Battlefield boss: ‘Female playable characters are here to stay’

DICE general manager Oskar Gabrielson is responding to a segment of fans who are outraged that a woman with a prosthetic limb appeared in a combat scene in the reveal trailer for Battlefield V on Wednesday. On Twitter, the studio boss made it clear that it won’t remove women due to these reactions.

Since the Wednesday reveal, a group of fans have taken to social media and forums like Reddit to scream at DICE that a World War II game cannot feel immersive if it has a woman with a “weird bionic arm.” The developer has since confirmed that the character in question was the result of Battlefield V’s character-customization features, and the U.S. Army can confirm the existence of prosthetic limbs during WWII (some of y’all need to read a book).