You know what's sad is given how corporations tend to work, the most likely outcome of this controversy is that EA will see it as a risk to include various cultures in the future and will do the least of it they can get away with, without dealing with too much of the reverse problem, of people asking to see representation.
If they really wanted to get ahead of this stuff, what they need to do is learn enough about a culture before implementing and basically decide who they are going to be ok with offending and why. It's virtually impossible to represent a real culture in a game like this and not make some decisions that are going to be controversial, and it just looks bad when they have to self-correct midstream and can't justify the decisions they made to begin with because they presumably researched poorly and thought they could just implement a culture and please everybody. But that would require being ok with having a portion of potential sales not wanting to buy the product, so... corporations gonna incorporate or whatever.
