Two Apex Legends characters are LGBTQ, say EA and Respawn

Both EA and Respawn has confirmed that there are two Apex Legends LGBTQ characters in the game: Bloodhound and Gibraltar.

[Razzer]

Not going to play the game as I don't want to be accused of committing a virtual hate crime.

[81BX]

Lol. Tried it out. It was meh

[telekineticmantis]

Yeah and I'm thinking about Boycotting it now.

[fathertime4464]

Next headline will read
"Apex promotes hate crimes because you get to kill lgbqt characters, news at 11"

[shammgod]

Of course they are. Sexual oreientation always comes up when running around a battfield shooting at enemies

[TiredandRetired]

I'd hate for my teabagging to be misinterpreted as a sign of affection.

[thetorontokid]

Haha 😂

[ninerguy1608]

The way people are becoming they might call it sexual assault. Pathetic this crap is in games now. I’ve never cared what someones sexual orientation is in gaming. I play to have fun. This forced lgbqtevjsdtbigsa is getting more and more ridiculous.

[sampsonon]

couldn't happen, you haven't a heart.

[Last_Boss]

Then get vagflapped you MF!! /s

[galmi]

lololol

[letsa_go]

I think the only reason they are doing this is to score brownie points and free media coverage from the SJW gaming sites like Polygon and Kotaku. A little bit of virtue signalling gets the gaming "journalists" off their back so they can focus on making the game without having to constantly appease the vocal minority.

[uth11]

funny, i just read an article at Kotaku that said this made her feel uneasy, as though it was an empty diveristy gesture or something.

[letsa_go]

@uth11 I mean, they aren't wrong! That is how I see it too.

[Sono421]

If I was ever a part of the decision making like this for a game,just to f*ck with them I would make every male character a trans lesbian woman (But they still just look like men) and vice versa for women.Oh and of course half of them would be black and a few asians sprinkled in there as well, BOOM i'll get endless articles talking about how great my game is even if it's steaming garbage.

@uth11 that's because it is exactly that, an empty gesture to check the box on "diversity" aka identity politics. Because the character needs to have the same sexual orientation, skin color, and same gender as you to be relate able or playable /s

[DaleCooper]

Bingo. Hit the nail on the head.

[sampsonon]

so you're ok with LGBTQ soldiers right?

[pwnmaster3000]

You must be a part of the LGBTQ seeing how offended you are. No one gives a shit about it or your feelings when it comes to games, especially on n4g. All we want is good games, Ellie from last of us is considered lesbian and we love her and that game.

And plus no need to bring up what preference they are. games have LGBTQ characters without being address they are. This isn’t new lol

[rainslacker]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't care one bit what someone's sexual orientation is.

But, we don't get articles listing which characters are heterosexual. Why get them for the ones that are? If it doesn't matter to the game, and there is no story where it's relevant either way, why bother making a character with any definition?

Its possible to have characters where the topic of their sexual preference has no bearing on anything, and doesn't have to be broached at all...
Much less pointed out as if it's somehow a badge of honor.

I 100% support gay rights, and wouldn't ever judge or discriminate against anyone for their sexual preference, but at the same time, I don't really take heterosexual representation as something important enough to mention or care about, so I treat homosexual preference with the same attitude, and since it keeps.cropping up, I tend to keep asking why it matters.

[harbie]

ROFL right- were about to die! But seriously what's turns you on? Lol fml

[Snookies12]

Why do we need confirmation about freaking sexual orientation? This is so stupid... It has no place in a game like this. If it's something crucial to the story that's one thing. All this is for, is attention seeking. Plain and simple.

[Goldby]

but what if they planned on making a campaign one day involving one of the characters from Apex legends, would it feel more forced stating when the campaign released that the character is LGBTQ or when the character was initial introduced to everyone via a different game?

attention seeking would be using a character from this game in a story driven one and bringing up the fact they are LGBT to sell that game

[johndoe11211]

Here's what, i'll admit to your statement making any sense the day a company goes out of their way to announce a character is a white hetrosexual male christian. Until that day comes i'm gonna have to call BS on your statement.

[rainslacker]

It might feel forced, mostly because this feels forced, and pointless. No problem if that's what the characters are, but it's just pandering to even mention it, when no one asked, or cared. He ll, before a few days ago, no one even knew this game existed. Now, I know the names of two characters, but the only thing I know about them they affiliate with a group.

