Mass Effect 2 cut queer romances because of media backlash

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Everyone's favorite biotic criminal, Jack from Mass Effect 2, was originally meant to be pansexual but was changed due to negative feedback from Fox News, according to The Gamer.

Jack (AKA Subject Zero) is a famous criminal and one of the most powerful biotics in the Mass Effect universe, and she was initially meant to be a romance option for both male and female Commander Shepards. Many Mass Effect 2 players will find this unsurprising, as Jack's dialogue basically flat-out states her pansexuality: "I've been with lots of people. If you're asking about a boyfriend or girlfriend, no. It's a waste of time and it never works".

However, the heavy and incessant backlash from mainstream media outlets like Fox News caused the BioWare team to back off of pansexuality, and swap Jack's romance options to male Shepard only late in development.

Jack's lead writer Brian Kindregan tells The Gamer, "She was essentially pansexual for most of the development of that romance...Mass Effect had been pretty heavily and really unfairly criticized in the US by Fox News, which at the time... maybe more people in the world thought that there was a connection between reality and what gets discussed on Fox News."

But the media frenzy after the first Mass Effect had a singular gay relationship option with Fem Shep and Liara ("which on paper was technically not a gay relationship because she was from a mono-gendered species", Kindregan points out) made BioWare balk. "I think there was a concern that if that had drawn fire, that Mass Effect had to be a little bit careful", says Kindregan.

Even Jack's voice actor, Courtenay Taylor, was aware of Jack's pansexuality, saying that she was "surprised there wasn't a female romance possible because that was my understanding". She points out that "the community modded it immediately, so you can have it your way".

With the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition potentially releasing in May, I'm curious just how many changes BioWare will have made. Perhaps Jack will be a romance option for FemSheps in Mass Effect 2 after all....
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>Everyone's favorite biotic criminal, Jack from Mass Effect 2, was originally meant to be pansexual but was changed due to negative feedback from Fox News, according to The Gamer.
Lol, no it wasn't. They cut out some of the fag shit because sales absolutely sucked for the first game in non-western countries where homosexuality is either outright illegal or heavily frowned upon. I also find it hilarious how stories like this about a topic that hasn't even been talked about in a while suddenly get aired by a myriad of outlets parroting each other from out of nowhere. It's almost like (((someone))) gets all of the "journalistic" outlets to say the same thing in order to control public opinion.

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mr.moon1488 said:
>Everyone's favorite biotic criminal, Jack from Mass Effect 2, was originally meant to be pansexual but was changed due to negative feedback from Fox News, according to The Gamer.
Lol, no it wasn't. They cut out some of the fag shit because sales absolutely sucked for the first game in non-western countries where homosexuality is either outright illegal or heavily frowned upon. I also find it hilarious how stories like this about a topic that hasn't even been talked about in a while suddenly get aired by a myriad of outlets parroting each other from out of nowhere. It's almost like (((someone))) gets all of the "journalistic" outlets to say the same thing in order to control public opinion.

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Master yoda delivering epic mass effect(R) news to the usual outlets co-incidentially around the time the remakes are trying to hype themselves up for release.
 
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Generally speaking, people make too much of a big deal about optional side content like romances and various sexual encounters in videogames. This applies to people who are really in favor of them and people who really hate them.

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Everyone's favorite biotic criminal, Jack from Mass Effect 2, was originally meant to be pansexual but was changed due to negative feedback from Fox News, according to The Gamer.


Jack (AKA Subject Zero) is a famous criminal and one of the most powerful biotics in the Mass Effect universe, and she was initially meant to be a romance option for both male and female Commander Shepards. Many Mass Effect 2 players will find this unsurprising, as Jack's dialogue basically flat-out states her pansexuality: "I've been with lots of people. If you're asking about a boyfriend or girlfriend, no. It's a waste of time and it never works".



However, the heavy and incessant backlash from mainstream media outlets like Fox News caused the BioWare team to back off of pansexuality, and swap Jack's romance options to male Shepard only late in development.

Jack's lead writer Brian Kindregan tells The Gamer, "She was essentially pansexual for most of the development of that romance...Mass Effect had been pretty heavily and really unfairly criticized in the US by Fox News, which at the time... maybe more people in the world thought that there was a connection between reality and what gets discussed on Fox News."

But the media frenzy after the first Mass Effect had a singular gay relationship option with Fem Shep and Liara ("which on paper was technically not a gay relationship because she was from a mono-gendered species", Kindregan points out) made BioWare balk. "I think there was a concern that if that had drawn fire, that Mass Effect had to be a little bit careful", says Kindregan.


Even Jack's voice actor, Courtenay Taylor, was aware of Jack's pansexuality, saying that she was "surprised there wasn't a female romance possible because that was my understanding". She points out that "the community modded it immediately, so you can have it your way".

With the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition potentially releasing in May, I'm curious just how many changes BioWare will have made. Perhaps Jack will be a romance option for FemSheps in Mass Effect 2 after all....
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Obsessing over a 10+ year old game not being gay enough is about what I'd expect from someone as faggy as the average game journoshitter

mr.moon1488 said:
>Everyone's favorite biotic criminal, Jack from Mass Effect 2, was originally meant to be pansexual but was changed due to negative feedback from Fox News, according to The Gamer.
Lol, no it wasn't. They cut out some of the fag shit because sales absolutely sucked for the first game in non-western countries where homosexuality is either outright illegal or heavily frowned upon. I also find it hilarious how stories like this about a topic that hasn't even been talked about in a while suddenly get aired by a myriad of outlets parroting each other from out of nowhere. It's almost like (((someone))) gets all of the "journalistic" outlets to say the same thing in order to control public opinion.

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This is some serious Obsessed.jpg tier bullshit right here.

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Isn’t it some sort of fighting game why is there romance
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Because people forgot that Duke Nukem 3D and some of it's spin-offs did a much better job with adult content in video games then most of this modern stuff ever could or will.
 
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mr.moon1488 said:
>Everyone's favorite biotic criminal, Jack from Mass Effect 2, was originally meant to be pansexual but was changed due to negative feedback from Fox News, according to The Gamer.
Lol, no it wasn't. They cut out some of the fag shit because sales absolutely sucked for the first game in non-western countries where homosexuality is either outright illegal or heavily frowned upon. I also find it hilarious how stories like this about a topic that hasn't even been talked about in a while suddenly get aired by a myriad of outlets parroting each other from out of nowhere. It's almost like (((someone))) gets all of the "journalistic" outlets to say the same thing in order to control public opinion.

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I'm pretty sure that pansexual wasn't even a thing in 2010.
 
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fags will get mad if they don't have jack eat muff, but won't even care if they don't restructure the game so that all missions were available at the start like it was originally intended.

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The depth of any Bioware romance option:
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you're insulting the perfection that was Saints Row IV's romances. I fucking wish Bioware had that kind of brevity.
 
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Can't blame brown and yellow people for hating perversion and deviancy, that would make you racist

Can't blame consoompany for bowing to brown and yellow people's hatred of perversion and deviancy

Revert to default

Blame Fox News
 
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