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AymCTL
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago

Re: religious dogma in FFVII event pack

If the OP is genuine, I'm shocked this is the one thing about apex that I've seen trigger someone during my short time here.

As I've told some of you already, I was actually a JRPG player that never played an fps and I approached this game to investigate it for problems it was causing a mentally ill friend of mine.  I had an amusing conversation with a video game exec when I first saw the characters and I was perplexed how some more easily offended people didn't protest racial caricatures in the game.  One thing noticed was Octane and Loba speaking with Latino accents and represent some negative stereotypes while lighter skinned women like Horizon and Wattson are the educated scientific minds of the group.  

I mean, I thought for sure that these things would be controversial in this politically correct day and age, but for God bless you on a cosmetic item to be the only complaint I've seen of this nature and yet everyone is ok with other themes of apex as other players have mentioned, I just find it surprising.

To the credit of the games developers, since actually becoming a player I have since learned that Respawn and EA fired the racists that were on their teams creative (when they discovered such) and they have since added characters that show diversity like how Conduit is a positive representation of the Filipino ethnic background.  So, I think this is one game that tends to be balanced in terms of offending its public.

2 Replies

  • Asmodeus566's avatar
    Asmodeus566
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @ Everyone here.

    Just a small reminder, it is just a game.

    If you like it and have fun keep playing.

    If you do not, then play/do something else.

  • EA_Mari's avatar
    EA_Mari
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 years ago

    Locking this as this discussion aint going anywhere... 

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