Is That really proper representation? For decades now, gay people have fought for equel rights. That they are the same as everyone else, just with different interests in one aspect of their life. But things like this force these characters to be defined by this. Is that progress?

[spicelicka]

It feels forced now and it'll feel forced then. It should never have to be announced. If they want inclusivity, just implement it in the game. By your logic every game without a story can just start announcing LGBT characters because some day they might have a campaign for it.

[Eonjay]

"Why do we need confirmation about freaking sexual orientation? "
Because people asked after reading the profiles.

[DrumBeat]

Lol. I find it very hard to believe that anyone; gamers, developers, community managers, PR workers, investors, etc asked about the sexual orientation of any of these characters.

Developer 1: After close examination of Bloodhound's character model I get the sense that he might be a little bi.
Developer 2: He is, but I didn't want to say anything too soon; I wanted to surprise Terry down the hall.

[Eonjay]

@DrumBeat

it is clearly stated that Respawn put the bios up on their site. Then people started asking about them and then EA and Reswapn had to come out and 'confirm' what they had already stated. This then became the story.

[sampsonon]

it's just in their Bio, not meant to be a big deal. well not in 2019 anyway.

it's a troll article to make people like you all get upset and become click bait drones.

[Mortheous]

It's is in their bio on the company's site as far as I'm concerned it isn't canon. To me things need to be IN GAME to be canonical.

[OffRoadKing]

And yet here it is being made a big deal. Having it not be a big deal would have been to not pointlessly include it in the first place.

[Snookies12]

I'm not upset over it, I'm just pointing out that there is no reason for it. Not in a game like this. They are only doing it to garner attention from the LGBTQ community. It's an attention-seeking tactic.

[sampsonon]

@OffRoadKing: If they include a heterosexual bio, and a LGBTQ bio what's the difference? They are both apart of our world. it's reality.
unless you think everyone should be what you want them to be. But that's excluding a part of our population.

so what's the problem with that?

[-Foxtrot]

Why? Brownie points.

So they can let people know that they should praise them for being so forward in their thinking.

[n1kki6]

While I am glad that there is more representation for everyone in games, what the hell does sexual orientation have to do with Battle Royale. Is this to assist in the creation of porn? Just to make sure it's accurate? I have never been playing a shooter and wondered "hmmm, who does this character prefer to have sex with?" "Favorite position?"

[n1kki6]

I mean, are we really to the point where we need to just add sexual preference as a customer character attribute?
Seriously, I can now see someone taking a Character based on sexual orientation, rather than who is the better complimentary person for the team. From an LBGT community standpoint this comes across as pandering and dilutes and real conversation. Quite honestly this type of pandering probably does a disservice to those who are gay or otherwise.

[TacoTaco]

I agree. Representation is good. All types of people play games, therefore all types of people should be represented in games *where* the narrative lets you craft your character and experience.

But Battle Royale? There's no meaningful benefit to any community for doing that.

[rainslacker]

Does that matter? Affiliation appropriate porn for tracer from overwatch is boring, and it's not like those who cr rate such things really try to keep things within cannon.

[EpicFruityPie]

Gamers dont care less about politics in games -.-

[Keltech]

Actually some do. The video game industry has been invaded by 4chan incels and russians trolls trying to divide us. We were already divided with PlayStation vs Xbox vs PC. I've turned from defending PlayStation from some of the propaganda and lies made by Xbox fans, to now defending these greedy ass companies against these fake anti-justice warriors that make shit like BF5 political. These people try to make it political when its actually about a greedy company (EA) trying to ca$h in on customization because they dropped premium pass, but these infiltrators try to make it about "swj's and "liberals." All I'm saying is lets try to focus our anger at EA, Activision, Bathesda, and stop making this shit about people that are not getting a cent from these greedy ass corporations that are nickle and diming us.

[Grap]

Good to know i guess?.

[bluefox755]

Oh, great. Sounds super important.

[KratosKonundrum]

Sometimes I feel developers do this to troll the alt-right crowd and are entertained by the copious amounts of amounts of salt.

It's the new hot coffee controversy.

Before sex and violence drew headlines, conservatives, who have now embraced sex and violence as normative features of games and media, have turned their ire to social justice causes or appeals to equality.

In truth it shouldn't bother anyone. If it turned out that everyone in Red Dead Redemption 2 were lesbian aliens that were dropped off at that shack by Emerald Ranch it wouldn't have muted the enjoyment of the game.

