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Wtf does that mean

I sorta asked what he meant and he looked at me like I was dumb and said "you know, the Ls, the Ds, the Gs". I'm guessing he meant LGBTQ people, but idfk. The guy gives me bad reactionary vibes, so it wouldn't surprise me.

I look it up afterwards and most places talking about it online are accurately pointing out the company just sucks and management is awful, but I feel like that's been common knowledge for like a decade at this point.

Is this some right wing gamer bug of the month or something? Cause I'm way outta the loop

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[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 22 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

They also just announced that they're closing a bunch of their studios and cancelling like six games because everything they do is crazy bloated and unsustainable (sorry, I mean AAAA). Their stock price fell like 35% this week, which is indeed because of the alphabet people, but the letters are M, B, A, C, E, and O.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

35% in a week, 95% in 5 years. The CEO has somehow managed to keep his job regardless.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Nobody else can be trusted with the cover up of all the sexual misconduct at Ubisoft.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 22 hours ago

which is indeed because of the alphabet people, but the letters are M, B, A, C, E, and O.

fuck alphabet people all my friends hate the alphabet people

[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago

Haven't heard "alphabet people" in a while, but its just chuds being anti-LGBT as usual. This reminds me of something that happened here in Brasil in regards to AC Shadows:

[CW: anti-Trans rhetoric]Outside the usual chud discourse about the game with these fuckers losing their mind because there's a black man playable, Yasuke who they swear never existed, because history is whatever they want it to be, and the other playable character, Naoe, who is a woman, which is enough for them to lose their minds, Ubisoft Brasil launched this insanely cool ad for the game as a tribute to Tokusatsu series, and the woman playing Naoe in the video is called Thaís Matsufugi. I don't know much about her, other than that she is Davy Jones' wife, a very well known chud gaming youtuber here (who is also a meme since he knows jack shit about games and only talks about GTA), and for some reason she started being target by gringos being transphobic to her, when she's not even trans, she's cis. I still don't understand how/why the fuck this happened.

From what I have seen Ubisoft is cooked because they are just a shitty company making shitty decisions. Just recently they publicly shamed the studio that was doing the Prince Of Persia remake, assigned another studio, and now a few days ago just cancelled the project. They also created another company under them to manage their games promising it is to give the development teams more freedom, but they sold like a 1/4 or a 1/5 of it to Tencent, which just screams that they are not doing well. That alongside a bunch of project cancellations and well, you get the picture.

Baldur's Gate 3 let you choose your genitals and romance anyone you wanted. Why didn't it flop? Could it be that goodness and not-being-hostile are on separate axes? And besides, Ubisoft doesn't even register in my mind as people who give a fuck outside of a corporation where some senior fellow is going to shout the n word over and over then a Twitter account is going to be all "we want our products to be welcoming to everyone; this does not reflect our values".

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 12 points 23 hours ago

freeze-gamer search engine optimization attempting to remove 'alphabet people' as a term for FBI, CIA, etc.

[–] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Saw some chuds still salty about AC Shadows on Reddit.

Ubisoft's problem is that lobotomized MBA's are leading the company. After the AC Unity disaster, they got a win in AC Origins and instead of learning the correct lessons which is that people want innovation, they just started spamming slop RPGs for all their major franchises.

Ubisoft still published some good games after that but the studios were rewarded with lay-offs and closures. I don't see any dev being happy to work at Ubisoft. It's just a step towards switching to a stable studio.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Comes from a company known to be womaizers, and union busting. Fuck Ubisoft, will continue to boycott all their slop

Ubisoft has been a pretty shit developer for a while. 20 years ago, Assassin's Creed (the first one) was a pretty impressive game with climbing, exploration, discovery, history, collection... and really, really bad fights that were often unavoidable despite the game holding itself out as a stealth game. So you could drop on a guy here and there, but for the big boss battle, you have to fight, and it's all about super tight timing.

Then they made a dozen or two more games just like it, but they got shallower and shallower. The last one was controversial to some because you play a Black guy in Japan, and historians are divided on whether or not this guy existed, some are shouting DEI and some are shouting woke and the conversation is just pushed further and further from is it a good game or not? Probably no, because Ubisoft made it, but the conversation comes down to the race of the character.

I don't care if a character is LGBTQ+ or a person of colour if the story is good, and you shouldn't either. I didn't play Life is Strange because Pricefield is an awesome ship. It's really not, it's kinda shallow, but I still had Max kiss Chloe because I didn't wanna see her kiss the guy. He came off as creepy. Chloe came off as hot but a bit problematic, which I think is the point. So lesbianism is optional in Life is Strange. In Life is Strange 2, I think it's a bit less of a choice and more, completely obvious the main guy is gay — and LiS 2 is the best of the series, gameplay wise. Though as a character I like Max more.

But that's Square Enix, Dontnod, and Deck Nine — Ubisoft would never make anything as good as Life is Strange.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Uh, you know, the Liberals, the Democrats, the Gamers?"

waow-based

One can dream...

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ubisoft does suck because of alphabet people, but in the sense that they toe the ideological line of the CIA and co., leading to icons like their butchery of Marx

The acquaintance is just a loser tourist who has no appreciation for Ubi sucking for a very long time and just wants to attack minorities or let others do so.

