Because an entire race of Blue Polysexual Mono-Gender females only able to birth other females didn't seem to click very well with the Saudis.

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[–] 7 points 1 hour ago

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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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago

    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

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  • [–] -3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago

    Offense to whom? Just like in real life, you can reject advances from those you aren’t interested in…

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Isn't this exactly the kind of thing conservatives were always worried about happening to them?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 hours ago

    You don't fucking say

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago

    saudis gonna sod

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  • [–] 16 points 9 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Turns out this was not actually true according to reports from today.

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  • [–] 41 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    No alcohol. No exposed ankles. No gays.

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  • [–] 73 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 32 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    But we're missing out on an alien race of traders that will only accept Mass Effect Funbucks, and sell you a range of cosmetic items that change weekly!

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  • [–] 2 points 47 minutes ago

    I loved Mass Effect 3's multi-player despite expecting it to be horrible, but it was also the first game I really enjoyed that had such horrid lootbox mechanics.

    ME3's single-player was a masterpiece until the last hour. I didn't even necessarily hate the endings. I just hated that in the end no matter what had happened, it came down to "pick the ending". I would have been much more satisfied if your actions throughout the trilogy had determined the ending you got - especially since they had done so much tying together loose ends from the previous games.

    I loved that you could actually save both the Geth and the Quarians, but only if you'd made the correct decisions in Mass Effect 2 AND 3. That same kind of logic could have been used to pick the ending.

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  • [+] 40 points 17 hours ago*
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  • [–] 120 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

    Toning down inclusivity offfends me.

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    [–] 138 points 21 hours ago (28 children)

    Why would inclusivity cause offense to any rational person?

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  • [–] [S] 121 points 21 hours ago* (22 children)

    See, the problem is that none of these people are rational.

    What I can't get over is the idea of "You can do homosexuality in Mass Effect!?" when to have any romantic affair in the game you need to try and do it. If you're against Homosexuality and you are a male Shepard and you have sex with a male NPC, you had to fucking try to have sex with a male NPC. You spent hours seducing him.

    Edit: I totally forgot Garrus is the only NPC who doesn't have a homosexual romance option.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

    The amount of people that got up in arms about KCD2 having a totally optional gay romance options, that gives you multiple, explicit options to abort (which doesn't happen with some of the hetero flings...) but it was too much for them.

    Worse there are ghouls arguing that Boltgun 2 is 'woke' since it has an optional female protagonist.

    I certainly hope the pendulum starts swinging back soon, this is all getting out of hand.

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  • [–] 54 points 21 hours ago* (2 children)

    It's Saudi Arabia. They're basically in the dark ages with the oil money to buy modern infrastructure. It's an absolute monarchy, You get the death penalty for being any flavor of queer, It's a surveillance state. They literally sent a kill squad into a foreign nation to (successfully) brutally murder a journalist. We don't hear it much because of all the other constant noise in the digital world but they're not good people. Everyone turns a blind eye because they have that sweet sweet oil and since like the 70s the US has been on it's knees for them.

    Don't get me wrong here. It's a very nice looking place but it's built on some of the most terrible human rights abuses you can name.

    They have almost open slavery. It's not a good place. The fact that they were allowed to buy EA at all is a problem.

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  • [–] 57 points 21 hours ago

    But, I WANT offense. I WANT those people uncomfortable. So let’s do more not less, kthx.

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  • [–] 44 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

    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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