• Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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    But seeing how “gamers” react on social medias, wishing ill-fate to companies and people alike is sad.

    It’s the fans!

    What is even more revolting, is coming on LinkedIn and seeing the same comments from people within the industry.

    And the industry! Not us, it can’t be us!

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    I can’t explain how stupid this is.

    He posted this on LinkedIn, openly attacking customers.

    Businesses hate when you attack the hand that feeds them.

    This dude is cooked.

    Edit: looks like he deleted it. Good. Jesus Christ people, stop venting on LinkedIn. You’re not taking a stand, you’re looking like a moron.

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    Of course these millionaire executives are so disconnected from reality that they blame the customer for their failures.

    That’s a healthy take from upper management, if I’ve ever seen one. /s

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    The tweet linked in the article is from a dude who bitches about the “uglification of women” in games and Ubisoft being too focused on DEI. The post the article is about is clearly talking about people like him. The fact that there’s only one other comment here calling this out tells me either nobody actually looked into this at all because you’re all too excited to dogpile Ubisoft and don’t even care why, or you agree. Both are worrying.

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      People can be correct about something for the wrong reasons.

      This guy is a bellend, there’s plenty of reasons to cheer on the demise of Ubisoft without having to be a “DEI is in the room with us” obsessive like Grummz, and ignoring that because it’s easier to call the people who don’t like you chuds shows a similar level of detachment from reality.

      Ubisoft’s fuckups are too numerous to list, and the latest one was indeed too fall for a swindler who convinced them to try and sell one of the least marketable ideas in history, but the volume of sales lost is not in the same order of magnitude as the politically obsessed lunatics online on either side of this conversation, blaming them is like blaming sharks for all animal related deaths.

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    Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which quickly gained controversy for numerous allegations that Ubisoft was mispresenting Japanese heritage through unpopular artistic design choices

    I love how they danced around G"mers being racist sacks of shit, because otherwise you might feel sympathetic.

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    It’s time big studios start firing these soulless assholes instead of the developers and crew that put their effort and love in their work.

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      If people would stop buying these shits, the problem would fix itself.

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    Ubisoft went to the Disney School of Free Marketing.

    1)Make a subpar product featuring IP that people care about.

    2)Fabricate controversy about a character on social media.

    3)Call customers bigots.

    4)Tell people “it’s not for you!”

    5)Blame flop on bigot fans.

    6)Repeat

    7)Profit I guess?

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    Lol these clowns. They’ll have to come up with a whole new song & dance routine if they ever expect another red cent from me.

    Eh. Maybe in a -90% sale.

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    I don’t see where gamers are referred to as non decent humans. But I have reading comprehension so maybe the article isn’t aimed at me.

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      I have twitter links blocked, so it was hard to get to the original source for me too, but this is it:

      It makes somewhat more sense in context. He’s not calling all gamers scum, he saying “gamers” (in scare quotes) that root for the downfall of companies and harass people on social media are not decent people.

      There’s still some room to disagree with him, but it’s not as bad as the top headline makes it out to be.

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        I’m sure we can all agree this guy’s position wouldn’t even have existed if Ubisoft wasn’t so damn greedy for every extra cent they can take from their customers.

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        Sorry, I was throwing shade at how they twisted their words. The person is talking about people who go on LinkedIn and boast about Ubisoft failing “directly” to the employees. Not really a ‘gamers are the problem and that’s why we failed’ but a ‘hey everybody, stop talking about our failures and look over there at these terrible people’

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    We are all in the same boat Ubi, please please please stop publishing live service feces.