Congratulations internet, Nintendo heard your voice... now stop your bitching and saying that Nintendo doesn't listen!

As someone in full support of marriage equality, I feel that the outrage over this was really kinda' crazy... and by kinda', I mean extremely.

This still makes more sense than drafting someone upon the suggestion of a homeless person.

People do seem to be disagreeing on the Green Lantern. Maybe I just wanted a longer time for him to play around with the ring on Earth before he went off to a whole different planet and learned about the problems there.

"It only took one line of code to block it."

How do you know this? Have you programmed the game yourself?

"They can comment out that one line easily"

Changing an entire system in a game to support same-sex marriage is not as simple as changing "one line of code". You really do sound like you know nothing about game…

Oh wait, then you have to change all the english sentence structures originally designed for Male and Female interactions, animations, clothing... then suddenly your up a creek without a paddle in a project you thought was only simple code change. Now you have to remake or reuse art assets, quality assurance test, and…

No commentary on the Nintendo issue here, but do you know how I know you've never *really* developed something (other than as a school project or something)?

As a Technical Designer, I have to say your over simplification of the problem completely ignores asset creation necessary to populate the engine with what it needs to handle that flag chain. Otherwise you create another issue where the player is subjected to Gender cut and paste. Basically Nintendo loses either way.

I develop for a game with a relationship system that allows for same-sex relationships. The idea that including those was as simple as "commenting out a single line of code" is a gross oversimplification. It sounds like something my non-programming boss would say. At the very least, you have to build a system to allow…

you must not have developed professionally. a code change, even commenting out a single line of code (you say that as if it is somehow less drastic than other things you could do), would have to be tested again. if that doesn't sound like a big deal to you, you've never submitted a game to nintendo for lot checks.

I question your development experience if you think anything is that easy without seeing the code.

Even if it was "that simple", he (like many others who have likely never worked in corporate software development) has no clue how budgets/schedules/releases work.

its more than commenting out a single line of code. They'd have to create a whole system to determine orientation and change how the relationship/dating/friend system works. They'd need to design something, not just comment out code.

If that is your concept of the code involved in this particular case it is only my obligation to remind you that making Iphone apps does not make you a programmer.

as a programmer let me just say that i have absolutely no information regarding the code for tomodachi life and so will withhold comment about what changes would be required to add same sex marriages to the finished game. also, with the limited amount of information i have about the game, i'll also withhold comment…

Right.... Going to call bullshit on this and you are grasping half-assed claims. There is a small snowball chance in hell it was coded in such a way that you only need to rem out a single line of code. Nobody codes the same way and to make the claim without saying you have witnessed said code, is more stupid.

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I don't think its a terrible response. A bit disappointing yes, but what they are ultimately getting at is that development on the game has stopped and the developers are likely already working on another project. It's really not easy to go back to a game that's already a year old (the game released April, 2013 in…

Of course, denying gay people the right to get married in a game about relationships and marriage is itself "social commentary."

Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's an extremely ignorant comment to make. As a person who has also "developed before", I'm calling shenanigans on your apparent deep knowledge of this game's code base. There is absolutely no way that you can know the exact means of this aspect's implementation. You can't just assume that…

Of course, denying gay people the right to get married in a game about relationships and marriage is itself "social commentary."