They claim it's because they meed time to 'polish the game' but I think it's more they realise that this game could kill the company in it's present state.
Edit: just realised something as listening to SideScrollers in the background, guess what's in February?
Black history month, I think they're still woke pandering even though they know it's a live bomb like Concord in the making.
Removing "Yasuke" is the only way to demonstrate actual good will at this point. And you know they're not doing that. They're going to fail.
Don’t care if they remove Yasuke and delete every single Sweet Baby written quest and line of dialogue. Don’t care if they make the game be about big titted chicks in bikinis riding hoverboards and shooting laser guns. Don’t care if they declare ALL the DLC they plan to release over the next 2 years will be 100% free.
It doesn’t make up for the last decade of boring games, shitty monetisation and repeated slurs and insults. The sheer fucking hubris on these people has been out of control for way too long. Fuck them, I’m not their customer anymore (as they wanted it). Not spending a single solitary fuckin cent on those people ever again. I WANT THEM TO FAIL.
Remember that this is the same company that told gamers to "get used to not owning games." Ubisoft is terrible even without the woke trash.
Do you have a link handy for that interview? It's the first I've heard of this.
As it should be. An actor opening their mouth up about politics is bound to offend at least some of their audience and there's really nothing to be gained by it.
Gaming could go back to its roots, and the industry would be amazed how many people rediscover the hobby they gave up.
LOL it would be in black history month.
Wait, oh crap. You're right!
Both UBSFY (ADR stock) and UBSFF (OTC ADR) are down ~15% for the day.
-38% over the month and -53% YTD. This company is cooked.
The plan to get bought out by Tencent continues I guess.
Damn. I was really looking forward to seeing them crash and burn in November. I guess I will just have to wait and see them crash and burn in February instead. Two or three months isn't nearly long enough to fix this game.
We still have Dragonage: Troon Guard to tide us over until February.
You know what else is in February?
That's right, get your waifu-chan the perfect gift this Valentine's day.
She love you long time if you she can play as a gay black man in traditional ancient Japan.
Don't be racist on Black History month and the 80th anniversary of Little Boy visiting Hiroshima!
prep the bull
Damnit. This makes me wish gamers had done a Morbius and tricked Ubisoft into thinking there was a huge demand for it, so they release it and have it flop massively.
Also coming out in February 2025:
IMO, this is Ubisoft's way of saving face. When the game inevitably fails, they can blame the failure on a "crowded market" plus bonus accusations of "racism."
Wait, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is out in Feb!!
I need to get a week off for that!
If they deleted yasuke they could save the game partially.
They won't. I wish investors could sue Ubi for failing the fiduciary duty
Who do you think are pushing Ubisoft to go private right now? The investors want to be bought out and escape the sinking ship.
Specifically, Yves Guillemot wants to be bought out. The other shareholders are accusing the Guillemot family of sabotaging the company in order to get bought out by Tencent while the retail peasants are left holding the bag.
The stock market is a glorified Ponzi scheme. The C-suite are only looking after themselves, and no amount of muh fiduciary duty will change that. You're just annoying cattle to be harvested for money, whether you're a customer or a shareholder.
No matter how much time they take to polish a turd, it's still a turd.
Remove the black character you tried to fraudulently insert into Japanese history, apologise unambiguously for doing this shit, and put an actual historic Japanese samourai in there.
Otherwise : GET FUCKED UBISOFT.
Even if they do all that, I’m not interested in what they’re peddling anymore. And I think a lot of others feel the same. We’re just so fucking done with all of it.
I honestly don’t think there’s any way they can salvage it at this point, no matter what they do.
The top people are just delaying the inevitable and buying themselves time to GTFO so they can go ruin another company elsewhere.
It's not too late to cancel and not release it.
There's still time.
They should fold, but Blackrock will prop them up.
I can see them doing that. I had hoped that internally they realized they made a very stupid decision with this game considering the guy who worked on the original story spoke up.
If that's true, they probably won't change shit. They just want to wait for the internet to move on to something new to rage over. It can be a fickle thing.
They should just cut their losses and scrap the game entirely. Maybe repurpose the engine for a new project. Nothing they can do is going to save the game from the bad press it has already accumulated.
Might not even get released at all if shares keep plummeting.
Oh my fuck.
Wow, that's actually huge, for a company like Ubisoft.
Owch.
Also: LMFAO.
They're rewriting the choreographed love scenes between Yasuke and Oda Nobunaga as we speak.
Can't polish a turd
i think the delay was in response to the Ghost of Yotei because even if the game fails because of Marxist judeo-niggerfaggotry, now they also have to contend with actual competition (who is also full of Marxist feminist-faggotry, just without the out of place NEGER in 16th century japan)
regardless its good to see jewbesoft get humbled, who knows maybe with enough setbacks we'll see that company crumble and get gobbled by another jewcompany
Bwuahahahaha
I WANT MY GAY NIGGA SAMURAI RIGHT NOW GODDAMNIT
-The Modern Audience