<p><strong>Mary Haton:</strong> The recent ntroversy surroundg Old Republic's 'gay pla' approach to same-sex relatnships hts at a wir failure game sign</p>
Contents:
- STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC AND S NEW ‘GAY PLA’
- STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC 'GAY PLA' CONTROVERSY GETS ITS OWN CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE GAME
- SWTOR'S "GAY PLA" IS BEHD A PAY WALL
- EA, BWARE FIRE-FIGHTG REACTNS TO SWTOR'S 'GAY GHETTO' PLA
- STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC’S DIVISIVE GAY PLA
- STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC, THE GAY PLA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE STRAIGHT MALE GAZE
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC AND S NEW ‘GAY PLA’
Jt like the tle says. I was readg through ments on Facebook and I see a number of, "Gay Pla" ments. At first I thought people were jt beg snarky but there are que a few of them. What are they talkg about? There's a gay pla? * swtor gay planet *
Peril of the Pk Pla BWare wants to take you to a gay bar. Or rather, a gay pla. Star Wars: The Old Republic is beg updated to clu a rather elegant solutn to s lack of gay characters — a pla lled Makeb where all the homosexual elements of the galaxy n be found.
Gay players now feel like a gated afterthought, while homophob are spewg their pathetilly predictable outrage at havg to share the vastns of space wh some gay people. While BWare’s tchg a lot of heat om all rners, and the ia of a sgle pla hog all the gay elements of the universe across as alienatg and jt pla weird, I fd hard to be totally mad at the stud here. It’s te that Makeb mak the ia of gay relatnships look more of an afterthought than ever, but most other viogam still stggle wh after-afterthoughts, and you’d be hard prsed to fd many other mastream studs wh a more nsistent track rerd of not beg sh about acknowledgg homosexualy.
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC 'GAY PLA' CONTROVERSY GETS ITS OWN CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE GAME
Not sure if anyone else has seen this, but I'm SHOCKED that this wasn't posted by some numb-head n00b on our beloved foms! * swtor gay planet *
BWare’s tentns and past rerd don’t make the suatn ol any way, but a world of entertament where “person is gay” is still nsired both a joke and the punchle to the very same joke, feels wrong to pour overwhelmg srn on a stud that’s at least tryg, s own awkward way.
Oh, and to the homophob — I hope you fd yourself one day suckg on the biggt penis ever, belongg to a guy drsed up like one of the Canta band. Rise of the Hutt Cartel troduced the game’s first LGBTQ+ characters wh Lemda Avta, a bi woman, and Lord Cytharat, a gay man.
It is very possible for a player to choose to leave Cytharat, the game’s only gay man, to die. Cytharat remas the game’s only gay man and there are no romanceable lbians.
SWTOR'S "GAY PLA" IS BEHD A PAY WALL
[Spoiler] Gay Romanc SWTOR. Some have jokgly dubbed 'pay-to-gay. The Inter—and hey, maybe even a few players of SWTOR—didn’t like the ia of a lone gay pla.
It’s lled Hunt for the Gay Pla, and ’s fun to play (also, NSFW). I was readg through ments on Facebook and I see a number of, "Gay Pla" ments. There's a gay pla?
Some news se or other lled Makeb the Gay Pla to get views. There will be gay romance optns available for the storyl on Makeb.
EA, BWARE FIRE-FIGHTG REACTNS TO SWTOR'S 'GAY GHETTO' PLA
Fox News was simply beg Fox News when they extrapolated this to mean that BWare was implementg a "gay pla. Makeb is the first pla to have same-genr romanc, hence the gay pla ments. I'm not ol wh them seeg gay sex stuff a vio game about Star Wars.
Kd of off-topic but whenever I hear that term "Gay Pla", I keep thkg of the openg for Starship Troopers when that reporter said, "It's a bug pla". Leave your homophobia at the door. What gay sex?
I jt don't thk a vio game about Star Wars is the appropriate place for gay sex. This jt : more players qu SW:TOR than were prent at release over gay sex pla!
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC’S DIVISIVE GAY PLA
SWTOR and 'the gay pla' - visibily alone isn't enough anymore — PIXELS OR DEATH. Say hello to Star Wars The Old Republic's gay pla. "Gay romanc The Old Republic aren't as veloped as straight romanc, exist behd a paywall, and are for high-level characters only.
Whilst Bware has a good track rerd of offerg non-heterosexual romance optns s gam, attractg the ire of relig and homophobic groups for the cln of SGR the Mass Effect seri and s plans to do so for Star Wars, the cisn to rtrict them solely to Makeb for the time beg has upset many who had mpaigned for their troductn. On top of that, Bware's foms are also ablaze wh the fury of those Star Wars fans who feel that homosexualy has no place the fict universe, llg for a return to tergalactic fay valu, albe on which are happy to allow ter-speci uplg, genoci and the thls pursu of absolute power at any st.
The Old Republic, EA and Bware’s now ee-to-play space-bound MMO will, like other Bware gam, soon be addg the optn for same sex romanc, but here’s the kicker; homosexual shenanigans will be nfed to a sgle pla, Makreb – and now nobody’s happy. One problem is that the expansn only open to high-level players who’re willg to open their wallets, so those of the LBGT persuasn have to pay to be gay.
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC, THE GAY PLA AND THE PROBLEM OF THE STRAIGHT MALE GAZE
The biggt problem is that nfg to jt one pla wh an entire universe jt smacks of segregatn; like an terstellar, afterthought gay bar. So ’s a b of a promise at the moment, but one that’s left the more homophobic players unhappy wh this particular sort of rebel alliance.
“Star Wars is a fay based story wh nothg to do wh SGR, ” says one fom poster unhappy about the big ol’ gay pla.