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Ubisoft apologize for Watchdogs AD that was be seen as supporting Hong Kong protesters. (Possibly after backslash from mainland China)
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Fucking cowards. With the overall message of the series, would the game even release in China anyway? Why do they care?
Of course they did. Lol, who ever expected support for protesters from a multi billion dollar company?
I agree, but I don't think Ubisoft is going to move the needle either way in terms of what HK does.
That doesn't excuse their pathetic cowardice and willingness to lick fascist boots in this case, however.
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For a game to be released in China, it has to pass regulatory check by authority.
Their official website for Watchdogs 1 says that "Because of regulations required in China for game releasing permit, we currently have no plan to release this game in China".
It's a shame people are missing the value in Ubisoft saying this at all, seemingly because they were expecting an enormous private concern to go publicly gallivanting against the People's Republic of China. I'm happy with them sniping.
Pretty sure there was nothing Valve could do. The incident in question caused Red Candle's publishers to drop them which made Red Candle liable for the losses and further complicated the whole situation leading to where we are now with the game being removed altogether.
It wasn't Valve's choice to remove the game.
looks like Ubisoft remembered they have subsidiaries in Chengdu and Shanghai
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That would be amazing. Not sure how much they have to pay Disney though, lol
It's really interesting to see the concept of protest only be acceptable in works of over the top fiction, them being even referenced or cited in parallel with real world events being means for apology.
Simply backwards.
Yup, no politics, but "please buy our games where you participated in the second american civil war! It's not political though, never political".
Simply backwards.
Yup, no politics, but "please buy our games where you participated in the second american civil war! It's not political though, never political".
It's clear Ubisoft has a policy of allowing and even encouraging their dev teams and artists to draw from politically charged current and historical events, but all the while attempting to maintain a hard line "no politics" stance when it comes to company statements. A system of "This work does not reflect the views of this company." taken to 11.
Remember that though individuals may want or try to make a statement, companies only want profit from as many people as they can get. Attract the leftists with alluring political statements, attract the rightists with lots of guns and violence.
Remember that though individuals may want or try to make a statement, companies only want profit from as many people as they can get. Attract the leftists with alluring political statements, attract the rightists with lots of guns and violence.
Ubisoft in a nutshell lately:
"Implies something hugely political."
"Swiftly and cowardly retracts statement saying their games aren't political due to backlash."
"Implies something hugely political."
"Swiftly and cowardly retracts statement saying their games aren't political due to backlash."
"Our game is about rising up against a big brother authoritarianism that oppress the people.
Except China.
China is very good big brother authoritarian country."
Except China.
China is very good big brother authoritarian country."
What about you? Did you do what's right? When something bad happened in your country did you go out there and protest or just posted on the internet about cowards?
There's no equivalence between not protesting and apologizing to China for supporting protests.
Yep. Banking on politically-charged settings while shying away from it when questioned. It's some meek shit.
What are you people realistically expecting from a giant company like Ubisoft? The responses in this thread are baffling.
So convenient when they can use strong political themes and messages in their games but in reality act cowardly in the face of real regimes and oppression. Is it so hard to for them to do pro democratic statements as a company?
No one wants to be responsible of making its company lose a ton of money. I remember a movie where a dude stands by his principles but the company loses millions then when he goes to job interviews he gets praised and congratulated at but no one wants to hire him.
Peope call Ubisoft cowards, but in reality they're cowards themselves. That's all I want to say.
Turns out Ubisoft are equally as soulless and devoid of integrity as EA and Activision, they've just done a better job of tricking everyone into thinking they're producing art with a purpose and message.