User blog comment:Alexander C. Miles/Numerous Controversies/@comment-27202257-20140618025356

I feel like most of these controversies are insignificant. When you get popular enough, and when you deal with some delicate historical happenings like Assassin's Creed does, you're bound to attract negative attention from time to time. Ubisoft's been remarkably good at sailing past it thus far.

I do find the comment about it being "too difficult" to render a female multiplayer character unfortunate, because it suggests that an androgynous woman never crossed their mind--very odd, given that this series has had characters like Maria Thorpe and Mary Read. Open mouth, insert foot. However, I'll reserve judgment on the game as a whole until I see it for myself. I'm sad they won't be playable, but if Unity can deliver some amazing ladies like those the series has already given us, I will be very pleased.