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Asmongold Reacts to: "Ubisoft and Canadian government threaten gamers over AC Shadows"
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00:00Ubisoft is planning to protect developers from harassment with Assassin's Creed shadows. Hope you guys have had a great weekend
00:07We've got some hilarious news being reported here
00:09Apparently Ubisoft is as a band our hub says here in their tweet pairing to curb the backlash against critics of Assassin's Creed shadows
00:18They're going as far as sending lawyers after you if you if they didn't excuse me
00:23If they deem your criticism a targeted attack or harassment
00:27My gosh, isn't that pathetic?
00:30They include this diagram. Let's check this out. Yes. Let's read off prepares an anti-harassment plan to target critics
00:36news according to BF MTV an extreme and stressful situation that Ubisoft prefers to anticipate an
00:43Anti-online harassment plan. Yeah, this is what's gonna happen with new games. This is happens with all games nowadays Ubisoft sore losers. Well
00:52That's why they sent you a copy. Oh, so it wait
00:56Wouldn't that be entrapment
01:00Was even presented to the CSE to accompany the game's release and protect employees quote
01:06It's an initiative from Canada
01:08There's a team that monitors networks and acts quickly in the event of a targeted attack should it from Canada?
01:14explains an elected official
01:16Psychological and legal support is promised employees who are targeted another quote here. Unlike what we've had before this is serious
01:23Yeah
01:24Thus messages posted by internet users on X formerly Twitter and reddit or even videos on YouTube will be closely monitored by a
01:32Dedicated unit in order to respond quickly to the slightest problem
01:37Lawyers are already ready to file a complaint in the event of proven harassment
01:45Say everything is that and this is the problem that I have
01:49In essence I agree with this
01:52I think that if you're harassing developers on a personal level because you don't like what's happening in a video game
01:58You need to be put in a box because you're not ready for civil society
02:03You're not ready to be in the real world. You need to be in a box and
02:08That way you don't hurt yourself or hurt anybody else
02:13But where do you draw the line here?
02:16Sounds like a sales pitch that our workforce. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, and also by the way, this really it doesn't fill
02:23Anybody does it fill anybody with any confidence that they're saying this? I don't know. I feel like they're not so good, huh?
02:29Not so good
02:31We have to define harassment. Yeah, I have to employees public. Well, I think harassment is very simple, right?
02:38Harassment is when you make something personal when you are attacking them in
02:43Private channels, like for example, you know, you see a developer
02:49You find out their phone number and you're calling them that in my opinion is
02:55Uncivilized behavior that no one should be expected to tolerate
03:00No one should tolerate that you do that
03:03That's harassment
03:05But saying that your game sucks dick on Twitter is not harassment
03:11And hopefully it's not the truth either. I guess we're gonna find out
03:16Actually seen this sort of corpo jargon from various other corporations before as well
03:21Yeah, they seem to love loosely defining this stuff or like not defining it at all
03:24Right, like oftentimes what they would call targeted harassment or attacks is like valid criticism against the game
03:31And you would think this sort of corporate problem. Yeah
03:34I mean, I think that all the time people conflate harassment with criticism
03:38In order to make people feel sorry for them. Basically, I think that's effectively what happens in a lot of these cases
03:45Shouldn't is something anyone would like get behind criticizing right? Like this is not something that should be defended
03:51I'll give you an example. So an example of this is like that Matt Hanson guy from
03:58obsidian
04:02People were criticizing him and attacking him personally
04:05People were criticizing him and attacking him personally
04:08But I think that all of that criticism was completely fair and there's nothing wrong with it
04:13Because he's making personal statements on a personal on a on a public website
04:19If you're making public statements on a public website
04:22And then people come back and they say wow these statements are really stupid and it sounds racist for you to say this
04:30That's not that that's not harassment
04:33It's not at all he came out was done publicly. Yeah, exactly
04:40Activist outlet the gamer apparently is taking Ubisoft's side on this one. Well, they're right
04:45Ubisoft reportedly has a plan to protect devs from harassment when assassins creed shadows launches with the bullet points
04:52Ubisoft reportedly has a plan in place protect us from views after assassins creed shadows launches
04:56Devs are apparently already being told to be cautious on social media and Ubisoft is also said to be yeah
05:03That's probably a good idea. I
05:05Think that the video game industry has a huge problem of these like weird like
05:11completely
05:12socially captured captured like identity politics
05:17zealots that are now in video games and
05:21Ubisoft doesn't want to have like what happened to
05:25Obsidian happen to them
05:27They don't want to have one or two of their employees that has like these extreme weird views go out and just start fucking
05:36Saying this from the rooftops and now everybody's mad. They don't like your game. That's not just a video game industry
05:42Yeah, but I'm talking about video game industry. We put them put them in a box. Yeah. No, no for sure and one dude killed avowed
05:49Okay, but when will that put you in a box because you're talking about a game?
