Do you understand that they are a massive company with offices even in China? Getting in trouble with the government would hit them directly since they not only release their products there, they also have business offices?
What about me? And maybe I did or didn't? But regardless I wouldn't make a game like Watchdogs and then bow down to China cuz capitalism. 😂 That some meek shit.
Oh I know Ubisoft really well and you think that post would cause Ubi being banned in China, right? You realize how many games are banned in China just for having the wrong political theme (revolting against the state, violence, depicting certain territories as independent etc.). Those game companies still exist just fine and still have relations with China. Hell in Battlefield 4 China is an opposing faction and I haven't seen EA retroactively trying to not offend the Chinese government. In fact many of the biggest games worldwide are banned in China. Even EA and Take-Two have offices and employees in China despite their banned products like pretty much every big game company.
Ubisoft doesn't make art, they make Mass Consumption Products. They're as shit as every other corporation.
Putting business needs before any supposed message or theming they're attempting to depict in the game shows that the values and images of protest and counter-culture are merely being co-opted (This isn't new with ubisoft) and that any message, no matter how watered down, is even more of a facade. The first watchdogs was critical of mass surveillance, a reality in China.
If their intent is to sell a product then how can it be anything else but a faux anti-establishment facade?
