Support Australia!

[Mavis79]

Australia is experiencing devastating wild fires all across thier continent, so as a means of us as adventures to make a real world difference I want to ask the FFXIV Game Developers to please create a Kangaroo mount for purchase on the online Mog Station store. For this mount however have all proceeds from customer purchases to be used as a donation fund for the Wildlife of Australia. They need heros both big and small to help make a difference and save a life. Let us, the Warriors of Light/Darkness, be there for our neighbors in Australia!

[TitanMen]

The wildfires are caused by climate change. No need to dance around the topic. Square Enix should confront climate change by making their game servers be 100% dependent on renewable energy sources instead instead of a kangaroo mount. They should be selling windmills, nuclear reactors, and hydroelectricity plants as mounts and minions instead.

[MPK]

Keep irl issues out of my game please tyvm.

[lolicon09]

Only if it costs less than all other mounts, and carry the rider inside their bag if it's a Lalafell

[hasana]

You can support Australia by sending them money. Let's stop with the "Poor Australians we should stop housing demolition or make a Kangaroo mount for their sake <3 ♥ :3" because all you care about is getting a Kangaroo mount or you can take a break from the game without losing your house.

[Iscah]

If you really do want to support the bushfire victims, please make sure you are donating to a genuine charity.

Red Cross is taking donations. I'm sure there are others too, but that's the one I'm aware of.

[Omymy]

Keep irl issues out of my game please tyvm.

Get out of your basement.

[Enkidoh]

You can support Australia by sending them money. Let's stop with the "Poor Australians we should stop housing demolition or make a Kangaroo mount for their sake <3 ♥ :3" because all you care about is getting a Kangaroo mount or you can take a break from the game without losing your house.

If you really do want to support the bushfire victims, please make sure you are donating to a genuine charity.

Red Cross is taking donations. I'm sure there are others too, but that's the one I'm aware of.

^This. Also, despite the devestation the amount of FFXIV players actually affected by this disaster would be comparatively few given the fires are mostly affecting low populated rural areas - a significant portion of the people being evacuated are not residents but tourists caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. That doesn't mean there wouldn't be some players affected however, but unfortunately it's in the terms of service every player agrees to when they sign up that SE are not held liable for loss of service or inability for players to access the game during natural disasters, especially when it's a disaster that does not affect the game at all directly. That's just being realistic.

And we already have an example of famous Australian fauna in the game anyway so a kangaroo mount would be superflorous (besides, where are you going to ride a kangaroo? In it's pouch? This isn't a cartoon, there's much more mucous. ).

Seriously though, the koala joey minon already is in the game so Aussie fauna is taken care of in FFXIV.

[Nestama]

Yeah, in the other thread talking 'bout housing demolition I mostly said it'd be a nice thing of SE to do. Defo like the idea of them using Renewable Energies and such, though. That'd be the better thing to do.

Just donate to Red Cross (or other legitimate charity groups) if you want to show support. Having SE spend time on making a mount, putting on the Mogstation and then not getting the funds for the work they did is a bit... eeeeh. Heart in right place, but... better to directly donate and not expect something out of it.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Are Australians even afraid of the brush fires? I mean there's all kinds of other things down there that can cause havoc and kill people.

I have a friend down there not close to the fires themselves but close enough to complain about the smoke. He reports there hasn't been instances of things like giant spiders mutated by eating the brush fire running into populated areas yet.