Did I hear this right?

The answer everyone is looking for is this: The transition from F2P re-routed all resources away from development and towards re-inventing the game. Now that SWTOR is finally standing back on its feet, we should see all this stuff slowly oozing down the content pipeline.

It a bummer. It's unfair. It's annoying, aggravating, and hurtful the way it reflects how LGBT players are marginalized by their game just as they are by their society at large...but it is what it is.

People definitely have the right to be annoyed/worried, but there's no reason to think it's not coming or that EA/Bioware has abandoned this promise. Everything's just taking longer than expected.

A fair amount of the people posting about the content on the forums require only a couple of simple answers... "Is it still coming? When?" Last info we got was in March. That's plenty of time for them to have figured something out in that regard. Others might go as far as to ask the question... "How is it going to work?" Do we level up to 50 and have our companion conversations reset, or do we stop leveling as soon as we run into companions we'd like to romance?

I do understand that moving to the F2P model might have cost some extra resources and that said resources might have been diverted from production of the SGR content, but really... is it so much to ask to get a simple answer like... "We're still working on it, guys, it'll happen in 3 months" or whatever? Instead, we get shoved into a single thread that has grown beyond proportion and that hasn't seen a single response to our questions. Why? So that we don't interfere with the rest of the population? Stick the LGBT community in the corner, away from the "normal" people, so that it won't spread?

I can also understand not wanting to give out spoilers, but just an update as to whether the content is still coming or not isn't really a spoiler, I don't think. Even knowing which companions would be available for such isn't a spoiler. The blind faith in Bioware died out in most of us several months ago, and it's not because of something we did, it's because of something they did... or rather something they didn't do - mainly give us some information in response to our questions. Ball's in your court, Bioware. I sure hope you'll show us that you can still be considered a game developer that actually cares about its consumer base.

and i hope no one feels discriminated against cuz thats not cool. people r mean

All we're asking for is a simple answer to two simple questions: are SGR really coming with Makeb? and, if so, when can we expect to see Makeb patch and SGR implemented?

they are planning a tactful way of givin us an answer without causin a riot lol

I've been posting this around so the info is out there now.

Since I promised I'd tell you guys if I got anything new, I came back in for a minute. I just checked my email.

Earlier, I had sent a news tip to gamesindustrybiz.com about this matter. For those of you that don't know, this is the same site were the posters had to correct the article about EA's stance on LGBT content. EA allowed an assumption to be published that was clearly trying to state SGRs were in the game. Since they helped write the article, I figured they could be another brief stopover.

Glad I listened to my instincts.

I got the following reply:

So that's two groups for certain that are looking into this matter. There is another avenue to take our messages and emails to. I'll come back by later if I get anything more updates.

Edit: For the record, I did not let them know I contacted GLAAD. They got the same letter as GLAAD and other websites have received.

u go gurl

If this SGR thing gets into the game I hope i'll be able to turn it off in options, or i'll be moving on to another game.

Rest assured, you will not have to get involved. Just don't choose any flirt options and you'll be fine. No one is out to make people do anything they don't want to.

Honestly my initial "oh romance" reaction was player marriage full stop. (Seriously lolwut to romance in an MMO. Pointless. Just let players romance each other) If they're gonna bother with comp marriages and then claim they'll have s/s ones they might as well be blunt about it. If they changed their mind say so if it's still on the table (along with an ETA) say that too.