"Games have always tried to whitewash Nazis..." Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	19 Jun 2019 12:07 p.m. PST
There was something very familiar about EA's botched roll-out of a premium Battlefield V character skin a few weeks ago, where the company slapped the name of a significant anti-Nazi resistance member onto a laughably overdone German super-soldier. Even as it apologized for using a completely inappropriate name for the character, EA attempted to clarify that he was definitely not a Nazi, but just a German soldier. It was further evidence, if any were needed, that EA and DICE are ill-equipped to deal with the historical context of their own game… link
lkmjbc3	19 Jun 2019 12:34 p.m. PST
I had thought this propaganda site was shutting down due to losing multi-million dollar lawsuits and defrauding it's advertisers with stats generated by bots.. Fascinating to see it still up. Content hasn't changed I see Joe Collins
lkmjbc3	19 Jun 2019 12:41 p.m. PST
Oh…they got picked up by the Guardian. Lovely. Joe Collins
Pan Marek	19 Jun 2019 1:10 p.m. PST
How does one post honestly on this without being doghoused? It appears to be bait for such.
Syrinx0	19 Jun 2019 7:09 p.m. PST
I think Bill should nuke his own posting and spare the doghouse.
Andrew Walters	20 Jun 2019 8:45 a.m. PST
I'm not even going to click on a link that goes to Vice, but a quick google shows lots of people are talking about this. Some are calling it a "slow motion PR trainwreck." Poor EA. They just want to do a WW2 game and they want to stay out of politics. That requires finesse these days, and they don't seemed to have summoned that yet.

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