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Assassin's Creed 3

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With Quebec possibly seceding one day from the White Giant's tits that breastfed her so motherly all the time, soon Montreal will probably also lose it's status as "Game industry mekka", instantly reducing AAA-game business by 50%.

And that's a good thing. This industry is already so overbloated with morons and crapware that a partial collapse can only mean good things for gamers. Small to medium sized game development will hopefully experience a resurrection again. And with "small" I don't mean indie/mobile/browser crap.
 

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why is montreal the place where they make all the games? im guessing theres some kinda legal loopholes there that make it easier for them or something?
 

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Approximately 600 Ubisoft Montreal staff have worked on the project

Are they fucking serious? That's the problem right there--they have about 500 extra people on the damn project.
 

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Why yes, a political change in a shithole country will of course mean the complete destruction of AAA games and a significant incline in video games. I am even wondering why the newly elected leader didn't make campaign on turn-based gaming...

... Although by getting shot at the very evening she's elected she is making a good point about choices and consequences, correct.

Moron buyers will be morons, with or wihout Quebec, and ultimately, this is why we cannot have nice things. Not because Quebec gives subsides.
 

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Quebec is not going to be able to afford these tax breaks for it's game industry any longer if they secede. Not that I think this will ever happen, but who knows. Industries build on pump eventually will always decline.
 

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if canada is a shithole what about usa? us doeas have a large portion of rich people, but on average people in canada are better off... only the weather is shit
 

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The weather is the best. No insects to bug you, no wild life, just lovable gas bills.
 
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Do you even know anything you're talking about? This will never happen. The PQ was only elected with something like 33% of votes, and only 30% of Quebecers support a referendum. Support is constantly waning, and the PQ has never governed with a minority in its 43 years of history.

Also, it turns out that the subsidies, as pathetic as they are, actually have a beneficial effect on Montreal's economy. They're not going away.

No one thinks Quebec has got a lame culture as much as I do, but unlike the rest of the anglosphere, it has some culture. I'm still looking for any hint of Canadian culture in Ontario, and I've found absolutely nothing. Nothing.

Also, the equalisation stuff is greatly overstated, the numbers don't tell the whole story, and most all other provinces are have nots as well. The only real significant exceptions are British Columbia because of its rich Asian immigrants, and Alberta because it pumps up as much ultra-polluting tar sands oil as possible without a care for the consequences. Even it is now running deficits. The other provinces really are getting there as far as socialism and taxes go, so this is hypocritical bull.
 

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I love Quebec. I go there once in a while.Part of the reason why I love it is that it is a country that amounts to nothing important; A nice place to relax.
 

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Quebec takes more money than all the other have-not provinces put together. They just suck up money and bitch. I've been listening to them threaten to leave for over thirty years. I used to believe in 'getting along' but now I want them to go. They waste so much political effort on their own vanity instead of becoming productive citizens that actually contribute. Get their own military, monetary system, heath care and welfare and good riddance.

It's depressing to know that because of them my tax dollars are subsidizing 600 person teams pumping out crap like Assasins Creed. It's the last straw.
 

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I've got a cookbook from a place called Joe Beef in Montreal, it looks pretty nice, but if you went there it could be full of Eidos people, which would leave a bad aftertaste. This has nothing to do with Assassin's Creed 3, but i'm just trying to fill in time until the end of the day.
 
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Quebec takes more money than all the other have-not provinces put together. They just suck up money and bitch. I've been listening to them threaten to leave for over thirty years. I used to believe in 'getting along' but now I want them to go. They waste so much political effort on their own vanity instead of becoming productive citizens that actually contribute. Get their own military, monetary system, heath care and welfare and good riddance.

It's depressing to know that because of them my tax dollars are subsidizing 600 person teams pumping out crap like Assasins Creed. It's the last straw.

The situation is not as simple as it seems.

The problem is basically two-fold. One, it is relative poverty. Very, very few people in Quebec make more than say, 100000$ per year. Combined with the large population, it results in bigger equalization payments as per federal rules.

That poverty has been a very long time in the making. The French settlers were cut off from their motherland, and never had any opportunity to found companies and acquire wealth. They remained poor and undermined, working for a rich English boss. It is not until the sixties or so that it truly began to change. Many workers in Quebec up to the fifties were basically treated almost like in the worst times of the industrial revolution. In the later half of the 19th century, 1/3rd of the population emigrated to the United States, so much that most any American today has one of them as a great-great-grandparent.

The result of that was that when the unions started gaining power, people overwhelmingly supported them. But they gained far too much power.

The problem isn't Quebec people, it is the unions. They are the true enemy. Whoever is the premier or government is just a puppet doing the bidding of the CSN and the FTQ, who will do anything to keep as many entitlements as possible, and are responsible for the cases of severe corruption that you've probably heard of. They are the one sabotaging any attempt at getting things under control.

And as far as I can see, Ontario is almost there with its unions as well.

As for Montreal and the tax breaks, I really dislike them, but it is beneficial for the various levels of government to have a more prosperous Montreal. If they weren't given to them, they would simply would exist in another have not province. In 1996, Quebec competed with New Brunswick to get Ubi Soft to found a studio in their province. Quebec won.

Ontario has started such subsidies to studios like Ubi Soft as well.
 
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So, anyone played it?
Am i right to assume from the videos that it's Red Dead Assassins Redemption ?
 

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I read they managed to dumb down the gameplay even more?
I doubt that's even possible.

Skimmed over some Metactritic user reviews and yes, apparently all you need to do is press RT and Connor does the rest automatically (tree jumping, hiding in bushes etc.). Combat also seems to be even easier. It's all style and no substance. That's why I never got into the AC series.
 

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