The legalization of gay marriage in 2014, which was just 5 years ago, has scrambled a lot of people's brains. There were millions of Americans who tried to deny the 14th amendment to millions of citizens and were doing mental gymnastics to rationalize their stance. Their entire worldview was humiliated when the SC allowed gay marriage and now I feel they're lost in the culture war and see these petty fights as way to plug that culture war hole that insulates them from progress and equality for all.

[WelkinCole]

You are on to something.

[The_Sage]

Did you mean, you are on something?

[DillyDilly]

People are clearly against this forced narrative based on EA's most recent sales reports. So keep it coming EA

[TacoTaco]

I'm gay but even things like these are irritating to me. Marriage equality has passed, public acceptance grows higher and higher, I don't need or want these companies pandering to me like I'm some dainty outcast they need to check a box for. I want to be treated normal, and shoehorning in these details for non-story games does just the opposite.

[Marioraider18]

Overwatch is a non story game with story elements.

[nyu1]

" If it turned out that everyone in Red Dead Redemption 2 were lesbian aliens that were dropped off at that shack by Emerald Ranch it wouldn't have muted the enjoyment of the game. "

Uh, what ? Yes it would. Story and context matter in a game like RDR2. If, for example, Rockstar made most of the cowboys female, that would be really weird, and people would be legitimately annoyed by that.

Unless they ensured to build up that alternate setting or make it more light hearted vs grounded/immersive

[agnosticgamer]

oh... God PC Police starts again....

[bigmalky]

Nobody cares GIF here.

[WickedLester]

Great! The character I'm using is "IDGAF"

[chrisoadamson]

This shit is getting out of hand.

[DillyDilly]

Hey EA how are your sales going lately ? Oh wait LOLz

[OffRoadKing]

EA, virtue signaling over profits apparently.

[DillyDilly]

The sad thing is EA will NEVER FIGURE OUT that the virtue signaling is playing a part in low profits. At least when these low sales continue it will eventually bring in new management

[averagejoe26]

What?

EA's revenue is up from $1.16 billion last year to $1.26 billion this year. The company is worth more now than it was a year ago.

[Kocurstvo]

And this bullsht is here again...

[Kocurstvo]

I say again, what gender are the Tetris bricks...?

[Dirtnapstor]

Give me a break. This is getting ridiculous. Is this their answer to Overwatch?!
The objective is to dominate and make desolate the field... not play the field.
The characters kill the same. This is the point of the game, yes?

[Arty84]

EA doesnt learn

[kevnb]

why is this relevant? i mean other than virtue signaling.

[isarai]

This sounds like a desperate attempt at gaining some good will.

[jjb1981]

"IT'S MA'AM!", PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW

[FPS_D3TH]

Really weird as to why people bothered asked this and even weirder as to how soon EA needed to clarify.

[InklingGirl]

I'm awaiting that group to call it hate speech when we kill those characters in game then EA and Respawn will have bigger issues.

Keep making your problem bigger EA, when you perpetuate you keep the minds set on it and it only makes it worse.

[Arty84]

Wouldnt be something new Rdr2 had its hate crime accusation s

[SierraGuy]

We need a rating system that identifies these characters in games because I don't want my children playing this shit.

[Dogsuferer24]

Absolutely bizarre to be assigning sexuality to video game avatars. This is a multiplayer game where you run around and shoot people...

[Fraggle1987]

oh fuck right off.

[staticall]

«I was always suspecting that the french GIGN character in Counter-Strike was gay, i need confirmation NOW!» said no one

[antarius]

And here we go...

[maximumspidey]

isn't this the same shit that generated some hate for battlefield?

[Marioraider18]

Battlefield is different because that is based on an actual war that took place

[StormLegend]

NO ONE CARES just let people enjoy the game.

[Blu3_Berry]

Sigh........so why does it even matter here? It's a battle royale game. Who gives a crap if the characters are LGBTQ or not. It's a videogame not politics trying to appeal to every demographic.

[mezati99]

fucking EA lol

[Sirk7x]

Holy crap, who cares. Unless they're going the Overwatch route and pushing all forms of media and backstory. In which case, just go play Overwatch lol. They did two gay characters in a hero shooter first lol.

[porkChop]

I don't care about this any more than I care about the Overwatch characters being gay. If this bit of lore doesn't exist in the game itself then it doesn't matter. It's also a shooter, so a character's sexual orientation literally doesn't matter at all.

