Card's relationship with Chair, developer of Shadow Complex, while small, is ongoing. Card developed the "universe" of Shadow Complex with developer Chair, and also wrote the dialogue and screenplay for another Chair title, Advent Rising. It was this minor involvement of Card that spurred Shadow Complex's dialogue writer, Peter David, into replying to the piece in the Gamasutra comments section. David -- a known gay-rights supporter -- claims that boycotts' punitive nature hurt the individuals involved with the project, and that the message a boycott sends is one that infringes on free speech. As David puts it, it's like saying, "I dislike what you have to say and therefore am going to strike back at you in order to punish you for saying it."
Christian Nutt and other notable writers at Gamasutra have since chimed in on the comments, and the discussion is ongoing.
Orson Scott Card
Tyler says: First, I purposely left out many of both Christian and Peter's talking points, because I prefer you all to read the piece and the comments yourself to build your own opinion.That said, the biggest point I think Peter David is missing is that this isn't an issue of moral economics, it's an issue of civil rights. How would Peter David's argument sound if he was a bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955? It would sound to me like someone defending their paycheck, and by extension, the status quo.
