Quote Originally Posted by Korten View Post
Yes, I am discounting fan art because everything has lewd fan art. By your logic literally everything ever can be considered sexualization because fan art of it exists.

And you know what? FFXIV has done great job. No one is saying FFXIV has done a bad job of it's female characters. In fact in comparison to many Japanese games it's one of the best. That however doesn't suddenly make it above criticism or perfect.

Also politics? Yeah, we need more apolitical stuff like Metal Gear Solid, Bioshock, and FFXIV: Stormblood! (Fun fact: All of the games you play have politics in them as they're made by people who exist in societies that are shaped by the political landscape.)
I’m pretty much in the same boat here.

Reading the room, the impression I get is that at the very least, no one sane except for Mr. ‘she has boobs therefore she must be old enough to have agency’ is pretending this is actually okay. The difference in opinion lies in how much energy we want to put towards pursuing this argument.

Considering the rest of the game is thankfully lacking in this sort of thing (and is otherwise light years ahead in writing and characterization compared to most games today), I’m of the mindset that there are better battles to fight.