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There Are No Gays In Star Wars [Bioware]

Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Gaming

Bioware take their Star Wars role-playing seriously. So seriously that the developers have been shutting down Old Republic’s message boards that talk about homosexuality, because it’s a term that does “not exist in Star Wars.”

There are a few threads that discuss how the game would handle gay relationships. And those threads are now locked. A thread complaining about those threads being locked (along with the words “homosexual,” “lesbian,” and “gay” being censored on the boards) has now also been locked, with BioWare’s community manager Sean Dahlberg posting succinctly:

As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.

Thread closed.

Um…ok, but do they not realize that the people actually playing the game do not exist in Star Wars either? I mean…there are REAL people that are GLBT. Now Bioware thinks they can take away their right to choose who to be with in a video game? Haha man, this is even worse than Prop 8! Apparently gays in the Old Republic had to fight the same fight they’re are fighting in today’s world.

GLBT discrimination in forums? [SWTOR]

UPDATE: The terms are now ok on the boards. But you gotta wonder. Had this not been published across the net would they have left it as it was? Bioware, I love you and all, but this wasn’t cool.

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Tags: Bioware, Star Wars, The Old Republic, Video Games