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@FullbringIchigo I'm not sure I agree - they got the choice system (which they promoted big time) bang on in the entire main storyline. Why did they suddenly lose their imagination for the DLC? It would not have been a technical challenge to give a player two choices for their "final" love interest, especially when two love interests already exist in the game (female for Alexios, male for Kass). The baby could have come from whichever love interest they didn't pursue as a friend/surrogate, or been optional (since the spear can carry the DNA anyway)

None of this is a massive stretch of the imagination, nor does it involve game breaking or major changes.

To be honest most people are scratching their heads over this apparent lack of effort all of a sudden.

@LowTech The main issue is they advertised the fact that the game was LGBT friendly / inclusive / open to player choice, pulled in a gay audience, and then effectively betrayed them.

@Athrum they can adopt, or they might be trans, or they can use surrogates. That's the three ways they can, that I'm aware of.

@LowTech And yes, the ending is completely, mandatory hetero, even if you reject the person and don't want a relationship with them.

@LowTech Kass could have had a wife and used surrogate sperm (my lesbian friends in real life have done this). Alexios in a gay relationship could have used a surrogate mother. Assuming a child is mandatory, that is.

@Athrum having children != sexuality

@LowTech mmHmm - and would you say the same if, let's say, Alexios were forced into a male-male pairing as a set in stone ending despite you playing him straight?

@LowTech Even bisexual people have preferences - they might enjoy opposite sex but want to live and grow old with same sex for example. Not uncommon at all.

@FullbringIchigo The issue is choice was a massive selling point of the game. It matters a lot more to people who are LGBT because they typically never get to roleplay an LGBT character - it's super rare, even now. So of course we all bought the game and delighted in playing our characters as gay for once...

... Only for them to then end up in a forced hetero pairing? Can you imagine the outcry if this were reversed? The main demographic is straight men, right? What if Alexios ended up in a forced male-male pairing? Imagine the outcry.

It's kind of disgusting, especially if you role play Kassandra as a lesbian - because the achievement "growing up" is super distasteful - after all, all we heard growing up was "it's just a phase" and "we will grow out of it."

The child thing is also problematic - moreso for women to whom this trope is far too common (a woman is not worthy or complete until she has borne a child and gives up everything for them). But, that's a lesser problem to the forced het pairing. The child could still have been born with same sex endings, there is such a thing as surrogates.