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

From what I gathered after looking back, and that article about the development time, I'm going to say since bi code was in the game, Jaal was bi, changed to straight due to lack of time and being unsure how to handle it, and then made bi now that they had time and the ability to actually look into making it work right.

Bioware made this change due to fan pressure, and by setting this precedent they've just encouraged people to press them to change romance options in future games.

They can explain it all they want, but they wrote Jaal as a straight character and only changed it after fans pressed them. Anyone that thinks this change would have taken place had fans not pressed them about it is kidding themselves.

Because they are not. That was the whole reason this stupid thing happened in the first place. They continue to whine about being "shafted", about a meaningless achievement, and other nonsense. 

I was perfectly content to let BioWARE fix the buggy animations (and you must admit they needed, and still need, to be fixed). Instead, they're wasting valuable time catering to a bunch of triggered little babies sad they can't get an achievement. 

Guess we'll find out tomorrow.  If the Scott/Jaal romance is a quickly thrown together crap show it'll be fairly obvious.

Three months as opposed to 4 weeks. Also, implementing something like that, with all the different dialogue lines, in a game of that length is an entirely different puppy as compared to the extended cut.

If I have a dime for everytime someone brings up other issues over Jaal romance. They already released 7 patches to fix other issues. They also have already released a time table that they said they would include a romance for gay within 2 months. They also include bug fix alongside with the Jaal patch. Where were you during that time? You just suddenly complain, despite it being announced 2 months prior. You're salty as hell. lol



You have more issues with the fact that they're releasing gay contents than bug fixes or anything because they release bug fix with every patch so far. 

I played the entire game already. I seriously didn't experience any significant bugs, so I guess you're right. I'm ok with it with the new content since I didn't get whatever bugs you're talking about. If you did encounter those bugs, too bad, so sad, not my problem. 

I'll restart another playthrough with the new content. It's gonna be at least another 50 hours for me. I'll just enjoying the game as I drink your cup of salty tears.  Sound like I'm pretty content. 

Because Flynn is talking corporate bullcrap. Who were these consultants? Did they ask all the gays to come to room B and discuss how players can get the achievement and make Jaal bisexual? I would love to have seen that. Why don't they ask all the straights about getting getting the gay-only female interests as bisexual? It's stupid. It's degrading. It's a sham. Again, where the hell was PR on this? Derp. Derp. Derp. Derp.

All valid points. Writing to please everyone is difficult and there's never going to be a situation where everyone is happy 100% of the time. But Bioware has proven that they ARE capable of writing some well-thought-out relationships. My main point for the gay side of the spectrum is Dorian from DA:I. I think that at the least everyone was expecting anything coming out of Bioware at this point would be up to that particular calibre, and the fact that it wasn't is what hurts. We KNOW they're capable, but somehow they completely missed the mark. The bones of the Gil story is there, and with a lot more time and thought put into it it could have been something people held up like the Dorian romance as a great example; unfortunately it was rushed, and it feels a lot like huge parts of the story was skipped. Likewise, Reyes feels like they panicked at the last second upon realising they had one, half-hearted, gay romance and changed a few tags rather than going the long way around.
Unfortunately, the whole game has this issue. Don't get me wrong, MEA is a GOOD game, but it isn't a great game, and there are points where you can absolutely feel how much the goal was simply to make it work, rather than have it blow your mind. Personally, I think that even a mediocre game can be saved by creating memorable characters and relationships you want to revisit, and I will always be disappointed at how much MEA missed that mark. And, honestly, I think that is what the core of most of the complaints are; people had such high expectations for character development that the crushing realization that Bioware, of all gaming companies, had released a generic game just like anyone else would, was a huge blow.
When I think back on the original ME trilogy I don't think back on the quests, or the reapers, or the combat; I think back to that time I had to chose between two members of my team, or the time I had to decide if I really needed Wrex and his attitude. I think back on the companions I couldn't save because of decisions I'd made in previous games, I think back on the play-through's where I completely messed up and cause deaths that could have been avoided. I think on the characters I loved, and stories that defined them. I won't think back on the characters in Andromeda-there are no losses to mourn, no decisions I wish I hadn't made, and nothing at all to differentiate this bunch of NPC's from the NPC's of any other game. 

Mass Effect is not meant to be any other game, and the disappointment that Andromeda WAS just another game will be around for a long time. 

You sound like you're not telling the truth. But it's okay, you have your agenda. I just hope when reality bites you, it doesn't hurt. 

Xanphal

I would point out simply that the writer of Dorian's romance is gay himself and more importantly it was a romance and character he openly admitted he was engaged and interested to write for. I just don't think that these moments come along too often (especially as Gaider himself has openly lamented the need for romances in Bioware games as a bother to the writers, making them write out of obligation rather than any love of the subject etc).

Yeah, I love every second of my agenda being fulfilled with the next patch. Too bad no one cares about your agenda so keep on being salty.