i just don’t think it makes sense to hope for gamers to spontaneously and independently pursue the ethical development of bajillion dollar racist military shooters as a balm for what is fundamentally a structural problem with massive scale capitalist industry that produces those games with that kind of profit-motivated, gendered disregard for its workers in the first place. it’s not (only) a problem with the company itself, and we don’t need alternative companies making those games at that scale under the same economic conditions. in the meantime, comprehensive unionization in the industry would be a good start to protect vulnerable workers and regulate the conditions that enable misogynistic workplace abuse and more.
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Watch Ubisoft acknowledge their horrific sexual harrassment allegations and make meaningful changes.
I MEAN announce some new games for us gamers!
They already announced they won’t be addressing anything.
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Quelle surprise
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zut alors
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ubisoft is the worst
simultaneously the most insidious and boring of all the big publishers
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I still have no idea how the siege team is unscathed from either a dev or a community management perspective
they also do the “diversity of player characters” thing genuinely well in a way that subtly expands the universe of options and is not pandering and idk how they do it
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I don’t know when this trend started but Ubisoft seem obsessed with building a hollow anti-corporate political gloss to their games for the sake of framing their player as a resistance member/revolutionary/subversive.
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For some reason I conflated this with the bizarre reveal for Infamous Second Son which isn’t even Ubisoft.
If I can’t piss on Thatcher’s grave then what’s the point of Watch Dogs: Legion?
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rainbow six siege is the most “hire women guards” videogame in the world and I worked with an incel named rick at my last job who had a 3d printed sweatshirt with some polish girl from siege on it and jacked off to her every day. so of course you like it
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The game I stopped playing after I found out you make the ‘Good’ meter go up by helping your cop brother and ‘destroying drugs’.
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Remember getting so excited watching this live for the first time right up until exactly 10:55. In fact it was even documented:
http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?p=1125213#1125213
http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?p=1125214#1125214
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ela or zofia?
to your point, it’s obviously not like a tom clancy game can ever escape the semiotics of being a tom clancy game, but I’m still gratified that they’ve managed to make their “hero shooter” comic book protagonist designs closer to tekken than to, say, overwatch, and I do think that the real-world internationalism flatters them. even if it’s in the service of like, Ubisoft’s standard of diversity, that team does good work.
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I will not dignify that question with a response
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yeah but dudes still just pick the women operators because they’re hot not cuz they’re diverse
just be open about your gunwives
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and they have concussion grenades and adrenaline dispersal
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obviously it’s just a coincidence that like, 90% of the female operators have their ass busting out of their pants right