Ubisoft is tackling "dynamics behind the polarized comments" facing games like Assassin's Creed Shadows with a "player-centric and gameplay-first" approach
Yves Guillemot has an answer to Assassin's Creed Shadows controversy, it's just not a very clear one
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The reveal ofAssassin’s Creed Shadows' feudal Japan setting and Black protagonist, Yasukewhipped certain corners of the internet into a frenzy over a perceived lack ofhistorical accuracyandforced diversity. There was also a separate debate over whether Yasuke was actually a real-life Samurai (he was), and entirely unrelated to all of that,Ubisoft had to apologize for the unauthorized use of a flag in Shadows' concept art.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot seemed to,once again, address these controversies in the company’s latestearnings report, saying:
Meanwhile,Assassin’s Creed Shadows' art book is apparently being altered to remove an unauthorized flag from a real-life re-enactment group, despite Ubisoft’s previous plans to leave it in.
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