The Character Romance thread (Official)

I think Jaal's gogurt is a thing on andromeda's black market.

Considering the situation, Bioware should be the one hitting us stick with MEA on it.

It's hard to say, but from how they replied (in a DM) it seems they did think Gil was great and seemed clueless to why no one wanted to try him and wanted a squadmate instead (even said they didn't get the big deal about squadmate romances).

I'm fairly certain they know that squadmate romances are a big deal to everyone now.

Oh my god, that is a terrifying response.  :gasp:

You bastards. I went this whole page thinking gogurt was just a way of making fun of angara nutrient paste, and now Potato has ruined it for me.

Yeah, I don't get why they didn't just reveal a graph of all the romances on Twitter or MEA's main website a month before release. I mean, I remember how the DAI romances were revealed two months before the game was released. Sure people would still complain about the choices but the level fandom rage would have likely been tempered if Bioware was just transparent this time around instead of playing coy.

I seriously hate to resort to coming up with conspiracy theories that put Bioware in a bad light but I can only assume they were nervous that the LGBT portion of the community would cry foul and start a "Social Justice Warrior" fueled controversy before launch and potentially hurt sales when its revealed that gay men would get the least amount of choices.

Like, the generous interpretation is that they took the wrong message from Inquisition's love interest reveals - that was a slow trickle, where they slowly revealed who was romanceable AND by whom (they let slip that Cassandra and Cullen were options together, but not that they were only for opposite sex Inquisitors, and there was a lot of wait for who the next LI reveal would be...). So they decided 'we had this backlash for slowly revealing the LIs in Inquisition, let's not reveal any for Andromeda!'

Which is kind of an encapsulation of BioWare's overall problem with feedback, they seem to consistently learn the wrong lesson, overcorrect for one issue and let a new one form in its place (like how there was all the response to DA2's reused maps, so every map in Inquisition was gloriously expansive and unique... but full of nothing and disconnected from the story).

I think at least a couple of them understand. Bioware just benefits more from playing dumb in general. It's easier to deal with bad publicity if you look like you had no idea that this was a thing in the first place.

Except Sam and Steve didn't have a Jill. Still have no idea where that came from. First time the datamining spoiled Gil and Scott having a baby, I thought it was your choice and something you would do in the future, but no, it happens even as Sara. It's worse with Sara because Gil basically hooks up with a woman.