http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/01/14/156216/bioware-launches-gay-planet-for-the-old-republic

Kind of seems like a lose-lose situation with people complaining on both sides of the aisle.

It's a video game who cares.

What in the holy fuck?

This is getting absurd. Wouldn't the right thing be having gay romance everywhere, instead of segregating it to a specific planet? This is basically the gaming equivalent of negro water fountains.

Also, are homosexuals getting tired of Bioware's shenanigans? I would imagine so.

A bit sensationalist, sounds like limited resources and a desperation to get free to play working means they can't attribute the staff to creating decent same sex romances so they've written some in to a newer area.

It does seem like a loose - loose situation, a poorly written Same Sex Relationship would of drawn ire and this alternative doesn't do credit either.

The whole of ToR sounds like its in a bad way.

edited cus' PG 13

What where they hoping to accomplish with this?

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

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As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

all this makes me think of is lesbos-1 from I was kidnapped by lesbian pirates from outer space

That's just endor

I wonder if the Westboro Baptist Church is going to roll characters and picket the planet. What a sight that would be.

An expansion pack doesn't redo thousands of hours of voice acting for the whole MMO? Surprise!

@PrimalHorse: In low-creepy-Jeff-voice: Tell me more about the sloppy same sex relationship

What the actual fuck.

@JZ said:

That's just endor

HA!

@Levio said:

I wonder if the Westboro Baptist Church is going to roll characters and picket the planet. What a sight that would be.

OH god. That would be hilarious.

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Yup. Seems like an attempt to get people pissed off.

We have ice planet Hoth, desert planet Tatooine, and now gay planet. lol it almost makes sense.

well there has to be someplace for the gay robots from Star Wars

@TheSouthernDandy said:

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Yup. Seems like an attempt to get people pissed off.

This seems more like they're only allowing certain dialogue options on that planet. Kind of like they're separating it from the rest of the game so straight gamers don't have to sully their pure eyes with that filth.

It's kind of shitty.

@Scrawnto: That was totally unintentional, perhaps I should stop drinking bath water.

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

This seems like the logical conclusion. No one at bioware is stupid enough to think it's a good idea to segregate same sex relationships from the rest of the game.

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

@TheSouthernDandy said:

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Yup. Seems like an attempt to get people pissed off.

This seems more like they're only allowing certain dialogue options on that planet. Kind of like they're separating it from the rest of the game so straight gamers don't have to sully their pure eyes with that filth.

It's kind of shitty.

How do they reproduce on the gay planet? Clones? Gay clones?

@notdavid said:

@TheSouthernDandy said:

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Yup. Seems like an attempt to get people pissed off.

This seems more like they're only allowing certain dialogue options on that planet. Kind of like they're separating it from the rest of the game so straight gamers don't have to sully their pure eyes with that filth.

It's kind of shitty.

No, this is a matter of development time and resources. They want to add homosexual options and they are working on adding a new planet to the game. Obviously that planet is going to be the first place those options are going to be implemented because they can integrate them with their regular development flow.

@Hunkulese said:

It's a video game who cares.

*glares at you*

@notdavid said:

@TheSouthernDandy said:

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Yup. Seems like an attempt to get people pissed off.

This seems more like they're only allowing certain dialogue options on that planet. Kind of like they're separating it from the rest of the game so straight gamers don't have to sully their pure eyes with that filth.

It's kind of shitty.

No, this is a matter of development time and resources. They want to add homosexual options and they are working on adding a new planet to the game. Obviously that planet is going to be the first place those options are going to be implemented because they can integrate them with their regular development flow.

@notdavid said:

@TheSouthernDandy said:

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Yup. Seems like an attempt to get people pissed off.

This seems more like they're only allowing certain dialogue options on that planet. Kind of like they're separating it from the rest of the game so straight gamers don't have to sully their pure eyes with that filth.

It's kind of shitty.

