Carfax wrote...
SilentNukee wrote...
It's my own personal experience.
Well you yourself said you were bi, so it's natural for you to find, and be in the company of other females such as yourself..
Sorry to barge in, but this is horsedung. I don't have hetero printed on my head nor does Nukee have BI printed on hers. I can concurr however, that from personal experience, I seem to run into alot of BI people.
Having said that, that makes sense. Not from a gaming perspective but a pure people one. Taboo on being bi/gay disappearing slowly in some places, it's not a black and white concept, it's not a 50%/100% thing. It's a 5/95% thing aswell. Meaning, there will always be more slightly to mayoryly BI people then there will EVER be straight people. Wether they express it and act upon it is something entirely different. I am not 100% straight, I'll admit it, but I'll also never act upon bi-feelings. Not because they're not there, but because personally while I can appreciate the female form, I am not so much curious about a relationship with a female.
You should check around the S/S thread and such, you will see a lot of women who like F/F... Of course if you're not into that kind of stuff, then it might be harder to discover them as you probably avoid the threads and so on. Even if men play F/F, why not? If they like it, they should be able to make it happen in their own game if they wish.
You should check out the Kaidan romance thread, which is a lot longer than the S/S thread..
At any rate, I've posted many times in the S/S thread, so I know that most of the people that post in that thread are recurring posters (people like IsaacShep for instance). I also think you underestimate, or simply don't acknowledge the demographics involved in this.
The vast majority of Mass Effect players are heterosexual men. The second largest group is heterosexual women, followed by gay/bi men, followed by gay/bi women.
A guestimate? I know I don't know, you can't possibly know. Also, 87% of all statistics are made up.
Gay/bi people are always going to be a small minority no matter what because they constitute a small percentage of the overall population...
Maybe you should try and set that idea aside, and see how many actually roll out of the woodworks. Again, you guess.
BioWare is one of the only gaming companies that include S/S and it does attact some gamers to this ideal. Even just 10% is large when taken account all the numbers.
Well you certainly are optimistic aren't you? 10% would be a very high figure indeed..
10% of millions isn't worth their time? It's not worth yours? I bet you they could collectively trample your house down, and I reckon that 10% can be a force to reckon with. But again, a guestimate (which also means it could be MORE then 10%).
Personally, I think more heterosexual people will use the M/M and F/F romance options than actual gays and lesbians..
Bioware knows this as well, which is why the F/F romances are in such high abundance compared to the M/M, since heterosexual men are by far, the largest consumer group for Bioware.
Wether or not that's true is no reason to rob some of their fun. However small a percentage, if you're going to cater to the minority, don't do a halfassed job.
And as to this endlessly recurring discussion, just freaking drop it already. Throwing guestimates and made up numbers in counterargument is hardly productive nor does it prove anything but some people's own ridigity of thinking.
And no, I'm not going to respond to counter-arguments. This is not worth the time. I'd say to stop beating a dead horse though, and be more tolerant and more openminded to the possibility that your guesses and less than lenient attitude are actually making the bi/gay community feel uncomfortable, not being fully accepted/recognised.
You imagine that's you, being judged and then deemed a minority that can be forgotten about. And don't say you wouldn't care, cause you'd be lying.
Modifié par Ottemis, 09 avril 2012 - 07:09 .
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