05:53Well, um if you are invading a person's personal space and harassing and stalking them and in some cases
06:01Threatening them. This is something that doesn't have anything to do with video games
06:05So criticism of a video game is very different than
06:10personal harassment
06:12Like it's that simple
06:16Collaborating with a Canadian government agency is combat online abuse
06:21What I think they meant to combat online abuse not is combat online abuse, but who knows what these people yeah furthermore
06:28They actually write like the full article here
06:30They say it's hard to imagine that morale has been great at Ubisoft since Assassin's Creed shadows revealed
06:34I bet the first trailer was released last spring and since then the game has been hit with delays and the studio has faced layoffs
06:41But of course the main story surrounding Assassin's Creed shadows is the backlash as the anti woke slash D
06:47Whatever it's called now movement made the game its latest target
06:50This was all because but this isn't limited to games like AC shadows GGG dropped all communication because players went too far
06:56Yeah, exactly. And this is a and and the problem is that
07:00This is so it's like it's like that meme the worst person, you know made a great point
07:04I think that's the situation here
07:07I actually support Ubisoft in this but the question is always to what extent will this be used?
07:14Okay, one of the games protagonists while critics say that they take issue with shadows referring to Yosuke as a samurai
07:18It doesn't take a lot of looking to find
07:20violently racist imagery and language being used towards the game and its depictions of its black protagonist
07:26The backlash was intense with Elon Musk joining in on the hate. So let's pause for a second
07:32There's been a lot of critiques towards this game for various reasons including even the architecture
07:36Apparently being more Chinese than Japanese and it's also it's not hate. It's not hate
07:40Japanese and it's also it's not hate entirely like there are some people that just disagree with you
07:47Like they might not like what you're doing. That's not necessarily hate
07:52Can you clarify this situation with like Dragon Age veil guard fall again, which came at senior devs getting on his soapbox
07:58Do you think these scenarios are different or similar?
08:01Sure with veil guard
08:04Any of the criticisms of the only person who was outspoken in veil guard was Kareen Bush
08:11which was the like one of the main directors of the game and
08:15I never said that
08:18It's this person's fault. I never harassed them
08:21I said they did a bad job because I think that they did but other than that who gives a fuck I
08:28I think that it's such an obvious difference whenever you're talking about harassment versus criticism
08:38Including people who even tried the game out already
08:40Criticizing how clunky Yosuke felt to play and or that he also just made the combat like way too easy
08:45It's like easy mode. Those are just a few examples
08:48But hey to the activists over at the gamer, of course, they want to try and manipulate a narrative around this whole thing
08:53I also love how journalists and other modern audience type of people etc, etc
08:57Constantly try and act like DI is something that like gamers made up when we're just using the terms that core
09:03Yeah, that's exactly right and I've noticed this a lot is that they use DEI as if it's like this fake boogeyman
09:10But they were the ones that like they created the term
09:15Yeah, they created it themselves
09:17Those
09:19Literally made you have literal corporations and government agencies using this term and then when people start talking about public suddenly
09:27Oh, whatever. They're saying DI woke whatever. It's like bro
09:30We're literally using the corporate terminology and you would think that these activists at the gamer would
09:36agree to criticize corrupt actions from corporations including this whole like
09:40New policy that Ubisoft is apparently implementing to protect
09:43Assassin's Creed shadows from critiques, but no to these activists just because gamers are critiquing Ubisoft
09:49They decide they want to stand with the corporations with giant corporations. Yeah, wonderful activism, isn't it? Continuing they say well
09:56It's because they're aligned with it because the journalists get the same type of criticism as well
10:01But a lot of these journalists do the same thing is that they write articles that are misleading
10:07Slanderous untrue or just a lie in one way or another and then they act like they're getting
10:14Harassment when people are saying that you're a liar. That's what happens
10:17I think that happens a lot it prepare. It's super common another typo. What is this?
