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AgentMIB
Seasoned Traveler
1 year ago

EA Sports F1 23 Offensive Content

Link to my X post on EA Sports humiliating people with disabilities.  Below is my entire X posting.

EA Sports F1 23 Offensive Content  


I'm a #TBIsurvivor with dementia #ENDAlz and poor muscle control. As a former pilot, the #msfs2020 game allows me to enjoy 'flying'. The game #F123 helped me improve my muscle control. I spent over 200 hrs on that game to reach "Gold II and Tier 50" achievements.

On Apr 1st, no joke, I discovered all my #F123 achievements were erased by #EASPORTSF1. Many who are challenged like me can understand it's "small victories" in life that keep us going. Now imagine having all those "small victories" taken from you. I was devastated.

All my attempts at contacting #EASPORTSF1 to help were simply "Case Closed, No Fix" with no reason given. Yet, I provided proof many other players online kept their achievements. I asked them, "Why were my achievements erased, but not others?"

I even explained how their #F123 game helped me with my recovery as a #TBIsurvivor. Yet, they didn't care. In fact, they actually tried to blame me. Then I find they offer players this offensive DLC game pose called 'Brains'.

How can @EASPORTSF1 allow such humiliating and offensive content against people with disabilities?

Does @fia condone their licensing of such offensive content?

What is the response of advocacy groups such as
@yourcpf, @American_Stroke, @biaamerica to this issue?

4 Replies

  • EA_Groguet's avatar
    EA_Groguet
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    1 year ago

    Hey there @AgentMlB ,

    First of all, regarding the achievements, do you have any picture or evidence that you had those achievements? I could try to escalate this to the team. Is there any copies (dates/times/transcripts) you have with EA Help regarding this issue.

    About the pose, I have escalated this discussion point to the team, along with your achievements issue. I believe the intention of this content was to be themed around the Halloween period as it resembles a Zombie and adding it back to the store for players who missed out initially, but, we take all discussion points like this seriously and we will continue to monitor and evaluate our content to ensure we don't exclude or alienate all of our valued players.

    Thank you for bringing this to our attention

    -Groguet

  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    1 year ago

    No one is ever going to intentionally add offensive content.   Quite clearly just a zombie pose… 

  • AgentMIB's avatar
    AgentMIB
    Seasoned Traveler
    1 year ago

    @ScarDuck14 wrote:

    No one is ever going to intentionally add offensive content.   Quite clearly just a zombie pose… 



    Not so clearly a zombie pose.  I've never seen a zombie in that good of shape in any zombie movie or series.  This more resembles a realistic zombie driver 😃:


  • ScarDuck14's avatar
    ScarDuck14
    Legend
    1 year ago
    @AgentMlB It’s a pose made by your driver/avatar mimicking a zombie. That’s why it doesn’t look like your stereotypical zombie

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