Stop lying about Assassin's Creed Unity's Notre Dame

Assassin's Creed Unity's model of Notre Dame did not help rebuild the cathedral after it caught fire in 2019. But a lot of people believe that it did. It's been repeated as fact across forums and videos, especially in the wake of an Assassin appearing in the opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics in Paris. The idea is beautiful, but it's just wrong, and believing that Unity's Notre Dame could have helped restore the cathedral is a discredit to the game's creators and the people working to restore the cathedral. Polygon's Simone de Rochefort is here to walk you through how the rumor got started, and why it's wrong.

0:00 Assassin's Creed Unity can't rebuild Notre Dame
0:19 Where did the rumor come from?
1:26 What did Ubisoft do?
2:40 Who restored Notre Dame?
4:40 Why does this matter?

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