Fat people are taboo

That makes sense for playable characters. Still not for a lot of NPC's in the games. 

Probably not but also sounds rather realistic that we won't be having any issues perfectly controlling our weights in 150 years

You, and the guy who started this thread:

bsn.boards.net/thread/8066/where-all-overweight-people-andromeda

should get together sometime.

This thread is totally bait, but I'm bored.

Random NPCs having varying body shapes would require more development time and resources that could probably best spent elsewhere. It is much more important to give NPCs more variety in faces, something that was lacking in this game. (the Asari clone army)

Obesity also wouldn't have made sense for anyone either on the Pathfinder team or on Shepard's crew in the first three games. Some degree of good health and physical fitness is basic requirement for military service, and while the Pathfinder team are civilians, they spend a lot of their time basically peforming the same job. A person who was fat would not be able to adequately perform the tasks necessary for that job, which is why real world military organizations have physical fitness programs and weight standards. Someone who would need to sit down and catch their breath after a light jog would be a liability.

Why does SWTOR, an MMO, have different body types, but not MEA or DAI? Just wondering.

probably same guy, please destroy this post

Isn't there already a thread about this?

SWTOR models/heads scaled terribly to the bigger body types, both three and four (and BT1 too). SWTOR animations are also less complex and frequent. Even in Inquisition, Qunari who is seven feet tall and four feet across almost never fits in the frame properly (and slouches terribly) and has other chars body parts clipping through him. If you start adding a new body rig for the Ryder, it increases the complexity of every animated sequence, and gods know what else, including armor... I have played a MMO where the sliders caused bodies clip through armor....

Why take overweight people when they can pick and choose, like the US Army ?

army.com/info/apft/heightweightandbodyfat

Tbh I'd be all for picking build types for Ryder. I want my protagonist to muffin top his shirts.

this thread nailed it, why is it top priority to please the LGBT and feminist community, but not a top priority to please the obese community? the management in Bioware are bunch of hypocrites. if you want to make diversity a huge deal, then you better be fully committed to it. black, brown, Muslims, lesbians, homos, trans, and etc. all of them need to be included. otherwise, this game cannot be called a full racially diverse game.