>The company has in the past stated its games aren't political, a statement Yves Guillemot recently clarified by saying they want players to come to their own conclusions about whatever topics their games depict. Today the company released an interview VP of editorial Tommy Francois diving a bit deeper on this topic, outlining why the company doesn't want to take hardline stances.
>"We believe that games should offer a 360-degree view of life, should let people interact with all points of view," Francois said. "If my game was set during the Vietnam conflict, for example, we would want the Viet Minh, the Viet Cong ... basically everyone's point of view. And that relates back to people making up their own opinions and our ability to create more mature games that are nuanced, versus being black or white."
>The goal is to open players up to different viewpoints, but also let them take away from their games what they want. "If people want to have fun and don't want to engage with some of these systems, I'm cool with it, too," Francois says. "People who just want to have fun, and not be exposed to these points of view, or experience it on a deeper level should be able to do what they want."
>However, Francois does acknowledge that this attempted objectivity could lead to players walking away sympathetic to certain negative aspects of the scenarios in Ubisoft games, or enticed by them. If someone were to become infatuated with the idea of joining a cult after playing Far Cry 5, for example, Francois says he'd hate to have that happen. "I seriously hope we never have this impact, and that we don't make someone think a cult is a great place to go," he says.
>If my game was set during the Vietnam conflict, for example, we would want the Viet Minh, the Viet Cong ... basically everyone's point of view They literally had a Far Cry 5 dlc set in Vietnam during the war and I don't remember this "everyone's point of view" talk applying to that.
Alexander Barnes
>saying they want players to come to their own conclusions about whatever topics their games depict AHAHAHA
why lie?
Carter Lopez
Ubi being based again
Jonathan Sullivan
>Nazi money nazis havent been a thing since 1945
Carter Taylor
>"If my game was set during the Vietnam conflict, for example, we would want the Viet Minh, the Viet Cong ... basically everyone's point of view.” And how would that make it unpolitical? It’s not political only if you take stances, it’s political if it covers themes that are political in a nature. Also, it’s not that covering political themes is inherently bad, it should just be done in a way that doesn’t feel like the game is just soapboxing the devs views.
Brayden Reed
>nazis havent been a thing since 1945 Then why does America have a nazi as president?
Camden Thomas
>Rehash game >We dont want to make game with political stance Ubitard, since , 2010
Christian Thomas
I remember when Ubisoft was based and princepilled.
>push feminism and gay shit in every game >lie about history >we are totally not political guys why lie?
Logan Torres
It’s because of this annoying thing where people think that ”political” is a dirty word, leading to people acting all politically while also going ”oh, I hate politics, this is non-political”. It’s such annoying faggotry, I’d much prefer that people are honest about their intentions than this two-faced bullshit.
Jordan Morgan
Why do they lie? AC origin is proud of making revisionism for the sake of feminism. The division has a giant LGBT flag. etc.
Jayden Anderson
>big american city has LGBT flag oh no
Daniel Martinez
They're not saying they aren't doing this, they're saying they also include a counterpoint that shows the opposing position. They're trying to walk the line inbetween taking either stance, while including them both.
Aaron Sullivan
It's a crummy video game, not a history lesson
Dominic Hall
why care about crummy video games when there are pails of water to be fetched?
Benjamin Reed
They say one thing and do another, >We don't want our games to Take Political Stances >But let's included women in school during ancient Greece when it's known that women weren't allowed in schools back then
Mason Williams
but they aren´t offering a counterpoint. you can´t switch to a version which has zero female charactters in ac nor can you put a huge cross on your base in division
Dylan Hernandez
Anyone right of extreme left communists is a Nazi.
Cameron Gutierrez
its almost like they have no ethics or standards and just push out press releases that might get articles published about them in the hopes of misdirecting people's attention
Gabriel James
whoa, when did trump announce his membership of the NSDAP? thats based af
Camden Evans
I fucking wish that kike cock-sucker was a Nazi.
Colton Anderson
death and taxes. don't talk about politics or religion. ignoring social issues makes our society better. its enemy propaganda - rolling down the picket line.
hey gyts remember Assassins Creed? yep, that was not political at all
Brayden Parker
>Ubishit >apolitical Is this a fucking joke? They're the biggest virtue signaling faggots in the video game industry.
