*Romance distribution spoilers* Make your voice heard about the lack of romance options, sex scenes,

Oooh, it's a movement. I didn't plan on getting the game because the score really bombed on metacritics and I found the normal-looking girls to be incredibly disappointing, but I'm reminded of ME3's ending where the devs actually made improvements to the endings. If Bioware actually caved in to this thread and did something (extensive) about it, I'll get the game.

ME3 miracle again please.

And I've thought complaining gets nothing done. 

I know that there are some people sending letters to Bioware where they calmly and respectfully express their issues with m/m romance.

I am going to assume a good faith here from the devs, because they could have just ignored us, but they didn't. Lets see what actions come out of this.

...All I wanted was an asexual,cute and awkward romance/flirt with my Salarian pilot:(

Putting together a letter now. Would anyone here mind giving it a once-over after I've gone through a few drafts?

Sorry I didn't catch this sooner, but I'm happy to do so.  

Not sure if posted here yet, there is this GamesRadar article (romance spoilers) regarding m/m romance issues in ME:A.

Fab idea!

If Bioware wanted to address this is ME:A, what would be the best course? Should they make Jaal bisexual, or would that be too much of a retcon if done now? Work on expanding and improving the existing romances? Add a new romance, which would realistically I think have to not be a companion?

First off, I wouldn't expect too much. Chances are they won't actually address it in any significant or meaningful way. But how could they do that if they wanted to? People seem to have differing opinions on the whole making Jaal bi thing. I personally think that it'd be okay if he was originally supposed to be bi and was written with that in mind but not so much if he was written as a 100% straight character but I've heard others say that they wouldn't want it to happen either way because it could set a bad precedent for retroactively changing characters' orientations and I can't say I entirely disagree with that point. Other than that, fleshing out the existing M/M romances would certainly be a good step, particularly adding properly animated sex scenes like some of the non-M/M romances have. Also, giving them unique faces would be great IMO but it could also upset people who like or have gotten used to the current ones. None of that really solves the big issue of there not being a gay/bi male squadmate, though, and that's a problem they probably can't solve because even if they added in a new squadmate now, he'd probably just feel tagged-on and wouldn't have the same kind of main story integration that other squadmates have. One possible option could be, if they release some story DLC, to introduce a new squadmate who's heavily integrated into that DLC's story and make him an M/M LI. But again, I wouldn't count on any of these things happening.

Is it so unusual for female players to do M/M romances? Perhaps not so commonly on their first playthrough but still.

Not unusual for me.

I can only speak for myself, but it comes down to several factors. Whether I like a character is paramount. I'm not of the type to play out a romance "just because" or to "see them all" or "because everyone says it's great" and so on. If I don't like a character, or have any interest in them in that way, then I'm not going to romance them. The gender of the character doesn't matter to me. It so happens that, as I'm straight, I typically do go for guys. I never had an interest in Leliana, Morrigan, Merrill, Josephine, or Sera; I did do Isabela's romance, but it was "just okay." I like Cassandra quite a bit, but because Dorian exists, I have ever done her romance, in addition to the fact that her romance style, heavy on the "romance," is just not appealing to me. So, this leaves me primarily with straight and bi guys.

NONE of the other male romances in DAI interested me, and I did play Cullen's on my first go 'round. I made a male character in DAI specifically to romance Dorian, because he's great; this is now my canon Inquisitor and romance for him.  The process led me to discover that I have an easier time in RPing a male character, as I tend to do more of a "self insert" with a female one. I am seriously considering switching over to male as my default gender in these games. So that now leaves me with gay and bi guys.


All of that aside, I think that the single gender orientations should be, more or less, designed for players of that type. If I, as a straight woman, like a particular m/m romance, that's nice and all, but I do think they should be designed for gay male players. The same is true for the lesbian romances. Of course, that's not to say that a m/m romance designed for the gay male player can't have its share of sap and sweetness; to deny that some men enjoy that would be a disservice to them.