How an 18 Year Old Video Game and a Transgender Character Just Reignited GamerGate

How an 18-Year-Old Video Game and a Transgender Character Just Reignited Gamer Gate https://t.co/3DwsEPZ06I http://pic.twitter.com/0QN5MA60NE

— pajiba (@pajiba) April 5, 2016

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• BioWare's Baldur’s Gate has a new character who is transgender, released last week with the first add-on chapter to the game in nearly two decades.
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• The expansion is currently sitting at a rating of only 3.6 out of 10 on Metacritic, and even lower on Steam. Hundreds of reviews giving the expansion zero ratings with reasonings like “I don’t have a problem with transgender people, but it’s not right to rub my face in it” and “my complaint isn’t with the transgender character but that she’s horribly written and only exists in order to check off a diversity checkbox for the SJWs”.
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Beamdog, the company that saved the game and created the new expansion, responded:

Check out the whole great but rage inducing article at the source.



GamerGate is About Ethics in Gaming Journalism, Right?