For the second time in under six months, Dragon Age senior writer David Gaider felt obligated to step among the Darkspawn in the BioWare Forums to defend the sexual politics of Thedas.
A post on the forum declares that “Bioware Neglected Their Main Demographic: The Straight Male Gamer” in Dragon Age 2. The author’s thesis (which you should totally read) posits several interesting arguments. Our favorite: “It makes things very awkward when your male companions keep making passes at you. The fact that a ‘No Homosexuality’ option, which could have been easily implemented, is omitted just proves my point.”
“We have good numbers, after all, on the number of people who actually used similar sorts of content in [Dragon Age: Origins] and thus don’t need to resort to anecdotal evidence to support our idea that their numbers are not insignificant,” Gaider wrote, echoing previous sentiments in his response.
We think BioWare should seize this opportunity and release some DLC: the big, gaudy, golden “Necklace of Nohomo” that grants +2 against “unwanted advances” — then donate the proceeds to the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
Dragon Age 2 writer responds to complaint about BioWare neglecting ‘straight male’ demographic originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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