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Pride update coming to hit shooter Valorant – but queer gamers are divided

According to a leak, Pride Player Cards are on their way to online shooter Valorant in time for Pride month but players have concerns.

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Pride Player Cards are on their way to online shooter Valorant, according to a leak.

Discovered by data miner RumbleMike, the cards will be available for a limited amount of time from the start of June – coinciding with Pride month.

Players will be able to grab the cards from the official Valorant website, they won’t be included in the existing battle pass.


Seven cards will be available representing the flags of the LGBT+ community: gay, transgender, pansexual, non-binary, bisexual, asexual and lesbian.

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The cards will be visible to other players when competing online and are meant to represent the diversity of Valorantplayers.


It’s a bold move from developer Riot Games, who don’t have a great track record with diverse representation.

Despite the online character shooter’s range of characters, Riot itself has been heavily criticised in the past for its internal sexism, per an incendiary report by Kotaku.

And while the company has made strides since then, just recently co-founder Marc Merrill deleted a controversial tweet he posted around critical race theory.



So while these Pride Player Cards are a step towards promoting diversity, many are sceptical at how Riot will handle any backlash.

There has been some positive reaction to the cards on social media, with players excited to show off their sexuality with pride.

There is overwhelming concern, however, that using the Pride Player Cards to highlight their sexuality will result in hate from other players.

 

[The Last Stand]

The cards will be visible to other players when competing online and are meant to represent the diversity of Valorantplayers.

There is overwhelming concern, however, that using the Pride Player Cards to highlight their sexuality will result in hate from other players.

Pick one.

Despite the online character shooter’s range of characters, Riot itself has been heavily criticised in the past for its internal sexism, per an incendiary report by Kotaku.

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Isn't Valorant one of those games you only play if you love fags and trannies in the first place

 

[gaystoner]

Pick one.


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"I want to openly be a flaming faggot but if I get MADE FUN OF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Isn't this the game that had a nasty anticheat?

 

[The Last Stand]

Why can't people just behave themselves?

 

[TowinKarz]

Valorant is not a hit game.... that is all.....

 

[ZehnBoat]

it's okay to be gay
but it's never okay to be a faggot
stop being a faggot online

 

[Coolio55]

What will china make of this? Are homos rightfully hated there?

 

[LurkTrawl]

Isn't Valorant one of those games you only play if you love fags and trannies in the first place

It was supposed to be a competitor to games like Paladins and Overwatch. Haven't paid attention to it much but guess what one of the things people I saw talking about it, liked about it. Go on, guess.

 

[Fireman Sam]

Valorant is a bad game and I would not play it.

What will china make of this? Are homos rightfully hated there?

Worst case scenario is that they'll just censor out the gay pride items or whatever, just like how they censor other things that isn't kosher over there.

 

[KEKMUHLORD]

What will china make of this? Are homos rightfully hated there?

Homosexuality is considered a mental disorder in China.

These LGBTQVBNM.... Etc, player cards can only be downloaded from the Valorant website anyway.

So China will never see them.

 

[The Valeyard]

This is the one by Riot Games, right? Can't wait for Becky's meltdown.

 

[The Last Stand]

Homosexuality is considered a mental disorder in China.

These LGBTQVBNM.... Etc, player cards can only be downloaded from the Valorant website anyway.

So China will never see them.

And nobody says a word.

 

[Miller]

343i will also give away a LGBT player card to those who will play the MCC during the gay month. They also virtue-signalled during BHM.

 

[Wingnut]

Considering I forgot Valorant existed until I read this thread and only remember it as knockoff CS:GO I'd hardly call it a hit game.
I tried looking up player numbers and most results are just cope posts of "The game's not dying!"
lmao

 

[Corn Flakes]

Yet again, developers and publishers fail to understand the fact that gamers don't give a flying fuck about your pride flags. Just like we don't give a flying fuck about whether you like anime, or whether you jack off to cartoon animals. Which is why we make fun of people who think these things are important. We don't care. Just play the fucking game, leave your real-life bullshit at the door. You've got your avatar and your username already. You don't need more "uniqueness".

I swear, if people who care about pride flags spent as much time actually playing the game as they do sperging about getting called a faggot online for doing a dumb play, they wouldn't be getting called faggots in the first place.

 

[M3xus]

Shouldn't it be just three anyways (bisexual, gay, and lesbian), since transgenderism is a mental disorder and the rest are made up labels for loveshy attention whores?

 

[dreamworks face]

Considering I forgot Valorant existed until I read this thread and only remember it as knockoff CS:GO I'd hardly call it a hit game.
I tried looking up player numbers and most results are just cope posts of "The game's not dying!"
lmao

It's totally knockoff CS:GO, but CS:GO is barely playable in its current state with all the cheaters. You'd think with all the crap they introduced like trusted mode and overwatch etc, they'd have that figured out.

 

[Idiot savant]

pink triangle badge for homosexuals, next maybe yellow stars for hanukkah. what symbol will the gypsies get?