You don't fix M/M issues by making a straight character bi.

Uh, I'm getting the feeling that some people didn't read OP's post or misunderstood. That's kind of missing what OP is upset about which is what they feel is the Mass Effect team providing a quick fix rather than revising what the problem was with the intended romances. Like how Reyes' animation during the dance scene doesn't sync properly with male Ryder resulting in a kiss of the cheek rather than the kiss on the mouth that female Ryder shares with him. Like how the content for both of the romances comes nowhere near close to the content avaliable for Cora and PB. OP would have liked to see this content expanded. 

"Of course they went with a lazy alien gimmick instead of addressing the fact the two already existing M/M options are terribly implemented."

"Gil is a whole other matter with his baby mama storyline and the fact he's got a bald spot in his chin amidst the stubble for some reason on top of the carrot orange hair on a darker skin guy. No Reyes during movie night, and no expanded dialogue for both existing M/M options to come remotely close to Cora/Peebee."

"Just, ugh. Fucking Twitter and those idiotic hashtag gimmicks giving developers the quick fix they preferred over revisiting what they actually fucked up. No need for more lines or scenes with Reyes or Gil. They now pair you up with an alien and call it a day"

Basically, OP feels this is a makes it easy moment for the developers. 

You think it took only 4 weeks to write a new story, edit it, animate it and get the voice actors to come back in?

No, I'm the one disputing that.

It was meant to be ironic. No developer manages that, with all the parameters involved with such a large game. They already had it. More or less finished and only put the last touches on it.

So are we getting bisexual Suvi or not?

First of all the op did said that previous sexual experience mattered when he said this : "Jaal was written as straight, period. All he talked about was his previous girlfriend." So yeah it is a bit about fitting and lore breaking.

And I never said that if someone does not express is sexuality should be considered bissexual by default, what I was saying was that it was possible. Expressing an attraction to a gender does not mean someone can never be attracted to the other gender. That is the difference. I don't know your age but we know for a fact that jaal is only 27 years ols, maybe you are certain of your sexuality but some individual are not, especially the one who did not even reach 30 years old.

Oh and the fact the scott does not have a human male squadmates romance, I am straight and my favorite love interest of ME have always been alien. I could not care less if cora was not romancable, I will only seduced her maybe if I do a third scott and that would only happen if I do a fourth playthrought, something I am not sure. I don't need a "proper" human romance.

So yeah there is an alien male romance, something there has never been since the very first mass effect and was asked for a long time. Finally it is possible while male love interest for male protagonist has been asked for a long time. So no there is no need to have a "proper" human romance, its not about filling a quota of human romance, its about having interesting characters and interesting roamnces, that is the only thing that matters in this aspect.

By the way where did the op spoke about driver optimisation and fixing bugs? Because I read it and he did not (maybe I am just tired and did not see it), maybe he is going to edit it soon but right now here is what it says, tell me where it is : 


"Of course they went with a lazy alien gimmick instead of addressing the fact the two already existing M/M options are terribly implemented.


Both Gil and Reyes are made with recycled ugly character creator assets (and yes, this means you can find near clones of them in the game as NPC's; an NPC nearby Addison virtually has Reyes's same face, but with a different hairstyle).


Jaal was written as straight, period. All he talked about was his previous girlfriend. Reyes danced with male Scott as if he were dancing with the female Ryder template, and his kiss went near scott's cheekbones instead of mouth. Gil is a whole other matter with his baby mama storyline and the fact he's got a bald spot in his chin amidst the stubble for some reason on top of the carrot orange hair on a darker skin guy. No Reyes during movie night, and no expanded dialogue for both existing M/M options to come remotely close to Cora/Peebee.


Instead we'll get a romance that was originally made for a female Ryder and that same horrific scene I'd rather not think about too closely. Which is hilarious, that some freak Alien going down on you is going to be the closest to M/M intimacy over the actual human options.


Just, ugh. Fucking Twitter and those idiotic hashtag gimmicks giving developers the quick fix they preferred over revisiting what they actually fucked up. No need for more lines or scenes with Reyes or Gil. They now pair you up with an alien and call it a day."

Frankly I've always been in favor of making all the romance options player-sexual so sure, why not.

They did EXACTLY what people asked for. just frighten unbelievable. Back in my days, Bio just told us there was no resources, and Anomen is really great, not jumped to please us. Maybe that's what they have to go back to, because peeps just don't appreciate their own requests being satisfied.

this whole romancing aliens ( whether hetero or homo ) makes no sense to me anyway. Where is data regarding their reproduction methods ?
Does a male Angara have a dick ? Is it manageable ? 0_o
Those details are important.

Granted, a subject with this heading can give of some steemy comments.  But I perceive this forum as anything but toxic and frankly not as the Bioware forum became at the end years.
If we all would be kumbaya-ing something would be wrong.  Maybe someone more adept then I could devise a poll of how individuals perceive this forum as.  To date, I like my daily visits to this forum.

Leaving up to player creates less of a headache overall but people will cry Bioware did it to please SJWs or pushing some kind of agenda even if they did it to to get us to shut up. 

I don't think this forum is particularly toxic either, there are certainly more toxic corners of the internet.
And we have the advantage that we aren't BioWare and so there is less urge for folk to rage and wave fingers at the administration because we didn't make the games. 

Not lying. Just to embellish the truth a little bit. On the lines of, hey we hired a consultant, without mentioning when. Excuse me, but I have as a hard time imganining they created a whole new romance within 4 to 5 weeks as I have with hiring a consultant for a bloody patch, after the peak sales for the game are already over.