Hybrid sorc here... 0/16/25 In relation to pugs... Its kind of funny, but 400k+ damage and ~200k healing is easy enough in void star -without- the spec into heals... and that 400k+ is because I'm dpsing healers and their adjacent brute squad. Of course that 200k heals is just keeping my butt upright against grav/tracer/lightning/force spam, not my team. My team is screwed if I have to main heal. Point being, the numbers can lie about the effect an individual has on the outcome of a game. People rely too heavily on burst damage, pick better targets and start making premades with people who mark and focus fire the healers, not everyone in any given WZ can heal forever. You just have to team up and kill the one or two who can in any given PUG.

Think of it from a different standpoint. What if all the relationships in the game were gay only?

Was out looking for organized 1.2 information (lots and lots of rumor...) Q&A doesn't give any info leading to such, but I noticed the most passive aggressive posts were in regards to this topic, and multiple re-directs got me here. but I also wondered why it had not been implemented, seems there is no such thing as info

I would simply reply EA ate your restaurant. "Your favorite restaurant, now brought to you by McDonalds" I'm a fan of Bioware...

And the same thing can be said for any individual who doesn't feel their priorities have been mentioned. I do wish you luck, though I am doubtful of the efficacy of the counting

I think there should be many more romance options, I think that you have a valid point about equal numbers of each, though personally if there were 2 gay options for every 1 straight, I would still consider the straight options pretty well covered. Though I also think that making this a pure apples to apples comparison is unnecessary unless you want to go down the line of how many of each race... gender... body type... voice... etc. are represented.

Can you imagine dining at a restaurant run like an MMORPG? Oye! You'd choke on the first bite... if it wasn't deadly poison to boot. When you called 911, they would ask you how far down your throat you think you are choking, and whether its important enough to breath to send an email to their customer service, where perhaps just reading the FAQ would fix the problem.

I just don't like that idea honestly, because I made that decision already, I have done that part of the game. It feels... dirty for lack of a better word, to go back in a role playing game and alter what I did. IMHO

You walk out, you don't wait past closing time for an answer. You walk out, bad customer service is bad, you want to buy a product that you may never get support on? You leave their service, or call the BBB for false advertising. I do, and where I differ is how much time I would waste asking before I left, instead of bashing my head against the metaphorical wall that is a poorly integrated customer service team. I wouldn't sit back down with that same server and still expect an answer, you may deserve one, but its naive to expect one.

I do understand, tongue in cheek about the droids. Tthough I do not see all romantic options as simply being blanket options for all, if we were to have the romantic foils changed in some patch to allow for SGRA, then all my options that previously may have presented a different character to me are now changed. Someone who may not have been receptive to my character before is all of a sudden an option, that changes the story for me, it changes my view of that character and mine. I personally don't want the characters in the game to change, because I already have a view of them from my play through. Having that change makes it so I never had the option and i may have taken that option at the time,, and I wouldn't want to post-game go back and alter my character's romance choice or even have the option because it undermines the decisions that i already had to make. Personally I'd just prefer more companions available who may be gay, straight, bi, or whatever floats their boat. Heck, make the number of options limitless, but don't mess with what I already did make for decisions or make it so i just missed out on decisions.

I think it just leads to more frustration on the part of those most involved, not more action on Bioware's side. Arguably if the ends justify the means, having more activity resulting in more responses could be valid. So far it has not been the case. so I would say again it just leads to more internalized frustrations with a lack of answering while lending credibility to the idea that the more vocal the more valid the want. I had not considered that, but i don't think that negative feedback from single community members is necessarily anything more than a side effect of having any opinion at all. Though I can imagine it can be annoying and distracting to the overall cause. My point is that some of the information being requested, some of it just in at least the way it is requested, is impossible, or unreasonable. There are questions as so "when," such as weeks, months etc. 1.2 doesn't have a date yet if I'm not mistaken. Specific game features that have not yet been mentioned even in line with 1.2, I consider impossible to answer. Also in line again with the fact that any dev team that is working on something that is most likely backburner or at least not aimed for implementation in 1.2 (for whatever reason) may not have time estimations that could be released with any degree of certainty, or even any updates on how it may be implemented. From what I've seen quoted by people in this thread by members of Bioware, it sounds to me like they are going to release SGRA in expansions. Not in any 1.x release.

I would say I'd prefer the original companions to remain the same. Add new ones in for replays. Do a Mass Effect style choice where you get to pick a companion or two that meshes for you. Going back and making say... Khem Val a romance option would completely change my view of what his character was. So would blanket assigning all companions an SGRA option... especially the droids.

Whoever wrote that in response or formulated it for the response should never work in public relations or customer service. I can only hope that is not indicative of the actual attitude of those in control of development and design. As it is probably one of the few times it was mentioned in the manner and there has been no mention of it in detail since, I can understand the frustration and feeling of marginalization. I personally choose to continue to believe that it is a backwards customer service / PR team, and not a game planning and development team that made a wholly erroneous decision to believe that such content is only interesting to a "small audience." Knowing where these decisions actually got made would be the important part to realizing whether it is truly marginalization, or an ugly development oversight coupled with an Exec or someone else who knows exactly how to say the wrong thing.

I generally play female characters, I'm a straight male. I play them as straight, or gay. I've never played a gay male, except in the Sims, it doesn't appeal to me as much. My girlfriend seems to make decisions on who she gets along with based on who is most submissive to her in game... I don't think she makes gender/sexuality biased decisions, more just dominance decisions lol, and her relationships in games reflect that.

The running tally seems moot and self inflammatory. That's all. Not upset by it in anyway, only feel its counterproductive to put any effort into counting. Though I do agree constant requests for the feature are important until it is implemented. I simply do not see it as marginalization. I simply stand at odds with that opinion which seems to be held by a number of SGRA. I'm far more willing to believe it is poor feelings due to poor handling, where malice need not be implied.