Mass Effect hiatus speculation and reactions (consolidated thread)

Well, rightfully so. Being LGBT is not healthy here. For relationships, career and horrifyingly, for health too sometimes. I sincerely hope it will change. I believe that education can help and I hate preaching.

As for comments - "genuine disgust" - imagine in details some sexual deviation you find intolerable and you'll have common reaction to LGBT. And things like those parades are perceived as "eat our shit!" message from people for whom you have no respect at all. Here comes the anger.

Close. Kyrgyzstan.

I kinda hate inquisition but Dorian is Dorian. I liked the character. All of it except loyalty quest. There I didn't like given responses. Liked Zevran. This is authors prerogative indeed. The problem with franchises is that at first it was perfectly normal and balanced then suddenly as Laughing Man described them, 'pet issues' raised liked mushrooms after rain all around. The thing is, after you created something and gave it to public, it's not quite yours anymore in some way. You shared it with public and what you shared now belongs to them. You are not free to do whatever you want. If somewhat pet issues was one of main themes from very beginning I don't thing there would be such uproar as we have now.

I think I do that too. That's why I would never, let's say, sit in public picking my nose even if I would know that nobody would dare to say a thing. If I'm different in something, I respect rules of place where I am enough to not demonstrate my differences and demanding special treatment.

No, the Arishok and the Ariqun are separate individuals with their own areas of expertise.

With the crappy industry standards we have today, what do you prefer? Season Pass or Microtransactions? Atleast Bioware has kept season pass away from their games and microtransactions is an optional feature.

Thanks for the info. Do those games require subscriptions?

I think there are multiple models, and there is no way to predict what BioWARE will do. B2P or P2P or an F2P with nickeling and diming... there are so many ways to milk the MP crowd.

Looks like you missed "WRT race" above. That's one specific area where qunari match us. Gender is another. There might be one or two more.

And both the real version of the qunari and the version you made up in your head would be political statements.

Krem is quite clearly a female who wants to be a man. 

Indoctrination theory anyone?

This news is not true. And it was pretty lively to me.

Except id say you're wrong about that.

Especially considering how Sten reacts to a female warden, as stated in the rest of the previous post. 

No, quite clearly the Qun and how Sten was "raised" led him to be surprised at women in combat. That he was challenged in those beliefs doesn't negate that he had those beliefs in the first place.