You probably misheard (or they poorly enunciated) "the Ts" for trans people, but my headcanon is that they wanted to do the d-slur for lesbians but forgot that they just said "the Ls".

[–] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Actually, this is the first interpretation I had of alphabet people, but I thought it'd be ridiculous to mention the CIA, so I asked "you mean like google?"

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"the stock price is crashing because woke !!!"

not even 2¢ down on the pre-announce hype

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PS: their stock price actually crashed around 2018-2020 around the time The Division 1 and it's bullshit marketing lmaoooo.

[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago

Bullshit marketing is underselling it lol, I remember the sentiment around that game being that it would be the biggest greatest game ever made lmao.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ubisoft has always sucked. Being a fan of their games means being able to appreciate the imperfect. They have uncut diamonds that they never ever figure out how to cut. I loved the original assassin's creed game as a kid because of the potential it showed (and because baiting 273 templars tto get one-shot counter stabbed with a dagger ruled) and every game after I played I felt the same. "There is something here" and I kept playing to get a glimpse of it. And whenever you play a sequel you can see that Ubisoft honestly thinks you're not interested in the uncut gem, but the dirt surrounding it, so they do their best to have as much dirt as possible and as few gems as possible and that's part of it too - interacting with detached frenchmen. It's like this comic if you removed all the positives of being a sports fan - the culture, camaraderie, community and so on. Just pure capitalist slop. And I used to love it.

I haven't played since far cry 4 and I haven't paid for a game since the pirate assassin's creed.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This originally started with two lines about liking the original assassin's creed despite it being shit and ubi always having been shit, but then I felt like being bombastic and exaggerated

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

God I hate anti-wokes. There are so many valid criticisms gamers could be making on games but these guys blaming marginalized groups instead of the real culprits makes real discussion impossible. Now you either have the anti-woke gamers or the other type that reject any type of criticism of games at all because complaining is now associated with the anti-woke crowd.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is why I will always go hard on the literacy in general, social media brainrot, the venerating anti intellectualism. Ubisoft canceling 6 games including prince of persia after laying off 3000 workers due to major restructuring and the conclusion they come to is..... This? Post it on YouTube and get tons of views. The ways extreme intellectual laziness is rewarded just infects everything.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

ant intellectualism

Oh shit the ants are evolving 🐜🐜🐜

(I kid, I'm the last person who should be making fun of typos)

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

You can tell because he wanted to commit genocide

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[–] I_Hate_AmeriKKKa@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

i wish we had these two minor spelling mistake gifs that get used everywhere lol (or at least one of them...)

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

reminiscing fondly upon the times where the larger gamersphere thought Bobby Kotick was Hitler

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago

Remember Jack Thompson?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Right? Like absolute ages ago, I actually seriously cared about ethics in game journalism. I still do, but recognize it's a very minor issue in the scheme of things.

It's absurd that there were industry mailing lists/chatrooms where people were asking other journos to cut their friend's game a break, people reviewing games built by their drinking buddies without even mentioning the personal relationship in passing, and (game) companies using their (often piss poor) representation of marginalized groups to try and silence valid non-bigoted criticism.

So I fell into GamerGate for a while. For a bit despite the behinning, they seemed to be primarily focused on getting journos to use responsible disclosure. I'm glad that trend mostly caught on.

It's so frustrating that it ended up being a vehicle for "anti-woke", racism, and misogyny to become openly acceptable to a whole chunk of people.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They've been saying alphabet people for a long time

Ls, the Ds, the Gs

New sexuality discovered

[–] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

I probably misheard him and he said T's lol

They got the lesbians and the dykes

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What would it stand for? Diagnosed? Delirious? Dangerous? Dads? Dalmatians? Danganropa?

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Disexual, bisexual but more Greek

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

WRONG!
::: spoiler IT STANDS FOR ME!
DIO SEXUAL it-was-me

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Lmao I guess I was right

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm guessing he meant LGBTQ people

yes

Is this some right wing gamer bug of the month or something? Cause I'm way outta the loop

yes, but not "of the month", basically everything that fails in gaming fails because it was queer people's fault, but when something succeeds it must be because it was a based titty game or w/e

Yeah "gamers" as in people who play videogames hasn't existed as a demographic for half a decade at least. The "gamer" demo is just Fascists who have totally absorbed all critique of videogames into their psychosexual conspiracy ideology, because to actually agitiate for better videogames (stable working conditions, longer dev cycles, banning gambling mechanics) actually erodes the industry's role as a lynchpin of capitalist hyperconsumption

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours ago

tell that acquaintance to fuck off

[–] Poophammer@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Theyve been complaining about gay people and women forever.

I dont like big corpos try to pander with milquetoast gender/sexuality politics, because its not genuine most of the time. Indie games always win with that kind of thing.

[–] Elysia@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

you know, the Ls, the Ds, the Gs

Ubisoft, but I be hard because of Ds nuts

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Was a recent AssCreed protagonist gay or something? I don't recall Ubi being noteworthy for having LGBT characters.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

I think the LDG crowd includes black guys and women

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Leonardo da Vinci was gay in the Ezio games

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Da vinci was probably gay as fuck, why are they surprised by this

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

No one really talked about it since those games came out in 2009 and 2010 before the current right wing nerd outrage industrial complex had been established

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but that was before "woke" was hiding under the CHUD's beds, so it doesn't count. "Political" people didn't exist until after gamergate.

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