Ubisoft's Creed: Assassinate your wallet.

$130 for an unfinished Ubisoft game that you don’t own that pushes condescending identity politics in my badass fantasy rpgs. No thank you

Remember how Altair had problems with taking on three guys?

Ubisoft IS losing money. Today they announced that their earnings were short of their projections and because of the horrible reaction AC:S Ubisoft's stock went down 15%. Keep the pressure on them!

>It's 130 dollars!!! No, it doesn't matter if it's 5 dollars, it's an Ubisoft game

"The game isnt a historical representation." Then why have a black guy as the lead? "Because it is a historical representation."

Me and my friend had a conversation about this. We're Indonesians. I revealed to him that the new AC game will be set in japan. He's a weeb, he's happy. Then I revealed to him that it's $130, he's mad. Then I told him that the MC is not japanese, he got even more mad, calling out white washing as an issue. I told him that he's not white, but black. He calmed down and sighs a breathe of relieve, saying that his wallet is safe.

I just don't trust Ubisoft to tell an actually compelling story involving Yasuke. They can't write an authentic story even if their own lives were on the line.

Millions of japanese samurais, 1 black guy in japan Ubisoft: I know who our main character will be

"I don't care what they tell you in school, Tokugawa was black."

these are stealth games where a major mechanic is being able to blend into crowds to evade capture. how are you going to be able to do that when you're playing as the only black man in all of Japan?

Making a black samurai is just disrespectful to Japan. It was done purely for DEI money. Asmon is right about it not being the biggest issue with this shit game, but it’s still a big fucking if issue. Blackwashing of history in media needs to stop.

"Who cares?" Well, Japan does.

Problem is people buying those things. We stop buy it, they stop selling too expensive shit.

Oda Nobunaga recruited commoners to fight alongside his samurai; they were called ashigaru. This is how Hashiba Hideyoshi (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi), a peasant got his start. They were peasants and slaves conscripted to fight. For anyone that doesn’t know, Hideyoshi was the man that unified Japan and personally avenged Nobunaga when he was betrayed by Akechi Mitsuhide. Hideyoshi was Nobunaga’s loyalest man and a brilliant tactician, and it took over 2 years of service before he was made a samurai. Yasuke only served Oda for 15 months. He was a page and sandal bearer, and was allowed to carry a short sword. It’s disrespectful and disgraceful to think Yasuke, a foreigner, was promoted faster than Hideyoshi. An ashigaru is all Yasuke was. Nobunaga’s ashigaru were well equipped and trained compared to others, but that does NOT by any stretch of the imagination make them samurai. Mitsuhide didn’t even grant Yasuke an honorable death alongside his master. He was called a slave and animal, and was given away to a church. That’s not how a samurai is treated. Sure there are a few “reputable” sources that claim Yasuke was a samurai but at the same time they all admit there’s hardly any information on him. It’s clearly their attempt at uplifting the man. In fact, Nobunaga kept him around to show off to people and routinely humiliated him. Nobunaga is one of my favorite historical characters but he wasn’t very nice lol. He was betrayed by Mitsuhide because of his brutality towards Buddhists, including women and children (Mitsuhide was a Buddhist). I hope people take some time to educate themselves on this fascinating period of time, and not what Ubi makes up. Also, yes, screw this price tag.

He wasn’t a samurai, he was a retainer (which was incredibly important, but samurai was class) It would have been impossible for him to become a samurai at that time. Source: studied Japanese history for 40 years.

I think the pandering ESG shit is a bigger deal than Asmon wants to engage with, that's fair I guess but a lot of people are seriously tired of this pretentious BS from triple A developers/publishers and don't appreciate being spoken down to or preached to in that way. You can ignore it up to a point and say the monetization is a bigger issue which is arguable, but people need to be more willing to call out this race stuff

I won't even pirate

There is literally no historical Japanese document from the Sengoku period (extensive material) who suggests there was a black man Kashin. Samurai is impossible, only nobles and notorious Plebs could ever be samurai. Anyone justifying this is simply dumb.

