In an interview with Gamasutra, EA chief creative officer Patrick Soderlund took on the controversy directly:
On the [women] in Battlefield, this is something that the development team pushed. Battlefield V is a lot about the unseen, the untold, the unplayed. The common perception is that there were no women in World War II. There were a ton of women who both fought in World War II and partook in the war.
These are people who are uneducatedthey dont understand that this is a plausible scenario, and listen: this is a game. And today gaming is gender-diverse, like it hasnt been before. There are a lot of female people who want to play, and male players who want to play as a badass [woman].
And we dont take any flak. We stand up for the cause, because I think those people who dont understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or dont buy the game. Im fine with either or. Its just not ok.
