Quote Originally Posted by Moqi View Post
I read what you wrote and it was a mess. Hence the quote, and the reply. Asking for representation is a much needed reality check for the people who are still oblivious (or refuse to believe) to some people's existence and a way to make your game more inclusive for all your playerbase. Zero agendas or ideals at play, let alone guilt-tripping. But more importantly, it requires 0 effort and has no drawbacks.
What is more important, good storytelling or filling equality quotas? When you tell a developer "Oh and include someone gay, trans, inter-racial, and colored people to avoid offending someone" in an already tight story you are in fact dampening with the creative process. So there is no such thing as "No drawbacks" or zero effort.

Besides, you're talking like there isn't representation anyways, which there is plenty elsewhere. Last I checked the entire LGTB community still accounted for less than 5% of the population. If you want real representation like you or so called, having 1 in 3 couples represented as gay would actually have been an over-representation.

Anyways, SE really shouldn't care about offending a very small minority over idiocy. And I'm not talking about LGBT or interracial or any other minority here, I'm talking about the easily butthurt "I'm offended by anything" minority. If you look around most people (LGBT Included) couldn't give a damn about representation. You are acting like it's some sort of big issue still.