And this is how stories get taken out of context and emotionally charged on the internet. Congratulations

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

I don't understand why Bioware insists on injecting sexuality into it's games, everyone I ever knew that played MMOs seriously (or any game for that matter) did it as an escape/break from real life, who's secret escape is "Gay Planet"? Nobody. No straight people want to pretend to be gay other than to fuck with gay people and I can't imagine many gay people want to escape their gay real life to pretend to be gay.

Okay, I suggest everyone read the actual blog post on The Old Republic website. Whoever wrote this article was definitely just fishing for controversy and the title of this thread isn't doing it very many favors either.

@Hailinel said:

@Ravenlight

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Homosexuality is generally more integrated than "everyone in one location is gay and nowhere else."

They discussed it when they made the announcement, that adding gay relationships turned out to be more involved than they thought it was, so this new content will have gay characters on it while they continue to work on adding gay options to the rest of the game.

@Kidavenger: But most MMO's are interested in crafting an involved storyline and, more often than not, storylines involve romance. And it's purely optional so anyone that doesn't want to engage in it doesn't have to.

This, meaning that article, this topic and the responses, is why we can't have nice things.

@Ravenlight said:

Knee-jerk reaction:

• WTF? They're segregating people by sexual orientation?

Reality:

• Bioware is adding same-sex content to the game and this one planet is just the start.

--

As usual, Slashdot fails to deliver on an accurate, unbiased summary.

Pretty much what I was going to say. It certainly looks bad but I think it should have been on BioWare to get ahead of everyone on this and announce that it's not what people think it is. I highly doubt it's BioWare pulling a Jim Crow or something.

so the content is coming out for the new expansion for SWTOR and content is only available on the new planet. Seems a like a convenient way to make some mountains out of mole hills

It baffles me that a company that mainly wants profit, is catering to a minority that's even made smaller since it's video games we're talking about.

So you can play for free, but have to pay to be gay.

This is basically the gaming equivalent of negro water fountains.

but you can't just snap your fingers and make that happen.

Perhaps if you snapped your fingers in a Z formation.

Taken from their comments section. I lul'd

@ahaisthisourchance said:

It baffles me that a company that mainly wants profit, is catering to a minority that's even made smaller since it's video games we're talking about.

1. It brings some media attention to a otherwise dieing game

2. It is delivering on a previously made promise towards the community

3. It promotes bio ware's ideological standpoint even if George is against it

4. Why not? They were making a new planet anyway and this at least gives it a unique theme to encourage people to spend real money to access the content in this otherwise F2P game

This thread title is a lie, a horrible, horrible lie.

Gross. Not what Bioware's doing; the sensationalist spin the story is getting.

@JZ said:

That's just endor

HAHAHA!

The best part about this is you have to pay real money to be allowed on the gay planet.

I like to refer to this as P2G or Pay to Gay.

Boy that's hysterically tactless.

This is pretty hilarious.

Obviously, the way the game is set up and structured means that adding in a new area (or planet) is the easiest way to add new content like this. They want F2P players to have to purchase their way into new content and adding new NPC's and such else where will conflict with other ingame quests and what naught.. but geez, does this just seem like another failure for this game or what? Everything about it seems so badly designed and they just seem to be piling more and more onto the fire, rather than trying to put any of it out.

Yes, the one game developer to really give players the possibility of gay romances is definitely bigoted.

Idiots.

@rebgav said:

This is only the first step in EA's inevitable domination of the sexuality-based pseudo-rpg genre, to be followed by Mass Effect 4's furry galaxy and Dragon Age 3's Guild of Child Pornographers.

This is sure a troubling post.

People getting angry about nothing, makes sense it's not like every country allows gay marriage so why should every planet in Star Wars. Makes it more believable.

@LordXavierBritish said:

The best part about this is you have to pay real money to be allowed on the gay planet.

I like to refer to this as P2G or Pay to Gay.

Win