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

I am extremely disappointed by the provided options in Andromeda.

I mean the two available guys would be fine if there were also a squad mate option, but without that they are simply too little content and the staggering difference between the cut scenes when you compare Gill´s and Cory´s is another let down.

This actually makes me glad that due to insufficient hardware (I will need some more months of saving money until I can afford a PC which can run the game smoothly) I did not pre order, and can buy it once the price is appropriate for the effort spend on the m/m romance arcs.

Regarding how this issue can be addressed:

I think it is unlikely that a new squad mate will be added by DLC, since a such an addition would have to be planned/in the works already long before launch because otherwise the character will never really fit into the game and always stick out. So the best hope is creating a way for Scott to romance Jaal. This can even work if BioWare announces it soon with some appropriate explanation lie "We cut it because there was not enough time, but since we are reworking animations anyway we can now implement it like we originally indented."

Other than that the only thing that they could do would be to expand the existing options as part of an DLC, but frankly that would not be enough for me.
I really hope that something will be done about the issue and that they will announce what they plan to do soon.

I knew the difference was quite bad, but it's even worse now that I see the whole menu.

You forgot Diana Allers on female Player side. She's bi. And if Javik counts you should also add Shiala or what her name was (that Asari in the first game).

Wow, seeing the visual representation of the romance distribution across all four games makes the inequality very easy to see.

Interestingly, it also makes me realize just how many of the f/f choices are asari! And how is it that f/m and m/f players have such a wide variety of species to romance (five different ones) compared to the f/f and m/m pairings. It just seems odd that Bioware never noticed or took care to balance out that aspect.

Of course, the most egregious discrepancy is in both the limited number of m/m options, zero species diversity, and the fact that they had no options at all until ME3. As a player who only does f/f, I never noticed or really realized that fact until just now.

I mean, I thought it was unfair that all I had in ME1 and ME2 were Liara and then Kelly (who totally ditched my Shepard in ME3), but "something" is worlds away from "nothing."

Stopping by to drop this off. If you have a finalized letter or message you'd like the ME:A team to see, please check out this thread.

bsn.boards.net/thread/6157/open-letters-bioware-regarding-romances

Maybe you could produce a counter argument to the actual topic at hand instead of just being hyperbolic?

Just a thought friend!

I'd love to hear why you don't think there are any biases in their developmental decisions.

Well some of that is because there is no m/m romances in ME1 and ME2. When people complained about that devs gave a excuse that Shepard is predefined character who is straight. The problem with this was that fem!shep was able to have f/f romances with Liara and Kelly in those games so clearly fem!shep wasn't predefined straight. They tried to claim that Asari aren't women and fem!shep's romance with Liara wasn't lesbian one, but couldn't come up with excuse with Kelly so they had to submit to defeat and finally had 2 m/m options in ME3.

Overall even with ME3 and now with ME:A it seems like m/m romances are after thought. Reyes is bisexual LI, but his f/m side is lot more polished animation-wise and if you romance him with Scott Vetra will refer you as his queen- it really seems like they just forgot to record that line for Scott's romance and used Sara's romance line with both. Gil also has crewmate has less romance content than squadmate LIs and there is prove in the code of the game from datamining that Jaal was supposed to be bisexual at some point, but that m/m romance was cut off.

Sadly yes, they tried to really hard to not have any m/m romances in the game it seems. F/f for some reason was alright though. So since there is no m/m romances in the 2 of 4 games the number is automatically smaller. Doesn't explain why the options are still lacking in ME:A though, everyone else gets at least 2 squadmates to romance, m/m gets 0.

Yep, Vetra suggest that Scott is either his queen or baroness depending on dialogue option.

You know what appalls me?

Some of the great contributions made to man ever since Ancient History in the fields of science, literature, philosophy, mathematics, medicine and other major fields were made by gay or bisexual men.

Having a gay or bisexual protagonist in contemporary fiction - be it games, books, movies and others - should be as normal as breathing.