It might be a big deal for removing a flag, but for me it doesn’t matter.

Removing the flag is a symbolic victory for bigots. Even if the game still has queer representation, bigots still get to say, "We made you take down your flag to appease us" and that's a big win in their eyes. Like earlier this year when Philz Coffee planned to remove all employee decor LGBT flags from their locations, but then reversed course after backlash citing, "We had no idea that symbols of support and solidarity mattered so much to an oppressed community!" They knew. They just hoped they could withdraw their support symbolically before then withdrawing their support entirely.

Of course it doesn't matter to you.

Congratulations for not being part of a marginalized group and for being completely ignorant to the privileges you have been arbitrarily bestowed.

Maybe you should care that other groups are being erased from society by hateful people.

It is an action with considerable symbolic weight. It means EA is taking a hostile stance toward LGBTQIA+ inclusivity.

If I weren't already boycotting them, I would start now.

Perhaps this doesn't matter to you for a lack of empathy and care for the representation of LGBTQIA+ folks. Try being an oppressed minority group. Or, you know, having empathy for others.

Edit:

The context was @thingsiplay@lemmmy.ml saying that it does not matter to them and implying that the removal was meaningless.

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

You're not too familiar with religious fanatics, are you?

But that is literally what they're demonstrably doing.

Why did they buy EA then? So they could NOT make games? So they could close everything down and go out of business?

Are you aware of anything happening? Like, at all? Other than what you're spoonfed by conservative talking heads, of course

All this tells me is that you didn't even make it through the headline

In case the comment to which I am replying gets deleted, it said:

Yes. That doesn’t inherently mean they’re endeavoring to implement Sharia in the games EA puts out.