Assassin’s Creed Shadow Was Leaked A Month Before Release
It has been five years since the release of the last complete Assassin’s Creed game, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Their next sequel, Assassin’s Creed Shadow, is about to be released. However, Assassin’s Creed Shadow, which Ubisoft has high hopes for, has been in turmoil since the first trailer released in 2024.
If Ubisoft had not suffered various setbacks internally, then perhaps players would have played Assassin’s Creed long ago. Ubisoft originally planned to release “Assassin’s Creed: Shadow” in November 2024, but then Ubisoft postponed its release date to February 14, 2025. After experiencing the public opinion storm about the black warrior, Assassin’s Creed: Shadow postponed its release date again to March 20.
With about a month left before the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadow, Ubisoft once again heard bad news from outside - the content of Assassin’s Creed: Shadow has been leaked. The leaker marked the names of multiple copies of Assassin’s Creed: Shadow on an auction website, each of which was priced at $100. The auction has now been taken down.
In addition, Assassin’s Creed Shadow was also live-streamed on Twitch, but all live-streaming was also stopped. Although Ubisoft has taken some remedial measures, it is inevitable that a large amount of game content has been leaked.
Ubisoft’s production team begged players not to watch the leaked content and said that they have prepared a huge surprise for players in the game. And claimed that the leaked content does not represent the final quality of the game, and the game is still being adjusted.
To be honest, Ubisoft’s statement did not play a big role. The game will be released on March 20. In the remaining time, Ubisoft will find it difficult to make too many adjustments to the game unless they announce another postponement. However, in this case, whether players can play Assassin’s Creed Shadow this year will still be a question mark.
This leak storm did not end simply. As the “party” of Assassin’s Creed Shadow, Japanese players naturally noticed this leak.
Recently, Japanese player ALIAS tweeted that Ubisoft’s many designs in “Assassin’s Creed: Shadow” are contrary to history, and even “cultural insults” and “historical blasphemy”.
ALIAS said that in “Assassin’s Creed: Shadow”, the character played by the player needs to plunder the Emperor Nintoku’s Mausoleum, the largest “DaisenKofun” in Japan, and rob the armor inside.
In addition, players can destroy shrines and kill clergy unscrupulously in the game. But they cannot harm European merchant NPCs.
It is worth mentioning that Emperor Nintoku is the 16th emperor of Japan and theoretically the direct ancestor of the current emperor. ALIAS believes that this setting of “Assassin’s Creed: Shadow” may anger the Japanese government.
Some people in the comment area said: “Ubisoft is malicious and disrespects us,” and others said: “Japan is doing the same thing, turning overseas celebrities into women, so don’t confuse the game story with reality.”
Assassin’s Creed series, which has always been known for “respecting history”, has experienced a huge Waterloo in Japanese history. Ubisoft wants to open up Japanese market with Assassin’s Creed: Shadow, but the ending of this story may be different from what they imagined. They may not be able to sit in the seat of the game conference, but Japan may be happy to give them a defendant’s seat.
