Friday Freebie: the Ubisoft is full of shit edition

Well, this week is E3, that hallmark of entitlement and sexist bullshit, where the same old shit is paraded by industry insiders as “what to look forward to” in the next year of gaming.

In such an environment, it really takes some effort to distinguish yourself for bullshit sexism. Yet Ubisoft went the extra mile and claimed that the reason there were going to be no playable female assassins in their upcoming Assassin’s Creed title is because it would double the development cost and it was “a reality of game development”.

Uh huh. Because, as someone on my G+ pointed out, you can animate each individual feather on an eagle’s wing, but women? That shit is just too hard.

As you can expect, people have been having a field day with this. So I thought that I would devote an entire links post to the excellent responses that people have made to Ubisoft’s nonsensical assertion that they can’t include playable women because it’s just toooo haaaaaard.

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This is one of the first takedowns I saw and does an excellent takedown of the problems with Ubisoft’s logic.

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Is ‘we don’t have the resources’ an OK excuse for keeping female heroes out of games?

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A stunning showcase of innovative character design: 40 male protagonists at E3 2014

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There were more severed heads than women presenters at E3 2014 #yearofthebeheading

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An NPR interview with Leigh Alexander and Aisha Taylor on E3 boy’s club nonsense

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BioWare’s David Gaider on his personal tumblr, on why game companies need to do better

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Over on tumblr, a great comic dramatizing the difficulty of animating female characters

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Other game devs calling Ubisoft on their bullshit

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Lastly, some super on-point tweets that pretty well summarize how I feel

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This game IS NOT bullshit. It is awesome and you should fund it the end.