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Posted by: The BS Police
Posted by: Amiable Pooka
Posted by: Another one
It's possible I suppose. I don't , however, remember hearing them say they changed the name of the character. If they really did change the name of the character, then I can definitely see that as a possibility.
Yeah they did. I either read it in one of my gaming magazines, or in a Weekly Update. They apologized for the unfortunate reference and stated that they had changed Maddie's name.They didn't change anything, I don't think the apologised either since it was all just a mere coincidence that people on the forums brought up.
Actually, yes they did change her name and apologized for the incident. It was in Official XBOX Magazine (OXM) Issue #92 where they interviewed Joe about the ODST trailer. Here is where he apologized:
OXM: One of the messages - "Maddie, where are you?" - seems too have been pulled due to fans linking this to the phrase to a website about missing real-world British toddler Maddie McCann. Will this fictional, Halo-world Maddie still appear in the game?
JS: The Maddie thing - we felt quite awful about that misunderstanding. There is a character named Maddie in the game, or there was. We're changing her name. She was a member of the...well, she was one of the characters in the game. She's still there, but she's named something different now. She's not an ODST.
This all but confirms that they changed DARE's real name from Maddie to Veronica.