Ubisoft Changing Assassin's Creed Odyssey DLC Following Forced Relationship Furore

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Apparently, two apologies weren’t enough: a Ubisoft community manager has announced the Assassin’s Creed Odyssey team is returning to the Shadow Heritage DLC and editing it to appease those who were furious over its forced relationship. “Ubisoft will now alter scenes from the DLC's ending so your relationship with this character can remain exclusively non-romantic, if you choose.” A trophy/achievement called ““Growing Up,” is also being altered, “which some construed as a comment that being gay or childless was a phase to grow out of.”

"After hearing player feedback and discussing within the development team we are making changes to a cutscene and some dialogue in Shadow Heritage to better reflect the nature of the relationship for players selecting a non-romantic storyline. These changes, along with renaming a trophy/achievement, are being made now and will be implemented in an upcoming patch. We've also been carefully looking at the next episode, Bloodline, to ensure the paths that players experience mirror the choices they make in game."
 
So gays can't go to the straight side!?
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Lets see, gays make up 2-3% of the population. And out of that tiny minority how many really play ACO and are truly offended by this? This is nothing more than the outrage mob getting their way and Ubisoft bent right over for them.
 
This pisses me off, they still haven't address my identification as a non-binary asexual hedgehog. As a Spartan non-binary asexual hedgehog I want a realistic existence in Spartan culture, so you know, forced gay pedophilia til the age of 13 when I'm married to woman and forced to repress my non-binary asexual hedgehog status or by beaten to death by my peers.
 
I couldn't care less about the sexual dynamics of it. I just love AC: Odyssey and every time they do an "ending" in the DLC like the one with your family and then this one where you settle down and have a kid feels weird. There's more DLC coming? Will there be another ending in it too? I would prefer a cliffhanger personally.
 
I'm not sure why people are ignoring the fact that they used the ability to play as a gay character as a selling point for the game and then arbitrarily changed it in the dlc even though you play as the same character.

It seems similar to the reason I have no interest in the Nuka World dlc for FO4. It forces you to at least play along as being an evil character to get anything out of it and I don't like playing evil characters in Bethesda games because they're to cartoon villainy, if I had bought the season pass it would have annoyed me(along with most of the other dlc being stupid settlement building crap).

On the other hand people that bitch about a game not letting them play as their preferred race, gender, or sexuality when it was never said that they would be able to need to GTFO. Some games are built around the freedom to create the character that you want while others are more about telling the story of a more specific character, both can be good but devs should have the freedom to choose which way they want to go. They probably shouldn't change that decision partway through though.
 
so... how are they gonna make a baby with 2 of the same types of equipment?

oh it's a non-romantic "sperm donor" angle.

that's way better /s
 
percydaman said:
The butthurt people caused this furor because they knew Ubisoft would respond. This is what happens when you cater to them. They won't stop.
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Butthurt..... gay... come on, I can't be the only one..

Ebernanut said:
I'm not sure why people are ignoring the fact that they used the ability to play as a gay character as a selling point for the game and then arbitrarily changed it in the dlc even though you play as the same character.
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Yeah but breeding requires a very specific allocation of genders to work or it did until a few years ago when people just started making them up. Am I allowed to call them people still or do they prefer something else?

Master_shake_ said:
so... how are they gonna make a baby with 2 of the same types of equipment?
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Gender has nothing to do with their gender. Seriously, how can you not know that you dirty white cisgender male /s
 
i will admit I know ziltch about the background on this, but if I was the designer for this game and I wanted to appeal all potential players, in a choose your own adventure scenario, I would add something like an adoption story for those who cant conceive. like a sweet lone wolf and cub thing, but I assume this mired in coporate bullshit from which there probably is no way to win.
 
masquap said:
Yeah but breeding requires a very specific allocation of genders to work or it did until a few years ago when people just started making them up. Am I allowed to call them people still or do they prefer something else?
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That has zero to do with what I said, they marketed it as a game that gave you certain choices and continued the characters story in a way that took those choices away. What those choices are is immaterial to the conversation though I'm sure there's people on both sides of the debate that are getting hung up on that.
 
