Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
SquareEnix needs to realize they are running a global game and that players in other countries have different standards than they do. Some hold dearly to those standards.
While this is true, this doesn't mean SE or the FFXIV dev team need to cater to all the regions in which the game is sold - doing so would not be feasible given the great disparity in social attitudes and cultural norms across all the countries and regions players are scattered in. They can only do their best to determine what they perceive the playerbase likes and what is still within their own vision of the game.

Discussing this and the nature of the current NA forums with friends from the JPN datacenters and others who play FFXIV IRL with me, we aren't so much surprised as saddened by the way some are responding. I suppose people would think me part of the 'hive mind' or however many people see Japanese, but where is the gratitude for the hard work the devs have put in for this expansion? For making 2 new races when they hadn't intended to make any more at all? To trying their best to make the game friendly to the LGBT community even though this often goes against established societal norms in the home country of the game creation? Can we not see the things we are getting that are new and exciting and fun instead of focusing on the things we are not getting yet were never even promised?