Well, there you go, then. Random cruelty is not her way of doing things, and you avoid doing so by not choosing those options. Why is this suddenly different for same-sex flirting?

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Pretty sure he was wielding a lightsaber, though.

There was something that appeared to be cross-class ability usage; as someone said, a Sith using a flamethrower. But it may be purely cosmetic, replacing an ability's animation with one from another class. We won't know until later.

Pretty sure that was ship droids. The last screenfull of features in the preview video went by pretty fast; anyone get a good look?

Something we're not really allowed to discuss here! Doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Er...what? That doesn't follow at all.

I guess I don't get people who don't get the concept. I mean, what do you do in non-romance conversations? Pick an option at random? I mean, you must have some idea of your character's personality, surely?

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the question about server maintenance times has been asked and answered on the forums before.

I'd love to believe that, but then why not simply tell us that there'll be more information coming soon?

Figure the Guild Summit's my limit. If we get nothing from that, I'm done.

I had the same concerns, among others. But DA2 actually really surprised me. There's a great deal about it that I could complain about, but nothing that really breaks it, and underneath it all there's an amazing game in there.

Yeah, he's not part of the TOR development team. His point about BioWare having the actual numbers on the uptake of SGRAs in their other games carries over pretty well, though, IMO.

Probably worth remembering David Gaider's response to a fan's objections to the bisexual romance options in Dragon Age 2: Full post is here, as well as the post it was made in response to.

And this is the key point that the pro-toggle people need to understand. It doesn't matter how many times you say that you're OK with SGRAs being in the game. It doesn't matter how carefully you construct your proposal to give it the appearance of treating OGRAs and SGRAs equally. Because what matters is that it wasn't until the possiblity of SGRAs was raised that anybody started asking for a toggle at all. The fact that it's same-sex content - and only same-sex content - that provokes this reaction tells us everything we need to know.

Actually, you should. Because that's how every other piece of content in the game works. People don't like torture? Tough. It's there; deal with it. People don't like attempted genocide? Tough. It's there; deal with it. It's not BioWare's job to hold your hand as you play and hide away any option you don't want to see.

This has the added advantage of allowing the pro-toggle folks to implement their own solution with a simple piece of duct tape. Is there any problem that stuff can't fix?

You're mean

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Your avatar looks female. Also, I really am a robot!

At the risk of going off on a tangent: I tend to think the emotional baggage that tends to come with the word 'bigotry' clouds the issue a bit. It's a word that conjures up images of pointy white sheets and the worst inhumanity humanity has to offer. In everyday life, bigotry just isn't like that. It's often subtle and insidious. A lot of bigots are actually really nice, well-meaning people who just happen to hold some very rigid views as to how the world should work. Perhaps prejudice is the better term, since it lacks some of the connotations. I'm finding it really hard to see how leaving out SGRAs at launch could be anything other than prejudice; unconcious, unintentional prejudice, maybe. Probably, I'd say, given BioWare's track record. But prejudice nonetheless.

Sure, but entering into that kind of contractual agreement in the first place is itself an issue of corporate responsibility.

They should be!

Good news: pro-toggle thread has been locked. Bad news: they've been told to bring it over here.

And that's exactly what's going to happen. Nobody is going to be forced to romance an NPC of the same gender as their character. Exactly the same choices that exist now will continue to exist; there will simply be a few more alongside them, on equal footing.