BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic 333
DavidGilbert99 writes "Labelled as an 'oddly regressive move,' developers of Star Wars: the Old Republic have decided that all gay characters will be stuck on a single planet called Makeb. The move comes with the release of the Rise of the Hutt Cartel pack and the Makeb planet will be the only place in the game where players can select 'flirtatious' dialogue options with characters of the same gender. From the article: 'BioWare executive producer Jeff Hickman apologised for same sex relationships taking so long to be added to the game, referring to the company's most famous title Mass Effect, where homosexual relationships are available by default:
"First of all, I want to apologize that this is taking so long to get in the game," wrote Hickman in a blog post. "I realise that we promised SGR (same gender relationships) to you guys and that many of you believed that this would be with a companion character. Unfortunately, this will take a lot more work than we realised at the time and it (like some other pieces of content we talked about earlier in the year) has been delayed as we focused on the changes required to take the game Free-to-Play. '"
Srsly? (Score:5, Funny)
Acceptable (Score:5, Funny)
Well that takes care of 10% of their players. Now what about the robot female planet so the remaining 90% can feel accepted by their "I was born that way" mate preferences, too?
Go be gay over there... (Score:5, Funny)
sounds like the digital version of don't ask, don't tell.
bigotedly delicious! (Score:4, Funny)
Why is there flirtatious behavior? (Score:2, Funny)
I thought attachment was forbidden for a Jedi. It leads to jealousy, and last I heard the shadow of greed, that is.
Ah, virtual segregation... (Score:5, Funny)
... a heavily pixellated Geroge Wallace must be smiling in his recycle bin...
Re:Acceptable (Score:5, Funny)
So, you're saying you want a new area on planet Eroticon 6 called Valley of the RealDolls?
Re:Acceptable (Score:5, Funny)
There's already plenty of female robots and characters you can bang.
Or Clang, as the case may be.
WBC (Score:5, Funny)
And in response, the Westboro Baptist Church has announced that all 12 of their members will take to the streets of Makeb to protest.
Jar Jar Binks (Score:3, Funny)
Re:WBC (Score:5, Funny)
They'll be edited into the background of Darth Vader's funeral pyre, harassing Luke with anti-gay vitriol, in the next release of ROTJ.
Re:Go be gay over there... (Score:5, Funny)
They should have called the planet "Hell" or "Purgatory."
Might have attracted christian players.
Re:WBC (Score:5, Funny)
And on the other side of their signs, WBC will write "But marrying your sister would be OK"
Planet Name (Score:4, Funny)
Uranus
Okay... I'm sorry. Don't be mad. I cringed too when it crossed my mind.
Re:Srsly? (Score:5, Funny)
You have the desert planet, the ice planet, the forest moon, the city planet...
And now, finally, the FABULOUS planet.
Re:"Regressive"? (Score:5, Funny)
but you can't just snap your fingers and make that happen.
Perhaps if you snapped your fingers in a Z formation.
Well MMO players are gay (Score:2, Funny)
At least half the general chat messages I saw in WoW were people calling each other fags, so it stands to reason half of all MMO players are gay. Bioware is just trying to capture this market.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Acceptable (Score:0, Funny)
Well that takes care of 10% of their players
Since only 1-3% of the population is homosexual, I presume you are suggesting that players of Bioware titles are faggier than the general population.
Re:Acceptable (Score:3, Funny)
There's already plenty of female robots and characters you can bang.
Or Clang, as the case may be.
Clang? The compiler?
Ah, I get it, to program the sex bot. I guess the geek sex bots have a built-in terminal, and the conversation begins with: "How do you want it, Emacs or vi?"