Michal Ekrt, a Board Games Brand Manager for Asmodee Czech Republic, vowed to remove the pronouns from the Czech version of Mass Effect: The Board – Priority: Hagalaz.
An image of Mass Effect: The Board Game – Priority: Hagalaz
The game became infamous back in October when the game’s creator Eric Lang described players as “f***ing manbabies” and accused them of trying to tank the game’s review score on Board Game Geek “because they can’t handle looking at pronouns on a character sheet.”
Lang’s comments were shared to X by Mark Kern aka Grummz.
Eric Lang on X
As noted by Lang and shared to X by Grummz, the game lists pronouns for the various Mass Effect characters.
A screenshot of Mass Effect: The Board Game – Priority: Hagalaz
While Lang has since deleted post, he did write another one, claiming he stands by his attack on gamers.
He wrote, “Deleted the stupid post because…well, you know. I hate deleting posts that I stand behind, but f**t it. Twitter suck so f***ing much.”
Eric Lang on X
While he deleted the post on X, he did not delete one on Blue Sky expressing the same sentiment. He wrote, “I’m so proud of Mass Effect, and so endlessly tired of the F***ING MANBABIES who try and tank our BGG rating because … we took 10 seconds to add pronouns to the squadmates?”
He also shared the review break down revealing the game only had ten 1 star reviews compared to fourteen 10 star reviews.
Eric Lang on Blue Sky
In a subsequent post he revealed that following his comments attacking gamers and making people aware of the game, the 1 star reviews had increased from 10 to 52. He wrote, “this is what you get for letting your guard down for ONE SECOND and speaking in anger. f**k me I’m just tired.”
Eric Lang on Blue Sky
In a recent post on the game’s store page on the Czech website Zatrolene Hry, Ekrt declared, as translated via DeepL, “Well, we think it’s absolutely unnecessary to mention it, so there won’t be any pronouns on the Czech version of the character cards (or we won’t put them there and we’ll argue with the publisher that we don’t want them there). They don’t make any sense at all.”
Michal Ekrt on Zatrolene-Hry
What do you make of Ekrt’s vow to remove the pronouns from the game and even noting it will argue with the publisher to do so?
