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Techland apologizes for file named “Femenist Whore” in Dead Island despite being dummy data.

Techland apologizes for file named “Femenist Whore” in Dead Island despite being dummy data.

Rian Quenlin 08 Sep

A line in the source code of Dead Island revealed that a skill was named “FemenistWhorePurna”. In the actual game, Purna has an ability called Gender Wars that increases damage against men. Of course, this is likely to cause offense but most people who are smart enough to navigate that far into the files for info can take a joke. Or they searched for that porn video they like.

The ethics of the ability aside, Blazej Krakowiak had said “It obviously violates professional and ethical standards at Techland and should never have happened. We’re investigating this right now and we’ll issue a statement later. For now, I can only express my sincerest apologies for this incident and assure you that whoever acted so irresponsibly did not represent the views and opinions of Techland. I’m equally sure that aside from the author of that unfortunate line of code, everyone at the office is as disturbed by this as you are.”

This could have been far worse. If a similar ability was called “Wife Beater” anywhere in the code there would be a lynch mob flying to Techland’s main headquarters. I find them making a fuss over it quite a laugh really, and throwing out an investigation over someone labeling something by it’s early name is a tad overkill and a waste of resources better spent on adding content to Dead Island to bring up its average rating of 7 across multiple gaming sites.

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