For us Japanese, it is outrageous that UBIsoft says "Yasuke was a real life legendary samurai" to shove a black guy protagonist into the feudal Japan setting when the truth is that Yasuke was not samurai. Only upper rank bushi 武士 was samurai 侍 before Edo period. And the condition to become bushi, you need to have a surname and long sword. Yasuke had no surname and no long katana. Yasuke only got a shortest katana. Even peasants were allowed to have short katana in feudal Japan. So it is doubtful if Yasuke was even a bushi. But UBIsoft lies to the world that Yasuke was a legendary samurai warrior in history. And whenever Yasuke was out in town, people flocked to see him since people had never seen any black person before. And some people got injured just by flocking to see him. This is the reason why Nobunaga kept Yasuke by his side. It was just to show off.

A black man made a servant of Nobunaga for a few months with absolutely no historical proof of ever fighting a single battle, receiving any training, or even knowing the Japanese language is now romanticized as being a legendary samurai and shoehorned into a game whose franchise self advertises as based on history. Then the additional slap in the face that is Ubisoft's monetization practices. Indicative of the times.

When you argue with people about this they switch back and forth between "he''s in the game because it's historically accurate" and then "he's a samurai because AC games aren't historically accurate"... you just can't win. You're not allowed to criticise it, you just have to pretend reality isn't real with these people. The woke.

The "female biology" argument can be countered by saying that in this series we had Aveline De Grandpre and Evie Frye, also Elise De la Serre. So, by suspension of disbelief, we accept that in this series there are skilled female characters who can fight many men at once

They made him a black guy in Japan so that if you criticize the game/price they can call you racist

REMEMBER NEVER PREORDERS, always wait for 3-5 years until the Ultimate edition is on Steam sale for 80% off

Assassin's Creed Shadows: Black man deleting Asians. And the media calls the fans racist.

Ain't no way bro is saying that girls can't do those things because of biology: an Assassin is like a marvel hero! Can see through walls. Their ancestors were gods

The truth is that if Ubisoft wants to make a fictional story, they very well can. But if they're making a story to mislead and make people believe that this is how history entailed, they're absolutely wrong.

“Who the f*** cares [about the choice of the MC]?!” *The Japanese who disliked and commented on the Ubisoft Japan trailer* : Allow us to introduce ourselves

Wonder if people would find a game about African Warlords where the protagonist was White or Chinese and find it so absurd they would gladly pay $100+ to try it.

False dichotomy. We can complain about the forced and stupid character choice AND about the price.

The entire girl assassin take is beside the point. The game is made by a Corpa company for MTX money, therefore there's not even any need to start the "biology" argument. If anything, I probably see an agile girl climbing walls and stuff way easier than a 6' 200 lbs dude with a sword, 4 pistols, 16 smoke grenades on his belt, and a metal contraption on his forearms. Girl gymnasts and rock climbers exist, you know? If it's a stealth game, it doesn't have to be about kicking ass and tanking (although she probably will be as OP in combat as every protagonist before her, including other girls like in AC Liberation, that's not really as much of a "realism" thing if you can get shot with a musket 3 times point blank and continue fighting), plus guards are usually pretty heavy and wear armour, a girl with some knives could easily stab them a dozen times through joints. The entire argument comes off as a bit sexist with "who are we kidding here, it's just biology", although I don't think Asmond is usually that sexist, probably poor phrasing. I definitely see how Twitter friends would get mad at the biology statement, sounds a bit far-fetched. IDGAF what gender or race the protagonists are, although Japanese people could get upset at misrepresentation, I care way more about the quality of the story and gameplay, which we all know will be on par with Ubisoft standards (shite)

People have forgotten assassins creed cinematic trailers are usually amazing but the actual gameplay is most of the time completely underwhelming & terrible

Problem isn't pricing because nobody is going to buy it... But now, nobody is going even pirate it.

Japan was CLOSED country until 18th cenetry for EVERYONE. Any man that wasn't JAPANESE was called DEMON in JAPAN. And ubisoft think it's cool to make samurai game without real samurais. GG

Just seems like 80% of triple A games have been pushing an agenda and/or showing completely greedy practices. I think most people are sick of it. Even the normies have started noticing.

