Pronouns???

[Abbie_]

It's a fantasy game.
Keep it that way..
The real world will still be there when we log off.

how would adding an option to choose pronouns separate to your character's sex affect this game's fantasy-ness in any way?

[Ranaku]

how would adding an option to choose pronouns separate to your character's sex affect this game's fantasy-ness in any way?

From a lore point bringing gender etc. so much into a game could break immersion. Also i have no opinion in this here i am fine with it either way just explaining it from a rational lore point of view. The world of XIV so Hydaelyn etc. is really really dangerous. Famine. War. Homophobia. Diseases. Crimes. And monsters everywhere.

So if we look at it just really rational, there is not much time for one to think about gender or such stuff. Neither is there much acceptance for people which are different. Just look at the tonberry questline. Gay couple which says they feel with the tonberrys since they know how it feels to be unwanted by society.

So unlike we the good people of Eorzea etc. still have to fight with not being eaten and surviving and doing stuff like making babies. They don't have the safety to literally think about what they are and ask themself existencial questions.

That said it's from the point of a narrative driven story. Now from the players perspective since as i said i don't have a opinion on this and would be fine either way. I think it would not hurt and since it affects just your personal experience and cutscenes basically i don't see any harm done to other players.

So yeah, transgender people would be really really rare lorewise but i don't see any harm done if a player just wants to modify his own experience.

[Wyssahtyn]

... Homophobia. ...

So if we look at it just really rational, there is not much time for one to think about gender or such stuff. Neither is there much acceptance for people which are different. Just look at the tonberry questline. Gay couple which says they feel with the tonberrys since they know how it feels to be unwanted by society.

I just want to pop in to say that the emphasis was put on the interracial nature of the Wanderer's Palace couple's relationship, not the homosexuality.

Not Easy Being Green: "... This fellow is Hyuran and I am Miqo'te; are we lesser a couple for our difference? I should think not!" "My dearest and I know their pain all too well. We both had to leave our birthplace. Why, you ask? Simply because we were different."