Ebernanut said:
That has zero to do with what I said, they marketed it as a game that gave you certain choices and continued the characters story in a way that took those choices away. What those choices are is immaterial to the conversation though I'm sure there's people on both sides of the debate that are getting hung up on that.
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Lets be real though, there are plenty of times choices in games end up not being Canon in the sequels. I know it's not a 1:1 example with this particular case but sometimes you just have to let someone tell the story they want. I haven't played the game ( I didn't even know their was romance choices) how integral to the story is this choice in the main game, like does it have main story effects that are just ignored in the DLC?

It's like getting mad when your character isn't actually in cutscenes so the model shown is default armor/colours.
 
Ebernanut said:
That has zero to do with what I said, they marketed it as a game that gave you certain choices and continued the characters story in a way that took those choices away. What those choices are is immaterial to the conversation though I'm sure there's people on both sides of the debate that are getting hung up on that.
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I guarantee 99.9% of the outraged didn’t even buy the game or the DLC, it’s just another platform for them to be outraged about which is all they seem to care about. Putting gay characters in the game in the first place was nothing but pandering to the vocal minorities narrative so they didn’t get negative press rather than building a good story. Welcome to the word created by those types where we have to have an agenda for everything rather than just relaxing and enjoying and engaging story. The only positive is those groups finally seem to be feeding on themselves because they’ve got nothing else left to ruin
 
PeaKr said:
Lets see, gays make up 2-3% of the population. And out of that tiny minority how many really play ACO and are truly offended by this? This is nothing more than the outrage mob getting their way and Ubisoft bent right over for them.
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The tiny gay minority don't have time to play video games because they are busy force-feeding their ideology down everyone else's throat.
 
Nolan7689 said:
Lets be real though, there are plenty of times choices in games end up not being Canon in the sequels. I know it's not a 1:1 example with this particular case but sometimes you just have to let someone tell the story they want. I haven't played the game ( I didn't even know their was romance choices) how integral to the story is this choice in the main game, like does it have main story effects that are just ignored in the DLC?

It's like getting mad when your character isn't actually in cutscenes so the model shown is default armor/colours.
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Most of the game lets you decide if you want to have sex with a few different men or women (while playing as ether gender), the actions of which play no part into anything. I have not yet played the DLC but from what I have heard about it, you have a sexual relationship with a person of the other gender in order to have a child that will go on to be somebody that plays a role in the assassin bloodline. This was going to be part of the focus of the next episode of this DLC. Which as it states in the OP they will now rewrite the story so that you could end up with no child at all. For what was going to be a DLC about your child, having a child would be an important part of the story. Given that Amunet (Aya) from origins who is the cofounder of the assassins (brotherhood to be more exact) was 1/2 Greek and 1/2 Egyptian they were probably working in a way to have this be the bloodline of her. Which you can't have a bloodline without children. To which given that there was already a way to have a good through bad ending I guess you could just say that a childless ending just isn't the correct / canon ending although that also starts to destroy the story some that they are trying to tell if they had a story arc that was going to tie this game to the previous.
 
"[T]his work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multi-cultural team of various beliefs, sexual orientations and gender identities."

You know they had to put this in for to block anybody getting angry about the depicted same-sex relationships, both of the NPCs and the hook-ups that the character can get into. I haven't heard of any major web-shaking complaints about Alexios causing Supideo's real father getting it on, and all of Kassandra's opportunities, mostly because it's not a big deal.

If the LGBTQ developers and producers allowed this for the story, why the quick collapse because of the L portion of that group?
 
Richard R said:
"[T]his work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multi-cultural team of various beliefs, sexual orientations and gender identities."

You know they had to put this in for to block anybody getting angry about the depicted same-sex relationships, both of the NPCs and the hook-ups that the character can get into. I haven't heard of any major web-shaking complaints about Alexios causing Supideo's real father getting it on, and all of Kassandra's opportunities, mostly because it's not a big deal.

If the LGBTQ developers and producers allowed this for the story, why the quick collapse because of the L portion of that group?
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The quick collapse was because of a few lesbians getting sick to their stomachs because their character has a straight relation and had a child due to it and they can't stand the thought that their character had sex with somebody of the other gender and they where not allowed to stop it.

In today's world you can't just tell a story without making sure that you check every single box to ensure that you can't make any group unhappy. Even then you still will probably piss off somebody.
 
I barely played./paid attention to AC games - but isn't it a major plot point that the PC relives historical actions performed by his ancestors? That implies that some old fashioned hetero action had occurred.
 
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