Tom Clancy's Elite Sqaud recently released for IoS and Android, and has already gotten into some hot water. For context, here's the opening cutscene:
Now, I personally don't have an issue with it, frankly it's about time we got a a left wing group being the bad guy, right down to them being shown as hilariously inaccurate strawman caricature version of the real thing. That said, this was clearly an accident, ubisoft was probably going for a much more generic SPECTRE type group and just had the bad luck to release the game now, right when people are primed to draw the wrong association.
and draw it they did, and then went on to whine about in the media. Ubisoft, in what it is either additionally tone deaf PR or passive aggressive trolling (given how obnoxious people have been to them about ubisoft's attempt to be apolitical in the past, I suspect the latter), Ubisoft agreed to slightly modify one element of UMBRA's imagery while leaving everything else in place and pointedly ignoring everything else the linked article was whining about.
What do you guys think?
Now, I personally don't have an issue with it, frankly it's about time we got a a left wing group being the bad guy, right down to them being shown as hilariously inaccurate strawman caricature version of the real thing. That said, this was clearly an accident, ubisoft was probably going for a much more generic SPECTRE type group and just had the bad luck to release the game now, right when people are primed to draw the wrong association.
and draw it they did, and then went on to whine about in the media. Ubisoft, in what it is either additionally tone deaf PR or passive aggressive trolling (given how obnoxious people have been to them about ubisoft's attempt to be apolitical in the past, I suspect the latter), Ubisoft agreed to slightly modify one element of UMBRA's imagery while leaving everything else in place and pointedly ignoring everything else the linked article was whining about.
What do you guys think?