10:23Now it seems that Ubisoft it prepare for this
10:27To even get worse at launch as reported by tech and co spotted by reset era user
10:32Beto Ubisoft is said to have implemented a plan to protect its devs as we approach shadowing plan
10:37This reportedly includes offering psychological and legal support and as part of a Canadian initiative against online abuse
10:44Fortunately, this is something I don't want them to be a state
10:49Have to account for now, of course
10:51The attacks have been going on for some months now
10:53We're advised not to post on social media that we work at Ubisoft to avoid harassment
10:57Says one Ubisoft worker quoted in the report as part of this Ubisoft is said to be working with the Canadian communications security establishment
11:04And has drafted up a plan to combat harassment. It's an initiative from Canada
11:08There's a team that monitors networks and acts quickly in the event of a target attack
11:13Unlike what we've had before this is serious
11:15Assassin's Creed shadows launches on March 20th. We'll have to wait and see where it lands with fans and critics. Oh my god
11:27I just don't think the strategy of demonizing your audience is gonna work.
11:34I don't I feel like that's a pretty bad way of doing things and also the problem is that
11:43See this is the issue that I have with this because again, I support this in theory
11:49But the problem is that the theory is is very often not accurate
11:54They're really saying someone called the cyber police. Yeah, I can't can even criticize it. Well for me. Yeah, of course
12:00I mean if I'll criticize it, I mean like
12:02if they sue me for harassment
12:05Then I'm going to live stream the trial and I'll just even if they get money out of me
12:11I'll just make the money back with the live stream. It won't matter. It's not gonna make it won't make a difference
12:16So like it doesn't matter and also I'm not even Canada
12:21So so yeah, it's it's not even that so and it's not like and also this is another thing
12:26It's like if you're on the internet
12:27Like what if some guy in fucking Ukraine says this like you're gonna extradite some guy from Ukraine and sue them
12:32It's impossible what I would not even be surprised that this was just massive coke from Ubisoft
12:37What I mean by that is I wouldn't be surprised if their own employees don't want to post they work at Ubisoft
12:42Not because they're afraid of gamers or whatever
12:44That's the spin but because they simply don't want to post that they work at Ubisoft because they're embarrassed
12:50To work at Ubisoft. Well, it's if you know
12:53The thing is that I would understand them not wanting to post because they get a lot of negative feedback for being part of this
12:59Company, I totally understand that. I think that's reasonable. Of course, they're not gonna want to say that
13:04I think it's the same thing with Blizzard
13:06Like Blizzard used to be a company used to be proud of working for now if people find out about Blizzard
13:10The first thing they're gonna ask about is breast milk
13:13Yeah, of course, they don't want to be associated with it and Ubisoft had its own share of sexual controversies, too
13:19So it not only doesn't have garbage games, but it apparently for a long time was a garbage company, too
13:25So yeah, I I totally understand those in of Ubisoft stance against harassment and all that stuff
13:31Check this out. Interestingly enough March 10th just the other day deadline had reported
13:37Former Ubisoft execs go on trial over toxic workplace as Union calls for CEO to be tried for complicity
13:45Yeah, previously the trial of three former executives at French Assassin's Creed video publisher
13:50I was talking about used of sexual harassment and workplace bullying
13:53Yeah has begun in Paris in the backdrop the Solarity's information union
13:57Representing workers in the French video game sector has announced it is issuing a request for Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Eve's Gimo and longtime
14:05HR executive Marie Durain to stand excuse me to also stand trial for complicity and the alleged toxic behavior
