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BioWare Launches "Gay Planet" For the Old Republic
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. '"
So in Star Wars homosexuality isn't a desease that has been cured through science. People can break the laws of physics and travel the speed of light but homosexuality still exists. I wonder if there a blind planet and a autism planet. Trying not to troll. I reliaze that the word desease is loaded.
More like Apartheid.
You need to check your heteronormative privilege. Portraying the full spectrum of human sexuality is more important than making a game "fun".