EA, the game is good. So just shut up and let people enjoy it. Don't drown out the good news with dumb stuff like this.

[DafunkyRebel]

How can a robot be gay?

[Bahamut-Shin]

ever since gender is something "made up" by society and not something inherent of nature.

[averagejoe26]

Gender has always been made up by society. Native Americans had over 100.

What you're thinking of is a person's sex.

[SierraGuy]

They're wired differently...don't you know?!

[DrumBeat]

Breaking News: Luigi is actually a hermaphrodite. He's finally out of the closet and can breathe. Mario fully supports Luigi, of course.

[2pacalypsenow]

Ok...

[Giblet_Head]

Needlessly virtue signaling to a fringe minority for political brownie points is a good way to kill the early momentum of your game's brief popularity. You should be use to failure enough by now Respawn to know better than this.

[zahdab]

Yea these 1 and 0 digital codes have sexual preferences ... some 1s actually prefer 1s while some 0s prefer 0s .... geez
what next ? sega telling us that 3 character from the sonic world are LGBT? Luigi is gay ?
I mean we've played fighting games for ages we never really cared to know what gender character prefer hitting stop pushing it onto us!
Also for a game with 8 characters 1 of which being a robot
that means 2 our of 7 human characters are gay ... that makes around 30 % of the human characters gay ... we're getting to a 50 - 50 split soon enough

[jcole97]

Here we go again...

[Swiftfox]

I'm all for inclusion being on the LGBTQ spectrum, myself. This, however, is just "gay baiting". We've seen it all over the entertainment industry. Gay Baiting is when you make a character a specific orientation but don't actually give evidence of said orientation within the context of the story. A great modern example is Dumbledore from Harry Potter, as the character was outed as gay by the author but no evidence of the characters sexuality exists or how it's a part of their identity other than just "cause I said so". Another example would be Tracer from Overwatch as within the game there is zero evidence of her sexual orientation as part of her overall identity.

This isn't inclusion--it's marketing. You want our sweet sweet money but you don't want to actually be inclusive--in your work or in your workforce.

[sampsonon]

troll article. nothing wrong with inclusion. it means nothing to me to have those characters, but f it makes someone feel included that can only be a good thing right?

[WickedLester]

And how would anyone NOT feel "included' if Respawn just didnt address it in the first place? It's a friggin online shooter! Sexual orientation, whether it be homo, hetero, or livestock is completely irrelevant!

Question, I'm of English/Norwegian decent. Are any of these characters English/Norwegian???? Because, you know, if my nationality isnt represented here then I'm going to feel alienated and not play.

[OffRoadKing]

Simply having no sexual orientation which is what the game should have would cover everyone this isn't inclusion its forced pandering, stop defending this bullshit.

[unjust75]

Respawn are awesome!!! Haters gonna hate go play something else

[WickedLester]

It's not hate. It's just acknowledging stupidity.

[SierraGuy]

Yeah and we will...like usual.

[averagejoe26]

And millions of people will keep playing this game.

[OffRoadKing]

You don't have to suggest it people will go play something else and EA can keep losing profits because of it.

[averagejoe26]

They are actually up from $1.16 billion to $1.26 billion from last year.

[Traecy]

This is not a story driven SP game so when one thinks about it what gender any of these characters are attracted to have to do with the gameplay of this MP game?? LOL! while Smh.

[ExplodingJuice]

Talk about really dumb shit in video games. What is the point of asking : "Is this character gay?"

Alot of people really feel the need for there to be gay characters for some reason. I guess so they can feel "included" or find a character that they can identify with. JUST PICK A FUCKING CHARACTER & PLAY THE DAMN GAME!

God damn snowflakes....

[JokerBoy422]

Was on the fence and was about to download this game... Not anymore.

[SierraGuy]

Same.

[Vanfernal]

Does this information play a vital role in the story? There is no story, so no. Are we gonna see them having sex in game? No. Do you get a hate crime penalty for killing any of these characters? No. So this is completely irrelevant to the game and serves no purpose other than to gain social justice points from people who don't really care about the games as much as the controversy surrounding them.

[TheColbertinator]

RIP Respawn

[SierraGuy]

Next gay Titans.

[CrimsonWing69]

man this is sounding a bit forced now...

[OffRoadKing]

a bit?

[ninerguy1608]

Tea bagging lgbtq characters actually revive them now.

[Sieden]

v i r t u e s i g n a l l i n g

[EliteComments123]

stop being politically correct, its good to see but so what?

