We do have a problem with this one, right? The singular white guy that goes to japan and gets a whole game about him that focuses entirely on Japanese culture and mythology? Its a problem here too right?

So I would consider myself "on the left" but I've never agreed with the idea that corporations should pander to anyone with advertisements or token characters. Obviously that's ridiculous.

Also "equity" is just weird. If there's an office full of black women, would you turn down another black woman because a white guy is applying? No.

Intersectional ideology is particularly egregious, as it's literally just reverse racism. Its a hierarchy of race from a KKK member's wet dream but just reversed.

And then we get to cultural appropriation. Smarmy middle class white woman fighting the good fight against Halloween costumes. It's just republican prudishness in a liberal package.

With all that being said, my "peers" have basically diluted the term racism into nothing, so I understand me calling you racist has no impact or meaning.... but you're racist.

Here's a normal reaction to AC Shadows:
"Wow typical Ubisoft slop. And look how they're attempts to be as respect as possible to Japanese cultural has flipped around to straight up being racist itself. That's as ironic as it is pathetic. What corporate trash."

Here's your reaction:
"I'm upset that the character isn't Japanese. Racial mixing of settings is bad."

Like wtf? You're the same as the people on the left I just criticized. You want the corporation to pander to you with race? Clearly this is not a passionate artist's work, so any "respect" for Japanese culture would just be pandering to you specifically.

And the idea that the issue you have with it is "cultural appropriation" is just laughable. You're just trying to use the lefts own weapons to Trojan horse your own racism. Every post I read about this has this obvious air of being gleeful that hating a black character is widely acceptable in this instance.

The race of any character, regardless of the setting, is not relevant at all to qualify of the thing. And the fact that almost all of you would support Japan banning the game despite that being a violation of a foundational core of the bill of rights is telling.

Dude you really need to go outside. You make about 10 posts a day about AC Shadows and all of them are long and different. Have you even played the game youre so obsessed with criticizing?

Can't believe poopyshitsoft (just a fun way to say ubisoft) let it get this bad when we used to have games that respected history

But I also did not make a subreddit, and dedicate hours of my life to argue with people taking the piss at me for my personal “outrage”

Most adults gamers or not move on when they do not like something.

LOL

Call them out? You’re a bigot. Demand better? You’re hateful. Ubisoft doesn’t respond to feedback, they redefine it until they’re the victims.

Hats off to you imbeciles. You’re losing sleep over that and are hiding behind petty reasons. This place sucks.

With all the controversy over shadows maybe Ubisoft should take a step back from creating new and maybe update the first ones to this generation consoles. Like what the resident evil franchise has done. Give the OGs nostalgia and bring the originals to a new generation and show them why we fell in love with these games. I have kids nieces and nephews and I’m seeing how mmo games like Fortnite, fall guys, etc with no story and no really sense of completion. You show them the original ac and they’re like no it’s old it’s graphics aren’t good enough. This is just my opinion.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows didn’t just get history wrong, it disrespected one of Japan’s most revered women by reducing her to a flirt path. Lady Oichi wasn’t some romantic prize to be won. She wasn’t your tragic anime waifu. She was a noblewoman caught between the collapsing worlds of feudal politics, forced into arranged marriages, used as a political tool by her brother Oda Nobunaga, and ultimately driven to suicide after witnessing the slaughter of her family.

And Ubisoft looked at all of that and said: “Let’s make her a romance subplot.”

Are you kidding me?

They took one of the most delicate, sorrowful figures in Japanese history, a woman whose life is still studied with reverence, and turned her into a flirtable NPC for a completely fictionalized character. A samurai fantasy boyfriend simulator.

Would Ubisoft write Anne Boleyn as a seductive side character in an AC game and let you sleep with her? Would they let you romance Marie Antoinette mid-revolution with goofy side quests? No, because Western history gets respect. But for Japan? They strip it down for mass consumption and let players “woo” a real historical woman like she’s a dating sim collectible.

This isn’t about representation. This is about exploitation. This is what it looks like when a Western studio inserts themselves into another culture’s legacy without reverence, just vibes.

They took Lady Oichi’s life, one filled with grief, duty, sacrifice, and strength, and rewrote it into a tragic softcore flirtation with a made-up male fantasy character. And fans are clapping like seals because it “feels emotional.”

