Hi, please go tweet Ubisoft on Twitter. Apparently, they’ve been crossing their Assassin’s Creed developers’ plans for female characters, claiming that women don’t sell for years now:
- Evie and Jacob had equal time in the original idea of Syndicate, but this was discarded in favor of Jacob.
- Kassandra was supposed to be the only main character in Odyssey but Ubisoft made them add Aleksios;
- Bayek was supposed to die in Origins and Aya was supposed to be the protagonist (she had a statue in the Ezio trilogy dedicated to her wtf?).
Don’t let this rest. Be vocal. Go tweet them, tell them it sucks, especially if you claim to focus your games on diversity. Players want GOOD CHARACTERS, no matter the gender. GO TWEET, and reblog this post or make your own post to tell people to go tweet!
It’s the time of social media, we have the power to affect them.
- Ubisoft be like:
“Women don’t sell”:
‘Women don’t sell’:
“Women don’t sell”:
“Women don’t sell:”
‘Women don’t sell’:
“Women don’t sell”:
So @assassinscreed did not have Evie, Aya, or Kassandra as dedicated female leads, because women don’t sell! It’s simple as that, gamers! Forget the sales numbers for Tomb Raider or any of those other girly games; it’s all FAKE NEWS!
I’m so pissed we’re doing the half male assassin/half female assassin campaign again in an Assassin’s Creed game.
Look, I’m pretty sure Valhalla was meant to have a male story-lead from the start, and it feels like them all of a sudden announcing its half and half makes it seem like some lame attempt to make them seem progressive in the wake of the Ubisoft scandals.
I’m not demanding that Valhalla be canon female-led (because like I said, we can kinda tell it wasn’t supposed to be), I’m saying I’m not going to believe Ubisoft is progressive until they let a canon female lead be the cover hero, the trailer hero, and dare I say it, the ONLY hero of the game.
They did Kassandra dirty. They did Aya dirty.
The next female assassin they make needs to be the one who finally leads her own game.
No half and half because you’re afraid your sexist fans won’t buy it if they don’t get to play a guy, no choose your own path for the same reason.
That’s when I’ll know Ubisoft has gotten their act straight. When they no longer fear the portion of their fans who are misogynist and let a woman be the whole game.
Just one hero in her own game.
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