La religion est l’un des thèmes les plus utilisés dans le jeu vidéo. Aussi, il se peut que quelque fois cela offense les adeptes de certaines religions. C’est le cas dans Bioshock Infinite lors de la scène du baptême dès les premières minutes du jeu. Breen Malmberg, un fervent chrétien, n’a pas voulu continuer le jeu en n’acceptant pas le choix lié au baptême pour éviter donc un blasphème. Ce dernier a donc écrit une lettre à l’éditeur Valve pour qu’il puisse être remboursé…

Ci-dessous, la lettre envoyé à Valve. Breen Malmberg mentionne le fait que le jeu est une insulte au christianisme. Il ne se cantonne pas qu’à cette religion et dénonce même les insultes faites aux musulmans avec le jeu Modern Warfare 2 et les passages du Coran dans des wc.

I wish to return/exchange this game (Bioshock Infinite) for steam credit or refund on the grounds that I cannot play it.

I cannot play it because at the very beginning of the game there is a section of the game that is so offensive to my religious beliefs that I cannot proceed with it any further. I did not know this section of the game was there and had no way of knowing it was there before-hand as it was not shown in any trailers, previews, screenshots or other marketing material.

The player is forced to make a choice which amounts to extreme blasphemy in my religion (Christianity) in order to proceed any further – and am therefor forced (in good conscience) to quit playing and not able to experience approx. 99% of the content in the game.

There is no option to turn this particular content off or to bypass or skip it in any way. In Modern Warfare 2, they at least allowed you to skip a particularly offensive level (https://www.destructoid.com/modern-warfare…). This is the same sort of thing for me, but there is no way to skip it in this case.

Please issue a full refund or store credit in the amount of the price of the game (Bioshock Infinite) as I had no idea that I would not be able to play this game before I bought it.

If you need further convincing, I will use the analogy that if you were a muslem, it would be like forcing the player into an in-game action of « press x to spit on the face of allah » in order to proceed any further with the game and with no choice or way around doing so.

I apologize for the potentially misleading choice of category for this request, but you do not have a category I can choose that accurately fits my needs.

Thank you