Originally Posted by Soul_of_Midgard Go to original post
Yeah i get it, Vikings are Europeans and NOT scandinavian, only china or japan are asian and i'm the village idiot. Jesus Christ i hope someone deletes my account here in this f...d environment.
You do know there is a difference between racial heritage and the geographical names for parts of the world, right? If you don't know the difference between a race of people and a geographic nationality then perhaps you are indeed a strong candidate for "village idiot" - your words not mine.

The Vikings were Scandinavians (race) who happened to be located on the continent of Europe (geographic location). The English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish knights were also located in Europe and although they share certain racial ancestries with each other none of them are Scandinavians. Now let's take this lesson to the Continent of Asia. The Chinese are a race. Asia is where they are located. The Japanese, Koreans, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indians, Mongolians, etc are all seperate races of people (with some common ancestry here and there) who all happen to be geograpgically located on the continent of Asia.

To bundle them all together as "Asians" in an attempt to say "they are all the same race" is as innacurate and ignorant as is bundling two different European races like Scandinavians and Greeks and calling them "the same thing."
I think what Soul_of_Midgard was getting at are the similarities between China(Wu Lin) and Japan(Samurai) of the given time period. It is known that historically China had a strong influence over Japan in terms of culture, language, architecture, and religion for a long time. How would that translate to today's issue? Players who either have chinese heritage or a great appreciation for chinese history and culture would initally chose the Samurai faction as they would be the closest thing to a chinese faction. However, the concern was with the arrival of a chinese faction, some of the Samurai faction would migrate to the Wu Lin and reduce the Samurai's chance of winning any faction war or event. Also, the numbers in the Wu Lin faction wouldn't be enough to compete with either the Vikings or Knights.

https://historyplex.com/cultural-dif...en-china-japan

I'd say the real issues with Soul_of_Midgard's argument is, one, the poor wording and, two, the assumption that either most or a significant percentage of the Samurai faction are made up of Asian players who are really fans of chinese warrior's, history, and culture or of chinese heritage. We'll just have to see how things play out. Players from all factions may migrate to the Wu Lin faction and I'm sure we would have the documentaries, TV series, and movies to thank for that as well as heritage and relatability. I think a lot of players would migrate to Wu Lin because of how cool the characters are and fancy changing things up as far as the direction of the faction war goes.

If things get too onesided for any faction, I'm sure Ubisoft would implement a new mechanic to even the playing field such as faction revenge, natural disasters, or divine intervention if we speak loud enough.