{"id":2834,"date":"2025-03-26T10:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:21:27","slug":"assassins-creed-shadows-humiliates-elon-musk-after-he-calls-game-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/assassins-creed-shadows-humiliates-elon-musk-after-he-calls-game-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows humiliates Elon Musk after he calls game \u2018terrible\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Musk vs. Ubisoft (AFP\/Ubisoft)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An unexpected spat between Elon Musk<\/a> and Ubisoft<\/a> has erupted on social media<\/a>, as the Assassin’s Creed<\/a> X account goes rogue.<\/p>\n

While the reaction to Assassin’s Creed Shadows<\/a> has been mostly positive following its launch last week, it clearly hasn’t pleased everyone.<\/p>\n

The game has been a culture war target over its dual protagonists, black samurai Yasuke and female shinobi Naoe, ever since it was first revealed – sparking online petitions<\/a> and weird apologies<\/a> from developer Ubisoft.<\/p>\n

These tensions have led to a bizarre exchange on X, involving none other than Elon Musk and a world class diss from Ubisoft’s social media team.<\/p>\n

This exchange was sparked by former Blizzard developer and Gamergate supporter Mark Kern, aka Grummz, who criticised Ubisoft for collaborating with Twitch streamer and left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker, to promote Assassin’s Creed Shadows.<\/p>\n

Kern’s post on X<\/a> prompted a response from Musk, who called Piker a ‘fraud’ and a ‘sell out’. ‘Objectively, he is promoting a terrible game just for the money,’ he added.<\/p>\n

While Piker didn’t respond to the claims, the official X account for Assassin’s Creed waded in with some unexpected jabs.<\/p>\n

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Musk has angered the assassins (X)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘Is that what the guy playing your Path Of Exile 2 account told you?’ the Twitter account said to Musk.<\/p>\n

This is in reference to the SpaceX CEO and senior adviser to Donald Trump misleading people about his gaming skills in Path Of Exile 2<\/a>, after he admitted he had someone else level boost his account and that he wasn’t, in fact, one of the best players in the world.<\/p>\n

The jabs didn’t stop there. When Kern replied with a screenshot with the headline ‘Assassin’s Creed Shadows isn’t the hit Ubisoft desperately needs’, the game’s official account account replied: ‘Our game is out.’<\/p>\n

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The social media manager is relishing it (X)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This appears to be a dig at Kern’s spiritual successor to online shooter Firefall, called Em-8er, which still hasn’t been released nine years after its initial crowdfunding campaign was announced.<\/p>\n

While it remains to be seen if Assassin’s Creed Shadows will help Ubisoft out of its financial rut<\/a>, the game has seemingly sold very well. According to Ubisoft, the Japanese-themed entry hit two million players after two days, surpassing the launch of Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey.<\/p>\n

According to Gfk\/Nielsen data (via The Game Business<\/a>), Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the biggest physical launch of the year so far, although its physical sales in the UK are 63% of what Assassin’s Creed Valhalla managed in November 2020.<\/p>\n

Valhalla, however, was available on more platforms and came out during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Assassin’s Creed Shadows launched last week (Ubisoft)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Musk vs. Ubisoft (AFP\/Ubisoft) An unexpected spat between Elon Musk and Ubisoft has erupted on social media, as the Assassin’s Creed X account goes rogue. While the reaction to Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been mostly positive following its launch last week, it clearly hasn’t pleased everyone. The game has been a culture war target over its dual protagonists, black samurai Yasuke and female shinobi Naoe, ever since it was first revealed – sparking online petitions and weird apologies from developer … Continue reading “Assassin\u2019s Creed Shadows humiliates Elon Musk after he calls game \u2018terrible\u2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}