Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla developer has refuted recent claims that executives at Ubisoft had forced the team to create a male version of protagonist Eivor.Rumours that Eivor was planned to be an “exclusively” female protagonist first started on Twitter.
User Dell’Aria alleged that a source close to the game’s development had revealed that the development team wanted the game to centre around a female Eivor, but was shot down by higher-ups.“Execs blocked them from doing that and forced the team to include a male version of Eivor, because a woman alone wouldn’t have sold, insisting that the marketing campaign should have focused on male Eivor,” he claimed.
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