Fox News Strikes! SWTOR Segregates Gay Characters to Gay Planet u5k6p

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Many on both sides of the fence are displeased with how BioWare has handled the issue of same-gender romance in the game but Fox News had something to say about it yesterday in their article, updates on all issues and current affairs, or a debacle of news station putting out biased and botched stories disguised as “news””. We’ll let you make the decision for yourself but either way, it’s good to see the topic getting some media attention. 582le

SGR in ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic’ has said more than once, “Allowing same-gender romance is something we are very ive of.”

Yet, many from the LGBT community did not feel they were very ive of it when they reported no response from BioWare on the issue at all, after being promised it would be implemented into the game.

So when the update came with State of the Game #2 address, I think many expected to hear more than what we got.

As Fox News reports:

Despite vocal opposition from thousands of angry gamers, a software developer has added for homosexual relationships to the game “Star Wars: The Old Republic” — albeit just on a single planet.

Fox News took an interesting slant on this topic/issue. According to their report, segregation of the “gays” will BioWare promised it but then didn’t deliver.

It seems space battles or PvP options.

As Fox reports:

“Well it’s good to see the SGR people are getting some attention. They’ve only been Electronic Arts has been wrestling with the issue for months, after promising in April 2012to stand up against what was described as “several thousand” letters and emails protesting the inclusion of same sex content in its games.

“Every one of EA’s Games Industry International at the time.

But still, there are many opposed the issue of SGR in the game and even sticking them all on their own planet doesn’t seem like a good enough fix:

“Star game and make a lot of people leave it.”

So it looks like know next to nothing about the game.

Regardless, it’s easy to see why people are calling this the “Pay 2 Gay” BioWare probably could have worked a little harder to place NPCs on other existing planets as well to avoid this issue. Personally, I don’t even use the flirt options in the game but since many people do, it’s nice for them to have same sex options as well. Regardless, one thing Fox News and other outlets who posted on this managed to do was stir up a lot of drama about the game and the issue. Some people say it brought up needless drama and falsities about the game but I like that it fosters new conversations. Trust me, you should never believe anything you read on any news station without checking the facts yourself and making your own opinions. Sex and scandal sell these days and this story had both.

Daniel Erickson had something to say:

Other BioWare employees past and present (include my fave Alexander Freed) had some other tweets to express their opinions of the Fox News piece.

Wherever you stand on the issue- do you think BioWare is handling this correctly? Do you think Fox News was off base with the story?

Same-Sex Story Arcs in SWTOR (previous coverage):

Lisa Clark 1js50

Lisa has been an avid gamer since she was old enough to hold her first controller and a game writer for more than a decade. A child of the Nintendo generation, she believes they just don’t make games like they used to but sometimes, they make them even better! While consoles will always be her first love, Lisa spends most of her gaming time on the PC these days- on MMOs and first-person shooters in particular.