Ubisoftin mukaan videopelit eivät voi olla avoimen kantaa ottavia poliittisesti

The Division 2 -kehittäjät ilmoittivat selväsanaisesti, etteivät he halua sekoittaa videopelejä ja politiikkaa toisiinsa. Asia ilmeni Ruotsin Game Conferencessa, ja äänessä oli Ubisoft Massiven operatiivinen johtaja Alf Condelius.

Condeliuksen mukaan videopelien sotkeminen politiikkaan voi olla hyvinkin haitallista videopeleille, joten on parempi olla ottamatta kantaa päivän politiikkaan viihdetuotteessa.

"It's a balance because we cannot be openly political in our games. It's a universe and a world created for people to explore how to be a good person in a slowly decaying world.

"But people like to put politics into that, and we back away from those interpretations as much as we can because we don't want to take a stance in current politics.

"It's also bad for business, unfortunately, if you want the honest truth. But it is interesting and it is a discussion that we have, and it's an ongoing discussion we have with our users, of course, because people want to put an interpretation into the universe that we create and they want to see their own reality in the fantasies that we give them, and the stories that the games are."

Kiitokset, VG24/7