How hard for the community is to get it

Aside from the topics of identity and dichotomy of morality, I believe as a business move it would be good for the company to further welcome the LGBT+ portion of the gaming community. At the end of the day, it's the company's decision on how they want to appease their stakeholder, and one facet of that is the diversity they want to bring in amongst their characters. It's a bit archaic to believe there is not a market of LGBT+ players within the gaming community that wouldn't connect to the game through a character they can identify with in some aspect. Heck, Overwatch anyone? And aside from that maybe they just like horror, like the thrill and excitement that can come from being scared, and just love connecting to characters and getting into the lore within games and this is what brings them over to and they become even big fans of the game. Paraphrasing Phasma, it's a safe move.

All they have to do is put it in the lore. Change a character's crush from 'her' to 'him' or something simple like that. Did Felix absolutely railing a woman and impregnating her change his design and playability at all? No. It didn't. Did David having a girlfriend change his? Nope. I can imagine that their girlfriends were big tiddie goth women for fun, but I have confirmation that they have an interest in women so far. I'm all for representation in media since most LGBTQ+ people have been unseen, horribly stereotyped, and/or villainized. And before any of you say it, allow me to do it first: Most representation in media has had a negative impact. We don't want a survivor or killer that has a backstory like "He was so GAY and also liked MEN and did the diddly with GUYS like a GAY PERSON!!!!!! Give us $500 uwu" We really just want something simple to know we have been seen like "He liked him a lot but had to move towns to pursue his passion, but their time together helped him blah blah blah." It's just nice knowing you aren't an anomaly, that's all.

Another overwhelming drama post in order to fuel some fire, yep time to get the popcorn. Also who cares if the characters they add are gay or not? What I noticed for the homophobic slurs, I've seen a few gay people use it against each other so it's more about gay people taking ownership of such slurs; same thing can be said about a certain race of people claiming ownership over racist words. We can talk so much about how it's an issue in society so much but will it really stop anyone from saying what they want? Can't because of freedom of speech. Nothing more and nothing less, whenever someone brings up issues like these it seems to be an endless loop of always the same issues. There's always gonna be toxicity on that side for each community, let's not forget that people, but it doesn't mean we gotta turn a blind eye to it. Seeing toxicity in the end game chat of a match does get annoying, which is why they're adding a censor chat option to the game. I already lost count on how many posts like these are made.

I would argue that either side of that is political. Politics is life, in that it is essentially how society functions. A space where certain discussions are not allowed or encouraged is still making a political statement, a statement that those sorts of politics shouldn't be discussed. Every work of narrative fiction has a political theory to it, from the libertarianism of the sword of truth series, to the anti-industrialist sentiment that drives the lord of the rings. Horror too, is often political, from the Dawn of the Dead tying into Romero's thoughts on the civil rights movement, to the anti-corporate sentiment in the first Alien.

There's not 1 answer for that, people will all have their own reasons.

One reason may be more popular than others, but you can't get to 1 conclusion with that question.

There's a certain toxic group of locusts that follows around anything of that nature that i'd really prefer that bhvr really shouldn't get involved with.

But that's what happens dude. Lmfao. Look at the Marvel Universe. So many two-dimensional characters created solely to be a representation of a specific type of person and their entire character trope is reminding you of that.

Equality happens by disregarding race, gender, religion, views, etc of a person, and judging them solely on their actions and words. When you take away physical characteristics and simply accept a person based on how they act, then you are being equal.

This is 100% about politics considering the current political climate.

There is no reason to include any character simply because they are some special section of people. That is simply virtue signalling and should never happen. If the character's background and story is an outgrowth of whatever gender, race, etc they are, then that is just fine imo. It should never be the focus though, it should simply be a part of their lore as a whole.

I don't care if a character is black, white, pink, multi-sexual, lives in a box, or has twelve sets of genitals. All I care about is a good background, good power, and that they give a horror vibe. As soon as you say "We need more of this minority", it's hate speech because you are discounting all the other people who aren't that minority. Bigotry comes in many forms, but the worst is bigotry in the form of Inclusion and this fake Equality that people try to shove into everything.

Being LGBT is not only about sex, it’s about Identity, struggles in life and platonic relationships, motivations in life etc.

and as long as there are straight relationships mentioned especially considering Legions lore you can’t say LGBT should be excluded because of sex, because it’s already present without LGBT.

same over here

If it's as subtle as Legion's lore. I don't mind, especially since they are portrayed as evil and hedonistic sex fits with that image I bet.

In Felix his case, it's not about pure hedonistic sex, it's about having a child, it's about procreation and bigger purpose.

Every single human being is different with different views whether you agree or not. This thread is too off topic. Nothing to do with the game and these topics almost always end up bad.

I don't mind a gay character. I don't find it necessary either, but some people like that and I guess it's ok. It's representation at the end of the day, if a Mexican character got inserted in the game and it was represented with fidelity to my culture, I would probably feel excited.

I don't read too much of the lore, so I'm not sure if there's been 'cisness/straightness confirmed' for any character...

If there has been, then it's literally the same thing to have mention of being lgbt for a new character. Let's say Claudette's lore mentioned her being on a walk with her bf or something when entity yoinked her or something. No one would bat an eye, right? Literally doesn't matter if she was on a walk with her gf instead. No one cares. You can just go "oh cool representation" and then go back to playing the game. As long as there's no "Ha HGAAAAA It's GAY TIME, HOES!" at every turn or token-lgbtness to be seen anywhere, I cannot fathom a sane reason for somebody to be upset.

If they havent ever specified anything for a character before, then yeah it's kinda distasteful to suddenly be like "and THIS one is gay", and I could see the absolute most minor annoyance to be 'fine'.

At the end of the day, it's a video game. Let the lgbt people who are stoked for this possibility to be stoked, and if you don't care, then it doesn't matter to you. People can really only get mad post-release if it's done distastefully.