We're getting umbrellas. What else do you want your character to grasp in their hand?

[Edax]

I would like to see a traditional smoking pipe to be one, but since there are kids in this game I'm not sure if SE would do it. They did add that new toast emote, but doesn't mean it's alcohol? I don't know anymore, it's okay to have half naked characters all about the ass but no smoking?

How backwards would it have to be that partial nudity and sexual themes are okay for kids to see, but not cigarettes? We see people smoking everyday on the sidewalk.



Come on SE, we have storylines about genocide in this game, smoking shouldn't be too hard, you already have the villain smoking a pipe.

[linay]

How backwards would it have to be that partial nudity and sexual themes are okay for kids to see, but not cigarettes?

Personally, I'd rather kids be more comfortable with sexual themes than cigarettes.

[Edax]

Personally, I'd rather kids be more comfortable with sexual themes than cigarettes.

FFXIV isn't a comfort contest. We also have themes of genocide. Smoking is ubiquitous, there's no getting around that.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Personally, I'd rather kids be more comfortable with sexual themes than cigarettes.

lol you know when most of us were kids we had candy cigaerettes so I fail to see the issue with digitial stuff having it

[linay]

FFXIV isn't a comfort contest.

It's a response to your "backward" statement.

We also have themes of genocide. Smoking is ubiquitous, there's no getting around that.

Kids aren't likely to deal with genocide in real life unless they live in certain parts of the world. The ubiquity of smoking is the reason why it would be considered more of a problem.

lol you know when most of us were kids we had candy cigaerettes so I fail to see the issue with digitial stuff having it

It's fine if you don't have issue with it. The content warning is for parents who might have issue with it.