They are represented ingame. Rather tastefully, I might add. Whether they add any more such characters specifically really shouldn't matter. People should want to see new characters be well written and engaging, regardless.
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LGBT people don't look different. I understand what you mean though.
Take a quest to save someone for instance, why isn't there quests where you go save someone's lover and they're both man?
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FFXIV doesn't have heterosexual representation either. That's what I meant
WoW hardly focusses on sexual orientation at all. Given that LGBT are, in real life, pretty small minorities, there is little incentive to make their representation in the game disproportionately large such that it becomes noticeable.
Several people have already mentioned examples of gay characters in game. Hell they even had a gay dragon (Theralion from Bastion of Twilight).
I think what you're asking for is for it to be more over the top, in your face. It doesn't need to be. It should be something you don't even notice unless you're specifically looking for it, which is exactly as it is right now.
Yes you might see it 'everywhere', what you are seeing is instead of creating new characters and giving them their own original story you are seeing what amounts to theft, misappropriation and a lack of creativity.
Perhaps Blizzard would rather make a game that we all love instead of trying to push some social agenda and alienating people that want to play a video game based in a fantasy world instead of having their real world try and shove some social agenda in their face.
PS. Your posting this thread says more than your half-hearted retreat.
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It would be nice if they added gay characters to the game, they have some options already with Anduin-Wrathion or with Koltira-Thassarian.
I don't think they "should" in the sense of feeling obligated because of outside pressure, the same way I don't like when adaptations change the race of characters just for the sake of pandering, but I mean...right now the 2 options above are really convincing.
I'm not asking for it, actually I oppose it.
We're talking about extremely obscure characters from random side quests that you only realize there's something different about them upon reading lots of text.
On the other hand we have Thrall getting married and having children.
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What is that fantasy with Anduin and Wration? Seriously..
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Why do you think that?
We don't need LGBT stuff in video games (and I say this as a gay guy), it ruined BioWare and all of their games since DA:I. As long as we keep insisting on all of that nothing will change because it's still not regarded as normal but as something special (when it isn't).
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So Tickol is this all facts or did you read an opinion piece and got confused again?
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