EA makes girl concerned about lack of female avatars into female avatar

[Thaluikhain]

Title says it all, really. A 14 year old girl who played EA's hockey game, found you could only play as males and wrote to them to complain about this got a reply asking if she'd like a female avatar to be made based on her:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/11/14-year-old-girl-becomes-female-face-of-nhl-video-game/

That's pretty cool.

 

[Supertegwyn]

That's really sweet.

Good on EA, they get too much slack these days.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Record from EA headquarters:
"Crap, she's right. We fucked up. Quick make a character out of her. That will turn this PR shitstorm around!"

Good for EA they could have just as easily dismissed this without serious repercussion.

 

[Phyrophobia]

Is it all for publicity's sake? Probably.

Did it still make me smile? Yep :3

 

[Blue Hero]

It looks like Michael Cera wearing a cheap wig.

 

[Something Amyss]

What, no complaints about political correctness?

 

[Dimitriov]

I am concerned by the possibility that this 14 year old girl just gave EA the legal rights to her own likeness.

 

[Darh Abdomino]

It looks like Michael Cera wearing a cheap wig.

The girl or the avatar?

 

[Blue Hero]

It looks like Michael Cera wearing a cheap wig.

The girl or the avatar?

The avatar. Low content post so I'm just gonna fill in this little bit here.

 

[ediblemitten]

An NHL game without women? Horror of horrors! Its not like the NHL is an all-male hockey organization or anything!

 

[jonyboy13]

Gotta give it to Satan EA, they got some badass PR department.

I wonder, did they make her sign a special EULA?

 

[Cain_Zeros]

To be fair to EA, even though women's hockey is growing, the NHL specifically, which is what their games are based on, is male-only as well.

 

[Vrach]

Hehe awesome. I hope they do something similar for Battlefield 3

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Heard this on a right wing news show today on the drive to work. The hockey nuts calling in couldn't believe that you could play as a 14 year old girl next to Wayne Gretzky. I find the whole situation amusing.

 

[Smooth Operator]

They were just grateful anyone still buys those.

 

[The .50 Caliber Cow]

Somehow, somewhere this is going to bite that girl in the ass. The internet will remember. Heck she might someday stumble upon a discussion about fapping to her ingame avatar. Yay internet.

Moo.

 

[Double A]

She should sue EA for using her likeness (or Michael Sera's) without permission. That'll teach them to correct their mistakes!

If only they would fix things more often...

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Girl: "Hey I'm 14 and a girl and I wanna play as a girl in your game!"
EA: " Pics or it didn't happen."
Girl: "Woot! I'm in the game!"
???
EA: "Profit"