POLL: When you see a game with the gay tag, what do you do?

When you see a game with the gay tag, what do you do?

  • Check to see if gay content can be turned off, then give it a try if there's content I like.

    Votes: 373 42.9%
  • I like gay content, so I'd check the game out.

    Votes: 238 27.4%
  • I'd never play it, even if gay content can be turned off, and the women are extremely hot & sexy.

    Votes: 61 7.0%
  • I don't. I exclude gay tags. I would never play a game with the gay tag, PERIOD.

    Votes: 148 17.0%
  • Other, I'll respond in thread.

    Votes: 49 5.6%

  • Total voters
    869

Darknerious

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Apr 19, 2022
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woah, it seems there is a good amount of gays here, or are they women who like yaoi? I really thought hetero were the majority. well I personally avoid it or run if it advertises gay content since it is not my thing. But, I can accept something like dragon age.
 

Gabaw

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Jun 23, 2017
582
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"If he be a trap, to the moon I will fap. But if he be a man, the thread I will ban." - Some Tzu, The Wart of Door
 

Porthas

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Feb 26, 2021
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I picked the top option "check to see if it can be turned off" but I need to add a caveat. I'll read the comments first and see if the game is weighing heavily in favor of one type of content or not. If it's gay focused, I'm not even going to try it.

That includes lesbian, by the way. Just to be clear since there is a distinction... I guess.
 
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Pashax2

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Apr 25, 2017
21
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I look at the other tags, but if there isn't anything (especially the images in the preview) to make it look like the gay is optional then I pass on it.
 
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joryh

Active Member
Nov 8, 2021
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If it's something I'm not railroaded into, I don't care if gay stuff is in the game. As long as "I" am not the one doing it. No, skipping is still 'doing it' without being made to watch. Nor am I interested in watching it as a voyeur. No, I don't' care if it's a really feminine trap/trans char, I've seen some that are girlier then some girls I know.

As for if it is the 'focus' of the game, then it gets an auto-add to the ignore list.
 

Doorknob22

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Nov 3, 2017
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I consider gay sex in porn as an extremely exotic spice in my food; I might enjoy it in small dozes. I don't exclude games with gay tags but if I see that the game is focused on a gay protagonist I will probably skip it.

Caveat: even though I have personally wrote several gay sex scenes myself, I need one of the guys to be very feminine and the other(s) very manly in order for me to enjoy the scene. If both dudes are manly, it's a huge turn off for me, I can't even see them kissing. People are strange, me included.
 

FormerlyknownasOlheden

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May 20, 2020
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I consider gay sex in porn as an extremely exotic spice in my food; I might enjoy it in small dozes. I don't exclude games with gay tags but if I see that the game is focused on a gay protagonist I will probably skip it.

Caveat: even though I have personally wrote several gay sex scenes myself, I need one of the guys to be very feminine and the other(s) very manly in order for me to enjoy the scene. If both dudes are manly, it's a huge turn off for me, I can't even see them kissing. People are strange, me included.
We seem to have identical types of strange. Maybe we’re less strange than you thought?
 
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Winterfire

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Sep 27, 2018
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When I see a game with gay tag, I copy the url, enter discord, ping Souleater and paste the link so he can enjoy.
 

Rafster

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Mar 23, 2019
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Caveat: even though I have personally wrote several gay sex scenes myself, I need one of the guys to be very feminine and the other(s) very manly in order for me to enjoy the scene. If both dudes are manly, it's a huge turn off for me, I can't even see them kissing. People are strange, me included
For me, it's the reverse. Even if one of the guys is feminine, is a turn off for me, usually both of them must be manly for me to start enjoying it.

Have you got a huge backslash from having the gay tag, for just one or two scenes? One thing I never understood is why so many straight devs risk having the gay tag, just for a few scenes (femboy, sissies, etc...), where you know that a lot of straight guys would skip your game at the sight of the tag, and gay players won't play either as it's a 99% straight game.

I know, bi games exist, and some devs have that kink too of liking very feminine guys. Hell, I like masculine FtM guys. But I often wonder if it's worth the risk of having the tag in the game.
 

Doorknob22

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Nov 3, 2017
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For me, it's the reverse. Even if one of the guys is feminine, is a turn off for me, usually both of them must be manly for me to start enjoying it.

Have you got a huge backslash from having the gay tag, for just one or two scenes? One thing I never understood is why so many straight devs risk having the gay tag, just for a few scenes (femboy, sissies, etc...), where you know that a lot of straight guys would skip your game at the sight of the tag, and gay players won't play either as it's a 99% straight game.

I know, bi games exist, and some devs have that kink too of liking very feminine guys. Hell, I like masculine FtM guys. But I often wonder if it's worth the risk of having the tag in the game.
1. I got some people curious but never a huge backlash.

2. Why risk having some gay scenes in a straight game? I don't engineer the game to be commercially successful, I add what I find to be hot. So far it works for me.
 

Sharkie94

Newbie
May 5, 2020
96
77
Don't mind... if its there... may or may not interact with it in-game, depending on context.
Especially if "female with both parts" are designated as "gay"
However - I don't find pure human male - human male interactions erotic, so I tend to give them a pass.
 

meleaguance

Member
Mar 2, 2021
267
287
Rather than have two options that both say you wouldn't play the game, wouldn't this poll make more sense with one being, "I don't like gay content but I would still play a game if the girls were hot" and the other saying "I wouldn't play the game at all"?
 

fjwelfje

Newbie
Jul 14, 2020
56
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I have to square three things:
- I am fundamentally not gay and not attracted to men or penises, and especially turned off by 'chicks with dicks'
- Femdom games are my favorite even though they don't seem plausible.
- I like Maledom games and lesbian games. In a maledom scenario with access to two women, I want them to get it on ( at least in a game )

So ( And I think I have this in common with most gays ) if I were gay I would be a bottom. And if I were in a Femdom scenario and she wanted something gay, it would probably happen as what is good for the goose is good for the gander. That said, chicks with dicks are gross and I am in the position of getting to choose to play or keep playing a game.

Penises are gross to me, so I would have nothing to do with them unless coerced, adding female traits doesn't help. Rather than acting as sugar to make the medicine go down, it's like some syrup based medicine - it just makes even syrup taste bad. Rather than teaching you to like bitter by mixing it with sweet, it teaches you not to like sweet either.

I *like *to like sweet so I avoid chicks with dicks. I am very protective of my ability to desire women. If she could have a dick I lose the desire for women leaving me with no sexual objects to desire, and this would be no fun.

Also I could never get it up for anything with a dick, though being coerced into taking dick in a game could be hot.