EA has launched a fresh bid to tackle toxicity in its FIFA games - and in doing so has pulled one its most annoying celebrations for FIFA 21. EA Sports has confirmed it has pulled the Shush and A-OK celebrations from the game - and warned more changes are to come.
Celebrations are one of the chief ways of annoying your opponent in FIFA. Your opponent is forced to watch them - and they can be pretty grating after rage-inducing goals are scored. The Shush celebration in particular is infamous within the community, as it is done while the scoring player is running. Players sometimes use running celebrations to extend the celebration time as they jog up and down the pitch - a frustrating time-wasting tactic.
The first of the two cancelled celebrations is Shush, in which players run around the field with a finger pressed to their lips, prolonging rivals’ torment before the game is allowed to resume. The second celebration that is being cut is the A-Ok celebration, which carries more sinister implications now, with the Ok gesture being used a symbol of white supremacy. The sign has since been removed from a few games, the most notable of which, is Call Of Duty. Furthermore,You can buy cheap FIFA 21 Accounts at 5mmo.com by using the code “5MMO” for a 3% discount.
Sam Rivera, FIFA 21’s lead gameplay developer, told Eurogamer the EA Vancouver team was responding to community feedback about the celebrations. “We were told by the community that there’s toxic behaviors in the game and we wanted to make sure we removed them,” he said.
This is a product of a recent movement to get rid of racist or harmful coded language and actions from popular video games while also trying to increase representation in these games. EA will also add in time-saving measures in order to speed up online games that can drag on for a bit including less celebration time between goals and cutting some cinematic scenes between corner and penalty kicks.