Since BioWare clamped down on attacks on BioWare writer Jennifer Hepler, angry, juvenile fans have decided to select new targets in addition to Hepler in an attempt to badmouth the developer.
It can be hard to justify writing an article dedicated to the attacks, but given how widespread these attacks are becoming, I found the subject difficult to ignore.
Just yesterday, I received the following correspondence:
"Many of you already know, with the subsequent leak of the story, that Ashley is holding a secret. Many of you feel baffled by this reveal of the story and are questioning why did we chose to take this path. We at Bioware are committed with progressive thinking and shun every time of discrimination in relationships when we develop our games. We already put homosexual relationships in Dragon Age 2 and we heard the input from the transsexual community, that they wanted to be counted too. That's why we chose to take this path with Ashley's character. A final word to out heterosexual fans. This choices are not forced upon you, and there's always the choice of going with the opposite sex in your game love interest"
If you Google some of these terms, you'll find that the post has been making the rounds on the BioWare Social Forums in addition to posts on GameFAQs, 4chan, and reddit.
This particular campaign may well be the work of a single disgruntled individual, but it's happening in the midst of the Mass Effect 3 release tomorrow, which will undoubtedly herald a new wave of gibbering racist imbeciles on the game's official community.