David Gaider wrote...
Well, how about this then: we're very aware of the desires of our fans when it comes to romances, whether they be homosexual or otherwise. Being able to include any kind of content that's really only useable by a relatively small percentage of the player base is often problematic-- it's not an issue of "want to" but rather "able to". There's also the issue of where you put the resources you have-- adding content for extra player options is great, but if they're options that many players will not use or event want to use it's not necessarily the best use of those resources. I can't really fault a decision to provide more options for a greater amount of players as opposed to less options for everyone.
There's a fallacy at work among people who come to these forums that romances, once they're included in a game, become a right-- that if we have romances they must be allocated "fairly" or it's disciminatory. But you don't have a right to romances in a game-- any more than you have a right to free worship or to be an elf. It's a difficult issue to discuss, because we don't look on it as an issue of fairness. It's content, like any other sort of content, and we'll only ever be able to include a limited amount of it so we have to make the best of it we can, and we're always going to try and be inclusive of as many of our players' desires are we can.
That said, the Mass Effect team will make its choices and we'll make ours. We'll be happy to let you know what we have in store for you-- when we're ready to even discuss followers in general, never mind romances and the distributions thereof. It's a little early to get upset about this, but I'd like to think that the Dragon Age team has displayed enough willingness in the past to include this kind of content that we'd get a pass-- at least for the moment. But maybe I'm wrong.
While this is a very interesting and honest assessment of the situation, I can't help but read between the lines and see "our new corporate masters won't allow it for "content" reasons".
And, since we already know that Hawke is not a character of our design (which is reinforced in this context by the "can't choose to be an elf" bit), I would not be surprised if s/he comes to us as straight. Hawke is not our character, s/he's Bioware's. We just get to use him/her as a puppet, and not change deep parts of his/her character.
I hope that the romances can be all-inclusive in some way, but given that nothing I've hoped for is showing so far to be a part of DA2, I'm not holding my breath.
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