn’t do anything about Johnny Somali, who you’re rightly using as the poster-boy for disruptive foreigner.
they wouldn't hurt him physically on camera but there was active hunts for him and they did the japanese thing of going "HUH! HUH! NEEEYYYYY!" and intimidated him into a very shitty apology. Once with a group of young men who told him no more atomic bomb jokes, they're not yakuza, the second one I can't find is an older guy who made him parrot an apology in japanese and I think he was "former" yakuza or some shit.
Having said that, I have no doubt if you're a dickhead in public nothing would happen but a few threats and pressure to apologize. But if you continue to act like an idiot and not show respect to the person threatening you? I have zero doubt they'll come after you when the cameras are off. At that point it's not a national pride thing it's a personal one.
Nice