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Racist videogame mod sparks controversy
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Stellaris publisher Paradox has removed a Steam Workshop mod that made all in-game humans white Europeans, altering the game's standard diverse population of planetary citizenry.
The "European Phenotype and Names Only (White Humans)" mod delivered just what it claimed, changing the portraits and names for the game's non-white human characters to read as "European white." After removing the mod from Steam Workshop, a Paradox spokesperson told Eurogamer that while the company "embrace[s] the idea that players mod the game to best represent how they want to play, we do not however wish to enable discriminatory practices."
The spokesperson also encouraged users to continue flagging "inappropriate mods" on the game's Steam Workshop page (which is controlled by Paradox and appears alongside the game's Steam sales page).
Paradox COO Susana Meza Graham echoed the clarification in issuing what she said was Paradox's final comment on the matter through Twitter. "We have a few rules of conduct that have been in effect for the better part of a decade where racial slurs, among other things, are not allowed. We interpreted this particular mod as breaking those rules of conduct, however it would appear that the comments surrounding the mod, rather than the mod itself, were the biggest problem."
Following her statement, Graham's Twitter replies have been somewhat predictably flooded with negative comments, both from those critical of Paradox "stifling creativity" and those simply supportive of the mod's racial ideals. "This is a statement of utter contempt for the thousands of nationalists who play your games," one tweeter wrote. "Paradox is dead to me."
At press time, it doesn't look like Paradox is attempting to purge other potentially controversial racial mods from the Steam Workshop Community. A mod promising "One Race Humans - Caucasians" is currently available, as are similar ones limiting in-game humans to Asians, Africans, and women, for instance.
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http://www.pcgamer.com/paradox-pulls...buffer_pcgamer
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