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Remember that capeshit vidya mod that took out the Pride flags? Turns out it wasn’t a mod! It just enabled the Middle Eastern localization provided by the devs in the game itself!

https://twitter.com/necksplitter/status/1559444372667568128

Context and original writeup: https://rdrama.net/post/94337/absolutely-disgusting-we-get-the-capacity

Pink News article throwing a fit about it (does not mention the localization):

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/16/spider-man-remastered-mod-lgbtq/

MSN:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/spider-man-remastered-modder-banned-for-removing-pride-flag/ar-AA10FLov

More:

https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/spider-man-remastered-mods-pc

thinly veiled homophobia and fear of queerness.

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Blizzard had to replace skeleton model for the Chinese server of Wow, so this is hardly a controversial thing to do.

What did they want Activision to do? Not selling the game?

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They didn’t know it was the ME localization. Now that the cat is out of the bag, none of them will mention it :marseyxd:


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