No alcohol. No exposed ankles. No gays.
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Why would inclusivity cause offense to any rational person?
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I think its for the best that it was cancelled. The first two Mass Effect games are some of my favourites and I would rather have no new game in the series than whatever EA would produce today.
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Toning down inclusivity offfends me.
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Reminds me of the Wukong scandal where the devs forbade sponsored influencers to talk about feminism among other "too political" subjects.
This really puts me off purchasing a game from people capable of that kind of censorship.
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But, I WANT offense. I WANT those people uncomfortable. So let’s do more not less, kthx.
Well, I doubt most reasonable people strictly needed more reasons to want EA and everything associated with it to stop existing, but here is one anyway.
Why the fuck would any rational person buy a game from EA. That company hasn’t produced a decent game in almost a decade.
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We live in a world where people with money can buy and do anything as they want without having to deal with any consequences.. shouldn't we do something about it? And I mean 10 years ago at least
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Isn't this exactly the kind of thing conservatives were always worried about happening to them?
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Called it (not that it took a crystal ball or anything.) the day the EA+PIF news came out. I had just wrapped up playing the ME series and Dragonage games, said it out loud to my spouse. Saudi Arabia sucks camel balls and chops up reporters.
Offense to whom? Just like in real life, you can reject advances from those you aren’t interested in…
Man EA is a given to boycott. No peer-pressure or 10/10 reviews is going to change that for me. Since the days of the endless yearly sports games in the 90s it was clear they're c🤘nts
You don't fucking say
the curtain drops on the entire strategy for why so much money is being invested in US media, games, news and sports by outsiders
saudis gonna sod
That is the gayest shit I heard men who are homophobic do. ITS A SPECIES OF FEMALE ONLY BEINGS , THAT HAPPEN TO LOOK LIKE SEXY BLUE WOMEN. THEY NEED TO FIND MATES FOR GENETIC CONTRIBUTIONS. In the words of zap branagan "what are ya queer or something?"
Don't offend the people you're including
Turns out this was not actually true according to reports from today.
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The inclusion of marginalized groups of people has never been the problem in games. It’s the preachy, political language that often comes with it. Mass Effect 3 featured a gay character, but there was no accompanying political language following him around. He was just a character who happened to be gay, and no one gave a shit.
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A bit of a sensationalized headline, considering BioWare was only asked to remove a flag which resembled an LGBT flag in the game. IMO that is a bit different from "removing inclusivity," which does a lot of heavy lifting. I mean, ignoring that this happens all the time for games sold in the region of Arabia (and maybe also China, but I am not sure about that, though I do know marketing materials are often altered for the CN region to make certain race characters less prominent such as Disney's Star Wars The Force Awakens making John Boyega less prominent in marketing materials, for example).
Personally, I don't really see why there would even be any flags at all in a Mass Effect game in the first place. In the original 3 games it seemed that humanity as a whole had advanced beyond the need, desire, or use of flags as representative of people or their identities. I cannot recall any of the first 3 ME games having any, and BioWare made the romance options not care about the gender of the player character. NPCs in the games didn't seem to care about it, really, so I don't understand why the flag would have existed in the first place. For the same reason I would wonder why any current country flag would appear in the game either, I just don't remember any flags at all. Perhaps I am misremembering and just forgot about one somewhere.
To that end, IMO including any flags at all would seem like a regression of human society compared to the first three ME games, unless the cancelled ME took place in a human timeline very close to our current year. It just seemed humanity had advanced beyond the use of flags entirely, which I would imagine most space-faring civilizations would. I am not praising EA here, I am just confused as to why the situation happened in the first place, considering the established lore of the series.
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Could they use AI to reverse engineer all of the EA games like they did with the Adobe apps? I mean, if there are any companies who deserve it, companies doing things like this absolutely do.
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Rich people fuck up EVERYTHING!
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