MarsAtlas said:
Why include heterosexual romance in the first place then? You have to proviide a rationale for why one exists, but not the other. I can easily say "its not a real world simulation, so there's no romantic situations in the game" by that litmus.
Because they thought miis having babies would be funny.
So why didn't they provide and explanation then? Because that "social commentary" comment was the explanation. Nintendo's actual apology gives a reason for not including it, as well as an actual apology.
That wasn't so difficult for them to admit, seeing as it came in just two days, so why couldn't they do that in the first place, when they only had Miiquality as a small movement with nobody really pressuring them? Because that wasn't their intention with the original statement.
Exactly the last sentence here. That wasn't their intention in the first place. They weren't trying to explain why they excluded gay relationships. All they were saying was that they didn't mean to cause any harm. They even phrased it that way, talking about what they meant and intended. They didn't even deny they'd done wrong, they just said they didn't mean to.
So, the way I see it, they made a statement saying they meant no harm, they weren't trying to make political statements on homosexuality, and they'll take the feedback into consideration. Then people got more upset, so they apologized, explained why they couldn't fixed it, and promised better in the future.
The way you see it, they made a statement saying they couldn't include gay marriage because of the social implications, then threw in a line about hearing the feedback for the hell of it. Then, when people got upset, they apologized and gave a second, totally different reason for not having gay relationships, making it so that one of their reasons has to be a lie. Then they promised to improve in the future and totally ignore the social commentary problem.
Which of these scenarios makes sense?
Thats what their actual apology says. I cannot see where you're deciphering this "apology" to non-heterosexual people in the "social commentary" statement they made except for the "relationship" sentence they had, and even that was rather offensive.
It wasn't an apology. It was a statement clarifying their intent. Saying "we didn't mean harm" isn't an apology. That is true.