Fair enough. Now that I think about it, it seems silly to pay a monthly subscription for a game and then complain it doesn't have the features you want. I knew when I bought it that same sex romance wasn't on the disc. I'd argue that BioWare's statements about adding them after launch were somewhat misleading, but that's more a case of caveat emptor than anything else I guess. I'm going to go find find somebody who actually wants my entertainment dollars. I honestly wish you all luck.

So is this a warning not to discuss when and whether or not Same Gender Romance Arcs will be implemented?

While I generally agree, EA's been pretty loud about support for gaymers lately. You'd think including a couple of frames of girl-girl or boy-boy romance in the video would have guaranteed attention in an already saturated E3 environment...

There's a difference between patience and gullibility, and I'm starting to wonder which one I'm displaying by continuing to pay for a subscription. I really, really wish Bioware would consider this a case of missing functionality rather than "nice to have content". But it's so nice to be able to buy a ticket for the bus, we should all be happy to ride at the back of it, right? If something wasn't shown, then they're aren't willing to commit to it being in. That's the step back. That's not to say that you're wrong. Everything could be there and ready to go. Getting information out of BioWare has been like pulling teeth throughout this entire process. Until they decide to actually tell us what's going on, all we can do is try to read the tea leaves of their other announcements. Thus far, they have not inspired confidence.

It suddenly triggered for me when I was in the northern portion of the area you do the outbreak quest in. Somewhere near 1860, -1132

I'm reading waaay too much of this at work.

I don't think anybody here is really asking BioWare to develop content "specifically" for a minority of players. I mean, I know I'm certainly not asking for a special companion mission where I show Qyzen-Fess a new method of scoring points on Fire Island. In a BioWare RPG title released in 2011, exclusion of same-sex romance options is a bug. If this had come out of any other company, most people interested in same-gender romancin' would have just quietly taken their seat at the back of the bus. People expect more from BioWare though. It's what happens when you raise the bar.

This. There was nothing wrong with "we will add it after launch" as an initial answer, especially before launch. But declining to provide anything resembling an ETA or any idea how same gender stuff is going to be implemented makes one wonder if there is an actual plan yet. Since this is the Internet, any absence of information will be filled by speculation. But then, maybe the forum admins actually *enjoy* closing these threads every other day.