• Ex Nummis@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Nothing wrong with DEI, although Ubisoft has always laid it on thick with their pre-game “this game was developed by a multicultural, multi-anything blablabla” messages.

    Like, I don’t care about that at all. Give me a quality game, I promise I will never give a crap about the skin tone, religion or sexual orientation of its creators. That’s just not my fucking business.

    Anyway, I don’t think DEI killed Ubisoft. Terrible leadership and total lack of vision did that.

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      10 hours ago

      IIRC this message was first used in AC1 and it felt right at the time because of the respectful approach to a (more or less) realistic historical setting made by a bunch of Canadians in a time when no one expected much of video games in terms of cultural respect. I remember it chaning my expection that the setting might be more than Prince-of-Persia-esque set dressing.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah. Basically as a way of saying that they’ve done the research, and also so you don’t go on the offensive when those “pieces of Eden” come into play.