[BioShockGX]

So it's a trend now to announce lgbtq characters every now and then.
F*** off please.

[Hedstrom]

OMG LGBTQ!

[Morgue]

Religion, Sex, Mythology, Symbolism, Race, Politics and you name it have always been in video games. It's just more apparent and in your face these days because of some in society who think because they are different and can't identify themselves with other classes feel the need to complain and expect special rights. All this is like a few have stated is just flat out pandering. Then by doing that. It creates backlash in a community of gamer's who have always been seen as primarily " male " when in reality, girls and women have played games all the while but within a much lower percentage base. It's all an agenda too make one community of gamer's feel special in another community of gamer's when this whole time that video games have existed. All said " genders " have played video games. It's ridiculous honestly and just more nonsense to keep people arguing and solving nothing.

[senorfartcushion]

Nerd one: "stop making games political"

Game dev: "One... Impossible... 2... We will stop making it a big deal, but only if you stop voting for objectivist scumbags who will all but bury the poorest and most unique of our society."

Nerd one "No! Stop making games political!"

[Casepb]

Oh god... ever since Blizzard started this stupid shit with OW everyone has just got to follow. Can't leave out the 1%!

[AK91]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[Bo4lox]

Ohh.. Its a ea game... No thx I'll pass!!!

[Mulletino]

Waiting for this info before I gave it a try, can’t wait!..

[SlagWolf]

Wha the fuck cares.

[Shikoku]

More SJW crap have to make sure to check the boxes so they can feel good about it. No one cares dude this isn't a story driven game so why the hell even bother putting it in oh yeah SJW.

[PaleMoonDeath]

Ugh.

[plmkoh]

Yes of course EA Games would do this, they would have sat down in a round table analysed that this created effective buzz for Overwatch and so the most logical, business efficient and attributable difference can be made by putting in LGBT characters arbitrarily.

[TGGJustin]

I'm so tired of stories like this. Who the hell cares if any of these characters are gay in a game like this. Serves no point.

[RizBiz]

Cool...

[pody]

Of course they are...

[BadElf]

Awww, look...another company(Oh its EA again) on their high horse...on "the right side of history".

There are 8 characters , so "6 characters are heterosexual, say EA and Respawn" right?

And dont tell me Bangalore isnt the biggest Lesbian you've ever seen....She'll be something else in the ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Community Im sure...

[mandingo]

who cares- says me

[Bane35]

Of course they are like everything else

[PCgamer98]

So what new skills or power do they have for being lgbt that other straight characters haven't? Oh right we just need to check that virtue signalling box.

[tinchotin]

So...there is not any heterosexual male to choose from, unless you pay for DLC. There are 4 women, 1 robot, and a gay male. Is this sexual discrimination of heterosexual males?

[OffRoadKing]

Actually you're being insensitive the robot identifies as a toaster.

[oof46]

Meh.

[The7Reaper]

No they're not. Because they're computer pixels and aren't real people.

[trouble_bubble]

Why does pixel sexuality even matter? None of this changes nothing.

[HaVoK308]

No straight white male characters. I do not feel represented, therefore I cannot enjoy the game. On a sane note: Inject identity politics into your entertainment, then I want no part of it.

[gleepot]

Well, naturally. They want the game to be popular, so it's an easy way to cash in.

[OffRoadKing]

Well there goes that. And EA wonders why they're turning in piss poor financials. This shit has no place in video games, forced inclusion/acceptance and pandering = a pass.

[frostypants]

This is as interesting to me as knowing what their favorite food is. Which is to say who cares? Unless they're just trolling hyper conservatives.

[gamingisnotacrime]

Human, alien, animal tree, who cares. Is the game good?

[conanlifts]

As long as we keep talking about and labelling things prejudice will remain. We need to shut up and just let people be who they are without the need for defining and labelling everything. I play games for enjoyment and have no interest in what is or is not politically correct in terms of gameplay. I also have no interest in gender, sexual preference or anything else with characters in games, unless it fits the story (like TLOU). For shooters and other games it makes absolutely no difference. In life I am happy to defend and advocate for equal rights for all, but games are not real life, particularly when the aim is to run around shooting other people. It makes no difference to me putting you in my cross hairs and attempting to kill you.

[Findingcrybabies]

thank god. the sexual orientation of a made up video game character matters greatly. We can all rejoice at this vital information.