I've seen alot of negative reception from Japanese fans, it's not that he's in the game, it's that he's the main character. It should've been two Japanese protagonistas, and yasuke should've been like a cool side character, like the other ac have done using a made up mc and putting them in a historical setting surrounded by historical figures. This is the first one the made it based on an actual person, and they 100% only did that because he's black. I don't have a horse in this race, they haven't made a good ac since black flag imo so itll be mediocre at best regardless. But I see why people are mad lol

People aren't talking about the $130 price tag because we already expected it. Did you think they were only going to do this with Star Wars and not all there IP's?

Nah, I get the pricing issue. But as an Asian, the biggest problem for me and a lot of other Asians is that they are trying to replace us in our own culture.

absolutely not surprising that IGN rushed straight into the pit of "YEAH GUYS YASUKE WAS TOTALLY 100% A CONFIRMED BLACK SAMURAI LOOK IT UP" just goes to show that in these kinds of situations there is absolutely a movement to control and direct a certain narrative in a specific way and whoever thinks that's not the case is absolutely delusional

I think the fact they picked Yasuke is very important and downplaying it is very detrimental to the fact that they’re trying to warp history. This was the spotlight for an Asian protagonist.

*"It being inauthentic" sums up my sentiment concisely:* Idk if they either picked The one well known Black Samuria in history for quick bait and easy clapback on the people who are always mad about race swapping; or if they just saw the setting but still wanted to legitamately find a natural way to incorporate black representation. I am only really apposed to the idea of rage bait. Because, at this point, it is just anti-consumer. (But what do you expect from the company that said "Gamers should get more used to not owning their games.") Give use good plots, dont give us patronizing pandoring. While stoking culture wars for free advertisement and abusing identity politicals in bad faith as a shield from the legitimate criticisms. It is a blight on society. Seeks to tear us apart for profit, rather than build the bridges where we can. But tho there is nothing wrong with getting more black representation. Why find an excuse to single out the first asian region in the game series to not have its fair representation like anyone else? If this is for black representation, why didn't you have the one Assasins Creed game that took place in Africa have a black character? I know Egyptians look more Middle Eastern. But it was a setting no one would question, if there were a bunch of black people in that time period. Also, if it was truly about the representation, than why does the first female and black assasins have to share the same title and split the representation? I can never know for reasonably certainty. But kinda feels like they only cared about black and female representation when they could weaponize and polarize it for their own uses. Also, kinda feels like everyone follows in lockstep, like journos here, to go "They just hate it because it is woke." While ignoring the valid criticism. Because of pure internet tribalism. Dismiss them as "the bad side" So you don't have to interact with the points. I know there are people out there. Cough, The Qaurtering, cougvh. Who just hate things because it is progressive in representation. But they are selectively framed as the only criticism some one would have for these kind of identity political weaponized situations.

The worst part about this game that no one’s talking about is the fact that technically, you don’t own the game at all. They posted on X that you’ll need an internet connection to install the base game for consoles. So then what’s the point of them making you buy a physical disc at retail stores then?

Its not immersive and adds nothing of value to the game

Alan Wake 2 didn’t sell well. He just talks out of his head

The whole Ubisoft entity has a pretentious and elitist vibe to it.

Bro, I'm sick of these price hikes, it's stupid. I can barely afford my mortgage nowadays.

If they had a black samurai because they thought it was cool, no one would care. But at this point everyone knows theyre doing it because they think it makes them somehow morally superior. It reeks of self righteousness and its obnoxious.

The voice of this mad guy sounds like a little angry child. It is always the same tonality with these people.

After hearing you talk about this a second time on this video, you really do make it sound like she's going around fighting people upfront when Assassins are supposed to take down multiple opponents tougher than them through being fast and sneaky. Like duh, woman are weaker than men, but these are Assassins here. She'd be a pretty shitty Kunoichi if she goes around fighting people in broad daylight.

