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"Here is an excerpt from a response I received yesterday from customer support:&#13;\n&#13;\n[QUOTE]&#13;\n&#13;\nWe can assure you that our Community Team does care about all members of the Community for our game and if the GLBT members of the Community felt ignored, it was certainly not intended. As mentioned in the statements, our developers have every intention of implementing same gender romance in the game. As far as this is concerned, our Customer Support team cannot provide any further information on the topic. &#13;\n&#13;\nYou are welcome to post in the Q&amp;A thread, however, as the Community team may be able to provide you with further information from the developers on the subject.&#13;\n&#13;\nThank you so much for your passion and interest in the game. There is a lot to look forward to in the next update, and same gender romance is a future aspect of the game that our developers are currently working on. We hope that you continue to post in the forums and provide us with your valuable feedback on this topic. Our developers are listening to you!&#13;\n[/QUOTE]&#13;\n&#13;\nThe customer service representative was wonderful. She has singlehandedly managed to convince me to retain my subscription for a while longer despite a truly lackluster Community Team response.&#13;\n&#13;\nHowever, as sparklecat stated:&#13;\n&#13;\n[quote name='sparklecat'] &#13;\nThat said, it's news that should have been given to [i]all[/i] of us earlier on, not to one person in an email while other people were being told there would be no further comment on this issue, full stop.  &#13;\n[/QUOTE]&#13;\n&#13;\nIn keeping with that theme, here is an excerpt of my response to her:&#13;\n&#13;\n[QUOTE]&#13;\n&#13;\nYou wrote:&#13;\n&#13;\n    \"if the GLBT members of the Community felt ignored, it was certainly not intended.\"&#13;\n&#13;\n I respectfully disagree.  If Bioware is indeed reading our posts, is aware of our requests for information, is aware of the level of hostility brewing in the various threads asking for information, and is yet still instructing customer service representatives to refer us to a post made by Stephen Reid that no longer even exists in its original form and tell us that this statement is the only statement that will be made...then their decision not to engage the GLBT community is pretty darn intentional.&#13;\n&#13;\n[Removed CR,s name], I know that you, personally, cannot tell me anything to alleviate my concerns. I hope you do not in any way feel that this means I think that your involvement in this matter is inconsequential. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your efforts have managed to convince me to retain my subscription for at least a while longer, while I wait to see if the Community Team (or their superiors) can be persuaded to reach out to its GLBT players, or whether it intends to continue to rely on its customer service representatives to do so in secret.&#13;\n&#13;\nBest wishes,&#13;\n&#13;\n&#13;\n[/QUOTE]&#13;\n&#13;\nSo while I'm pleased that SGRA's *seem* to be on track ( if customer support information is reliable), I'm still left feeling a bit put-off that Bioware has required us to jump through all these hoops to get what small amount of information we have obtained, and is taking a hands-off approach and just expecting the individuals who have received responses from emails to take on the responsibility of communicating this information for them.&#13;\n&#13;\nI feel like they kinda sorta [I]wanna [/I]support us, as long as they don't have to say it out loud and in public. Um, thanks.  Kinda feeling like  someone's \"dirtly little secret\" about right now. :rolleyes:&#13;\n&#13;\nHowever, in the larger scope of SGRA content, it is somewhat encouraging."
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