EA says you're uneducated if you are against women in Battlefield V
After Battlefield V was announced with a woman on the cover, a woman in the lead role of one of the stories in the singleplayer campaign, and female characters in co-op mode and competitive multiplayer, a part of the Battlefield series fans launched a "resistance movement" #NotMyBattlefield. Electronic Arts and DICE then only briefly sounded and said that women are not leaving Battlefield and that we will see them also in the future.
But they did not stop there. In conversation with portal Gamasutra, EA chief creative officer Patrick Söderlund Patrick Soderlund with quite harsh vocabulary explained why those against women in the war video games were wrong:
"Battlefield V is a lot about the unseen, the untold, the unplayed," he continued. "The common perception is that there were no women in World War II. There were a ton of women who both fought in World War II and partook in the war. These are people who are uneducated—they don't understand that this is a plausible scenario, and listen: this is a game," he added. "And today gaming is gender-diverse, like it hasn't been before. There are a lot of female people who want to play, and male players who want to play as a badass [woman]," Soderlund explained.
"And we don't take any flak. We stand up for the cause, because I think those people who don't understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don't buy the game. I'm fine with either or. It's just not ok," Soderlund concluded.
Tagged with: Battlefield serial, Controversy
