On the one hand, I do feel some pleasure in the fact that it IS women who are ultimately ending up with the most options for once, especially in light of the disaster that was ME3 potentially leaving female Shepard with only lesbian options because of one plot-mandated death and one forced unceremonious dumping, with the only other option for a new heterosexual romance being potentially dead or potentially killed off, so I suppose this might count as a balm for that. Plus it is a good showing of demographic shift, how the audience of video games has increasing amounts of women.
On the other, though... Yeah, I'm still not so pleased with this, because it is an unequal distribution, coming off the heels of DA2, which was, barring Sebastian, an even split for all. Yes, I do believe that LI's should be divided up equally and fairly, because why the **** shouldn't they be? Don't you dare use any argument of realism, because we're starting from a fantasy video game. I give not one single flying fornication about realism. I care about being treated equally, something that I don't get in real life and want to see in my escape. This does leave me a little disappointed and feeling even a little slighted. Especially when looking at the way it shakes out look really off-kilter, while there was this big fan push and idea of a 4/4 gender split and 2/4/2 for sexualities. A lot of the fans from where I was standing seems pretty content with that idea, because it was giving everyone equal consideration and treatment.
And I think that the way that this was drawn out is the biggest issue from this. The writers and developers knew going in who was and was not romanceable, knew for months, from the time it was announced that DAI would have some of the most LIs in a BioWare game ever and that they wouldn't be available to everyone to this reveal of everyone, and then instead of waiting for a single reveal, there's instead a steady drip of one or two at a time, including reveals of non-romance status, so that when the inevitable letting down occurred because someone had pinned hopes on a character who isn't an option happened, there was nothing soothing that, no counterbalance. This felt a lot like being baited, being jerked around, and all I really see coming out of the way that these LI reveals have been handled is that there's been a breach of trust and faith in BioWare because of it - no one wants to be strung along.
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