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

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Epicspoon

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Dimitriov said:
I am concerned by the possibility that this 14 year old girl just gave EA the legal rights to her own likeness.
she can't do that. she's not an adult.
 

Ghengis John

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thaluikhain said:
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.
Does this jockey game feature brawling by any chance? Because things could get ugly again if it did.
 

Sizzle Montyjing

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I dunnno... i wouldn't really like this if that was me.
Seems a bit weird, and they didn't exactly do wonders on it...

At least this shows that if you moan, EA will cave in!
:D
(i've probably got the story all wrong, colour is weird on my computer, and it's early)
Supertegwyn said:
That's really sweet.

Good on EA, they get too much slack these days.
And they deserve every bit of it.
;P
 

Gmans uncle

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GOOD THINGS EA HAS DONE IN RECENT MEMORY:
This

BAD THINGS EA HAS DONE IN RECENT MEMORY:
Online Passes
Always on DRM
the Dante's Inferno ad campaign
the Dead Space 2 ad campaign
backing down and pulling the Taliban team name from Medal of Honor
pulling all their games off Steam
Annual EA sports games
Origin
Origin Bans
Origin spyware
making Battlefield 3 Origin exclusive (I just really hate Origin, okay)
supporting SOPA
crappy customer service

Not batting a thousand guys...
 

theriddlen

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Well, we all know EA is more than happy to get positive publicity, especially among women. I bet the next Madden will have female avatars.
 

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At first I thought "Wow, nice one EA that's a really cool thing to do..."

Then I thought "Oh. She's just an oppertunity for a marketing campaign."
 

Freaky Lou

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Gmans uncle said:
GOOD THINGS EA HAS DONE IN RECENT MEMORY:
This

BAD THINGS EA HAS DONE IN RECENT MEMORY:
Online Passes
Always on DRM
the Dante's Inferno ad campaign
the Dead Space 2 ad campaign
backing down and pulling the Taliban team name from Medal of Honor
pulling all their games off Steam
Annual EA sports games
Origin
Origin Bans
Origin spyware
making Battlefield 3 Origin exclusive (I just really hate Origin, okay)
supporting SOPA
crappy customer service

Not batting a thousand guys...
Don't forget promising people free copies of Battlefield 1942 if they got BF3 and then, once they'd bought BF3, just not doing it.
 

Therumancer

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It's pretty awesome no matter what you suspect.

To be entirely honest I'd suspect that a lot of it had to do with the simple question of "what do we do for a female hockey Avatar" as well. Pro-Hockey like their games are focused on are men's leagues, and there would probably be issues with liscensing if they wanted to use images from any women's leagues out there. A picture of a cheerleader or something might not go over well with girl fans, and so on and so forth. This seems like a reasonable compromise.

In the end it might not be a situation where there was only one reason why they did what they did, a decent amount of thought might have gone into how to correct the problem before they arrived at that.
 

Supertegwyn

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Double A said:
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...
Did you actually read the article? They asked if she would like to and she agreed. She and her father gave full permission for the avatar.
 

SidingWithTheEnemy

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Do you smell it too?

Why do I smell someone wants to make money out of this?
Maybe someone wants to sell predominantely male-dominated sports game to the female audience as well...
Hmmm... Evil thoughts, go away...

Why do I have such thoughts anyway. It's a nice gesture after all...


Aaaaaaha, now I know... It's because of the evil inscription runes at the very beginning of this thread's headline. I've seen them before somewhere...


Sorry, personally most appropriate Picture I found but this picture looks almost too awesome, too badasss evil.
EA is more like "Justin Bieber beeing kissed by gay glittering Twilight Vampire hugging a MLP-Friendship is Magic pony" kind of Evil (in my opinion).
 

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theriddlen said:
Well, we all know EA is more than happy to get positive publicity, especially among women. I bet the next Madden will have female avatars.
Thats how you get publicity with MEN.
 

SidingWithTheEnemy

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Satsuki666 said:
jonyboy13 said:
Gotta give it to Satan EA, they got some badass PR department.

I wonder, did they make her sign a special EULA?
Whats even more badass about their PR department is that this news is already months old. In fact the game in question came out over two months ago. The fact that so many different websites and newspapers are talking about it now is just amazing.
Not really, apart from the blatanly offensive claim that our completely unbiased websites and newspapers had some sort of incentive by EA itself to tell that story it's quite refreshing in the first place.

So let's do some absolutely fabolous comparison:

Imagine a news agency which covers the life of some psychopathic mass murder, let's just call him E. A. Manson. But Mr. Manson just one day steps out of his house and rescues a small baby that was crawling on the highway, not by shooting the speeding car going to overrun the kid but by carrying this toddler to the elated mum crying tears of joy.
Now that will be a story worth covering, because that's something new and interesting in comparison to the everyday murders and rapings and other atrocities Mr. Manson commits regularly.
(Sorry for the ironic sarcasm involved, I needed that)
 

Blimey

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NHL doesn't have female hockey players. At all. Ever.

So yeah, nothing really to see here, just EA pandering.
 

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Supertegwyn said:
That's really sweet.

Good on EA, they get too much slack these days.
*looks at Battlelog*
They're not getting enough. I can deal with Origin, but fuck Battlelog.