>>2456914So I'm fairly convinced that DA, in regards to the story elements, is mostly marketed towards women. EA does a SHITLOAD of market research and I'm sure they found that most BioWare games are played by straight women for the characters and stories and straight guys for action and gore. I think this is why DAI became a weird amalgamation of dumb-down RPG mechanics, console-action combat, and WAY more love interests for female characters over straight or gay males.
I mean straight women have Blackwall, Cullen, Iron Bull, and Solas. Straight guys have Cassandra and Josephine. Queer women have Sera and Josephine. Queer men have Iron Bull and Dorian. So straight women by FAR have the most love interest possibilities.
Also, the (now head DA writer) writer of Solas, Patrick Weekes said that he envisioned Solas as straight. But why? Weekes himself likes to tout how queer-friendly he is (supposedly his wife and he are both pan/bi, and he also wrote IB) but most the characters he writes that are queer are actually lesbians (except IB but then he's really a dudebro and thus can relate to straight-male-thinking; and I'm mostly thinking of the DA novel he wrote; I can't remember if he wrote Sera) so I think he's rather biased towards a sort of straight-male mindset that focuses on women. I still rather like his writing but still, why the need to make Solas straight?
So the real problem is that he was SUPER rushed in making him a love interest. He was very last-minute in this regard which shows in how he doesn't really even have the voiced dialogue for male-male reactions like Cullen kinda does (who was supposed to be bi but OFC the gay side was cut). So, BioWare/Weekes wanted to make Solas a LI at the last minute, knew their top market for romances is straight women and so only bothered programming him for them.
