Romance options

Quote: But let's give Bioware the benefit of the doubt. How do you explain the limited dialogue in KotOR -including, for example, the absence of an alternate same sex dialogue for Carth and Bastilla- if not by cost restrictions?

Carth and Bastila did not have same-sex romance dialogue because they do not romance members of the same sex. Juhani did because she does, exclusively. That is who these characters are.

Certainly there are budgets on how much time we can spend writing, but in the case of KotOR even had we had had the opportunity to write more I'm not sure that's the direction we would have gone in, regardless.

EDIT: On re-examining this, I wonder if Amiety actually didn't mean romance at all, but same-sex friendships. If that is the case, I would say that writing seperate friendship dialogue even when there is a romance that already exists for a character is not something we've even really considered doing until now.