It's not stupidity that made Western devs do what they did with these IPs... It was all by design. They knew what they were doing... The people who owned Ubisoft in the past see everyone who isn't one of them as sub human pieces of shit. They despise white people the most but apparently they also despise the Japanese. Most likely because the Japanese were willing to align themselves with the Nazis and fight to the death. Ubisoft was just a means to an end for them. And after they ruined it's reputation by using it as a means to an end, they sold it.