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Lent_San

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  1. Well, my male smuggler is currently in a rather happy and stable (*cough let's hope so*) relationship with Theron, after running into him again when all the ordeal of the first nine chapters of KotFE was over. I admit he briefly flirted with Koth, but when decision time came, he realised that Theron was the one to return to. I do know my sig says Corso for SGRA (and who knows what happens when Corso and my captain meet again one day ) but for now, Theron is a good choice and I'm glad the Bioware peeps went away from brief flirts with random people and established real relationships with recurring characters in the game, however tame they may be. ) I got the same feeling about Corso btw, some of the banter between him and the captain was certainly interesting in terms of SGRA 'hints'.
  2. Don't know if anyone still remembers me from way back, but I've come back to SWTOR with KotFE and so far am really happy with the way SGRA were implemented (It's taken waaaaaay too long, we all know that). I see some of the usual suspects are still around and the same discussions are held. Well.... Nevertheless, I'm happy right now and if finally SGRA get the same space in the game that hetero romances get, this may well be the argument for me to stick with the game from now on, seeing that KotFE also is well implemented and quite fun to play so far. I've seen worse from the developers, when it comes to this game.
  3. Maaaaark!!! Yay, one of my old fav faces! πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒ Yeah,well, I was kind of coaxed by a friend of mine to look in again and there was this kind of 7-day return thingy that I came across yesterday, so I used that and today bought the new expansion and a GTC for 60 days so I will be here at least for a while. Sad to hear there's nothing definite on class and future SGRA content, but well, at least with the expansion they've implemented options that both genders can romance which is something we've been talking about all the time!! A first step in the right direction, as far as I'm concerned. I've read elsewhere that the focus would be more on story content from now on so I guess new companions and new class story is not totally out of the question. So basically we're back to square one with this, but I'm still looking foward to those new NPC options now. And as I said, Housing in SWTOR also looks really good so far! If SWTOR doesn't deliver, I'll still have Wildstar to fall back on, but so far I'm happy to be back! πŸ˜€ Too bad about Tatile though, indeed they kept us waiting for a long, long time. 😞
  4. I'm baaack. πŸ˜† I used to be a kind of regular in this thread but left the game because I wasn't too happy with the implementation (or rather lack) of same sex romance options. I see with Shadow of Revan we have made progress, late, but oh well. And housing looks good to me! I guess the companion romance option is not off the table for SS romance? Need to catch up anyway, I stopped playing halfway through Rise of the Hutt Cartel. Still would like to be able to romance Corso with my male smuggler. 😊 PS: Realise my post is still the first one in the thread after the initial yellow one, lol, from two years ago. Let's see if some of the old peeps are still here.
  5. To me roleplaying is about exploring and experiencing things I don't usually pursue, or wish I could pursue but can't due to physical restraints (I'm not a 6 ft. soldier guy, mind you). I think LotRO with its lack of PvP options and focus on story and lore attracts a certain kind of player, one that doesn't need instant gratification with anything. Rift to me is similar, but unfortunately it's rather underrated. I think I wasn't even talking about those new F2Pers alone. Going F2P sure caused some of the early players to become quite snobbish and snotty towards new players. Questions in General were suddenly huffed at while it's been quite okay to ask stuff before and suddenly that horrible "noob" stigma was unearthed again. Whenever this happens, you know the community is taking a turn for the worse.
  6. LotRO is a game I often go back to, for its lush settings and great community. It does have the nicest community out there, imo. WoW was bad but SWTOR has gotten equally bad after going F2P, at least in my experience, so no big difference there for me anymore. I am a female in RL and I played a male Shepard. I do enjoy playing male chars in Bioware games, am always playing males in DA as well. I guess it's a mix between enjoying the SGR elements and also being able to play a game with a male perspective, but one that's not necessarily dripping with testosterone, since BW characters are written nicely and the fighting element is not in the forefront.
  7. Highlighted the important point that I wanted to make. I don't even think the SWTOR creators purposely create this game with the mindset for it to be appealing to male straight gamers mostly, it's more the neglect of other options that's been shifting this game in the direction it has been heading in, with male straight gamers claiming this game for themselves, reporting maleXmale flirts as bugs just because THEY CAN. I've been following Brian Audette and Hal Hood on Twitter. One is lead writer, the other is lead developer, I suppose. Both seem like reasonable guys, true nerds in the best sense of the word, with all due respect for women or LGBT people. Why doesn't this adequatly translate into the game? Could it be insecurity on dev's part to take the safe path instead of the risky one? Maybe. I've tweeted BAudette about how I was surprised that male X male flirts were missing from Rep side and he said they were aiming for more diversity in the future. He seemed honest and engaged. I truly believe he feels that way. Why they chose this non-inclusive path for Makeb though, it baffles me. Right now, those silly straight males (presumably) who claim this game for themselves feel all justified to do so. And they will for some time to come. That's the thing that really irks me, because even when this game gets more diverse (which I hope it will), those types will then feel as if this game was taken away from them. They will scream bloody murder with every addition that's not catering to them. This is what entitlement is all about and this entitlement is infectuous and insidious indeed, unfortunately. I know of course not all male gamers feel that way (and I know you didn't want to attack me ), many many do not, but to often they get drowned out by the noise those annoying types make and don't do enough to fight back. And girls may find themselves playing male characters all of a sudden and enjoying them, because it almost feels like a harassment-free gaming experience, at last. Which may reinforce the view that most gamers are guys and girls are in the minority, since it's an open secret that many guys play female chars. Not once has anyone assumed me to be a female gamer though, playing my male char. I'm automatically assumed to be male. Strange, strange stuff. It almost feels like we're in the renaissance stages of Gaming and social norms are still negotiable, with the scales only very slowly tipping towards more diversity and inclusion.
  8. Who says I was talking about guys? I've encountered numerous women that gave me strange looks and raised eyebrows when they realized I'm a female gamer. This is something that pertains to both sexes, most certainly.
  9. I guess you're right. And by enforcing that view, it becomes part of the gaming world paradigm that plagues us 'til this day: Women don't play. To play, you need to be independent, have time at hand and need to be able to thoroughly enjoy yourself doing something that serves no immediate purpose in terms of procreation. Since women's lives only revolve around guys, the concept not only of gaming, but playing in itself is alien to the female DNA. They simply don't have the time and mental capacity. *bows* Gosh, I hated writing this.
  10. My Cathar name will be [ ....... ] because I'm not gonna be playing one. I refuse to buy species unlocks off the CM.
  11. This add-on ( I refuse to call it an expansion) lacks on so many levels so far. I'm Lv 51 now and already moving into Lv 54 quest areas because apparently this is all there is. It's like this whole add-on consists of 20 quests (not enough to level appropriately) and they expect you to go back to other planets to actually reach Lv 55 down the line. And don't get me started about how crafting is useless with nothing to sell on the GTN and 1h wait until missions are finished.... wowee. Not really happy with this. But yeah, SGR(A).... this is a joke. I said it before and I'll say it again, it seems like this add-on was created by 14 year old straight guys in puberty and when they think of SGR(A), voluptuous girls who sleep with other girls but love guys even better is the first (or only) thing coming to their minds.... I don't even know what to say to that.
  12. Makes me so happy I decided to level my Smuggler guy to 50 for Makeb, not any other of my chars..... But seriously, not even flirts? I thought that while Imps have the male x male romance option, Reps at least get flirts? AmIWrong? Really ridiculous situation. Bioware: Austin really needs an intervention team which looks over their processes before they publish stuff ......
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