There's no way people could sue them for false advertising over a story choice. That would be like suing the makers of Cabin in the Woods because it was marketed as a horror film. Their characters are ultimately theirs to define, no matter how disappointing their choice was.
They advertised as a strong selling point that the sexuality of the character was their player choice - if they turn around and say in the same game, that actually the character was always bi no matter the choice the player made (which they advertised the game on), that's false advertising. I'm not saying they don't have the right to control the character story, customers do have the right to go to the relevant authorities that they were lied to in the advertising. You don't just get to say what you want during PR for any product, theyn completely change it after the product is sold.
You should probably google the following words:
Damage is already done. Whatever they do to salvage this mess doesn't excuse them for creating it in the first place., You just don't do this with such a high profile franchise.
That doesn't matter, it can still be criticized. Knock it off with that line of rhetoric already.
There's such a thing as consumer rights (at least is in the UK)
This likely wouldn't apply as it could be arged the DLC is a seperate product but let's not argue that Ubisoft did not use creating any type of LGBT or ace character as a selling point or description of the AC:Origins.
If you could sue a dev for canon stuff happening regardless of player input in an RPG than literally every RPG dev would be in danger.
I don't believe anyone here is preparing to file an actual lawsuit over this, so its meaning is understood as a colloquialism.
That's not what I said? At all? They used their advertising that you would be able to chose character's sexuality in this game, that's apparently not true. Wt heck has that got to do with game companies choosing a canon?
The point is that you can't sue a dev for including a scene where you have a child in an rpg. Especially when said scene has an option that (very sloppily) directly implies that they don't love the father/mother
This was all in reference to someone saying they should come out and say that Alexius/Kassandra is bi. I already said it's unlikely you could ask for a refund (a refund. not sue, it's you that keeps saying that) cus it's a separate product. And I do think that even with that scene it goes against what they advertised for the main game, were they said you can make the character ace and not have sex at all. Control of the player sexuality was adevertised, that line doesn't change the fact that it's portrayed as a love match.
Not to mention that a lot of bi gamers have also gone on to express their discontent with the DLC. Just because someone is bi doesn't mean they're automatically a-okay with some forced romance with the opposite sex in a game where player agency in the narrative and same-sex romantic entanglements were heavily advertised. In Kassandra's case, it would also go on to enforce the damaging stereotype that bi women almost always settle down with a man.
They could be speaking about the thread's current title. "Forces something " is so incredibly vague it's of no value to LGBT gamers who might be considering purchasing the DLC, but don't know about the problematic issues with it.
It would never happen because the usual snowflakes would complain about "SJW propaganda" being forced down their throat and they would harass any woman involved in the game's development.
You just said this
And lasted all of 10 minutes before you came in and started coming up with more strawmen. Your hypothetical scenarios have nothing to do with the topic.
Well, it seems pretty clear Ubi wants to position AC as a RPG franchise so I doubt they would throw choices out of the window. But even if they did, it's all a matter of framing. Having a straight, bi or gay character isn't an issue (except for bigots obviously) as long as they frame it properly and make it clear from the get go you don't have a say on the matter.
What DLC did you play recently that changed your character (the one they advertised you could chose their sexuality) to straight?
Seriously? Just another bad dlc?
Again, read the reddit post in the OP, she explains succently the damage of what having LGBT characters turned straight in the media does in real life.
No. It's a large issue of LGBT representation, heternormativity, gay conversion and more in the gaming industry and specifically a company that had prided itself on its representation while marketing this specific game extra hard on that front.
