Game journalists are all too eager to complain about a lack of diversity, says Continue Play's Shaz Abdulla, but they're not as quick to celebrate when developers and publishers get it right.
The latest controversy surrounding Ubisoft at E3 is a case in point.
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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Made up controversy, by hacks calling themselves journalists.
Also, if diversity is the thing that's supposedly going to "magically" drive sales, why the heck wasn't AC: Liberation as big a seller as previous entries? Or why is it that mediocre action games like Wet or Remember Me don't sell as much as other mediocre action games where the lead isn't a female protagonist?
If simply being "diverse" would drive up sales from people who pass up a game because of gender/race differences, then games that star the opposite of the industry's "norm" would then be rocket-busting games that sell huge... right? Right?
The SJWs never seem to have an answer as to why all the games aimed at female audiences on Steam don't sell as well as DayZ or The Stomping Land or Watch Dogs. They don't ever seem to have an answer as to why the adoption rate is so low for adventure games and non-action titles when they're made in great abundance by indie devs.
The content and games are there, but the sales are not.
Simply catering to people who whine about these things won't make the people who didn't care about these games in the first place, magically jump up and buy them.
great article.
assassin's creed is one of the *only* modern AAA franchises to have a female (of color, no less) as a protagonist, and yet the media seems intent on shaming ubisoft every chance they get. i really don't understand it.
as pointed out in the article, people are more interested in expressing faux outrage than anything else.