Petition to Ban Political Messaging at Fanfest

LET ME TELL YOU, FOLKS, WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE GAME HERE, ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS! BUT WE DON'T WANT ANY DIVISION, RIGHT? WE DON'T NEED THAT, NOT IN OUR FANTASTIC COMMUNITY!

THE LLAMATODD NONSENSE, I MEAN, WHAT WAS THAT? WE NEED TO KEEP IT CLASSY, FOLKS. SO I AGREE, LET’S GET THE COMMUNITY MANAGERS TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THOSE RULES. NO POLITICAL HATS, NO "MAKE EORZEA GREAT AGAIN" NONSENSE. WE WANT TO FOCUS ON FUN, UNITY, AND MAKING THE GAME THE BEST IT CAN BE. THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME WITH THE BIGGEST AND BEST FREE TRIAL AROUND (I'M TOLD BY MANY PEOPLE)!

LET’S KEEP IT ABOUT THE GAME! MAKE EORZEA GREAT THROUGH GAMEPLAY, NOT THROUGH POLITICS. TREMENDOUS THINGS AHEAD!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

idk what this is really but I'm gonna bump it and see what happens

But we can still keep punching down on garleans, right? :^D

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

But we can still keep punching down on garleans, right? :^D

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DOWN WITH GARLEMALD!

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

But we can still keep punching down on garleans, right? :^D

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THE GREAT PEOPLE OF GARLEMALD DESERVE BETTER! MY GOOD FRIEND ZENOS YAE GALVUS IS DOING A TREMENDOUS JOB! PEOPLE AREN'T FAIR TO HIM. HE HAS THE RIGHT TO PROTECT HIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND THEIR BORDERS. ALA MHIGO HAD IT COMING!! SENDING THEIR CRIMINALS TO GARLEMALD!!

"The Llamatodd nonsense"...

What kind of unemployed behaviour is going on with/around these FFXIV streamers now?

Trolling aside, I agree with the general sentiment. I'm not playing FFXIV to be preached at by anyone on the dev team, or anyone in the community. I'm playing for escapist fun. Please keep everything at official SE/CSIII/ FFXIV events strictly apolitical and related to the game, thank you.

What the fuck are you even talking about?

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Originally Posted by Haru304

What the fuck are you even talking about?

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They're talking about Kate taking a very personal political stance, retweeting that right-wingers should be purged from society, with all that the word "purging" entails. Don't bother looking for it, she's scrubbed her Bluesky or X or wherever it happened.

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Originally Posted by Auro_Seldaris

They're talking about Kate taking a very personal political stance, retweeting that right-wingers should be purged from society, with all that the word "purging" entails. Don't bother looking for it, she's scrubbed her Bluesky or X or wherever it happened.

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Who in the name of Garlemald is -Kate-?

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Originally Posted by Auro_Seldaris

They're talking about Kate taking a very personal political stance, retweeting that right-wingers should be purged from society, with all that the word "purging" entails. Don't bother looking for it, she's scrubbed her Bluesky or X or wherever it happened.

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Weird, tbh I figured she would double down. Wild!

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Originally Posted by Auro_Seldaris

Trolling aside, I agree with the general sentiment. I'm not playing FFXIV to be preached at by anyone on the dev team, or anyone in the community. I'm playing for escapist fun. Please keep everything at official SE/CSIII/ FFXIV events strictly apolitical and related to the game, thank you.

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this right here don't wanna see Todd or Kate Eff the both of em and people like them.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

But we can still keep punching down on garleans, right? :^D

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Man screw those Garleans and those beads on their forheads. (I kinda want housing in garlamald tbth)

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Originally Posted by Kahnha

this right here don't wanna see Todd or Kate Eff the both of em and people like them.



Man screw those Garleans and those beads on their forheads. (I kinda want housing in garlamald tbth)

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Stay out of my genocided country. It's our real estate, not yours! D<

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Originally Posted by Haru304

Who in the name of Garlemald is -Kate-?

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Kate Cwynar. Lead English Translator, Lore Consultant, and "heart and soul of Dawntrail" to paraphrase Yoshida's words.

1 person who works on the game says smth politics related, so obviously we need to swarm the forums to cry because said dev wasn't immediately fired. I.e. yall need to get a hobby, stop trying to censor people because they made you mad.

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Originally Posted by Haru304

Stay out of my genocided country. It's our real estate, not yours! D<

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Nice real estate of one entire zone! Watch out Limsa, if the garleans get another zone they will be nearly as big as your starter city! D^:

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Originally Posted by Haru304

Stay out of my genocided country. It's our real estate, not yours! D<

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Garlamald housing for the savage equivalent of Zenos will be the 1st concession that your people make to the Eorzean alliance .... or the second lolol :3

I'll take housing in garlamald but only if they pay for it.

