In his latest “State of the Game” blog post on the Star Wars: The Old Republic website, executive producer Jeff Hickman has apologised for the delay in getting same gender romance into the game. The issue of same gender romance is the last of four “hot topics” Hickman discusses in the post. He explains that incorporating same gender romance will be more difficult than the team anticipated, and fell by the wayside a little as they worked on the more urgent task of making the game free-to-play:
“I realize that we promised SGR to you guys and that many of you believed that this would be with a companion character. Unfortunately, this will take a lot more work than we realized at the time and it (like some other pieces of content we talked about earlier in the year) has been delayed as we focused on the changes required to take the game Free-to-Play.”
But Hickman does say the team is still supportive of the notion of allowing same gender romance in the game, and adds that they will add the feature with some NPCs on Makeb, with more to come in future.
Given the huge response to BioWare's initial announcement that there would be same gender romance in Star Wars: The Old Republic, let's hope they get it sorted soon.