Remember, Ghosts of Tsushima was problematic because it was made by white people. Now it's a different tune now that you put a black person in it, and now everyone is coming to defend it. This isn't a problem of historical accuracy. It's a problem of cultural appropriation and asian erasure. I couldn't care less if he was a Samurai or not.

I see dei consultants i pass. Doesn't matter if the game is 40 or 60 or 100. Enough with their bs .

I agree with a lot of points brought up about the game from Asmongold here however there is one that I will dispute in particular. Saying that the female character's ability to take on multiple male enemies is unrealistic is completely missing the point of the character's inclusion. Bro, she's a literal fucking ninja, Shinobis and Kunoichi were never meant to face Samurai head-on. Because none of them would stand a chance. Sure men are generally physically stronger than women (not more flexible or agile though), but if you actually watch the damn trailer, you can see that she kills them stealthily there's no amount of musculature that can save you from your neck being sliced from an unexpected enemy so what is even the point of bringing biology in this argument ?

Yasuke is the *PERFECT* thing to blame gamers for when this game fails. "Gamers are racist!" When in reality we just hate ubisoft and their never ending mistreatment of the hand that feeds it. This game could be a total 100% return to form for the series and itll still not sell better even Oddessy because the bulk of people are tired of Ubshaft. Just wait for release. The racist gamer journalist articles will come back *HARD*

It's not just that they made a modern black man the protagonist of a feudal Japanese game, it's that in addition to it being a garbage $130 Ubisoft game. They already had a raging fire going wanting to charge $130 for that shit, but the complete disrespect of an entire nation via identity politics just added so much more fuel to the fire.

Just make the main Protagonist of the same culture your theme is depicting just like all the previous assassin creed games before it, simple as that.

Fun Fact- most Japanese ninjas that were women used their looks and body to get inside the housing of their target to poison or eliminate them not just straight up fight their target BUT they were trained in hand to hand combat and the weak points of the human biology so they could still fight.

I'll just say, Assassin's Creed died with Desmond.

Nah bruh. Be honest. A lot of us are made that they are slapping Japanese in the face by calling yasuke a legendary afro samurai. It's totally not right because a lot of his story barely even makes sense.

This game will without a doubt be a steaming pile of dogshit.

This proves Asmon has never played an AC game.

The franchise was once praised and used in schools because they encapsulated setting and city building so well like when they build the Notre Dame. That kid is a derp

I dont understand why anyone would be surprised that people are mad about this. Make a semi historically accurate game franchise and instead of using legendary people from the country you showcase you choose the one random guy who didnt really achieve anything but be traded off far away and be different

as a black man i totaly wanted to larp as an asian man in feudal japan and they ripped that from me

Ubisoft perfectly done this, distracted people from the fact game is overpriced 🤣

"Please buy our DEI compliant investor approved slop!" No, I don't believe I will.

As a Japanese guy that grew up in Japan the whole using Yasuke I find very annoying I learned about this guy in school he was a sword holder & a glorified pet because of his skin color he was no Samurai not even close. Like the very first MC that was actually a real person in all AC game's they chose a black guy in Japan while in every single other AC thoses regions actually have their own representation of the region they lived in. But Japan nope don't look at all the other actual Samurais or underdog people in Japanese history they go with the black guy that held swords & was a pet and was only remembered because of his skin color. Like this is straight up offensive to both Japanese & black people. At least there's always the true AC game set in Japan & that's Ghost of tsushima.

ESG funds, that is what is funding this

This is why AC:S is so insulting, the entirety of Japanese history was developed by Japanese men. All the important events were the cause and efforts of Japanese men. The idealized concept of the Japanese samurai, the Bushido, the honor system, is so enduring that even Japanese men today still revere it. And Unisoft decides to put a black and a woman in their Sengoku Era game, taking away the protagonism from a Japanese man. They are saying Japanese men are not good enough to be represented in their own culture.

It could be $20, I’m not supporting this company.

I was so bored yesterday I got kicked off of Reddit for arguing with a bunch of dorks who were trying to say ethnicity had nothing to do with the decision to have Yasuke as protagonist.

$650 bucks in Brazil, I'd rather eat this month

When historically the most defining feature of a person was that is "he's black", it's kinda pathetic.

