Gender Locks Have Revealed the Worst in Players.

[Blessedbythesun]

Wow, this subject has made me come out of hiding because the fact that this is controversial is beyond silly. Maybe it's because of my age, or maybe it's because I'm seeing the ill effects of people being over sensitive of the matter. Things that I don't understand go as following, why, are people so offended by gender locked races? I've read the arguments, and as old school gamer who's been playing MMOs for 13 years, it bothers me that what I'm reading getting is people being politically butt hurt over the matter. As a FC member pointed out to me in discord, it's "I want to be able to portray my gender in game and I hate them for taking that from me." HOW!?

Playing MMOs are about escaping real live and enjoying the worlds and scenarios crafted by developers of these games. I've personally flipped between different races and genders over the course of playing FFXIV. Without injecting identity politics into the game, what is the real reason any of you are upset about? You don't have to play any of the races if you don't want to. You aren't forced to use a fantasia to play with them.

Personally, I am offended that I'm seeing why Japanese developers are either censoring/changing certain content in their games for western markets out of fear of offending a minority of entitled player base. Or worse, not releasing their games at all in the west because of this toxic culture that is clearly being exhibited by people feeling so personally attacked that they didn't get what they want in a game that they are so foolish to cancel their pre-orders and subscriptions over a purely cosmetic choice.

There are larger things to be concerned about in not just FFXIV, such as the lack of a new healer coming to the expansion and possible fixes to re-balance the current healers so the next will have a place in the game.

Edit in: Final thoughts.... "It's a f'ing game! Calm down!"