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Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK

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Ubisoft's Saudi-funded Assassin's Creed DLC provokes staff unrest, but the publisher insists partnering with the controversial regime is A-OK: 'Talking with partners who do not share our democratic values does not mean abandoning them'

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Assassin's Creed died after 2 when they fired the creator.
- If you’re referring to Patrice Désilets, he also worked on Brotherhood - which is commonly considered the best entry in the series of that generation.
  But now knowing his full history with Ubisoft, it exciting so much why Revelations and AC3 felt like a step backwards…
- I'm glad I stopped playing after I finished 2. Everything after felt wrong, and I always felt the game was a trilogy. 3 just never really showed up.
  Not sure how the game was so popular after they betrayed the original spirit, but I can only guess seeing things like this is difficult for people.
  
  I actually never liked the first many parts of AC. Just not my cup of tea. Yet I found origins to be nice and absolutely love odyssey.
It's fucking important for any gamer with a shred of concious humanity to boycott this game and make it fail.
The money this game was funded by comes directly and only from blooded oppression of a dictatorship. From forced unpresented taxes and bloody oil money of terrorisim. They beheaded and killed all their citizens and protestors who tried to ask for their share that went to this game.
Fun fact. Every time some company is about to go bankrupt, somehow Saudi money gets injected. Why? I don't know.
Ubisoft must be struggling a lot.
- Saudi Arabia has had a lot of success in improving their international reputation through ‘sportswashing’.
  This just comes as a natural extension of this, seeing to but their way into the good graces of gamers.
  
  Yeah well they're always gonna be fascist slave owners who murder nonconformists until they stop that shit. That's the only way they can improve their reputation. Everything else is just painting the turd.
'Talking with partners who do not share our democratic values does not mean abandoning them'
Yeah, and I only allow peeing in one corner of the pool.
- .....the....partners you literally just joined with for this one specific deal? That's called a client, not a partner, and it happens all the time.
In the Dlc you assassinate a journalist in an embassy.
The staff should refuse to contribute. Tell them no on religious grounds on account of chopping journalists into pieces being a big no-no.
Ugh. Cram your propaganda where the sun won't shine. So glad to have not bought mirage yet. And now I surely won't. Despite me liking the ubi games. Yeah I said it, now downvote me like hell for it 😁
- If you'd like to don your eyepatch and tricorn, a dev build (ie Denuvo-less) of v1.0.6 got leaked last November.
  
  Ah, thanks for the into. Dunno who downvoted you for that.
Another reason not to buy any Ubisoft game.
Yummm tatses like hasbara propaganda
- Is everything critical of Saudi Arabia Hasbara propaganda?
  I hate Saudi Arabia's leadership and brutal oppression of their people. Obviously, Kashoggi. Obviously, funding terrorism worldwide. Personally, a friend of mine witnessed a state beheading simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time while he was working in SA (he was an Indian immigrant worker) - scarred him for life.
  Hasbara are in the walls so I presume they saw me type that out and I'll just patiently await my cheque.
- Why? Israel and Saudi Arabia get along pretty well. They are natural allies against Iran. The current war in Gaza is all that stands between Saudi Arabia entering the Abraham accords.
  
  Yeah you're probably right and I'm wrong, my hate of israel got the better of me

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