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2026-10-28 11:25 UTC

BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says A former BioWare employee says that EA’s new management wasn’t on board with the developer’s inclusiveness.

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  • 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.

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  • This is why foreign countries shouldn’t be allowed to own companies. Worker and citizen owned companies or gtfo

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  • 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.

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  • @mcv@lemmy.zip 2026-10-28 18:46

    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?

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