“You can fuck the aliens but only if they’re straight.”

Fucking Saudi Arabian govt.

The anonymous employee mentioned a specific case where the developers were asked to remove a specific flag from a presentation video for "looking too much like the LGBTQIA+ flag," in order "not to offend."

God what a bunch of snowflakes.

But the worries that lgbtq sims players expressed about this takeover are still totally unfounded right?

The issue isn't just about a texture or a flag—it's the corporate censorship and what it signals. If management is already stepping in to scrub a presentation video to avoid "offending" corporate masters, it makes you wonder what kind of creative compromises are happening behind closed doors during actual game development.

For context for any viewers who are wondering why @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml deleted his posts, he was saying this:

• that the Pride flag has no symbolic meaning, but is "just a flag"
• that because the Pride Flag is not significant to @thingsiplay@lemmy.ml, it therefore has no meaning (which they repeated numerous times)
• that the removal of a symbol does not symbolize the removal of the thing that symbol symbolizes
• that gay people are given equal welcome in bars instead of being discriminated against
• that any change without impact on the gameplay has no meaning
• that censorship before the release of the game is not censorship and has no meaning

If you were wondering why he has so many downvotes, that is why. :)

developers were asked to remove a specific flag from a presentation video for "looking too much like the LGBTQIA+ flag," in order "not to offend."

Well, they failed. Because that offends me.

But why buy a studio known for inclusive storytelling, presumably to profit from it, and then kill the thing they're known for? Or was this an investment in culture war?

Is that the game where you can have sex with an insect alien and a rock monster? Sure glad they removed a flag or people would think sex between humans was normal 🤡

i mean they were bought by Saudi Arabia(96%) and that country is not too fond of LGBTQ

Fuck EA.

They allow insane amounts of racism. Like, thousands of n word mentions a week at least. I report this shit weekly and they reject me.

They don't fucking care, and the game I play is a Star Wars game. So, Disney doesn't care about the racism, either.

fuck ea

I fucking knew it, hijabs for everyone! The game is better dead than mangled, I say.

Yeah, it's Saudi Arabia, they are Islamic and not quite as permissive as USA.

There's no pride parade in Saudi Arabia or any Islamic state. You keep your head down and keep it to yourself or you get thrown off a roof.

Yet another reason why we need to move the world off of its oil dependency.

Of course it wasn't. They're owned by SA now. Used to jokingly refer to them as Evil Assholes, but they seem to want to really earn that moniker.