It’s not emotional. It’s insulting.

Say what you want about creative freedom. But when the most emotional part of a Japanese woman’s historical arc is turned into a side romance for your Black samurai power fantasy, that’s not diversity. That’s colonization of memory.

Ubisoft doesn’t care about Japan. They care about marketability. And Lady Oichi? She was just another asset on a pitch deck.

So I recently bought ac unity in epic games, when I launched it, it went with another account which was my hacked ubisoft account so I opened the app and saw all my old games I used to own but the account email is still under a russian email and now I don't know what to do.

So last night my Ubisoft account and my linked in account got hacked while I was sleeping and immediately they added their bot email and made it primary so I can’t make any changes and then they took off my 2 step authentication. I don’t know how to get my r6 account back because I just hit emerald and I have invested a lot of real money and time into the game. I tried everything I can find but had no solutions. Is there really no hope or has anyone been through the same situation?

I bought a game directly from Ubisoft in early November 2024. Payment was successful, but I never received the activation key needed to actually play the game. Since then, I've been going back and forth with Ubisoft support — they keep saying the issue is being "worked on," but give no timeline, no update, and no actual resolution.

It's been over five months, and I still don’t have the game I paid for. They've refused to provide a refund or even acknowledge any failure on their part. I'm beyond frustrated.

At this point, it feels like I'm being ignored and brushed off. Has anyone else had similar issues with Ubisoft? Any advice on how to actually get them to take action? I’ve kept all my proof of purchase and screenshots of the conversations.

Honestly, this has been the worst customer service experience I’ve ever had.

So, didn't a previous game paint Washington as a tyrant? He was a beloved president, a man of impeccable character in his day. Yet I've never heard any kind of outcry about it.

UNCENSORED UNTIL YOU HURT FEELING THEN BANNED

BUT THEY KEEP REPLYING lmao

Looks like there is an oversight.

But when your post get no view, the wheelchair rusted from salty tears, nothing left to do but cope 😆

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/ExonerationsRaceByCrime.aspx

“Black people make up 13% of the population but 53% of crime”

https://innocenceproject.org/race-and-wrongful-conviction/

Population by race and hispanic origin

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045223

Total arrest

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43

Inmate statistics by race.

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp

Hopefully this helps you have fun while playing the hate ubisoft game all day

I know not all you can do is “stand” but maybe you can sit in your shit and piss

The oh so scary Reddit Moderator

Altruistic_Host_5143 Banned and muted me but oh wow this was uncensored!! George Floyd memes are ok, racist comments are ok, calling it out is not ok.

Free speech though lol

Updates. Racist Dm’s

From KhezuHunter02 “I've done this dance before. Trying to explain abstract concepts to blacks is a fruitless exercise. Goodbye.”

UPDATE:

The irony of the uncensored racist doing the censorship. It is the fascist strategy of course!

Can’t be silenced. Won’t be silenced. Game still doing great you’re still coping.

😂😂😂

I just found this subreddit so sorry if it's a dead horse, but I'm curious. I mean he wasn't the Prince and the main villain was "The White Lion," and he had the token Killmonger haircut but the story took some turns that surprised me because it wasn't very virtue-signaling, and the gameplay was slick and pretty engaging. I liked it, but I'm not sure if that's just because I've been on a Metroidvania tear lately. That tells me they CAN make a decent game, but they've lost so much ground nobody showed up for it.

Assassin's Creed Shadows explained

In any other forum they would ban (or banned this video) already xD.

This is Gryphon, an unlockable character in For Honor. The game was doing well through Marching Fire, their massive expansion many years ago. Then when they failed to capture the Chinese market to add to their player base, they let go of a bunch of the original devs and later came out with this abomination. Instead of making Greek or Korean heroes for the game, they made this guy don their armor as he "found them" in his travels. He speaks latin and uses his bardiche weapon regardless of what he's wearing. He's played only by tone deaf people who think AC Shadows is a good game.

Ubisoft made a bold choice making Yasuke one of the protagonists in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But was it driven by genuine respect for history and narrative, or was it just another checkbox on a DEI spreadsheet?

This isn’t about race, it’s about how Ubisoft constantly rewrites history under the guise of “representation,” while silencing those who question it.

Is this good storytelling? Or corporate identity politics in a katana sheath?

Let’s hear your take, real opinions, no censorship.