As someone out of the loop, what exactly happened? I get the whole trailer-thing with the chick with the robot-arm.. but surely there's more than that?
Here's the Gamasuta interview where Dice decided insulting their customers and telling them not to buy their game was a good idea.
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"On the [women] in
Battlefield, this is something that the development team pushed," Soderlund said in an E3 interview with Gamasutra.
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Battlefield V is a lot about the unseen, the untold, the unplayed," he continued. "The common perception is that there were no women in World War II. There were a ton of women who both fought in World War II and partook in the war."
This is important because late last month, EA unveiled
Battlefield V via a trailer and cover that featured women soldiers. A vocal minority took to Twitter claiming that EA was sacrificing historical accuracy and realism for political correctness, despite plenty of available history about women in World War II.
Soderlund rejected those complaints outright.
"We felt like in today's world—I have a 13-year-old daughter that when the trailer came out and she saw all the flak, she asked me, 'Dad, why's this happening?'" Soderlund said.
"She plays
Fortnite, and says, 'I can be a girl in
Fortnite. Why are people so upset about this?' She looked at me and she couldn't understand it. And I'm like, ok, as a parent, how the hell am I gonna respond to this, and I just said, 'You know what? You're right. This is not okay.'"
"These are people who are uneducated—they don't understand that this is a plausible scenario, and listen: this is a game," he added. "And today gaming is gender-diverse, like it hasn't been before. There are a lot of female people who want to play, and male players who want to play as a badass [woman]."
"And we don't take any flak. We stand up for the cause, because I think those people who don't understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don't buy the game. I'm fine with either or. It's just not ok."
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This guy, who apparently has been working on the series for many years now, is no longer working at Dice.
And now?
"We heard the community, we understand there were some concerns about, hey, where’s the authenticity? We want players to be excited about customizing their characters with authentic gear. We dialled it back a bit. It was pretty crazy. We wanted to offer some authenticity, and that’s important to us, that’s important to our players.”
That's important to you, huh?
