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EA Sports UFC 2 Game Update 1.04 Removes Religious Victory Celebration

10:11 PM - March 24, 2016 by Steve_OS

A new EA Sports UFC 2 game update has arrived for PlayStation 4 users, soon for Xbox One. The update removes a religious animation, which can be seen here, that randomly played after a winner was announced.

This animation was noticed by Khabib Nurmagomedov, who is Muslim, and posted messages on his Twitter account and a follow up message from EA on his Instagram account.

EA quickly took action and have officially removed the celebration from the game on the PlayStation 4, with the same update coming to Xbox One very soon.

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# 21 aholbert32 @ 03/25/16 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by masterchaoss


	I'm an atheist and I don't see anything wrong with the animations. They should have found a way to make it so it would only show up for Christian players, it just adds to the realism.

It doesnt add to the realism because its a random animation. The game had fighters doing the animation who would never do it in real life. Thats the opposite of realism.

Again, you guys want EA to confirm each fighter's religion now? LOL.

# 22 aholbert32 @ 03/25/16 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by talucchesi


	I'm not religious but If we're being completely fair here, grabbing your crotch or flicking someone off is a blatant sign of disrespect. Doing the sign of the cross isn't, it's actually quite the opposite. This is more of a subjective statement but I don't believe anybody should feel disrespected because another person does the sign of the cross. If this was let's say, Jones Jones' signature after every fight he won, then I'd say keep it in the game. But I completely understand why Khabib would have a major issue with his own player doing it.

Not necessarily. If I wasnt Christian, I may find someone worshipping their god in the ring as disrespectful to my god or my belief that their isnt a god.

So whats the better move: saying "no one should feel disrespected" and leaving it in or removing it on the off chance that someone would feel disrespected?

# 23 TheBleedingRed21 @ 03/25/16 10:04 AM

Maybe this is a thread that should be closed? Religion is a very sensitive topic and some of these statements made already have been.. Shocking.

# 24 jb12780 @ 03/25/16 10:05 AM

Yep this isn't an OS topic.

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# 25 TheShizNo1 @ 03/25/16 10:27 AM

The thread won't be closed; at least not right now. There are ways to discuss like aholbert and tybudd (and others) have been doing without going to extremes to get your point across. If the discussion makes you uncomfortable, bow out. If you have to think twice before submitting your response, don't submit it.

I'm of the opinion that EA should've recognized this as soon as the animation was put into the game. To not have the foresight of what would happen with a random animation with fighters from all types of religions, ethnicities, cultures is baffling to me. They're trying to resolve the issue and I have no problem with how they're going about it.

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# 26 aholbert32 @ 03/25/16 11:17 AM

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	Sorry aholbert, this needed to be removed.

OS will take this down because this is an offensive post not because they are being PC. Everytime I think OS can handle convos like this (Credit to guys like Tybudd and others who while I disagree with them were respectful in their comments), some knucklehead comes in and ruins the intelligent discussion.

Please lock this up.

# 27 eyeamg0dly @ 03/25/16 11:18 AM

Do you guys understand that it was a "RANDOM" animation and not some christian fighter's signature animation? You do understand the statement that it makes. Now how can EA attach that randomly to fighters who may or may not want to make that kind of statement?

What if you saw fighters just randomly kneeling and praying to Allah? Or Stars of David tattoo'd randomly generated tattoo showing up on fighters? You would be ready to sue EA and burn their headquarters down.

# 28 aholbert32 @ 03/25/16 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by WISports


	So Pettis doesn't drop to his knee and give the cross sign when entering the cage anymore?

That wasnt changed because thats not a random animation.

# 29 HighOctane @ 03/25/16 11:55 AM

800mb to remove this celebration?

I smell something fishy.

# 30 jcmreds @ 03/25/16 12:18 PM

EA were pretty stupid to make any kind of religious animation random.

# 31 Hayman19 @ 03/25/16 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by HighOctane


	800mb to remove this celebration? I smell something fishy.

Im curious as to if any other bug fixes were added. Im hoping so.

# 32 aholbert32 @ 03/25/16 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Hayman19


	Im curious as to if any other bug fixes were added. Im hoping so.

Zero. The next patch will have the bug fixes and improvements.

# 33 Timprp @ 03/25/16 12:35 PM

Any idea when? A week? Month? Its really tough playing single player mode when theres no way I can get KO'd. I lose by sub or decision only. On the hardest level.

Thx

# 34 aholbert32 @ 03/25/16 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Timprp


	Any idea when? A week? Month? Its really tough playing single player mode when theres no way I can get KO'd. I lose by sub or decision only. On the hardest level. Thx

No idea but given EA's pattern they tend to patch the game once a month so probably April.

# 35 talucchesi @ 03/25/16 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by aholbert32


	Not necessarily. If I wasnt Christian, I may find someone worshipping their god in the ring as disrespectful to my god or my belief that their isnt a god. So whats the better move: saying "no one should feel disrespected" and leaving it in or removing it on the off chance that someone would feel disrespected?

And this is the part that I said was basically subjective, but my thing is someone is going to be offended by something always. Someone can be offended that their are female fighters in the game because according to their religion, females shouldn't be in the working world (random example I know). I think there's a line that should be drawn somewhere.

For me, having his character doing the sign of the and being offended by it is understandable. But let's say his character did a typical muslim symbol for worshiping their god and a christian or atheist fighter was offended by this action even being in the game. Then I'd say get over it.

If this was the case, then they should be upset if he were to do this muslim action in real life as well lol

# 36 aholbert32 @ 03/25/16 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by talucchesi


	And this is the part that I said was basically subjective, but my thing is someone is going to be offended by something always. Someone can be offended that their are female fighters in the game because according to their religion, females shouldn't be in the working world (random example I know). I think there's a line that should be drawn somewhere. For me, having his character doing the sign of the and being offended by it is understandable. But let's say his character did a typical muslim symbol for worshiping their god and a christian or atheist fighter was offended by this action even being in the game. Then I'd say get over it. If this was the case, then they should be upset if he were to do this muslim action in real life as well lol

The line is drawn here. EA is showing you where the line is. The line is random religious celebrations on fighters. Anthony Pettis still does the cross before he enters the ring in the game....because he does that in real life. That may offend people but EA isnt willing to remove that from the game because thats going too far.

# 37 talucchesi @ 03/25/16 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by aholbert32


	The line is drawn here. EA is showing you where the line is. The line is random religious celebrations on fighters. Anthony Pettis still does the cross before he enters the ring in the game....because he does that in real life. That may offend people but EA isnt willing to remove that from the game because thats going too far.

Right I think we're both saying the same thing here lol.

A bit of my gripe comes with Messi's true celebration not being in Fifa. And I always thought it was because he does the sign of the cross before he points to the sky. And once I found out that the sign of the cross is in the UFC game, I was like "Hey!" lol. I feel like they should add his full celebration now haha

# 38 bravesvolsfan @ 03/25/16 03:49 PM

In my opinion, the animation shouldn't be randomly assigned, but I still think EA should leave the animation itself in the game for others to equip. If a fighter does that, it should be in the game.

# 39 fballturkey @ 03/25/16 10:24 PM

How is there a five page thread on one random fighter celebration? Why does anyone care?

# 40 Phobia @ 03/26/16 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by fballturkey


	How is there a five page thread on one random fighter celebration? Why does anyone care?

HAHA Agree!!!

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