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BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic

Posted by samzenpus on from the welcome-to-the-club dept.

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. '"

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  1. Srsly? by Orleron · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Checks calendar to make sure it's not April 1st*

    1. Re:Srsly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You have the desert planet, the ice planet, the forest moon, the city planet...

      And now, finally, the FABULOUS planet.

  2. Acceptable by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · 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?

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    1. Re:Acceptable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      So, you're saying you want a new area on planet Eroticon 6 called Valley of the RealDolls?

    2. Re:Acceptable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's already plenty of female robots and characters you can bang.

      Or Clang, as the case may be.

    3. Re:Acceptable by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

    4. Re:Acceptable by maxwell+demon · · 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?"

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  3. Go be gay over there... by Manfre · · Score: 5, Funny

    sounds like the digital version of don't ask, don't tell.

    1. Re:Go be gay over there... by ThePhilips · · Score: 4, Funny

      They should have called the planet "Hell" or "Purgatory."

      Might have attracted christian players.

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  4. bigotedly delicious! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    yellow stars, blue moons and now pink triangles!

  5. Why is there flirtatious behavior? by Amorymeltzer · · 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.

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  6. Ah, virtual segregation... by Ossifer · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... a heavily pixellated Geroge Wallace must be smiling in his recycle bin...

  7. WBC by Sparticus789 · · Score: 4, 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.

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    1. Re:WBC by CheeseTroll · · Score: 4, 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.

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    2. Re:WBC by Sparticus789 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And on the other side of their signs, WBC will write "But marrying your sister would be OK"

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  8. Jar Jar Binks by RedHackTea · · Score: 3, Funny

    Queen of Makeb.

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  9. Planet Name by kdogg73 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uranus

    Okay... I'm sorry. Don't be mad. I cringed too when it crossed my mind.

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  10. Re:"Regressive"? by _UnderTow_ · · 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.

  11. Well MMO players are gay by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  12. I felt a great disturbance in the Force by Chucky_M · · Score: 1, Funny

    As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.