Do you think this diversity is meant to directly appeal to the depicted diverse characters (e.g. young nerdy blacks or weirdly muslim-like girls in this case)?
Or is it more of a virtue signal to make sure sensationalist game journalists don't criticize the game for having a generic white male main character again?
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Oh, an appeal to journalists, definitely.
I think it's funny that they're trying to appeal to Muslims by making a Muslim character that is essentially a terrorist.
That's what I figure as well.
Their think their demographic is young mixed race, black people and wigglers.
Probably both, though history has shown that pandering to the Tumblr audience for sales doesn't work well.
If it was only an appeal to journalists, the nigger would've been enough. You never hear them complain about lack of Muslims or Asians or Mexicans, they only care about including niggers.
>ubisoft thinking and black person will even buy this game
They rarely buy outside of sports games and fighting games. Sometimes on cod.
>history has shown that pandering to the Tumblr audience for sales doesn't work well
Exactly. And surely (((old white men))) in charge of Ubisoft care about this the most.
So I believe they're doing this to make sure there won't be a negative buzz associated with the game.
kek
Its to appeal to white beta cucks, of which there are plenty of.
That sounds like it would appeal to muslims plenty
and gta
Except she's dressed like a whore so it's absolutely haram
i love the assumption that the devs couldnt have possibly just wanted to put in a back protagonist, there has to be an agenda.
BIGGEST HACK IN HISTORY
I'm not sure why senpai but 70% of the people that play last of us multiplayer are black
There aren't that many of them, at least not that buy video games. The thing is they mostly complain about video games, so they become journalists, while most players don't give a shit, but game devs pay more attention to journalists than their players so they try to make them happier instead.
This.
this, you niggers are as paranoïd as SJWs
People generally have reasons for doing stuff. The decision hierarchy in development of AAA games is full of people and the higher you go the more they care about money and money only.
I.e. if this was a one-man indie game, I'd presume the dev just wanted to do something (for no reason?), but it's hard to imagine with a massive AAA game that's meant to appeal to as many people as possible.
Diversity is par for the course, doesn't conflict with the setting it's in and it's fine.
But Not-Trump as the main bad guy is a bit heavy-handed.
You're kidding right? Have you ever played a ubisoft game? Right at the beginning after booting them up, there's a disclaimer virtue signaling about how diverse the team that created the game is.
Of course there's agenda.
Spoken like a true underaged faggot from Sup Forums
I used to be young and naive too
>But Not-Trump as the main bad guy is a bit heavy-handed.
Yeah, I actually forgot about this. Hard to say someone (specifically who?) just wanted this (for no reason?).
Hit a nerve, Ahmed?
Usual case of devs trying to push their political agenda into games.
Never goes well, especially when it's so blatant.
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If it's so blatant, why do some people deny it? Sup Forums-specific phenomenon of wanting to seem non-Sup Forums, thus "reasonable"?
I've seen the negro mc get more complaints than praise because of all these shit heels whining about how this ties to "m-muh white genocide!" It's one game, this isn't going to be some step forward to bringing the white race to it's knees, the game's gonna be shitty anyway so might as well not buy it if it hurts your feefees that much.
Some people are just retarded, case in point
Sup Forums has been infested with tumbrites for a while now.
>we want to appeal to tiny, stupid and dirt poor demographics
Seems to make sense. They're all on welfare and need something to do all day
>muslim girl has hijab esque headgear and hot pants
lol, biggest cuck of the history
seriously though I don't know who they are trying to appeal to, but I know who they are trying to appease. sad state of affairs.
The only reason they do this in the first place is because minorities complain about their poor feels
>2016
what fucking website is this?
>Buying ubisoft garbage
You guys don't actually do this, right?
>virtue signal
The fuck is that?
Don't worry, we won't buy it. And neither will anyone else. They've alienated literally everyone with this nonsense.
Reasonable whites who aren't totally bluepilled aren't going to buy it because muh forced diversity.
Blacks aren't going to buy it because the MC is a huge uncle tom.
Muslims aren't going to buy it because that girl is showing a fuckload of skin for a muslim and is essentially a terrorist.
