I think somewhere along the way people have forgotten that the romances in DAI are not created for them personally. This isn't DA match.com. A straight or gay romance isn't created for you to romance yourself. It's for your inquisitor to romance for cutscenes that probably don't even equal 5% of gameplay. That's not to say it's not a great part of the game, because it is one of my favourite parts, it deepens and develops character, but it's a small part, a portion of all the kinds of relationships you can have, and not a dating simulator for your.
Bioware not making Solas or Cassandra or Dorian bi is not a personal attack on your sexual orientation, denying you personally a chance of romance. They are still available as a romance option for your inquisitor if you choose to play as one they are available to, and yes, some people are not comfortable playing an opposite gender to their own, or a different sexual orientation, but that is your own feelings, and not down to Bioware to remedy.
And yes, playing a different race to romance someone is not like playing a different gender, but out of everyone who will play this game (with the BSN being a small minority) most will play as human, and only play once, therefore no, a race gated romance such as Solas' will not be open to the majority of players, but so too will other romances be unavailable.
I'm a small number of players that will play this game many times, and I will be playing each race, perhaps even different genders, though I still will not have the romance I wanted for my Inquisitor - Varric, who is not available at all in any way, but that's how it is, how he's been written, and that's got to be respected, even if it made me sad for my Cadash Inquisitor.
In terms of representation, yes, Bioware should represent equality, but the world is not equal, and I'm not talking about terms of fairness, I'm talking statistically. The world is not an equal split of genders and sexual orientation, there is no way, unless Bioware made everyone in a game a romance including NPC's, would everyone be represented fairly or in the real life terms people keep attaching to the game, and even then someone would declare being given unequal treatment. But we are still represented. In fact, as a hetero woman, other than playing as a hetero inquisitor, if I choose to do so, Cassandra is my only representation of such a woman like myself amongst my followers. But as a hetero woman in real life, I am not restricted to being that in a game. I can be anyone. Including races that don't exist. That is the point of a role playing game, in a fantasy universe, and whether people want to play outside the confines of their imaginations or comfort zones, that's up to them, and not Bioware's fault if you don't want to do that for whatever reasons.
The point is we have choices. Choices to play as who we want, choices as how we play, and choices of whom to romance, even if that's 'limited' to two or, in special circumstances, more, on a playthrough.
Just wait until the game comes out before declaring certain romances will be lesser or not to your taste, we don't know our companions yet, we cannot judge them just by looks, you might be pleasantly surprised - in fact I'm sure you will, and if you're not, well, you can't please everyone, no matter what.
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