Alternate title could have easily been, "The continued owning of Ubisoft by the righteous James Sterling and anybody with a bloody working brain in their head."
Insider Gaming - "Ubisoft has cancelled yet another game, this time ending development on the Animal Crossing-inspired title Alterra."
HALIFAX (April 14, 2026) – Laid-off Ubisoft workers in Halifax have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a settlement with the video-game giant. The terms of the settlement, including the compensation employees will receive, is confidential.
I can't sit here and act like I know these workers financial situations. And I'm sure nobody wakes up WANTING to go to court. But for the sake of the industry, I wish some of these types of cases made it to trial.
Settlements allow companies to continue to do whatever abusive practices they do. While the trials (should the company lose) would actually force real changes for the better.
But again, I'm not in these workers shoes and I can understand them not wanting to risk it.
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In Ubisoft's defence, if the game is story driven and centres around a male protagonist then I can fully agree that switching for a female wouldn't make sense and would waste resources. We don't complain because Drake can't be played as a woman or Lara Croft can't be played as a man, so why do we complain when the character we play in Assassins Creed can't be played by a woman when the whole story is about a Go damn MALE. I love James Sterling but I feel he's being a little harsh here and accidentally jumping on a bandwagon with this.
However, what I can agree with is that they shouldn't use excuses. Instead of giving us reasons that may or may not be connected in some way to the reason, simply tell it as it is: 'Our story centres around a male character, so therefore the story would not make sense if you could play as a female.'
I hate to say it but Jim Sterling has a point... Assassin's Creed is one of the biggest blockbuster franchises in this industry. If they are omitting female playable characters, it cannot be because it is too expensive to do it, especially when they did it once before. That all said, having a playable female protagonist should be secondary to gameplay. It would be nice if such a feature could be added in through a post launch update or patch to satisfy disappointed fans because there are clearly people who want it, but if the story is designed specifically around having four male characters, then the point is moot.
Boob physics can't be that expensive.
I really do not care about the issue about women and stuff; watching this video further adds to my apathy for the subject because it fails to address the issue: "why does it matter?"
I rather have more mixed people. I have seen more women in games then I have mixed people- that's real diversity. This is just pc police being pc police and Ubi being afraid of a catch 22 of having a female assassin in the game.