The official Battlefield Twitter account posted a series of tweets yesterday using the hashtag #justWWIthings.<\/p>\n
This short-lived marketing campaign resulted in a public outcry over the insensitivity of the hashtag.<\/p>\n
EA quickly pulled the tweets down, but not before several users had acquired screenshots of the #justWWIthings memes posted by the Battlefield account.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrTom\/status\/793111200343220224<\/p>\n
EA has issued an\u00a0official apology<\/strong> <\/a>following the public outrage of the hashtag.<\/p>\n “We apologize for any offense taken to content posted earlier,” said the official post.<\/p>\n “It was not at all our intent to show any lack of respect to the WW1 era.”<\/p>\n Battlefield 1 is enjoying a successful launch so far, with strong sales and glowing reviews.<\/p>\n The official Battlefield 1 Twitter account has pulled a series of insensitive tweets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":109639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681,4],"tags":[31,1419,23107,23105],"class_list":["post-109637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-battlefield","tag-justwwithings","tag-tweets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read:\u00a0Best games you can play this week \u2013 space and silence<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"