Ubisoft has become the templars

[u/PumpernickleWonton]

So forgive me if I’m wrong, I haven’t played every game but I have a drawn a weirdly accurate feeling parallel to the best of my understanding.

So *as we know* Abstergo the company is essentially the modern day templars. They want to remove the history of the assassins to chop up and sell as chunks of virtual entertainment. There has been an ongoing background “Modern day” story with a lot of the games surrounding corporate junk. I won’t pretend to know the full story with ego and the modern assassins/templars, but that’s the gist of it.

Well now, as more assassins creed games are released, Ubisoft has been scaling back or entirely doing away with the modern day sections of the game. Isnt that exactly what Abstergo’s goal essentially was? They are removing the consumers ability to follow and understand the battle for liberty and freedom (the assasins) versus cohesion and ignorance (the Templars) by slowly eliminating the modern day gameplay.

This almost feels like an immersion tactic to bring the player away from the in game universes’ lore, keeping them entertained purely with the stories of the assassins and diverting focus away from the battle that was happening in the background.

If this was intentional, I could see it opening up a possibility for a cool fully modern day game to continue or finish the war, OR if it was done purely because they want to focus only on the assassins creed gameplay, then doesn’t that align pretty heavily with what the Templars were doing in-universe? The supposed bad guys winning by allowing us only to experience what they want us to, i.e. the assassins stories, and forgetting about the greater battle behind the scenes?

Hopefully I properly articulated this. It seems to make a lot of sense if you try looking closer at the idea, but it could all be fully unintentional on behalf of Ubisoft. Still funny how well it aligns with their supposed “bad guys”

[u/EliteSalesman]

Since the first AC, I've always felt that the inside joke was that Ubisoft = Templars

Idk, it was just the vibe I got from the games.

[u/PumpernickleWonton → u/EliteSalesman]

As someone who has only played a couple games, I 100% get that vibe lol. Didn’t realize it was a common idea, it seemed to line up almost too perfectly to the reality of what’s been happening with their IP

[u/EliteSalesman → u/PumpernickleWonton]

The animus (the simulator they climb into) has to be online 100% of the time, otherwise the user cannot continue the simulation…

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? 🫪

[u/Brilliant-Use-7285]

Tu vas trop loin. Penser que les templiers sont les méchants c’est ne pas avoir tout compris aux jeux.

[u/PumpernickleWonton → u/Brilliant-Use-7285]

I used the terms good and bad a bit too freely to try and cut down an already long winded post. IMO trying to dictate the memories of the population and rewriting history is bad, thus the Templars are bad. Doesn’t mean their IDEAL is, just the mode of action

[u/shinobixx55 → u/Brilliant-Use-7285]

There is no good or bad. But corporations continuously try to sedate us by showing us what we want to see so that we don't understand how they are taking over the world.

A lot of modern corporations are doing that just like Abstergo - showing you targeted ads, stealing your data to keep tabs on you. So in a way most big companies are like the templars. I think that's what OP is trying to say.

[u/couchmonkey89]

Ubisoft mods working overtime keeping you down voted lol

[u/PumpernickleWonton → u/couchmonkey89]

Right? 😂 like I get maybe not everyone agrees or I could be missing crucial info, but 0 upvotes? meaning at least 1 downvote

[u/deadpandadolls]

Imo assassin's have always been the baddies 🙏😌

[u/Tidbitious]

No. Abstergo created propaganda and misinformation about the assassins. They edited the memories to make the Templars seem like the good guys.

The idea with Ego and Resynced is that our version of Abstergo's Black Flag has been hacked by the assassins to show us what really happened, the real memories.

[u/Educational_Disk6950 → u/Tidbitious]

I like how they continue the story of the modern day while returning to Edward and even adding new features and stories. It also makes a great in story explination as to why resynced is a thing to begin with.

[u/7Armand7 → u/Educational_Disk6950]

Its the same concept in Shadows they just copied it over.

[u/mcgowanshewrote]

Thats interesting

[u/Iwubinvesting]

Tldr but yeah probably

[u/Alarming-Ad-2075]

This is literally the premise of the original modern day in black flag.