BioWare recently confirmed that Dragon Age 2 – much like its predecessor – would feature same sex romance opportunities for those players who want them, and predictably enough, the people who don’t want them are complaining. Apparently some people’s business is other people’s business.
Dragon Age 2 writer David Gaider has responded to complaints on the company’s forums, saying that, “Having people stridently proclaim that they have the ‘right’ to a romance of their preference just doesn’t sit well with me” and that “So long as romances of any kind are optional and need to be actively pursued by the player in order to be experienced, they simply don’t have a leg to stand on. Advocating that nobody should be able to have content you don’t intend to personally use is largely pointless.”
I mean, it’s kinda like complaining that there are also crossbows in the game, when you’re only interested in the swords. Nobody’s forcing you to use the crossbows.
“The resources we can devote to a minority of players isn’t great,” adds Gaider, “but I imagine to those players it’s quite worth it… and I would hope that some folks could be sensitive enough to be happy for those players, at the very least out of the selfish notion that they may one day end up in the minority of some content issue and receive the same consideration if nothing else.”
Oddly enough, BioWare’s other RPG series, Mass Effect, has yet to include male-male relationship options, despite featuring female-female romances. With the third – and presumably final – game shipping in 2011, will Commander Shepard finally step out of that nasty closet, and into Joker’s loving arms?
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