Respawn boss Vince Zampella and The Sims exec Lyndsay Pearson have issued statements supporting the rights of women and transgender people, as EA continues to be pressured by employees to make a wider statement of its own.
The remarks, posted publicly on Twitter overnight, reportedly follow an internal meeting within EA on LGBTQ+ issues, Kotaku reported.
There, the publisher was again asked by employees whether it would make a public statement on these issues – and reportedly again kept to its previous line that these topics were subject to different points of view across the company.
Last week, EA acknowledged its lack of public comment over the current threats to abortion rights, pending the US Supreme Court decision on the country’s key Roe v Wade ruling, and trans rights, which are the subject of ongoing legal battles in several states.