This is seriously the most poorly masked racism I've ever seen.

Feudal Japan was a cast system. As such samurai were a cast. You don’t just show up and become one

If Yasuke was a regular Japanese man that was a retainer to Nobunaga, Ubisoft won't even make him into an NPC, but of course, the color of your skin is very important to these companies.

Even you want to buy Yasuke himself at that time won't cost $130 that much.

Nioh did get ripped apart when announced because of white lead William. However, the game was a success because the gameplay was solid. William was in armor most of the time and you only saw him in FMVs. We all know what we are getting with AC Shadow, a bloated open world, enemies that are always as strong if not stronger than you, a half baked story you lose interest in 1/4 of the way into it, passable combat, stealth and RPG mechanics and a ton of reused quests that swap out the asset you have to fetch. If the gameplay is good, the character designs will not matter.

So not everyone puts game play above story as controversial as that opinion is I for one am more interested in story . So yeah I care and you should too because it will only get worse if it isn't called out.

"The protagonist being black isn't the problem, the price is" Can't we just say both are the problems instead of fighting for what is bad between two bad things?

Both are a problem. The price is outrageous and the other is tokenism, cultural appropriation and political activism

Female Custodes added to WH40k at the same book as they nerf the entire existing list, drop Custodes to a 23% winrate, and raise the price on all the new models you need to be competitive again. AC does this while the game is $140 and everyone is fighting over the MC. Any game that has a price raise, change in current rules, and etc all will have drama related to race and gender.

Ubisoft stock is down like 70% since Valhalla. No surprise they're going to keep getting greedier.

create drama -> free advertising

If a black man and female assassin in Japan is the hardest thing for you to find believable in this franchise then yall are lost already 😂.

$130 for a repainted Ubisoft game. Aside from the price, you can play any previous Ubisoft game and experience this new game.

People call him African American.. this is a reclassification made up in the 1970's of the original name for black people in the us that was called "indian" in 1942

0:13 The fans, people who hate weird racial bs injected into their games, the japanese, me, and their potential customers, that's who.

I waited years in hopes of living out the Japanese Samurai warrior fantasy as a native from feudal Japan. Now I can't cus they had to have their token insert racism fueled REI quota character. It's not bad that he's black. It's bad that he's not Japanese. So you can either play as a non-Japanese, or a non-Samurai, in a feudal Japan AC game. Like. It's just bad. And no in reality I'm not mad cus I expected this much or worse (reminder we haven't even seen gameplay yet). But if I was actually heavily invested, I would be mad that they just shit on the fantasy they're trying to pander to. It literally doesn't make sense. REI brainrot is absurd.

Just to point out Ubisoft stocks are as bad as they were in 2016

this is the first time ever that assassin's creed will have a protagonist that's based on a real life person, and they choose a black man in feudal japan how is a 6 foot 2 black man supposed to sneak around and blend in with japanese people in the 1500s?

Looking up what Yasuke actually means is a laugh. Respected legendary samurai indeed....

In my eyes the last good Ubisoft game was Wildlands

If Ubisoft had character customization and reasonable price points they’d be an all-star publisher.

"Who cares?" Well, the Japanese do.

"I don't really like stealth games I don't play assassins creed" bro assassins creed hasn't been a stealth game for 15 years or so

It's pretty obvious that people who rage about DE&I are pretending they are really upset about Japanese representation when we all know that's really not the what problem is.

The "Japanese historical expert" they hired for this game, Sachi Schmidt-Hori, who IGN interviewed in their puff piece about this game, is a gender studies expert who studies romantic relationships with teenage boys, while Kingdom Come Deliverance used an actual historian, and it shows.

It IS the point if you’re actually Japanese. I’ve been constantly gaslit about this by non Japanese people. Caucasians and African Americans who think they know more about Japanese history than me, who literally went through years of 歴史 (Japanese history) in school. I point out the double standard, and they strawman my argument as “racism”.

Everyone waited for a full Japanese Assassin's Creed game (something like Ghost of Tsushima), not a modern assmix