Assassin's Creed Pre-Order Offer Leaves Girl Gamers Out

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> “This is just proving that higher up someone thinks women don’t play games, and definitely don’t pre-order them.” said Eleanor.

If it's true that someone chose to not include female cloaks then that person needs a slap.

But isn't it possible that no-one actually made the conscious decision to exclude female gamers, and that they just didn't realise that the cloak came in male and female versions?

Or that they initially thought it was unisex but when they actually tried it on the female model the IK came out looking wrong in some obscure case. Or it had unexpected tearing issues. Or they had a fixed release date and couldn't get the female version finished in time, or .....

Still a stupid decision. They probably should have just scrubbed both. I'd wait until we get word back from the publisher before trying to work out what actually happened and if it was, in any way, dishonerable.

If no-one consciously chose to make it a male-only promotion, then the people who subconsciously chose to make it a male-only need to take a look at themselves, as does the games company.

The Huffington post version of the post includes an update about Amazon and Ubisoft's response: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rachael-simpson/assassins-cr...

Basically, they sent download codes directly to those who complained but no word on whether anything was actually changed.

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