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“In a week I had more than a thousand mentions,” says Veerender Jubbal, a Canadian writer who tweeted his concerns immediately and retweeted all the controversy around Far Cry. “I had vitriol. I had derogatory slurs. I had death threats. People were talking about me on NeoGAF. There was a blog post written about how I should be punched in the face. People are telling me to man-up, that I was being overly sensitive, that I was just complaining about a non-issue. I wrote two tweets. I had responses for ten whole days.”Jubbal called out the game for its questionable portrayal of race an cultural identity and subsequently got a lot of heat. “It’s culturally insensitive to eastern religions,” he told me. “Looking back at Far Cry 3, there’s enough criticism for that being racist, for treating people of colour with a fetishization, that they’re objects, plot devices, having a white man trying to ‘save them’ because he has to intervene.”.@UbisoftToronto @UbisoftMTL @FarCrygame Hello. How are you doing today? Hope you are all well. Just wanted to say--the box art is racist.
— Veerender Jubbal (@Veeren_Jubbal) May 15, 2014
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A larger crop of Far Cry 4's leaked cover art. Image: Ubisoft/Lazygamer.net
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