Nolan Peterson
And worst of all, you can see this fucking everywhere >someone like Ubi makes a game that makes clear social commentary about something or constantly dances around political themes, yet they still insist that it’s not political >Yea Forums keeps complaining about how ”politics” must be taken out of games, but in reality they count only things they don’t like as ”political”
Nathan Taylor
>you can´t switch to a version which has zero female charactters in ac have sex incel
Noah Garcia
>Ubisoft Exec Talks About Why The Company's Games Don't Want To Take Political Stances >LGBT flags everywhere in The Gayvision 2
Colton Fisher
They are liars, every game they make is overtly political and they say it's not to make you buy it.
Propaganda only works if they don't know it's propaganda.
Evan Ward
I miss the times when studios and publishers releases game for fun and no one gave a fuck about "political implications" because people knew they were playing a FICTIONAL video game and weren't fucking retarded back then. Why can't people into context anymore, especially Americans?
are you saying that the unrealistic and masculine-centric female image that these video games project onto their players is neutral and does not have an ulterior motive behind it?
Lincoln Lewis
I love when leftists use "it's just a game bro" argument destroying their own arguments
Cameron Kelly
desu Lara Croft is the worst offender especially the older games, pure feminist propaganda
Brandon Thompson
Because gaming became big enough to be used as a propaganda pushing brainwashing mechanism. The same thing happened with books and movies
>LGBT flags everywhere in The Gayvision 2 There's one in a hidden sidequest Even then, are LGBT flags more political than pirate flags, or american flags? Oh wait this faggot thinks american flags are political too.
Lincoln Ross
At least put some effort in your falseflagging
Benjamin Walker
The older Croft games struck the perfect balance. >girls played it because muh stronk women meme >guys played it because she had big boobs and a nice ass They were also fun adventure games.
>are LGBT flags more political than pirate flags, or american flags? Yes.
Matthew Campbell
>are LGBT flags more political than pirate flags, or american flags? Uh yeah?
Carter Murphy
this is because most extant ideologies that fall under the umbrella of 'liberalism' operate entirely on motte and baileys. they always destroy their own arguments because the only way they know how to argue is pivoting on the difference between what you think their opinion is and what their opinion actually is
i say "extant liberalism" because its not a problem with liberalism at its core, it's a problem with postmodernism, critical theory, dialectical materialism, and the entire rhetorical toolkit the left has been using ever since Marx wrote the communist manifesto. its commie shit
Nathan Jackson
They are reminding me that gays exsist and that i should treat them as humans so yes it is political.
>are LGBT flags more political than pirate flags, or american flags? Yes
Logan Sanders
Why are LGBT people segregating themselves into a group with their own flag? Are they seriously so fucking dumb that they don't understand what this does sociologically? That this actively hurts their chances of being accepted?
Angel Jenkins
semiotics 101
a sign signifies something to the reader. if the sign is in a place where you expect the sign to be, such as the national or state flag on a flag pole or attached to the front of a building, it doesn't symbolize much. An lgbt flag in front of a gay bar signifies that its a gay bar. neither are political statements
however, putting those symbols and signifiers in places where they are not expected, such as on your car, or on your person, or as decoration for an unrelated event, is explicitly a political statement
if you can't understand that context affects how people interpret symbols and language then you are either not thinking very deeply about the world around you, or you are being disingenuous
Adam Foster
because you're an uneducated subhuman that's why
Landon Parker
good
Sebastian Powell
odd as a lot of ubisoft devs are pretty rabid about politics
Cameron Myers
because their victimhood is inversely proportional to how much visibility they have in the public eye. despite the conversation being about the acceptability of political symbolism in non-political topics, the conversation moved into the territory of victimhood. because that is the goal of making it a high visibility topic
Hunter Nelson
Ms. Paglia please
Brayden Johnson
Every "group" in american society is segregating themselves from the rest for attention which is why mutts all hate each other.
while i don't agree with a lot of what she says she has her targets set on post-modernism and post-structuralism which are probably the two most culturally and socially damaging ideological movements currently active in society
not for their criticism of society, but for their willingness to throw away existing social structures in the name of the greater good without replacing them with anything comprable
