**ROMANCE**

I would totally play them without the romance. Romances are certainly a very fun part of Mass Effect and increase the replayability, but for me they are not a necessary component.

Sure, but I'd be disappointed.

It'd be extremely disappointing but I think I would play it anyway

The surest way to know that you're right about something is if I agree with it.

I voted no. Do I solely play them for romances? Definitely not, I'm not that shallow.. yet.

Why would I choose not to buy if Bioware's games didn't have this side-fluff in the games?
Because my gaming attention is limited, I need something from a studio to draw me away from my usual games. for Bioware's games: that's romancing a companion IF I want to.
I have nothing against the rest of the game, usually find everything that isn't romance/companion based in Bioware's games very much enjoyable as well, or I wouldn't play them at all obviously, not here solely for romances.
I already have an extensive game library to choose from (meaning literally hundreds of games I can pick to play instead). So ditching romances, or even just ability to build a close friendship between protagonist character and companions, removes my main draw to these games which I would usually not be interested in at all otherwise, due to having too many enjoyable games to play already. So yes, the romance addition in any new Bioware game is a major draw to get me to buy their game, instead of some other studio's one.

I'm also only here because Donk made this poll thread, and I miss Donk.
*crawls back into hiding*

No borderline or full throttle space-furry romance?

But this begs the question as to why the two things would necessarily be mutually exclusive. Like, what would have been potentially improved in ME1 2 or 3 if that particular content was ditched? 

Romances are a great way to expand on a character, and would absolutely HATE IT if they ever remove them from future games.
That said, I would still play future BioWare games.

Ah the reasoning that both are possible. Sadly it never is, an example MP in a SP only game, where we can clearly see in MEA that game was first designed with MP in mind then came the SP. Would i like that they had both romance and proper quests, dialogues for other stuff as well? yes i would but that is not possible.

Hell infact the focusing of romances is hampering the game for me. I would have loved if i could kick out squadmates from the ship, but due to Romance, Peebee and Liam can never be kicked out of the squad. That was just an example but i do believe this should first focus on making their game a RPG first and then romances. ATM their priorities appear to be skewed. 

I would, but I think the games would lose a lot of their charm.

Romance allows me to feel more attached to certain characters, and it's honestly one of the things I look forward to the most. Like with Dragon Age, the fact that my Warden actually formed a family with Morrigan feels so unique.

It is great for roleplaying, but it has taken so much focus away from everything else. Some of the games that are considered to be Bioware's greatest and indeed classics, KoToR, BG:II, DA:O all had 4 options or less. Now with Inquisition and Andromeda we are up in 8 - 10 options. People saying that romances doesn't take away time and resources from other content is wrong. It takes writers to actually write said dialogue, then you have to animate addtional scenes and polish those scenes for a good cinematic experience. It takes time and money, which could be spent improving other sections of the game.

As for the topic i would play Bioware games without the romances, but i don't want them gone forever. However they need to figure out what they actually want the romances to represent and how to make them matter more in terms of the overall narrative. Like you mentioned with Morrigan, that actually had something to do with the main story. Same with Bastila and Carth in KoToR. The only romance lately that mattered in terms of the story was Solas in DA:I.