Same gender romances in SWTOR for postlaunch

It will be in post launch, from StephenReid

"Official statement follows:

Due to the design constraints of a fully voiced MMO of this scale and size, many choices had to be made as to the launch and post-launch feature set. Same gender romances with companion characters in Star Wars: The Old Republic will be a post-launch feature. Because The Old Republic is an MMO, the game will live on through content expansions which allow us to include content and features that could not be included at launch, including the addition of more companion characters who will have additional romance options."

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It is certainly a good move. Let's hope it is not like "Housing will come to WOW". Or it comes in a year or so. Sorry if I remain so skeptical. I am not sure if I better should not wait until it REALLY is in.

Solari Hugs, good just been playing Rift waiting for SWTOR, and hoping I get a beta invite.

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Solari Hugs, good just been playing Rift waiting for SWTOR, and hoping I get a beta invite.

I saw someone name Ooom(something) in test and thought it was you. I thought you were giving me the cold shoulder. :p

Nope, just hope to be in beta. Ooom is prob not a name I will use in game. Will prob use Suxhi, Loco, Loco Mama or Urge.

Have any of you read the thread...er threads as they maxed out the first one and the second one is already at 61 (as of this post)? I hope to god that some of these people don't procreate I can't imagine stupidity is a genetic code we want developed....

After the 19th of last month when the original statement of no sgra's (no explanation), there was a new thread every day for 2 weeks. BW would make new threads as soon as post count hit 1000. It was/is a prolific subject.

Just some of the statements "I don't want my money funding a this type of function" ....I mean what??

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Just some of the statements "I don't want my money funding a this type of function" ....I mean what??

what do you expect from backwater, small-minded, sister-marrying bigots?

It is not like anyone can see your who you are romancing anyway from anything that has been seen thus far anyway.

Great news. Thanks for sharing! :)

Ok, I really don't want to sound like trolling. This is a serious concern.

So, we have 8 Classes x 2 sexualities (gay/lesbian), that makes 16 new Companions to make. Now consider the newest video about how complex and demanding making Companions is:

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/23/swtor-companions-detailed-in-new-video-interview/

Ok, if you watched the video, at least I thought: how the heck can we really hope to EVER really really get gay & lesbian Companions? This sounds like a years work, not to talk about the fact they have a plethora of other things to add and work on! I mean, come on, do you really believe they priorize gay & lesbian Companions, 16 new characters?? Just for us? I mean, heck it took them 6 frigging weeks just to answer! They worked on this game for 5+ years! And in such a big team there isn't a single gay employee who could have told them earlier?? It makes no sense to me, and it makes ME quite afraid we are not going to see this before a year or what. And even then. I have a VERY hard time to see Bioware "Hey look here is the huge first addon, SIXTEEN new companions... and they are all homos!" LIKE HELL.

Sorry. I am just so very burnt on this topic. Let me know what you think, please.

For me I'm going to wait and see. I have no experience with BioWare games so I don't want to count anything out yet.

I like that they've come out and said they will add them. I'm not a programmer nor am I an person who works in the gaming industry so again I won't count them out on being able to pull this off within 12 months of release.

I'm going to play the game, enjoy the lore (since I'm not up SW lore this will be exciting for me) and have fun with my guild mates as we tackle the challenges in game.

In my opinion I don't think that they would have created the survey (and the hype that surrounded it) if they hadn't actually already decided to add the content. That means planning I think like most games they have a separate team working on post launch stuff as we speak and I'm optomistic that they had already started the work prior to the confirmation. Lets face it one of the things a company will do to generate hype will be to have something controversial (which this topic is) I don't think they were doing it just for giggles, I think they had planned on having it all along and wanted to use this as a way to get people talking about the game. But again just my opinion.

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So, we have 8 Classes x 2 sexualities (gay/lesbian), that makes 16 new Companions to make.

I think it's really unlikely they'll make a romanceable les and gay male companion for each class. What's probably going on is that they've got a patch in mind already for adding new companions, and that some of them will have same-sex romance options. And/or some extant companions will be 'turned' bisexual - folk will be more iffy about this but it'd be the least difficult way to do it. Hell, if I were them I'd thrown in some genderless or genderqueer companions too.

I also predict faction-specific or multi-class companions with same-sex romance options being patched in, to make them more widely available.

It wouldn't bother me if I was playing a Trooper and there were no gay romance options with any Trooper companions. That's just like real life - not everyone you meet is open to romance. It only bothers me if there's romance in general, but that none of it is same-sex.

It would be nice for them add it, I'll admit I was surprised that they weren't including it in release considering their other games.

As to Troopers not having a romance, there was always at least two of us in every unit I was in ;)

The only problem with them putting it in post launch is that we'll already be well into our companion's stories by then. I wonder how they'll make that work. I guess if anyone can do it its bioware. Maybe they'll give us new gay companions. Just please dont make them like the flaming elf in dragon age :P

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The only problem with them putting it in post launch is that we'll already be well into our companion's stories by then. I wonder how they'll make that work. I guess if anyone can do it its bioware. Maybe they'll give us new gay companions. Just please dont make them like the flaming elf in dragon age :P

I am rather hoping that they will, at some point, allow us to revisit past conversations to (perhaps) make different choices and visit the different voice acting paths. (and they are VERY well written and 99.9% of the time seem to be very well acted. :) )


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However, I would LOVE to share with you how I believe it will happen with the post launch romance arcs with companions, but I don't want to break NDA.

That said, I have yet to encounter a romance arc with any of my (female) companions. I dunno, maybe I'm just not charming enough or don't let my character bathe often enough. >.> "GOD your armour stinks! Wait... is that you?! Oh my GOD! Can you go... I dunno... Irradiate yourself, or something?!"

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The only problem with them putting it in post launch is that we'll already be well into our companion's stories by then. I wonder how they'll make that work. I guess if anyone can do it its bioware. Maybe they'll give us new gay companions. Just please dont make them like the flaming elf in dragon age :P

I am rather hoping that they will, at some point, allow us to revisit past conversations to (perhaps) make different choices and visit the different voice acting paths. (and they are VERY well written and 99.9% of the time seem to be very well acted. :) )


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However, I would LOVE to share with you how I believe it will happen with the post launch romance arcs with companions, but I don't want to break NDA.

That said, I have yet to encounter a romance arc with any of my (female) companions. I dunno, maybe I'm just not charming enough or don't let my character bathe often enough. >.> "GOD your armour stinks! Wait... is that you?! Oh my GOD! Can you go... I dunno... Irradiate yourself, or something?!"

Those usually come late in most bioware games. so im thinking its probably well into the gameplay, probably after you get close to maxing out their affection or whatever. i cant remember what its called. I havent played in a couple of months.

What? The elf wasn't flaming, he was flamboyant...are we talking Dragon Age 1 or 2?

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What? The elf wasn't flaming, he was flamboyant...are we talking Dragon Age 1 or 2?

1. never played 2


I would have much prefered alistair