The Character Romance thread (Official)

Congrats to the make Jaal Bi crowd.


I'm curious what differences there will be for Scott romancing Jaal.

I'm honestly shocked. I didn't really think it would happen, but I didn't completely give up hope.

If you are happy about this and haven't done it yet, please tweet your thanks at the devs! We want them to know​ we appreciate them actually listening and doing something about it.

Sure it should have been this way at launch, but fuck it, we showed them that the gays won't take being treated poorly laying down anymore. It's 2017 and we won't quietly and gratefully take our stale table scraps anymore. If they want to be known as the top LGBT-friendly game studio, they have to work for it now. They can't keep that title while doing the very least anymore.

CONGRATULATIONS ALL MY FELLOW SALTY KIDS.

And those still waiting on other improvements, I am crossing every finger I have for you.

The fight never ends, but it's nice to have a victory now and then.

Oh yeah by no means am I expecting anything, this is just my pie in the sky dreams for Gil because he (and his fans) deserve so much more! But I am also not going to hold my breath. I honestly wasn't expecting them to actually make Jaal bi despite the hashtag and outcry even. 

Wow, I'd been assuming that anyone who thought they'd actually make Jaal an option for Scott was setting themselves up for disappointment. I'm impressed to have been wrong about that!

I'm aware, hence my reference to the issue as an inequitable distribution (which in any case has been remedied now). I agree that it was clearly not fair for people who do choose to play only that one character/romance gender setting, no argument.

I was commenting on the notion that "not many gay players" are willing to play characters outside of that setting (the implication being that it would be true regardless of the in-game motivators). Most people play the game once, don't romance anyone and don't actually finish the game, but even aside from that decent numbers of the people who do replay do so across options. That doesn't change the distribution issue, but I think it's condescending to imagine that some majority of people who play gay characters aren't willing to explore the other options in the game at all.

OR ARE YOU

Yeah I am hoping for next time they will want to avoid this whole situation and include the m/m squaddie romance from the get-go, I'm assuming it'd be a lot smoother for everybody if it was implemented from the start. 

Maybe Bioware will finally give me a disabled protagonist one day now. ;_; I CAN DREAM.

Disabled in what way?

Congratulations to all those this benefits.

Unvoiced? Idk..

I CAN HAVE A FAMILY NOW!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO ADOPT ANGARA KITTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!