User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-5174994-20150515163522

Since all the collector's editions only have figurines of Jacob, do you guys think they are going to make other editions with Evie or just release a seperate figurine? This is really quite frustrating, as when I first heard about the inclusion of dual protagonists I thought we would get the following:

- Box art with both of them in middle

- A figurine with both of them together

Instead what we got is this:

- Box art with Jason in the middle & Evie off to the side like she doesn't matter

- A figurine of Jason

I find their claims that both protagonists are equal to be utter rubbish. I know they are going to show more stuff about Evie later (likely at E3), but the box art & collector's editions have already been shown. And quite frankly I don't think they'd go through the trouble of making double that amount of collector's editions or new box art to include Evie. And you could argue that they'll make one more edition a step up from the Big Ben edition that includes her & Jacob in one figurine, but Big Ben is the main landmark, so that has to be top tier.

This is really getting on my nerves because they're currently trying to express how they are both worthy protagonists, but all their marketing goes against this. And you cannot use the rumour of only 25% of the game starring Evie to say that they are being honest because that's not official. At this exact moment in time I believe they are trying to lie to us. And I really don't want to be that guy, but this does seem like a way of making themselves look more diverse & accepting rather than simply having a female protagonist.

Unless Ubi can pull a 180 & do all the things I expect them not to do, I'm going to be very angry towards them. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that we get to play as a female in one of the main games, but I bet that next year will just be a guy again & they'll use the excuse that they already did a female character the year before. I've never really been a feminist, but I'm sick of all the male characters. Yes, having men is fine, but when you are on a yearly release cycle it is very apparent when you are purposefully trying not to deviate from what you perceive as the popular gender.

Any opinions on this matter will be welcome, as I don't see how this can be justified.