Mass Effect hiatus speculation and reactions (consolidated thread)

MAN MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!
Both my TOP loved game series on hiatus while online crap get sequels. WIldlands sold millions

Yes he spoke to Gamble on the cliffhangers and Gamble's reply was...

 "I actually spoke with Andromeda’s producer, Michael Gamble, to get answers. Most of what he told me was that the answers would come in future content or game..."

So?

Not to sound too negative, but plans might change. Gamble said that to him before all this controversy happened, possibly even before launch, and the article's autor is adressing this now saying that there "may not be future content or games". OTOH, he doesn't seem to have anything new on this beyond Kotaku's article and a gut feeling based on ME:A's lukewarm reception.

That soldier, Sten is shown to be now the head of Qunari faith. He should know. 

Cyan_Griffonclaw and correctamundo - yes, that's what I was trying to say, that the forbes article can't really be used to argue one way or the other because it really doesn't add anything new. I remain cautiously optimistic, but I can't deny a growing concern which can only be stopped by BioWare speaking up, which doesn't sound like will happen anytime soon.

What ideology is that? The fact that sexual orientation and gender identity are actual things that exist in the world?

So. If I gather this right, it's not the fact that actual things exist in the world that bothers people (well, reasonable people). It's dictating on how you should perceive and deal with them.

I live in a third world post USSR country in Central Asia, with growing Islamization of population.

Pardon my English and being 2 pages late...
This is a neat cheap trick. "You argue about, like, simple fact? Must be dumb." Seen it a lot, and congrats, it's irritating.
I live in a third world post USSR country in Central Asia, with growing Islamization of population. So while through media current western values and tendencies has its influence on population here, they are not assimilated in local ideology in any way.
As I understand it, I'm bigot by western standards(strange word for me actually). I'm pretty liberal by local standards though
So now, when I have that nice excuse "to spouse a hateful speech" I shall freely express my honest opinion.

You know what? There is no analogue for word "gender" in both local language nor in Russian . We have only analogue for "sex" as "Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions."

We literally had to loanword your "gender" word to even figure out what were you talking about. To deal with your BS, so to speak.
To read the 'helicopter-people' piece and to watch that 'I identify as dolphin' South Park episode was truly mind boggling for me and my friends.

I mean I totally understand that this is reality and that there is many issues related to it (I watched "House M.D." series multiple times). So I understand trans as something close to physiological condition. I also understand that said reality can be very harsh to those people. And it should not be.

Still I'm more or less LGBTphobic. I like books, I read a lot and taking my personal knowledge of the world into consideration I think that for members of any society that doesn't have homosexual relationships as something well known or common, any mentioning of such relationships is met with genuine disgust. So I can assume that it's natural reaction for heterosexuals unless they really lack any imagination or had to grow a thicker skin because reasons.

Just being different is totally not a reason to suffer from other people, nor a reason for depravity.
It's either not a reason to dictate rules for society. Man uses womens lavatory, wtf? After these news talks about 'rotting West' become a thing again where I live

There are pieces of media with gay characters who I really sympathize with. Some of them just awesome and sometimes I can say I wish I was like them, except that one thing. However there are other instances where characters presented like big garish poster saying something like "Being gay/trance is so, SO NORMAL! It's, like, totally ok!"... yeah. Smile and wave. This is flat out angers me.
It's like saying "Hi man! Let's deny some reality here! You don't want? We will made you".

So. If I gather this right, it's not the fact that actual things exist in the world that bothers people (well, reasonable people). It's dictating on how you should perceive and deal with them.