Far Cry 4 creative director comments on controversial box art

I fail to see how it's racist. Last I checked there was literally never any point at time where white people subjugated the people of what I would assume is something like Tibet/China/Mongolia/somewhere in the Steppes, in Asia - so it's not even like there exists a history of racial tension (excluding Japanese internment camps during WW2 which isn't the same as mainland "Asia"). White people are the "racial" minority on this planet, so get over it. Every time a character is white and any other character is not white, they call racism.

People who bring up racism and try to find racism in things where there is none intended, are the actual racists. End of story.

Not to mention - as GameFreak said below - the white haired guy is clearly "asian" if you actually look at his face. Stupid crying self-proclaimed crusaders. All they are doing is crying wolf again because it's Far Cry, not because of anything substantial. Far Cry made itself a target starting with FC2 when you killed "Africans", and these allegations will always be made against the franchise no matter what.

This game is basically going to have the same setting as Tomb Raider 2013 or Uncharted 2 - or both combined. So, those games were racist too, right?

It shouldn't matter what color they are, the box art is meant to show the character in a certain light, if they were both the same skin color there would be no problem would there? its funny how some one actually looked for the colors in the skin to figure out weather this was racist or not too... which generally says that the person who said this is probably pretty racist them self. I didn't even think about the box art until I saw this article, and they actually both appear to be of the same race to me... the one kneeling has dirt marks and things on him which makes him appear darker.

Also there are a lot of racist movies that were intended to show racism during the time, and also movies which have racist characters intentionally... which did not have any problems... so what if the box art is racist (btw its not), if it is meant to depict a certain character in the game and actually adds depth into the story to show something deeper I don't understand why some one would be upset about it... its not a kids game (even though kids probably play it its rated M for mature... they probably shouldn't if they can't handle it... same for some adults... unfortunately -_- )

If you see more carefully the white guy is actually asian.

the guy in the pink looks white but the other guy doesnt look darker skinned (as to iimply black).... he looks asian

Or maybe it's just another smart publicity stunt. 'Cause the racist thing.. I don't see it. Hell, if one guy was black someone would have made a point. But all I see is a reason to get us talking about a game that hasn't been released yet. Makes some of us want to buy it even more in the end huh?

It would seem Human stupidity knows no bounds...

In the promo picture I see two Asians.
However even if they weren't there is no issue in the rational realm as they are both Human. Skin colour is irrelevant. And even if the Man in the pink suit is racist, what of it? I doubt this man is supposed to represent anything just and moral in the game's World. Simply viewing two different skin shades and automatically seeing an issue is actually promoting racism.

What Political Correctness has done to society is brainwash them into being too sensitive so they focus all their attention on trivial non-issues rather than the REAL issues facing the World today such as corrupt and tyrannical Government, Wars and the poor treatment of the Environment.

The issue of whether or not the cover is racist is a moot point after stating that the man on the cover is not white. Even if he is, it's still unclear if what is shown is racism. I mean, I can see the argument in favor of racism, but there are plenty of good counterarguments as well. I don't believe the intention is to show a white man subjugating a man of color, however. Regardless, the protagonist of the game is not white anyways, so it becomes increasingly tough to make a racism argument.

In short, I call bullshit on the argument.

Are those smoke signals in the background?

huh? i swear people over-analyze things too much these days. some people just try their damndest to find reasons to whine about something.

Well this is just another case of someone feeling offended and then deciding to make a huge deal about it. But hey the guy is not white so the problem is solved right? As long as its not some white hand we can all breath a sigh of relief.

Who cares, looks f**kin' dull anyway, looks like a pimp with cheesy hair style standing over someone that could turn the tide in a second.

In 2014, you can draw a stickman and be both racist AND sexist at the same time.

He is obviously chinese with bleached hair. Himalayas hmmm? Anyone know their geography? Good.

There must be a group of people out there who have a full-time job looking for anything and everything that could possibly be "offensive." It's just pathetic.