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According to the website’s moderation team, FL4K is non-binary, meaning they use they/them pronouns. The banning announcement initially caused confusion to Borderlands 3 community. Some commenters found the punishment of banning to be too harsh. Other users questioned FL4K’s non-binary status, noting that Gearbox, the company who develops Borderlands, has frequently referred to FL4K with male pronouns. Skeptical users pointed out that FL4K was referred to with male pronouns in an official character guide that was published on Thursday.

The guide read:

One of the strongest early game builds for FL4K, I personally think, is using hisFade Away skill with the modification that allows unlimited shots while cloaked. Pair that with the Jakobs manufacturer perk of every critical shot ricochets to another enemy, and you’ll have high powered bullets bouncing everywhere.
Users also cited confusion that that FL4K appeared male and had a male voice actor, and yet they were considered non-binary.

However, FL4K is certainly non-binary. Their voice actor, SungWon “ProZD” Cho has regularly reminded fans of the robotic playable character’s pronouns via Twitter posts.

Gearbox’s official guide was later updated to refer to the character with their correct pronouns. The Borderlands 3 forum moderators clarified that users wouldn’t be banned for accidentally misgendering the protagonist, rather, they’d be banned for purposefully doing so following being corrected by the moderation team.

While the outrage was ostensibly for naught, it did prompt a conversation regarding gender identity on the series’ Reddit page. Borderlands 3 will launch on PC, Xbox One, and PS4 on September 13, 2019.





 
I'm looking forward to borderlands 3 and was really hoping they wouldn't pull anymore stunts after the midget renaming but I had a feeling they would have to jam their politics in somewhere.
 
Between the company's recent mistreatment of a fan investigating their game and the fact that it's an Epic store exclusive, I didn't really need another reason not to buy this game, but I think I won't bother. I'd hate to come off sounding as though it's a case of sour grapes, but I have a feeling it will turn out to be a bloated microtransaction mess anyways. Further, it's not even that difficult to skip Gearbox as a studio completely after all of the information about Randy Pitchford came out last year.

And are they going to ban users who make unofficial gay fan-fiction about characters, or does this shit only work in one direction? I won't hold my breath on that one.
 
With the BS of going Epic exclusive, Randy Pitchford's deranged responses and behavior to criticism and Take2's abusive and thuggish harassment of content creators that dared to talk about Borderlands 3 leaks, I just about lost any desire to give this pack of clowns any of my money, This story is the cherry on top of the proverbial shit sundae. The mods at those forums can go choke on whatever percussive apendage their deviant robot character may have.
 
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newgrounds throwaway game where you rape and violate Gearbox's robots when? If you really wanted to stick it to Randy, make especially interactive and graphic, and get some youtubers to play it. That would really piss them off.
 
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