Summary
- Ubisoft has apologized for using a real-life Japanese historical re-enactment group's flag in some Assassin's Creed Shadows concept art without permission.
- On July 8, Ubisoft apologized to the Sekigahara Teppo-Tai for using their flag, and promised to remove it from all game material possible.
- Assassin's Creed Shadows artbooks included in the Collector's Edition will still include the flag though, and Ubisoft "deeply apologizes" for the issue.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Assassin's Creed Shadows has found itself at the center of several scandals ever since release, most of them not exactly the fault of Ubisoft or the game's developers, but rather the people still fuming that one of the main characters is𒁃 a black♎ man. Apart from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:that whole kettle of fish, Ubisoft has managed to stay out of trouble recently, thou⛎gh it appears to have landed i🉐n hot water after accidentally pinching the flag of a Japanese historical re-enactment group.
First reported by (thanks ), fans recently spotted the flag of the Sekigahara Teppo-Tai in a piece of Assassin's Creed Shadows concept art and raised the issue with , who then . On July 3, this same person revealed that Ubisoft admitted it had accidentally pinched the flag and promptly deleted the image from the game's website.
ღThat then brings us to July 8, on which released a statement exp🐓laining that it has used the flag in two separate pieces of concept art and "deeply apologizes" for the matter. It also explains that an apology was directly given to the Sekigahara Teppo-Tai, and that it was accepted, but removing the flag from other forms of media would be difficult.
Ubisoft Apologizes For Using Stolen Flag In Assassin's Creed Shadows Concept Art
While it's been fairly simple for Ubisoft to remove the images from the website, and scrub them from the actual game if the flag has been included there too, removing them from the game's artbook that has been included in the Collector's Edition is more challenging. In fact, it's likely impossible if Ubisoft has already printed the artbooks, which seems probable 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:given we're four months away from release.
Aside from that, Ubisoft has stressed that it will no longer use the flag in any promot🌄ional artwork or releases, so all is well in the end. Ubisoft might have been spared its blushes if it had maybe looked a little harder into where its artists are getting their reference images from, but at least the entire situation has been resolved.
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