[Vipre77]

Wow, they’re all 5 of those particular sexual orientations at once? So pan-sexual then? They’ll screw anything that breathes? How politically correct and inclusive of them! Perhaps a more important question: How is this relevant to the game at all?

[Smokehouse]

That marketing genius at work again lol. The EA news today is hilarious. Feb 6th should be EA day.

Nothing against gays, it’s just the way they think this a dog whistle to new consumers. Who are they trying to sell to with this? Gay gamers? Would any of you gay gamers consider playing this just because it has 2 gay characters? “I hate battle royale but I have play it now, thanks EA”. lmao. Who thinks this way?

Well, kotaku did have to wipe the drool off of their face because they played 2 black females in a row so I can see why EA would be so oblivious.

[InTheZoneAC]

Let us play our games in peace, why do we need this?

[X-23]

Why do people even promote this garbage, so damn annoying.
Literally no one should care, in the video game world and in the real world.

Fun Fact: Most people don't give a damn what your sexual preference is, unless, they are either (A) considering being in a relationship with you or, (B) are some kind of bigot.

Being Gay, Trans, whatever doesn't make you special and it doesn't mean you deserve more attention than anyone else, they need to just stop making announcements like this in an attempt to appease "someone" because its annoying and more often than not in these games leads to ZERO narrative, so what's even the point of it.

During the conceptual design of the character, did they just decide to be like: "Oh by the way, this one is LGBTQ--so make sure to make them look/act a certain type of way," if that's the case then that's even worse, why is bedroom etiquette such an important thing now?

[harbie]

So which is it? Lol Leftists collectivize even people they claim to protect.

[Thomaticus]

Will this game fall under Pennsylvania's proposed Sin tax?

[harbie]

Only reason I don't buy games that do sensationalism is because no one should care. People have been ignoring biological sexuality since nearly humans began. Sick of all the damn whining though. No one cares about parades, stupid news & companies virtue signaling- while telling others what they should think. Let people do what they please so long as it's conscentual & stop going on about crap that doesn't matter. Tons of people are murdered by war & stolen from by the State- how about we complain about real issues?

[ReVibe]

Of all the agreeing and disagreeing in the comments, I just don't see one person at all saying "I'm okay with this" or "This makes me happy."
No, all this shit does is divide, divide, divide. No one is getting justice. But when no one is going to listen to the overwhelming majority of people who are upwards of "uncomfortable" with this redundant information when all we see is a doubling-down of it. Call me tinfoil, but it isn't about making anyone happy or feel included at all. Popula media serves to make everyone paranoid anymore. Prove me wrong. :/

[averagejoe26]

I mean, you're on N4G. Of course no one is going to say this makes them happy. This site is very right-wing, religious and straight male.

Go to other outlets and you'll hear a different tune.

[zodiac909]

For games like this and Overwatch, with NO storyline attached, is there really a point for the devs to point if a character is LGBTQ or not?

[harbie]

The other thing that doesn't make sense is why the hell do people care about what others think of them. What kind of pathetic self-esteem must one have to care about other people's opinions. I don't care what anyone thinks about me- don't like it- then piss off!

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Why do they keep pushing this shit? It's in Overwatch to. WTF. All we care about is playing the game. I don't give 2 shits if their gay, trans, or anything else. Man the gaming industry is really getting retarded and I been gaming for almost 40 years, a little back story is fine don't have to bring up this crap they keep injecting on purpose.

[2ndhandcorn]

Bloody hell was a story on the news here this morning saying there is not enough LGBTQ people in books for schools ffs.Lmao Pixel sex heroes from Albuquerque expansion pack please.

[ballisticvoodoo]

Game will be trash regardless who gives a sh#t. Catering to the LbGQYFUEIOJLKJOIIOYHUIYUIYI is silly anyway. That's right, because the massive (sarcasm) .05 % of people identify as that. Let's cater to the "super" extreme minority. The fools don't realize they are killing their game. Most people don't' give a rats behind but won't play a game that is centered around crazy far left identity politics. I'll be playing something else.

[Tankbusta40]

LOL this shit is so amusing!

[blacktiger]

omg not this shit again! when u see character no one lable but male and female appearance, you have to inject garbage to political always fail, look at the history,

[tigertron]

This gets more ridiculous as time goes on...

