Game Company gives the "Straight Male Gamer" what-for

Bioware recently responded to a rather screwed up forum post regarding Dragon Age II allowing same-sex and (arguably) polyamorous romances between characters.

Apparently...that's a bad thing.

But really, they let you romance elves, so it only seems fair!



The second fucked up thing about this is, the guy who made the post positioned himself as the Straight Male Gamer, which was just asking for trouble. Because all straight male gamers are homophobes? Because all straight male gamers are bigots? Sometimes it can seem that way, but then again my games of Risk on Facebook can get a little heated...

Here's a gem from the response -- David Gaider, a Dragon Age senior writer:

"And if there is any doubt why such an opinion might be met with hostility, it has to do with privilege. You can write it off as “political correctness” if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They’re so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance. They don’t see anything wrong with having things set up to suit them, what’s everyone’s fuss all about? That’s the way it should be, any everyone else should be used to not getting what they want."

You can read more here: Straight Male Gamer told to 'get over it'

It almost goes without saying that online gaming culture can be extremely homophobic, but that's another post.