BioWare's Saudi Owners Reportedly Ordered a Flag to Be Removed From Mass Effect 5 because It Was 'Too Similar to the LGBTQIA+ One'
An anonymous former employee said developers were told to remove a flag from a presentation video because it resembled the LGBTQIA+ flag.
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BioWare Employee Says Company Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ+ Flag From ‘Mass Effect Universe’
An employee of the recently shuttered video game company BioWare say they were asked to remove a flag from the now-canceled Mass Effect Universe game for looking too similar to an LGBTQ+ Pride flag. In a new report by French outlet BFM TV, relayed in English language press by the video game outlet Polygon, a former employee of the Electronic Arts-owned developer said that after EA was acquired by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) in Au…
We're learning more details about EA's closure of Bioware. It turns out the relationship wasn't the best, and one of the issues that sharply divided EA and the studio was LGBT.
A former BioWare employee claims that the new management of Electronic Arts ordered the company to remove a certain item from the canceled Mass Effect 5, which could have caused controversy among players. The information that the new owners of Electronic Arts allegedly interfered with BioWare's creative freedom in Mass Effect 5, despite promising something else, was published by GRYOnline.pl on October 28, 2026.
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