Yesterday, the trailer for the game "Battlefield 5" debuted, yet another game focusing on players pretending to shoot at each other on the internet. This new installment had promised to bring more realism into things in some ways, but it’s still very definitely a video game and not intended to be a perfect reproduction of its World War II setting, and that has predictably angered some gamers on the internet, at least where it comes to including women and people of color.
Of course, no one is up in arms about any other way the game isn’t exactly like reality, but dare to use your artistic license to let the people in your audience see themselves in your product, and people will be Mad Online. The game’s trailer over on YouTube currently has 165k likes to 131k dislikes, and some of the vile comments underneath reveal why. You can’t go more than a few, even in the “top comments,” without seeing someone complaining about women, black men, or disabled people (one of the characters has a prosthetic arm) fighting in World War II.
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