Ghost Recon: Wildlands has sparked a diplomatic incident. Not each online game can say that.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands has been – ha ha! – wildly well-liked, outperforming For Honor to set a beta participation record for Ubisoft.
As a lot as all of us appeared to love Ghost Recon: Wildlands, it hasn’t gone down nicely with the federal government of Bolivia, which has lodged a proper grievance with the French embassy over its depiction of the nation as beneath the full management of drug traffickers.
Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero informed Reuters the federal government might even lawyer up over Ghost Recon: Wildlands if it doesn’t get a passable reply to its letter of grievance.
“We have the standing to [take legal action], but at first we prefer to go the route of diplomatic negotiation,” he stated.
Ubisoft responded to press with an announcement saying Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a piece of fiction imagining “a different reality than the one that exists in Bolivia today”, and that it selected Bolivia as a setting for its story of violent drug cartels due to its “magnificent landscapes and rich culture”.
The French embassy in Bolivia has not but responded to requests for touch upon the actions of its nation’s most distinguished video video games writer. Imagine coaching your complete life to hitch the diplomatic corps and having Ghost Recon: Wildlands land in your desk. “Is this my life now,” you would possibly say, staring out the window on the magnificent landscapes of Bolivia.
Ghost Recon: Wildlands releases next week for PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and should promote even higher than anticipated with this slab of free publicity.
I doubt Bolivia will truly sue Ubisoft ultimately however let’s make some popcorn, simply in case.
