Pronouns?

[Yandere-chan]

I'm confused by this. If this was a trans thing, why wouldn't you just play as the sex you want to transition to? The whole dilemma of transsexuals is they desperately want to be the other sex to feel right with who they are internally. Wanting to purposely be non-binary when you have the option of being either sex feels like something outside being trans. If it isn't a trans issue, then there isn't an element of gender dysphoria plaguing the individual. The idea that someone would face anything remotely similar to that for not being seen as neither male or female and addressed as such sounds suspicious at best.

With that said, I don't think Square has any plans to implement a system that replaces pronouns in the dialogue to custom pronouns. It would actually be very resource intensive due to needing to implement an entirely new dialogue function if not system and apply it to a MASSIVE amount of text already in the game. I think 99.99%+ of the playerbase would see little to no benefit in such a feature too. Square has SO many other things that players genuinely want that even other niche things would sooner be implemented than this. I would go forward with the expectation that this will never be a thing in this MMO.

The most you could do is ask friends to use specific pronouns, but I'm not sure if everyone will be willing to do that. I'd be cautious about asking strangers to do that for you. Many may take the request negatively and it may not be worth the potential social conflicts. Ultimately though, do whatever you think is best. You are your own person at the end of the day. ♥️

[Ammokkx]

I'm confused by this. If this was a trans thing, why wouldn't you just play as the sex you want to transition to? The whole dilemma of transsexuals is they desperately want to be the other sex to feel right with who they are internally. Wanting to purposely be non-binary when you have the option of being either sex feels like something outside being trans. If it isn't a trans issue, then there isn't an element of gender dysphoria plaguing the individual. The idea that someone would face anything remotely similar to that for not being seen as neither male or female and addressed as such sounds suspicious at best.

With that said, I don't think Square has any plans to implement a system that replaces pronouns in the dialogue to custom pronouns. It would actually be very resource intensive due to needing to implement an entirely new dialogue function if not system and apply it to a MASSIVE amount of text already in the game. I think 99.99%+ of the playerbase would see little to no benefit in such a feature too. Square has SO many other things that players genuinely want that even other niche things would sooner be implemented than this. I would go forward with the expectation that this will never be a thing in this MMO.

The most you could do is ask friends to use specific pronouns, but I'm not sure if everyone will be willing to do that. I'd be cautious about asking strangers to do that for you. Many may take the request negatively and it may not be worth the potential social conflicts. Ultimately though, do whatever you think is best. You are your own person at the end of the day. ♥️

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[Iscah]

I'm confused by this. If this was a trans thing, why wouldn't you just play as the sex you want to transition to? The whole dilemma of transsexuals is they desperately want to be the other sex to feel right with who they are internally. Wanting to purposely be non-binary when you have the option of being either sex feels like something outside being trans. If it isn't a trans issue, then there isn't an element of gender dysphoria plaguing the individual. The idea that someone would face anything remotely similar to that for not being seen as neither male or female and addressed as such sounds suspicious at best.

If you're not part of a group or culture and you think they would have a particular opinion, but someone from that group expresses an opinion that doesn't match your understanding... why would you assume they are the one who is mistaken about what they want? It's not like they're going to ask for the thing if they don't actually want it. Where's the ulterior motive?

Re-evaluate your own understanding if it doesn't match.

It's not my culture either but I can see pretty easily that it's a big multidirectional spectrum with people identify as, or are attracted to, both or neither or the same or the other or any gender. People who are physically one specific gender and identify as the other specific gender are one part of that spectrum.

Clearly people fall in the middle and don't want to identify as one or the other, or why would they want to be addressed by a neutral pronoun?