BioWare take their Star Wars role-playing seriously. So seriously that the developers are shutting down talk on Old Republic's message boards about homosexuality, because it's a term that does "not exist in Star Wars".
Yes, if you care to trawl around the site, there are a few threads that either began as, or devolved into, discussion of how the game - or the game's future player base - 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.
OK, but...they do, uh, realise that the people actually playing the game do not exist in Star Wars either, right? They're real people?
I think this must be something laid upon them by Lucasarts, as Bioware was the ones who coded in a possible lesbian relationship in the original "Knights Of The Old Republic" between a female main character and Juhani. (Though, the code exists in the game, the conversation trees to get to it do not work in an unmodded version. Apparently, they decided to axe the possibilty late in the game's development cycle.)
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Posted:
Apr 28 2009 07:23 pm
in all honesty it kind of makes sense. there are so many different races and possible things to be atracted to in the star wars universe, people are probably pan sexual
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Apr 28 2009 07:26 pm
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So what was Juhani in Knights of the Old Republic?
I'm aware the dialog is the same regardless of the character's sex, but if they want to deny it maybe they should have put in some alternate dialog depending on the chosen character. Seriously, if their discussions on the forum are civilized what the hell difference does it make?
Damn that's stupid. If they have no plans to put gay relationships in the game, fine, that's their choice - but why stop people from talking about the possibility?
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Apr 28 2009 08:52 pm
Cattivo wrote:
Damn that's stupid. If they have no plans to put gay relationships in the game, fine, that's their choice - but why stop people from talking about the possibility?
especially since it's an online game
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Apr 28 2009 09:16 pm
What about bestiality?
There was that part where Mission and Zaalbar were going at it.
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Apr 28 2009 10:06 pm
jackfrost wrote:
So what was Juhani in Knights of the Old Republic?
I'm aware the dialog is the same regardless of the character's sex, but if they want to deny it maybe they should have put in some alternate dialog depending on the chosen character. Seriously, if their discussions on the forum are civilized what the hell difference does it make?
So what was Juhani in Knights of the Old Republic?
I'm aware the dialog is the same regardless of the character's sex, but if they want to deny it maybe they should have put in some alternate dialog depending on the chosen character. Seriously, if their discussions on the forum are civilized what the hell difference does it make?
I was thinking the same thing. I remember seeing something about this whole scene and the homosexual aspect of it on X-Play back in 2005.
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Apr 28 2009 10:48 pm
GPFontaine wrote:
What about bestiality?
There was that part where Mission and Zaalbar were going at it.
I do not remember that part.
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Apr 28 2009 11:17 pm
UsaSatsui wrote:
jackfrost wrote:
So what was Juhani in Knights of the Old Republic?
I'm aware the dialog is the same regardless of the character's sex, but if they want to deny it maybe they should have put in some alternate dialog depending on the chosen character. Seriously, if their discussions on the forum are civilized what the hell difference does it make?
