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One of the consequences of accidentally releasing a developer's build of the game is the possibility of revealing removed content or inside jokes, as illustrated by a report on Kotaku about a discovery within the build of Dead Island inadvertently released on Steam (thanks nin). Word is a hunt through the game's code reveals the Gender Wars skill that allows Purna to deal extra damage to male opponents was originally called "Feminist Whore." This is confirmed with Techland, who indicate that while there weren't necessarily dire consequences for releasing a debug build instead of the final build of the game, there may be for this incident, as they say: "The person responsible for this unfortunate situation will face professional consequences for violating the professional standards and beliefs Techland stands for." Deep Silver also disavows this, saying: "These unfortunate actions were of one individual at developer company Techland and do not in any way represent the views of publishing company Deep Silver." Here's more of the response from Blazej Krakowiak, Techland International Brand Manager: The line in question was something a programmer considered a private joke. The skill naturally has a completely different in-game name and the script reference was also changed. What is left is a part of an obscure debug function. This is merely an explanation but by no means an excuse. In the end that code was made a part of the product and signed with our company name. We deeply regret that fact and we apologize to all our customers or anyone who might have been offended by that inappropriate expression.
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Sep 10, 2011, 01:31 |
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Derp.
1. programmer didn't call all women whores, he named a perk after them, and I suppose called this specific character one. 2. Poor taste? Most definitely. Let me tell you, I have left some things in code that were in poor taste. Not this bad, but still. In no way is that me making any kind of statement to the world. Usually I delete it before too long, but I guess in a codebase this big its easy to miss. You make jokes, because its you and a lonely screen, and a mountain of problems to solve. 3. It wasn't meant to get out. The dev release was bad enough, but then we have hackers peeking where they aren't necessarily supposed to look. 4. Good for the PR to at least cover it up.
Honestly, the gender wars perk is already a bit un pc, so giving it an un pc code name is not that odd.
If you want to complain about inequality in games, there are plenty of places to start that matter a whole lot more than some naughty words left in the source code by an incompetent dev. Like, say, the core subject matter of the majority of games; or the strong misogynistic undertones in most game characters (even the female ones).
TL;DR lets worry more about the offensive things in games meant for the public, and less about some comments left in code not meant for anyone to see |
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