We need to build a wall and make the Garleans pay for it.

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Originally Posted by Auro_Seldaris

They're talking about Kate taking a very personal political stance, retweeting that right-wingers should be purged from society, with all that the word "purging" entails. Don't bother looking for it, she's scrubbed her Bluesky or X or wherever it happened.

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You denounce political messaging yet you come here deforming what she reposted. She never called for right wingers to be purged from society.

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Originally Posted by Its_Kazzy_D

We need to build a wall and make the Garleans pay for it.

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*Looks at the destroyed ruins of Baelsar's Wall*
About that...

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Originally Posted by BigSpenDaBeast

LET ME TELL YOU, FOLKS, WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE GAME HERE, ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS! BUT WE DON'T WANT ANY DIVISION, RIGHT? WE DON'T NEED THAT, NOT IN OUR FANTASTIC COMMUNITY!

THE LLAMATODD NONSENSE, I MEAN, WHAT WAS THAT? WE NEED TO KEEP IT CLASSY, FOLKS. SO I AGREE, LET’S GET THE COMMUNITY MANAGERS TO TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THOSE RULES. NO POLITICAL HATS, NO "MAKE EORZEA GREAT AGAIN" NONSENSE. WE WANT TO FOCUS ON FUN, UNITY, AND MAKING THE GAME THE BEST IT CAN BE. THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME WITH THE BIGGEST AND BEST FREE TRIAL AROUND (I'M TOLD BY MANY PEOPLE)!

LET’S KEEP IT ABOUT THE GAME! MAKE EORZEA GREAT THROUGH GAMEPLAY, NOT THROUGH POLITICS. TREMENDOUS THINGS AHEAD!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Entire FFXIV is political the exact same ways as things is happening in real life, both back then and now... AI for an instance with DT.... and insane Dictators and more... even past pandemic was a part of it... and more real life events....

And as Warrior or Light you have to fight against these extreme people you see everywhere and win for the actual greater good.

Do you guys think Dawntrail would have been better if the main character's name was "Woke Lamat" and Alisaie was posting on Tumblr and telling you that the city-state of Old-Sharlayan was rooted in sexist and ableist ideals? Maybe go back to the Gaius monologue and have him start it by putting on a red hat. I feel like it could enrich the lore a little, make it feel more real and bring it up to modern decency standards.

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Originally Posted by All_Nonsense

Do you guys think Dawntrail would have been better if the main character's name was "Woke Lamat" and Alisaie was posting on Tumblr and telling you that the city-state of Old-Sharlayan was rooted in sexist and ableist ideals? Maybe go back to the Gaius monologue and have him start it by putting on a red hat. I feel like it could enrich the lore a little, make it feel more real and bring it up to modern decency standards.

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Unironically yes. If DT was a giant shitepost I would have preordered it and secured a year's subscription.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

Unironically yes. If DT was a giant shitepost I would have preordered it and secured a year's subscription.

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Seems we're in agreement. Maybe there's a spark there. Maybe an expansion that's more fun and less serious rather than trying to be profound in some way is what we need.

I mean, fair enough, it's an event meant for showcasing the game, not a rally for red hats OR blue hats.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

*Looks at the destroyed ruins of Baelsar's Wall*
About that...

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...oh, true. Uhh...A BIGGER, BETTER WALL.

Bro Imagine ICE Agents at the fan fest searching for YoshiP, trying to take him away while Smile is playing in the background. lmao

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

But we can still keep punching down on garleans, right? :^D

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It is always correct to punch Garleans.

WHY TF ARE WE YELLING XD

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Originally Posted by Catwho

It is always correct to punch Garleans.

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Lol, this is why I feel like a Garlemald-focused expansion would have been met with mixed reactions like Dawntrail was, because a lot of people legitimately hate Garleans and would have refused to buddy up with them throughout the MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

But we can still keep punching down on garleans, right? :^D

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God I hope so

look I want two things!

1. beat up people

2. beat up way more people!!!

wtf is this trend about mentioning political messaging?

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...velopment-Team.

Some people are suddenly brining this up for literally no reason.

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Originally Posted by JadeCurtiss

wtf is this trend about mentioning political messaging?

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...velopment-Team.

Some people are suddenly brining this up for literally no reason.

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It's the combination of the worst video game youtubers whining about political stuff and the free login campaign that gives their viewers 4 days to troll without paying.

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

It's the combination of the worst video game youtubers whining about political stuff and the free login campaign that gives their viewers 4 days to troll without paying.

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Exactly this.