I'd like to remind Ubisoft that they made several female characters for multiplayer in the previous games, and then I'd like to ask how a single female character for a 4 player co-op mode is "too difficult".
(NSFW) Assassin's Creed: Unisexity
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Yeah Ubisoft is so rich!
https://www.ubisoftgroup.com/comsite_common/en-US/images/d20140515031323ubisoft%20fy14%20earnings%20english%20finaltcm99143198.pdf
oh look Ubisoft lost ?65 million last year.
https://www.ubisoftgroup.com/comsite_common/en-US/images/d20140515031323ubisoft%20fy14%20earnings%20english%20finaltcm99143198.pdf
oh look Ubisoft lost ?65 million last year.
There is a downside.BreakfastMan said:
Consider your average FPS. In this case, you are, at a minimum, doubling the amount of character art you need. You need meshes for both genders for all outfits and pieces of armor not to mention textures for each version. There is some hope though - one can likely get away with only having a single set of animations.
Then consider a game that takes place in third person with a focus on melee. Suddenly you need all that double art but you also have to make new animations. The cause for this additional step is because you have characters interacting in close proximity and if you want the various stabbings and slashings to look believable, that means you'll need to actually go through and animate things different when dealing with a character who is likely shorter, lighter and generally speaking shaped differently in a variety of ways.
In either case, you'll also need to hire voice actors for the task which could be fairly costly and time consuming if you want the playable character in the main game to be female. You might also need to include lots of writing changes to the story to allow for a female character and lots of additional recording of lots of bits of dialog. He must be changed to She at the very least and given the series attempts to at least nod to the history of the moment it would stand to reason people would react very differently to a female assassin than a male one.
By contrast, adding a bit of DLC that gives a new outfit or weapon only requires a fraction of the work - a new model and a new texture and whatever game files govern the behavior of that item. Moreover, adding lots of DLC offers additional avenues for revenue where adding female characters offers precisely nothing tangible. Thus, if pressed for time, which do you think will be cut? The easy DLC that might net a hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars or female playable characters?
One of the people whose job it was to actually do that kind of animation and so on supposedly did, yes. The person who originally claimed it was too resource intensive was somebody higher up in the company.Requia said:
Yet they can still afford to make yearly Assassin Creed titles. Losing a lot of money doesn't mean much if you still have even more in the bank. If that ?65 million was enough to cause them problems they wouldn't be releasing two Triple A games this year, they'd be cutting back.youji itami said:
If they can afford eight studios to work on a single game, then they are also clearly okay financially overall.
This is the funniest, completely irrational, random rant I've read in a long time.Witty Name Here said:
"Parroting"? I'd recommend reading post three in this thread.Requia said:
The post you responded to was a reply to a person who claimed that Ubisoft did not want female characters. I then quoted an interview with Ubisoft, where they claimed that they did want female characters but they couldn't manage to do it with their time/money.
At no point did I say I thought they were telling the truth. Again, please read post three.
To be fair she was posing as a male, so naturally she would act as much as her fellow man-pirates as possible. It still doesn't explain why Ubisoft couldn't re-use Aveline from Assassin's Creed III... Bonnie from AC IV for that matter... or hell even what's her name from the very first game...synobal said:
