BioWare take their Star Wars role-playing seriously. So seriously that the developers are shutting down talk on Old Republicâs message boards about homosexuality, because itâs a term that does ânot exist in Star Warsâ.
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 â or the gameâs future player base â would handle gay relationships. And those threads are now locked. A thread complaining about those threads being locked (along with the words âhomosexualâ, âlesbianâ and âgayâ being censored on the boards) has now also been locked, with BioWareâs community manager Sean Dahlberg posting succinctly:
As I have stated before, these are terms that do not exist in Star Wars.
Thread closed.
OK, butâŠthey do, uh, realise that the people actually playing the game do not exist in Star Wars either, right? Theyâre real people?
GLBT discrimination in forums? [SWTOR]
UPDATE â BioWare have since issued an apology.
https://lastchance.cc/bioware-lifts-filter-on-gay-lesbian-star-wars-discussi-5231521%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
