As a gay man, I have a big problem with the Make Jaal Bi campaign.

#MakeJaalBi is not as much about the problem as it's proposed solution to the problem to me. There is no squdmate LI for m/m. Drack doesn't have romance content, Liam turns Scott down quickly. Jaal has romance content and is both squadmate and alien (something that m/m romances. are still lacking after 4 games) and Jaal doesn't turn Scott down so Jaal is most likely one from the three squadmates. He's only way to even have one squadmate as m/m LI.

There is problem and it's important to make devs notice the real problem and yes the real problem isn't that Jaal isn't bi, but that there is no m/m squadmate and that there is no m/m romance with equal content to other squadmate romances. But if there is a problem and that problem is without solution aka Bi Jaal, is there nothing left than to say: ME:A is shitty game, maybe better next time? Sure Bioware can try band-aiding the problem of making Gil's and Reyes' romances better, but how could they live up to squadmate romances if they can't even live up to squadmates as characters in terms of content?

Yeah well, noone will ever accuse you of being of sound mind. A bestial deviant.....probably.

Not beastiality when they're consenting intelligent beings.

I don't think much will get fixed with this installment. It's about hoping the next one in 5-6 years doesn't suck complete shit like this one.

That we actually get attractive male squadmate M/M options instead of 2 sidelined NPC's made from character creator instead of unique art assets like squad mates.

I just feel uncomfortable changing the sexuality of a character.

I have so many problems with the 'wait until the next installment' approach. Because we HAVE waited. Mass Effect is ten years old. It took FIVE years to get M/M romances included in the first place, and in the course of the next five, that actually took a step BACK - Kaidan was a squadmate in ME3 and Steve was crew. Andromeda gives us a crew and a planet-bound fling. It's a legitimate concern that waiting again will result in a WORSE step back, maybe back to nothing, or down to just romances like Reyes, who, regardless of whatever positives of his romance, is not actually registered as a romance.

We simply CAN'T hang around and wait for next time. That's the whole point here. Waiting around, putting faith in BioWare to get it right 'next time' has resulted in the current situation.

Expanding Reyes and Gil is nice but does not address problems like the lack of options, or the lack of a squad mate or the lack of an alien option (I don´t care about that last bit but some do).

Best case scenario would be a new, romanceable DLC-companion integrated in the game as well as Jaal was in ME3, but that is extremely unlikely for several reasons. (the costs and the effort necessary to implement the new companion so that he does not stick out are very high, since all VA for the other companions have to record new lines and so on).

Second best options are ex aequo  a temporary companion during a DLC- story arc  (theoretically Reyes and/or Gil can fill this role even in that case the lack in numbers persists) or making one of the existing squad mates available to Scott. Liam in contrast to Jaal states in game that he is not interested in Scott, and Drack would be hardly well received leaving only Jaal as candidate for a Bi-patch. Regarding changing the sexuality of a companion BioWare already created a precedent with Kaidan (who contrary to popular belief was not indented to be bisexual in the first game but was in the same situation that he never expressed (dis)interest in male Shepard because the topic did not come up at all in ME1) and if the patch is accompanied by a statement of the form that Jaal was supposed to be bi , but later changed due to time constraints and was now restored while working on DLC (disregarding whether this is true or not) they can pull it off.


The ME:A team really did drop the ball when it comes to m/m-romances and now there is no easy way that will satisfy everybody to resolve this issue. I really wonder what they decided to do though and am waiting for the official announcement of their plans. Though they should not wait until the two months are up, especially if the news is that they simply made new culmination scenes because the longer they wait with announcing their actions the saltier and bitterer the fans get and a new disappointment would be catastrophic if we had to wait two whole months for it.

Damn right I am, and thus Suvi must instantly be changed to straight!!!!!111!1!!!ONE!!!!1!!


There's a point about that. What's the saying? "Better love and lose than never know"? I guess it applies to an extent.

What are you gonna do, spontaneously spawn proper M/M content by whining about it on unofficial forums?

You are free to believe in the fantasy that they might actually sink money back into animation and booking voice actors back just to pacify us gay men who make up 4-5% of the population at best. I doubt the people behind the money with Bioware will make that judgement.

At best we get some joke alien romance with Jaal. Sorry bubba, we ain't getting no James Vega on ME:A this time either. And let's be honest, we took Kaidan because that's all we had (he had the personality of a spoon, but was the only male human M/M squad mate). Steve Cortez was virtually the same shit we have now, some background ugly NPC made with character creator.

Nah. This is solely about wanting to bang Jaal specifically. You don't hear the same folks doing #MakeLiamBi campaign. And let's not kid ourselves with "but Liam specifically turns you down" excuse. Remove those 2 lines and Liam is 10x more sexually ambigious than Jaal who can't shut up about females, past history with females, flirting with every female he encounters in the game and wanting to sex them.

As a gay man, I find your condescending lecture WAY more obnoxious than any campaign hashtag, or even all of them combined. It ranks slightly below the straight female gamers who whine about even the vague possibility of having to share their toys.

A lot of gay guys wanted Jaal (god knows why) and guess what? They're entitled to express that opinion. Accusing them of pettiness to try and get them to toe some party line you just invented is just shitty behaviour.

Besides, Jaal and Liam are the gayest characters in the entire game. Straight dudes do not swap clothes to "get to know each other better", that is the sort of flimsy narrative justification you only find in pornography.

What would you do without me, eh.