Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[MagicAura]

My FC leader said that there was a gay movie called brokeback mountain so when I told him no broke boys when he was trying to get out of bringing a map, they took it as bait to virtue signal that I was oppressing lgbt. Nothing else was said, that was just their complaint and obviously many people agree with it. Which is my point in sharing really.

I just shared this drama because there are swathes of people in this game that are honestly like this with extreme sensitivity. You can be perfectly minding your own business and if someone interprets something you said as anti whatever they will attack you, intentions be damned. Going by the state of social media im not very surprised people are popping up like this in video games like this. Thanks for the replies everyone. Stay safe

I won't comment (and haven't assumed anything) on the dynamics between you and the people who were offended by your words. It's not my place and I'll have to take you on your word that you had no intention of offending. However, your assumption of oversensitivity is somewhat wrong. I want to remind you that the reason we LGBTQ+ people celebrate our queereness with prides every year, is because of the oppression we are facing and the outright rejection in everyday lives. There are countries where being a homosexual is punishable by death. Two women posted a picture of their wedding on Twitter and within the first five comments was one that said "shame on you, that's a sin". In my own country we had to fight long and hard to stop homosexuality being punishable by jail (Alan Turing is a great example) and even into the 80s the outright conservatism rejected LGBTQ+ people and refused to protect their rights. And that's an ongoing fight, transgender people are facing persecution and their rights eroded even in countries that are supposed to be progressive.

So forgive us for over-reacting but we have good reasons for doing so. As I said before, a heartfelt apology if you never meant to offend would go a long way to soothe the bad blood but that's just my own conjecture and perhaps my own rather naive views.

[ADVSS]

I won't comment (and haven't assumed anything) on the dynamics between you and the people who were offended by your words. It's not my place and I'll have to take you on your word that you had no intention of offending. However, your assumption of oversensitivity is somewhat wrong. I want to remind you that the reason we LGBTQ+ people celebrate our queereness with prides every year, is because of the oppression we are facing and the outright rejection in everyday lives. There are countries where being a homosexual is punishable by death. Two women posted a picture of their wedding on Twitter and within the first five comments was one that said "shame on you, that's a sin". In my own country we had to fight long and hard to stop homosexuality being punishable by jail (Alan Turing is a great example) and even into the 80s the outright conservatism rejected LGBTQ+ people and refused to protect their rights. And that's an ongoing fight, transgender people are facing persecution and their rights eroded even in countries that are supposed to be progressive.

So forgive us for over-reacting but we have good reasons for doing so. As I said before, a heartfelt apology if you never meant to offend would go a long way to soothe the bad blood but that's just my own conjecture and perhaps my own rather naive views.

I think the whole point was that the FC leader tended to shirk shared responsibility or do maps without having a map to share and then felt an "easy route" out of the issue was to exploit said issue, as a deflection, granting several virtue points and also somewhat "triggering" said sensitive crowd, to attack this guy, for no reason personally. Wasnt there, but it seems legit, and practical. Easy crowd to rile up, easy way out of shirking responsibility hope nonola found a more reality based FC, than this space age stuff More and more im becoming a fan of 1,x/2.0 Gaius.

[Penthea]

I hope everyone can see how truly sensitive people are in this game! It's actually shocking how you have to walk on eggshells with people here

Ehhhhhh...please don't judge the entire community based on your experience with one fc. I personally have never seen a large group get as easily offended as the people you spoke about, and I have been playing the game since HW.