Personally, I'd be happy with a simple "still planning on putting this in sometime this year/it's been delayed along with the rest of the new story content, we're now looking at putting it in around _____". Guild Summit helped, but that was what, coming up on six months ago? It's about time for another proper update.

These. In that order. Also making it free to transfer all the mods in one piece of equipment to another at once. I dislike choosing between being effective and looking how I want. eta: And more character slots! This isn't really one thing anymore, is it?

So I've not been by, or played, for a few months now; can we be gay yet?

Yeah, I think it's kinda amusing how many people have no problem with the idea that an NPC is interested in any character, any look, and personality type you can possibly create, so long as they're the right gender, but as soon as you change the latter, cries of "but it's not realistic!" pop up.

You have been misinformed.

As some people have alluded to, I'd be very hesitant to try and apply our own society's attitudes towards same-sex relationships to how it'd be viewed in the game. I see no reason why, outside of cases where the companion themself or you are expected to produce an heir, that they should even see it as something surprising, to find that they are attracted to you. And that's good, because I've had my fill of "is this too gay for you?" moments in other Bioware games where I didn't think they particularly fit.

Pretty much everything on Voss from the Imperial side. Quite fun to basically be given a planet and told "ok, we need the natives to like us, so be nice to them and be sneaky when you're going out murdering Republic guys and sabotaging their operations!"

I fully support this solution.

Hey there, Yeah, there are a couple places it comes up; the actual first KotOR game is one, where your female character can have a relationship with a female Jedi if you like, and there's also a book with two Mandalorian guys who are together, though I'm not sure of the name of it; like gekko said, it'll be somewhere in the last 80-odd pages, if you're really interested However, even if that wasn't the case, can you really not think of anywhere the game has introduced something that you don't see anywhere in canon? Or in general, that the franchise hasn't been including more elements that nobody would have thought to put in back when it originally started? As an analogy, I could say "why is my female Sith able to end up in a coercive, abusive relationship with one of her male crewmembers when we don't see anything like that in SW?" Well... the reason you don't see it is because the writers took what they knew of the Sith and of human nature, and built on that to add something that'd make sense as a possibility for how we would want to play our characters. Likewise, they know that relationships exist in SW, that these people are pretty similar to us in a lot of ways, that love in SW doesn't recognize barriers of species... to go from that to thinking that there could be people for whom it wouldn't recognize barriers of gender either isn't a great leap. In the end, putting this in is simply about giving us choices in how we play our characters, letting us make them really ours. "Letting us live out our Star Wars fantasy" is how I think the developers have put it previously. And that means putting in a full range of options, for all of us, as far as is possible.

Sorry, I'm a little confused; how might it do so?

This isn't just a Star Wars game, this is a Star Wars roleplaying game. And most people (and, apparently, humanoid Star Wars aliens) have a sex drive. I am happy they're putting it in. I'm not happy they didn't put it in at launch, and yes, I imagine I won't be completely happy when it comes either, simply because there'll be some people I wanted to be available who won't be. My happiness with their treatment of this content isn't binary.

mrcaptainpants: I take your point, re forgetting everything that happened so quickly. I was just so excited and relieved to hear that it was still going to be in, that we even had a timeframe, that it's taken me awhile to realise that no, it's still not what it should be. Better than complete silence != sufficient to address our concerns about how this has been handled thus far. Yeah. Ditto to all of this. I said at the time that DA2 came out that that was literally the first time I have ever felt valued by a company as a specifically lesbian customer, or treated on the same footing as the straight customers. And that bought a lot of love and loyalty from me; it's a pity they seem intent on destroying all of that with how they're handling things now. I only hope they do better on future games; not having it in at launch was the wrong thing to do, regardless of the reason, but it's not like they can go back in time and fix it now.

Yeah. The only way I can really see them doing it at this point, given that anyone you run into in the course of a quest already available will be inaccessible now to a bunch of people, is to make the new companions available via completing various quests that'll show up as you go through a planet the first time, which we can double back for. Which is not what I would call well-integrated if they're completely new people. I mean, if instead, for example (Sith Inquisitor chapter 1 spoilers):

No offense taken! I'm just trying to figure out if there's any way this makes sense to me, something I can see as a reasonable explanation for why they can't just open up all current romances to everyone

But that's the thing; what does this mean? How does changing pronouns make it wrong?