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Ubisoft rolls back changes to Rainbow Six Siege

Back on the 2 of November, Ubisoft announced they were going to be releasing Rainbow Six Siege in China and with it a lot of ascetic changes were coming to the game, mainly to do with map design. However, with the game being ‘review bombed’ on Steam and plenty of people complaining in the forums about the changes, it seems that Ubisoft has listen and is rolling back the changes they’ve made so far.

Source: Reddit

Ozzy’s Thoughts: While the minor changes to the maps of R6 were really no problem to me but I really didn’t like that a country was making my game change, nor should a violent video game be changed to be more “PG.” My main concern was about how were they going to handle the operators. Caveira, everyone’s most hated operator, the name means literally “skull,” and her face paint is a skull and according to Ubis list, put simply, skulls are bad. Ignoring Jagers new Halloween skin, how were they going to change her to be more acceptable? Luckily now we’ll never know and all the current changes will be reverted in time.

Having the misfortune of playing in game servers where my character will swear, insult the other game character they just killed, taunt, etc. but typing “shit” in chat gets you kicked and/or banned, that was just the (ridiculously stupid) server, plenty of other servers to go to. When a game dev, who makes an adult, violent game then changes it because they don’t want deal with two different builds so they make us all follow the rules of one country that we don’t live in, that is not acceptable.

I’m glad that Ubisoft listened. As much as I hate Caveira, I don’t want her changing to a “happy” silent psychopathic killer with a giant “IT” smile on her face the whole time or even just being removed from the game entirely.