Reuben Williams-Smith of SpawnFirst "weighs in on" the Ubisoft controversy.
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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Can we just get the facts straight about this controversy?
1: Ubisoft have already made an AC with a female. So get over it.
2: Its a creative decision
3: Yes it would take an unnecessary amount of time and effort to suddenly appease the masses and make one of the coop Assassins a female, and to make a convincing well developed female who wasnt just a reskinned AI with the same animations, but then...
4: You DON'T play as a female anyway. Everyone playing coop will appear as the main character ARNO on their own screen
5: Why is this suddenly such a big issue in regards to Ubisoft when the characters in their games/franchises/series are the most diverse in any other game franchise to date.
I'm all for diversity in games, coming from someone whn a cultural minority, but this is an absurd issue.
Efforts are better spent in criticizing developed for over-priced DLC, or broken releases.