In one screencap, Ion Fury lead developer Terminx writes, “Yeah if you’re trying to decide your child is trans at birth you have mental problems and probably shouldn’t be a parent. Over the weekend a Resetera forum thread published screen captures from the Voidpoint Discord channel that showed the Ion Fury developers make disparaging statements towards the LGBT community, specifically at the trans community. In a pair of statements from Voidpoint and publisher 3D Realms, the two companies said it will patch out the offensive language from the game, and Voidpoint promised to pledge $10,000 to the LGBT non-profit, The Trevor Project. The team also added homophobic language into Ion Fury itself. Voidpoint, the developers behind Ion Fury, apologized after it was revealed the team made sexist and transphobic statements in their developer Discord channel. Voidpoint wanted to listen and we respected this decision." Original story follows: However, a portion of our community made it loud and clear they felt removing “Ogay” was censorship and should be protected by free speech. Jokes at the expense of marginalized communities will not be present in future games published by 3D Realms. We once again apologize for this text as it does not reflect the values of 3D Realms or Voidpoint. The use of the word “f*gbag” in an area that was inaccessible without hacking the game, and was added by one developer without approval from anyone else, was removed a few days ago. However, the soap bottle will not be removed. "However, the soap bottle will not be removed." Here is 3D Realms full statement below: "We at 3D Realms spoke with Voidpoint today and they reaffirmed their commitment to honoring their original statement, including the donation to The Trevor Project and sensitivity training. We recognize our mistake and have received your message loud and clear!" 3D Realms followed-up with its own statement which confirmed that Voidpoint will still be making a donation to The Trevor Project and undergo sensitivity training. Last but not least, please respect our need to keep our community forums clean from hateful messages, spam, or off-topic threads. 3D Realms and Voidpoint stand together on this matter. We do not support censorship of creative works of any kind and regret our initial decision to alter a sprite in the game instead of trusting our instincts. We will absolutely NOT be censoring Ion Fury or any of our other games, now or in the future, including but not limited to by removing gags such as gaming’s most controversial facial wash. The statement can be read below: "Joint statement from Voidpoint and 3D Realms: We’ve caused a recent controversy suggesting Ion Fury game content was to be censored.
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