A former BioWare employee says that EA’s new management wasn’t on board with the developer’s inclusiveness.

          • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk
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            Good. But this isn’t about you, it’s representation of minorities that they’re slowly removing and undoing years of blood, sweat and tears shed by people willing to fight.

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                Except it has, the flag was only there because somebody fought for their right exist. But the more you write, the more you fit in with .ml

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                    No I don’t believe, open your f…… eyes, it is happening everywhere. As I wrote before, the flag itself isn’t the problem, it’s because it is a sign of much worse things. Next time it isn’t a flag, it’s the gameplay or whatever, they keep moving the goalposts.

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                    This isn’t about the tangible flag as an item but as a symbol of what the flag represents. Removing the flag is the first step in a series of patterns of erasure. If you accept this, then you might accept the next small step, then the next one, then the next one, and so on.

                    I’ll leave this as, “I disagree with your opinion and I don’t personally believe you wouldn’t be alright with further erasure given your openness to be ok with any amount of erasure.”

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                I don’t know if you’re being genuine, but it doesn’t matter to you because to you visual or symbolic representations of the validity of LGBT++ lifestyles don’t apply to you.

                If you really don’t care then you can just say nothing. But because you’re saying something it actually sounds like you do care — about preserving a corporation’s right to remove a sign of queer representation from a game.

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                    I see the disconnect. To many people all parts of the game are gameplay, because they happen in the context of a game.

                    Art used, themes explored, dialogue choices, unskippable cutscenes all happen within the context of playing the game, so matter to many people.

                    Like just imagine if Harry’s pronouns were female in Disco Elysium and literally nothing else changed in the game. No art, no gameplay, no dialogue. Just the times gender is mentioned it’s swapped to “she” — it would have an impact on how the game is perceived, and how it feels to play it.


                    It’s fine if this doesn’t affect you at all, but your experience isn’t universal.