Watch Dogs' protagonist, Aiden Pearce, might not make a return in the next game, according to Ubisoft.
Although Watch Dogs itself seems to be selling strongly, reaction to its characters – especially Aiden – has been mixed, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot admitted to CVG.
“We knew it would be polarising; some people loved the characters and some didn’t. It was difficult to please everybody with that character,” he said.
“Now, having seen the reaction, we know what we will do next to improve that.” In fact, Aiden isn’t guaranteed to return for Watch Dogs 2.
“I can’t say because I don’t know actually. We’ll see,” he said. CVG challenged Guillemot on the common video game protagonist trope of “angry white man”, and Guillemot acknowledged the problem.
“We are working on that. We want to spend more time on the worlds and characters in our games,” he said.
“You will see more and more of this at Ubisoft. We’ll try to be less like we have been in the past with some characters. We’ll try to extend more diversity.”
