Fox News Crucified EA and Mass Effect for the Most Ridiculous Reason

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Fox News Crucified EA and Mass Effect for the Most Ridiculous Reason

Let’s be honest; we all know that video games have been prone to controversies. The entertainment sphere has often found itself facing tons of lawsuits and disputes. While gaming is mainstream, it still manages to rile up emotions in the community at times.

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Mass Effect is one of the most legendary video game franchises. (Image via EA)

However, one of the most ridiculous controversies we’ve ever seen in the gaming industry was related to Mass Effect and the game’s “sex scenes.” It was clear that Fox News didn’t have a shred of an idea of what was actually happening and exaggerated everything it could to bring a bad light to EA and BioWare.

Fox News’s horrendous criticism against Mass Effect

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The original Mass Effect suffered due to Fox News’ false narratives. (Image via EA)

It all started back in 2008 when Fox News decided to run a

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that claimed that Mass Effect featured full nudity and sex. According to the news outlet, the game’s publisher, EA, was projecting the title towards kids despite the mature rating.

The segment’s host and all of the misinformed analysts relentlessly bashed Mass Effect and accused the game of promoting misogyny and sex scenes that exposed children to adult content.

However, most of the claims by Fox News were overexaggerated entirely and didn’t reveal what was actually happening. Video game journalist Geoff Keighley joined the panel and flipped the incorrect narrative. However, he was only given a few seconds to counter the critics as they constantly interrupted him.

After Keighley wasn’t given enough time to defend Mass Effect, the show went back to bashing the game. According to one of the critics, the game basically involved Luke Skywalker meeting Debbie Does Dallas (an adult film actress). The news panel also criticized the ESRB and the entire video gaming landscape.

It was clear that Fox News had no idea about the video gaming sphere or the players who enjoyed it. In the end, the news segment ended up receiving more hate than the game itself. Angry gamers bashed Fox News for their bogus reporting, and even EA’s ex-VP of communications demanded the channel to backtrack their statements.

For some reason, Fox didn’t hear any of this and, to this date, has never issued a correction for its ludicrous coverage of the sex scenes in Mass Effect.

Mass Effect 2 dropped same-sex romance thanks to karen Fox News

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Mass Effect 2 was also ruined thanks to Fox News. (Image via EA)

Due to Fox News’ bogus reporting on sex-sense in Mass Effect, the game’s sequel took a hit and dropped one of its crucial lore aspects.

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, one of the lead writers for Mass Effect 2, Brian Kindregan, talked about Jack. Apparently, he was originally written as a pansexual character, but the developers decided to change her romance options late in development to only allow heterosexual romance.

Essentially pansexual for most of the development of that romance.

In the game, we can find various references to Jack’s interest in both men and women. This left many wondering why Jack would only romance with a male Commander, Shepard.

According to the writer, one of the major reasons behind these changes was the criticism from various media outlets. He mentioned Fox News’ unfair criticism, which ended up projecting a negative light on the franchise.

While Kindregan didn’t agree with the changes to Jack’s character, it had to be done to reduce the criticism that could be pointed towards the community by news outlets again.

With that said, do you think Fox News should apologize for its bogus reporting against Mass Effect? Let us know in the comments below.

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