"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

No, virtual rape is insidious.

It would certainly make Citadel DLC better. And during the whole fight sequence, Shepard would still suffer from hangover. Try to get headshots in such condition...

How so?

In all seriousness, my theory is this.

Before Bioware was willing to do certain things with their games, but due to the new personalities on their teams, there is a different type of influence.

I forgot which game (Dragon Age or Mass Effect) but the story has it that during a production meeting, one of the females on the team displayed disgust with certain elements in the game. It was suggested that if left in the game, it would or could sour the female players if they perceived it a certain way. As a result, Bioware took the content out, despite the same/similar content being in previous games.

The video I gave shows Sam Miggs talking about virtual rape and suggesting how misogynistic the gaming industry is. I wont go into the details that is why I posted the video to watch and told you to research her. Well apparently she is now an assistant writer with Bioware. Not sure how much influence an assistant writer has, but she is on the team. Given her stance on gaming, perhaps not really her, but people inside Bioware who agree with her (including men and Manveer Heir comes to mind) may have had some influence. Influence regarding no brothels in DAI and even DA4 because it depicts women as sex objects....despite the brothels in DAO and DAI featuring male prostitutes. Same can be said about the whole Desire Demon appearance as it could be perceived as something tilted towards male satisfaction....once again using the female body as an object of sexual desire (pun intended).

Bioware now has men and woman on the staff who now challenge certain content making its way into the games even if they were in previous games. Given Bioware's track record of being progressive/inclusive... it would make sense that Bioware doesnt want to be a standard dudbro developer thinking their audience is all males (Like Rockstar Games or CDPR). They WANT to be seen as inclusive the same way Rockstar Games wants to be seen as disruptive or Playdead wants to be seen as creative and odd. Therefore they take extra steps to ensure "all groups" are treated fairly and not offended by any content.
Bioware has reached out to LGBT groups to make sure the content in their game is representative of the community and not offensive, who is to say they Bioware doesnt also reach out to women activists groups to make sure the content isnt offensive?


This isnt a bad thing, but to people who miss the DAO of old, it could be annoying. And it could explain certain things like the desire demon and no brothels.

Yes, DAI and MEA does feature female nudity in a way DAO and DA2 never did, but it is in a less lustful way and more ina romantic "two people in love" way vs walking into a brothel and seeing a bundle of naked women waiting for you to "purchase" them like TW3.

Not wrong

What you said still backs up my point....which is that certain things will not make it into the game due to how certain people could perceive it whether it be rape, racism, sexism or any other topic. You corrected my details but the core remains the same.

And no, it is YOU that may want for me to suggest that women are trying to ruin my games cause it makes for an easier way to attack my points by positing me as a disgruntled male gamer. I just feel that Bioware now has a larger demographics on their team to draw input from. Like I said (which you conveniently ignored), that isnt a bad thing. It could just explain certain actions they took like desire demons and brothels.

My gaming experience isnt ruined. It is altered and changed, but not ruined. I still have Rockstar Games and CDPR to goto if I want that "boys only" type of experience.

Ok, label it whatever you want, but that is my theory. I never said it was law or fact.

It very much is.

No, I'm with rras1994 on this. 

It's standard practice for writers to have someone go over their writing to make sure what is conveyed is what is intended by them. That's why some writers appreciate having a diverse ranged of people look through their work. It's to ensure that a scene written matches the writer's vision of said scene. The writer uses others' perception to judge how well this has been done. It's little different than how a builder might use a tape measure to make sure the length and width of what they're working on is correct. Sure, you could use your own thumb but with the other tool, you're more likely to achieve the results you seek. 

Or we disagree with you not because of any obligation, morally or legally, but because we are free-thinking individuals whose opinions differ from yours. 

You do know what obligated means, right? Because according to your post, you're saying we don't actual have our own opinions and we have to disagree with you out of social, moral or legal obligation. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of obligation. 

To put it differently: you just unintentionally created an example of why writers usually have someone to go over their work and make sure it's proper intent is conveyed. Unless the above was what you meant to convey? 

Now that we're past the "obligated" bit, what's your substantive position here? That writers should never accept peer review? Or is it just that the peer review is working wrong, and a better version of Bio would have been into the whole rape thing; the writer didn't intend rape but it was a happy accident that should have been kept. Or is it that Gaider was lying about the whole thing?

I'm just trying to figure out how the conspiracy theory works.

Hahaha... this is just priceless.  You don't like that people have differences of opinion than you, so you want to remove them from the forum.  Thankfully the mods are much smarter than to entertain such a asinine suggestion. 

Here is some sound advice for you to live a more successful and less high-strung life:  Learn that just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they're wrong.  Learn that your opinions are just that... opinions.  Learn that criticisms of a product you enjoy doesn't make someone a "negative nancy" but actually does more to support that product than your deluded, misguided, blind acceptance of all its faults.

But then again, you've made it abundantly clear, that you are incapable of have logical discussions across the entity of this thread, so I won't be holding my breath.