An surprising spat between Elon Musk and Ubisoft has erupted on social media, because the Assassin’s Creed X account goes rogue.
While the response to Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been largely constructive following its launch final week, it clearly hasn’t happy everybody.
The recreation has been a tradition warfare goal over its twin protagonists, black samurai Yasuke and feminine shinobi Naoe, ever because it was first revealed – sparking on-line petitions and bizarre apologies from developer Ubisoft.
These tensions have led to a weird trade on X, involving none apart from Elon Musk and a world class diss from Ubisoft’s social media crew.
This trade was sparked by former Blizzard developer and Gamergate supporter Mark Kern, aka Grummz, who criticised Ubisoft for collaborating with Twitch streamer and left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker, to advertise Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Kern’s post on X prompted a response from Musk, who known as Piker a ‘fraud’ and a ‘promote out’. ‘Objectively, he’s selling a horrible recreation only for the cash,’ he added.
While Piker didn’t reply to the claims, the official X account for Assassin’s Creed waded in with some surprising jabs.
‘Is that what the man enjoying your Path Of Exile 2 account informed you?’ the Twitter account stated to Musk.
This is in reference to the SpaceX CEO and senior adviser to Donald Trump deceptive folks about his gaming abilities in Path Of Exile 2, after he admitted he had another person stage increase his account and that he wasn’t, the truth is, among the best gamers on the earth.
The jabs didn’t cease there. When Kern replied with a screenshot with the headline ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows isn’t the hit Ubisoft desperately wants’, the sport’s official account account replied: ‘Our recreation is out.’
This seems to be a dig at Kern’s non secular successor to on-line shooter Firefall, known as Em-8er, which nonetheless hasn’t been launched 9 years after its preliminary crowdfunding marketing campaign was introduced.
While it stays to be seen if Assassin’s Creed Shadows will assist Ubisoft out of its monetary rut, the sport has seemingly bought very effectively. According to Ubisoft, the Japanese-themed entry hit two million gamers after two days, surpassing the launch of Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey.
According to Gfk/Nielsen knowledge (through The Game Business), Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the most important bodily launch of the yr up to now, though its bodily gross sales within the UK are 63% of what Assassin’s Creed Valhalla managed in November 2020.
Valhalla, nevertheless, was accessible on extra platforms and got here out in the course of the pandemic.
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