Summary
- Elon Musk has once again taken aim at Assassin’s Creed Shadows, calling it a “terrible game” while labeling Hasan Piker as a “sell-out” for promoting it.
- The official Assassin’s Creed Twitter account responded by mocking Musk’s gaming credentials, cheekily referencing his recent admission to boosting his Path of Exile 2 account.
- The Musk beef did not stop Assassin’s Creed Shadows from being off to a strong start following its March 20 release.
The official Assassin’s Creed Twitter account threw shade at Elon Musk by mocking his Path of Exile 2 credentials, or lack thereof. The move marks a continuation of a bizarre beef that started with the world’s richest known man taking shots at Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Since its May 2024 reveal, the latest installment in Ubisoft’s open-world series has found itself targeted by some vocal groups for featuring a black protagonist in 16th-century Japan. In one of the most high-profile examples of this backlash, Elon Musk publicly claimed that “DEI kills art” and Assassin’s Creed Shadows proves it. The executive producer for the franchise, Marc-Alexis Côté, subsequently characterized this comment as unproductive, asserting that the Tesla CEO was “feeding hatred” before the game was even out.
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Musk has once again taken aim at the game in late March 2025 by remarking on the recently unbanned Twitch streamer Hasan Piker posting a paid Assassin’s Creed Shadows promotion on Twitter. “Hasan is a fraud,” the billionaire wrote in a March 25 tweet, before sharing another message in which he changed that label to a “sell-out.” Elaborating on this notion, Musk declared that “objectively, [Hasan] is promoting a terrible game just for the money.” This prompted a sharp response from the official Assassin’s Creed Twitter account, asking, “is that what the guy playing your Path of Exile 2 account told you?”
Ubisoft Mocks Elon Musk For Calling Assassin’s Creed Shadows a ‘Terrible Game’
The cheeky comment was a reference to Musk’s recent admission of boosting his Path of Exile 2 account. The billionaire only admitted to doing so after it became apparent he couldn’t have achieved his high in-game ranking himself, as his account was active while he was publicly seen elsewhere. While some social media users labeled the act of paying to boost one’s video game account as a sign of insecurity and desperation to be liked, Musk insisted that everyone does this. He also admitted to boosting his account in Diablo 4, a game he claimed—in a late 2024 interview with Joe Rogan—he was among the world’s top 20 players in.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Is Off to a Promising Start
In spite of some vocal criticism and the Elon Musk beef, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is off to a strong start, having surpassed 2 million players in less than 48 hours of its March 20 release. The game is estimated to be the second-largest launch in the franchise after Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, whose success was propped up by several uncontrollable factors like the global pandemic and Viking media renaissance.
Ubisoft’s newest title also received high-profile praise from some industry veterans. Most recently, Bayonetta creator Hideki Kamiya said “normal people” don’t care for Assassin’s Creed Shadows controversies, dismissing them as overblown while saying he’s glad the game is doing well critically and commercially.
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March 20, 2025
- ESRB
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Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language