Assassin’s Creed Shadows is digital only
This is going to hurt the game sales massively as people are now wanting physical copies of their media, because of the ways that companies making impossible to own digital media that has been paid for already. Watching the trailer, I was thinking how is Ubi's executive and marketing depts going to fuck this game over.
And here it is.
Another thought is if this doesn't sell well, this game will propped up as 'See we told you that women/others than white european doesn't sell'. Even though Serge Hascoët is no longer with the company, his decisions and actions has long lasting consequences(I'm under the impression through interviews that him and Ubisoft's CEO are still best buds).
Frustrating part of this is, I know that people want to and are willingly to play games with protagonists that don't match their race/gender. I see it in the comment sections trailers for Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla(There are a fair amount of jackasses in the comments as well). People are disappointed with Aya diminished role in Origins, seeing the irony of naming your canon protagonist Kassandra while it's going completely over others heads and choosing Let the Animus Decide choice to show that Eivor(female), Havi(male) was the intended story to be told. No one is bashing the male actors performances as some guys(usually loud and white) would have you believe. A lot of people felt misled by the marketing for Odyssey and Valhalla because they weren't shown the canon character.
Also, with Odyssey and Valhalla trying to match two characters (that weren't intended to be the same) inhibits both actor's performances and doesn't let them play to their strengths they were hired for and weakens the game overall.
Dual protagonists are fine as long you have a some of balance there. AC3 was a bit clunky with Haytham's sequences in the beginning, and Connor's afterwards(the creative director said something to the effect, if he had to do it again, he would implement it better). Syndicate was better but Evie clearly had less content than Jacob and while reading interviews/twitter confirmed that Evie's role was made to be smaller than what the studio wanted to it to be(executive meddling). I know the Shadows team will do their best to their abilities, but with the executive and marketing heads up their own asses, I'm afraid that digital only is going to hinder the games reach and 'prove the executives were right ' because they're greedy misogynistic racists.
