Shame on Electronic Arts for cultural insensitivity. Tell them so
I'm American, but many trade publications from different countries cross
my desk. There is a computer game called Clive Barker's Undying. which I
gather is sold in several nations. The game's hero is supposed to be Irish
but they got an American actor to do the voice and according to the UK
information tech magazine Computer Weekly, it's such a phony accent (goofy
patois of mixed pseudo Irsih pseudo Scottish pseudo...) that it is
insulting. (to anybody, I guess, from the British Isles that can actually
tell accents apart.) If they are going to sell the product in the UK maybe
they should have put out a redubbed version. I mean, few Americans would
recognize the problem and I wound'nt presume to if I hadn't been told
about it it- nor do I even own this particular computer game. Nor do any
of you out there I suppose, but the company should not be allowed to get
away with this sort of thing, not when they sell internationally.
Trouble is, I can't find an Email address that is really the
vendor/distributor's "corporate" one; on the web it seems to be all either
tech support or where to apply for a job there. Anybody found out where
the Complaint Department is?
UK (or Ireland esp) readers take note: it's your culture or mixture of
cultures....
Kristin
Likes to take up armso n behalf of complete strangers
