EA defends itself against thousands of anti-gay letters

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TwistedComplex said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

And then there's the "EA has done shit before, so this is obviously an attempt to redeem some of that"-argument. That is just beyond ridiculous. Fact is EA was attacked by some "concerned" parents and homophobes among others, so they obviously had to defend their decision of allowing same-sex relationships.

EA deserve praise for this stance.

Give me a break with your apologetic bullshit.

 

Is'nt it funny how no one has ever had a shit storm about gay people in video games before ME3?

Ballad of Gay Tony

Dargun Age 2

The Witcher 2

The Elder Scrolls

The Sims

 

All those games and NO ONE gave a fuck, but all the sudden EA has to dawn the shining armor and nail themselves to a cross.

 

But who knows, maybe their fans DID complain about gay romance, but I guess that's EAs fault for targeting the Call of Duty audience, now isn't it?

This is as much to do with current politics in the US as with EAs timing. The shit-storm has always been present to varying degrees (just look at the Bioware forums on Dragon Age 2) but this is the first time I've heard of an anti-gay group actively targetting a games company (plus Lucasarts).

And it has less to do with Mass Effect 3 and more to do with Star Wars: The Old Republic (which is supposedly child friendly, although this shouldn't even be an issue either way as a) it's not child friendly and b) gay content isn't by default inappropriate). These groups are targetting EA because they claim gay groups "campaigned & coerced" EA to put gay content in Star Wars: TOR which they're currently doing via a patch. Games like Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 probably don't help matters though. 

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How is that EAs fault? It should be a non-issue regardless of the audience.