14:11There is no suggestion either were directly involved in sexual harassment or bullying the trial of the three ex Ubisoft execs is taking place
14:17As the beleaguered Paris-based company gears up
14:20Yeah
14:20This came out a couple of days ago shadows on March 20th much rides on the success of the 14th
14:25installment of the hit franchise with Ubisoft recently reporting a
14:2830% drop in revenue in the first nine months of its current financial year
14:32Oh use men include former Ubisoft chief creative officer surge hasco it probably didn't say that right who was second-in-command of the company and
14:39Regarded as co-founder Gamo's right-hand man for 14 years from 2006
14:43So he's joined with a few other executives as well, and I'm not gonna go into like all this trial stuff
14:49I just thought it was rather interesting as mentioned
14:51Don't we get the statement from Ubisoft and the Canadian government apparently teaming up and all that
14:55Oh, we're against harassment. Meanwhile. All this is going on to of course at least
14:59Yeah, it just it sounds like they should be more against harassment at their own company
15:04They should focus on that instead of focusing on the Internet. I
15:09Mean because that's where this apparently there's sexual harassment and stuff like that happening at this company. This is a huge issue
15:18For the time recording this video, I don't believe they've been found guilty or anything like that seems to be ongoing
15:23But again interesting stuff, isn't it?
15:25We've also talked in the past about how various corporations like to try and avert you signal publicly as they deal with their own
15:31Controversies so make of all this what you will now. I thought it might be fun to yeah
15:36I mean, I'm gonna be honest. Like I think if you're harassing a developer you're calling their personal phone
15:41You are attacking them on a personal level. You're threatening them. I
15:46Think this is harassment and I think you should be held accountable for it
15:49absolutely, because like you you've you've left the realm of criticism and now you're attacking them on a personal level and I'm not saying like
15:58Oh calling somebody a fat bitch is like a problem
16:01But like going and like, you know doxing or doing anything else crazy like that
16:06Calling there again calling a personal phone like sending the mail
16:10Anything like that that that's completely over the line and no
16:15Reasonable civil tolerant society should have any room for that to exist
16:22Agreed that's actual harassment. Yeah, exactly
16:25This video was something rather amusing that takes us to the subreddit for Assassin's Creed shadow
16:31They say number two in Japan. We have one with the included image reading best one second place
16:38But yeah
16:39Sellers in PlayStation 5 games number one a monster on your wilds number two Assassin's Creed shadows and number three split fiction and we can
16:46Take a look at the most downvoted comments on that post and it's hilarious
16:49See what upset the Assassin's Creed shadows defenders over on that subreddit
16:53For example minus 16 downvotes reading number one on that list is 70k
16:58Number five is 7k and MGS 3 number 10 is at 2k
17:02Yeah
17:02Really celebrating 1k sales three days from release this one with minus 19 downvotes reading reddit when a new game is best-selling first week
17:09Remind me what happened with Dragon Age and minus 20 downvotes reading my guy
17:13It is a quote-unquote bestseller with only 7,000 sold for ps5 and 1,000 sold for Xbox
17:19Where is your quote-unquote win bro?
17:22Ultimately the mods for the Assassin's Creed shadows subreddit would decide to lock the post
17:26So, yeah, I just thought that was pretty amusing hope you guys enjoyed the entire segment though
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17:33Have a great week ahead and I'll see you in the next one
17:35I think this is a huge thing that a lot of gamers have and a lot of people do take things too far and
17:43In the case that people do take things too far. I think that they should be held accountable
17:49What's the big news for Assassin's Creed today? Well, the big news is that we're gonna play it