[jznrpg]

If you are going to be including these types of characters you better have them all damn it!! Where are the Pygmy hunters ? African Shamans ? Tibetan Monks ? Eunuchs are way under represented !!! It’s a travesty . Not enough autistic or mentally regarded characters ,. How about people in wheelchairs ? Where are there heroes

[ILostMyMind]

I miss the earth flat members and Trump supporters.

[Darknova2077]

Let me guess, some journalist will write a story about how Bloodhound and Gibraltar are being targeted and killed more then any other characters. Then they will write how toxic the gaming community is.

[overrated44]

ah the old blizzard move of, "here are some neat characters...now who wants to know who they have sex with so we look nice on the internet!?"

[bellome]

Gamechanging!

[feedurhabit]

This is nothing to do with LGBTQ , this is just EA trying to score brownie points with the progressive crowd in the hope that it will distract everyone from their heinous business practices. They've been doing this for a while now, anyone remember when they won the golden turd and a day or so after there were loads of articles about how they got an award for how nice they are to gay people?

[Laskin]

No intersex/jew/asian/handicap/gi nger/fat characters?! BOYCOTT THIS DISCRIMINATORY SH*T!

[ILostMyMind]

Is there any character who has sex with only Japanese robots that resemble six-year-old white girls? It is very important that someone represents my sexual preference in a BR game. /S

[Artemidorus]

Who cares, just play the game.

[YoungKingDoran]

I asked for an LGBT at Subway. Had to explain it meant Lettuce, Gherkin, Bacon and Tomato or the ugly purple headed woman was going to try and fight me. Crazy world we live in.

[THEzRude]

WOHOO ! Who gives a flying f*** ?

[TargusX]

Who the hell cares?? When has this become a part of gaming??

[nommers]

But do we see them **** is the question.

[T2X]

Because, people really care about sexuality while they're trying to kill one another?🤔

[Oddmania]

It's ridiculous, the game doesn't even have a plot. I'm gay, but those virtually inconsequential announcements are getting ridiculous. Naturally, people are going to assume LGBT players actually REQUESTED it and were being very pushy about it, except... no. Nobody cares who your soldier has sex with in his virtual off-screen life. It's the game studio that forces it into the game to appeal to players who, they think, are dumb enough to care.

[Neoprime]

Who gives a shit.

[lucian229]

who cares?

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Well that describes most of the users here especially the G part

[Donnie81]

Omg who cares!

[JesusBuiltmyHotrod]

Who cares..move on.

[Moe-Gunz]

So

[VTKC]

so does that mean you cant attack those characters if anyone should pick them because you would then be committing a hate crime?

[Jon_Targaryen]

Who cares about what their prefered sexuality is!?!?!

[Doomster1971]

I know I'm getting old, but what the hell is LGBTQ?

[pyroxxx]

Lesbian Gay barbecue transgender queer? Who knows,...

[Bluemaster77]

Not sure why this something that is front and center. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of us arent worried about the sexual orientation of our mass murdering digital avatars.

[azizlksa]

ok

[GrizToof]

Who gives a rat's ass what sexual preference these characters have. Way too much unnecessary information for a shooty shoot game.

[akbennyewu]

Thank God they cleared that up, my decision to download the game is completely hinged upon learning who is gay and who isn't.

[PowerOfTheCloud]

Oh my, here we go again. EA didn't learn anything.

[FernDiggidy]

Oh yes! Thanks for confirming this!

It's the only thing we gave a f#ck about. Now we can play the game without guilt!

[Starman69]

What a shame!!

[metalgod88]

If we got to take part in their personal lives, then sure, it might be an important detail, but we don't so....yeah....

Pro tip to leadership: WE DO NOT CARE!

[xX1NORM1Xx]

ahh well i can't play this game then because ill become gay if i play a gay character... /s

[PressPlayBros]

eyeroll

[Dom_Estos]

Here we go again with this shit.

[Nephesh]

Who the crap cares! I freaking hate that developers/publishers go to great lengths to make sure that some of the games characters ar supposedly gay! How on earth does this effect the game! It doesn’t! Not one bit.

[ger2396]

Does it add anything substantial to the game by making them LGBTQ? If not, WTF

[RedDeadLB]

And the crowd goes... nowhere, who cares.

[Scatpants]

Of course they are. Great shoehorned political correctness. Good job guys.

[Scatpants]

If I ever made a game none of the characters would have any sexual orientation at all because fuck what you want it's my game.

[Chaoeron]

It's not representation when you pander to 5% of the population, it straight-up is propaganda.

[Darealinquisitor]

Why people are trying to force LGBT?