Not even meme loving Sup Forumstards will buy it because theres a character that is literally a caricature of them.
The game has literally nothing for anyone. They should have just stuck with Aiden Pierce instead of this shit. That, or Ubisoft should have listened to their marketing department when they told them this won't sell because the vast majority of people who play these types of games are 20-something white males.
Damn, now I'm worried about how my dad will react when I tell him I'm actually an attack helicopter
>Virtue signalling is the expression or promotion of viewpoints that are especially valued within a social group, especially when this is done primarily to enhance the social standing of the speaker
Obvious example: J.K. Rowling retroactively announcing stuff about Harry Potter series like Dumbledore being gay or Hermione never explicitly stated to be white. It changes nothing about the series, but in the currect societal climate it makes Rowling seem like a better person.
Well how else would you appeal to them?
You can't release an Oppress Women Simulator 2016
Fuck Rowling. Dumbledores sexuality made absolutely zero difference in the story and was never brought up, why the fuck would she declare him gay other than to appear 'progressive' and 'modern'? Dumbledores character was that of a man far too focused on amassing power and knowledge to be bothered with sexual partners, male or female.
Also fuck Rowling for insinuating that Hermione was anything but white as a fucking sheet. Go reread any of the books and its ABUNDANTLY CLEAR by her mannerisms, speech patterns and behavior that she is white as fuck.
>J.K. Rowling retroactively announcing stuff about Harry Potter series like Dumbledore being gay
Holy shit I didn't even know that
What a stupid fucking cunt
Thus virtue signaling.
Extra brownie points.
An African American protag isn't enough anymore. You also need a women and a non white male as your other characters
"Virtue signaling" is probably the most annoying fucking phrase to catch on recently and I can't wait for it to fuck back off again.
Why? It described something that's happening. It's not like it's made up.
I'm hoping that a game will come out that lets you make your own character, BUT, they can only be white. I don't care what the games about or its gameplay or anything; I just want to see this particular instance in which the only race for an other-wise fully customizable character is white.
The reason I want to see this is to witness the earth-shattering rage that tumblrites, SJWs, and the SJW-tumblrite-infested media will erupt in.
>minorities
>whites are the minority globally
Huh?
Because literally every attempt to take a stance on anything these days is labeled as some fucking "virtue signal" shit and it's fucking annoying. It's just another way to dismiss shit with a snazzy catchphrase.
Tibia. SJWs still complain about it, to this day.
Get fucked you stupid white neckbeard.
Examples of cases where you feel the word was used inappropriately?
I wish they would just drop the unique protagonist aspect and just let us choose a handful of pre made, voiced characters (like dead island) or just go the full create a character route. Ubisoft hasn't made many memorable single player protagonist in a long time.
If my kid turned out like this all I would say is something like "Am I supposed to care?"
All they want is attention and to have an oh-so terrible story for people to sympathize with them over.
Don't remember anything in regards to Hermione's skin tone, but Dumbledore's whole relationship with Grindelwald was faggy as fuck
You seen American Psycho? Remember the dinner scene where they mention Sri Lanka?
That's virtue signaling.
Or maybe it's just a 2cool4school design since that's how normies think hackers look like. It's not the first time something like this happens.
No need to sperg about so much.
I gotchu senpai
Asking questions is sperging? I don't see why you'd feel so threatened by OP's question.
Her face is described as white in one instance, and she is said to have gotten a tan from visiting a place with a hot climate.
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Here is a fairly recent post complaining about it
>Muslim girl
>short short shorts
That's how you get lynched user.
Almost literally every time it is ever used? It's inane and basically used to belittle every instance where anyone expresses any sort of ethical opinion on anything.
Like when and where and about who's expression of what specific opinions?
t. white boi
there are more normie chads and blacks playing games than there are Sup Forums cuck autists, especially ubisoft games in 2016
I see it used all the time in GG discussion arenas, I can't just fucking link you to a specific instance, it's not like there's a fucking article about it. I just see it used a lot around dumb Twitter drama bullshit and things like that. I guess recently I saw it used to describe political protestors because they were protesting about gay rights or some dumb shit and they weren't gay. Or something like that. And that got called 'virtue signalling'.
