Summary

  • Assassin's Creed producer Marc-Alexis Côté has hit back at backlash surrounding Yasuke.
  • Following a remark from Twitter owner Elon Musk that "DEI kills art," Côté claims are "sad" and "feeding hatred."
  • Côté hopes that people can "play the game for themselves" and "keep an open mind" when playing the title later this year.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed producer Marc-Alexis Côté has hit back at the backlash surrounding Shadows protagonist Yasuke, claiming that it's "sad" that Twitter owner Elon Musk felt the need to "feed hatred" with🦄 his remarks.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed Shadows has been somewhat controversial since its release, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:not because the game itself looks bad. For the past couple of weeks, the game's protagonist Yasuke - the first recorded black samurai - has caused a stir among gamers, with many labeling the game as ꦇ"woke" and "disrespectful" to Japanese culꦦture. All the complaints became so difficult to ignore that Twitter owner Elon Musk got in on the act by which stands for diversity, equity, and ꦦinclusion.

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Ubisoft never really acknowledged the backlash, probably due to the fact that it was ridiculous and had absolutely no weight to it, but one of the developers behind the title recently spoke out against the hate, and Elon Musk's tweet in particular in . Assassin's Creed producer Marc-Alexis Côté said t🌳hat seeing the tweet from Musk "generated emotions," and that he was tempted to redownload Twitter just to respond, as he had "a lot of three word replies that came to mind."

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Thankfully, he managed to keep his cool thanks to a mindful𒐪lness app on his phone, and now just thinks that the Twitter owner is "sad" for "feeding hatred" on the platform, and that clapping back at Musk would "not convince people about our point of view as a team."

On that front, Côté hopes that people will "play the game🧸 for themselves" and "keep an open mind" to form their own opinion, and that if they're still not satisfied after the game'ꦺs opening hours, then they can start having a rational discussion about problems with the title.

Thankfully, we won't have to wait too long to get our hands on Assassin's Creed Shadows, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the game launಞches on Novembꦜer 15 later this year. If you want to know what our initial impressions are of the game after a few hours at Summer Game Fest, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:you can check that out here too.

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