re: Battlefield V Delayed to November 20th

Yeah, but quite literally the only "social justice" issue people had a problem with was a woman playable character. If just that falls under your brush of SJW labeling, God help you.


Then we went the realism route because the woman argument didn't hold water.


this subreddit sums up that subculture of keyboard warrios quite nicely

The number of women fighting in combat in WW2 was so utterly minuscule compared to men that making an entire game showcasing a woman on the front lines is def. a political/social statement.

One doesn't need to pick between calling them SJW's or unrealistic, they are doing both simultaneously.

The idea that any sizable portion of "toxic" male gamers hate women characters has always absurd. I don't remember a single person ever complaining about Samus or Lara Croft or whoever, because those characters came about organically. But when it's clear they are shoehorning in female characters solely for the purpose of virtue signalling that's when people complain and that's when the left wing press starts repeating that narrative.

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def. a political/social statement.

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And what statement would that be? Women are OK? The horror!!!


And she's 1 character in a group of 4, I think the co-op part of the game. How is that showcasing her?

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A woman with a bionic arm who is a one man wrecking crew

A black dude with bright blue face paint, like he’s at a pride parade.

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it's so funny that this intimidates so many people


were we losing it like this with the borderlands games?





look at that minority character they want me to play........and who knows who's under Zeros mask



the noise is so dumb




keep it up

Forced inclusion for an actual event and the fictional world of pandora aren’t even remotely the same thing.

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Wolfenstein =. Alternate history/ extreme exaggeration of events. That last one tried a little too hard to be woke, as well.

Battlefield was initially an arcade styled simulation of warfare. The first few iterations tried to keep in line with the conflict they focused upon if it was an actual historical conflict, barring some of the wackier expansions that focused on experimental military equipment.

And I didn’t find the newer take intimidating. Just stupid. Once they told me to frick off for thinking as such, I resolved not to buy the game. So it goes.

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Battlefield presales way under expectations

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It's a mix. I'm serious when I say the general pulse out there was everyone was hoping for something more along the lines of BF3 or 4. Buzz just isn't the same around a BF game. There is some impact of people upset about "virtue signaling", but I seriously doubt it's that significant.

The obvious big factor is how poinsoned the EA name has become over the last couple of years. I know they own DICE and it would be next to impossible for this to happen, but it would be great for the Battlefield series to escape the dark shadow of EA.


And what would delaying the release date a month do to quell concerns over a playable character? They won't remove her..............although that would be insane and a total EA move.


Did you guys see the story about a song they licensced for the latest Madden that had a reference to Kapernick in it? So since he's out of the league and is suing the NFL, they had no control over his likeness so obviously he wasn't going to show up in the game. So that song gets put in, and for some reason, the message got muddled and someone decided to bleep out his name in the song like it was a cuss word. It was in review copies and people were losing their minds over how dumb of a move that was. I think EA ended up patching out the song, but just another black eye.