That's literally so people can't claim their depiction of other cultures isn't ethnocentric and inaccurate. I don't think there's this disclaimer for like, Rayman games, because nobody cares about that.
Assassin's creed tackles with ethnicity, races, religion and other subjects that gets people mad just at the sight of them. Even though it doesn't do anything with those topics, people would probably get mad if they weren't like "b-b-but no worries we have a turk on the team"
They play games as a passtime, not a hobby, and definitely not fucking Ubisoft games.
So basically you're just hung up on it.
who the fuck cares if it's a passtime, plenty of Sup Forums autists also play it as a passtime but pretend it's a hobby because they're too afraid to go outside
normies do play far cry, assassin's creed, the division even sub-par shit like call of juarez. how do you think they shit out so many of these games and they sell so well?
Wildlands looks fun, tho.
But I agree with your point, however.
>check out how much better I am than the other people here, you just know my argument is superior huh
The villain is named Thruss with a slogan, make the bay area strong again.
You'd have to literally be legally retarded to think this isn't an agenda.
Maybe they vote Bernie?
>stopped thinking after reading the first sentence because he's a typical Sup Forums autist who can't handle banter on a korean cartoon forum filled with banter
Why are people mad about this game?
The same way devs can make games like Hatred, HuniePop, or The Witcher, Ubisoft has the right to make a game in whatever setting or style they want.
The only reason you could be mad is if somehow you cared a heck of a lot about Watch Dogs 1 and think the sequel isn't true to the original.
Asking questions means the asker is mad? You presuppose too much. Maybe it's just curiosity.
When you grow up you'll understand why shoehorning political agendas in entertainment media is bad.
>Do you think this diversity is meant to directly appeal to the depicted diverse characters (e.g. young nerdy blacks or weirdly muslim-like girls in this case)?
No
>Or is it more of a virtue signal to make sure sensationalist game journalists don't criticize the game for having a generic white male main character again?
No
Fucking racist Hermione playing Whiteface and shit.
Not addressing OP specifically but I've frequently seen sentiment that Ubisoft did some great wrong by making a game to appeal to liberal hipsters. Fair is fair. For example:
Shoehorning would be if they were making a game and then added token nods to social justice due to demand or outcry. Watch Dogs 2 is Pandering, because they built the game from the ground up with that demographic in mind. Why are the social justice crowd not allowed to have a game that appeals to their sensibilities?
>political agendas
What's the agenda? Coloreds exist?
Has the cunt ever addressed this?
>pol falsefalg
Cuuuuck
I imagine if she ever did she'd say that "white face" meant that she had gone pale and that she could still be black.
As a black man, this character appeals to me. Might actually buy this game, where as I lost all interest in original watch dogs after the reviews came out.
This is what virtue signaling Redditors claim, but I dunno is Rowling herself did.
Don't be silly.
All she's done is call people 'small-minded' or 'racists' or anything in that regard, and all sense and logic you might have on your side would not matter as far as the internet leftwing nuts are concerned.
Who are you faggots trying to fool? Go back to tumblr.
Causing havoc appeals to you?
>As a black man
I see, fair enough.
>White protagonist
>SJWs complain
>Anti-SJWs tell them to make their own work, and to stop fucking with artist integrity
>Someone makes their own black character
>Anti-SJWs complain about diversity
Fucking stupid. I even saw a few people miss Aidan. No one fucking like Aidan. Not even Aidan.
When I think of "just as bad as SJWs", these are the people that come to mind.
I liked Aiden
>>Someone makes their own black character
Did they though? This is the crux of the issue. Do you truly believe Watch Dogs 2 has some person with their own persona vision of diverse cast and said vision dictating the decisions in the development of the game? Or is this more likely ?
Also Hatred was even more sketchy because they were exploiting a specific group of people and tricking them into buying a mediocre product by making them think it was for "a cause".
Ubisoft ia just making a game/ characters they find interesting.