A certain cutscene in Garlmald needs a trigger warning (MAJOR SPOILER WARNING)

[Chyro]

// Vague spoilers regarding the final parts of the story

Idk. While I'm not that sensitive to it at the moment, I certainly noticed how the topic towards the end of the expansion could be really difficult for some people. If someone's in a bad place mentally and uses the game as a distraction or escape, being confronted with the questions that put them in that place may not be so good. They're the big questions of life, which don't really have an answer - but seeing the various answers presented at the end (especially last map and dungeon) I can't help but imagine someone going through that story and going deeper into their own depression. Sure the story is all about being that last hope that makes it through all that, to keep going and hold on. But I feel for someone in a bad place, it might be easy to tune that out and focus more on the parts that drag you deeper or make you question the point of your own existence.

Don't know if anything should be done about it in form of a content warning or similar. I just don't wish anyone to be drawn deeper into their own negative emotions by the game they love.

[Hysorn]

// Vague spoilers regarding the final parts of the story

Idk. While I'm not that sensitive to it at the moment, I certainly noticed how the topic towards the end of the expansion could be really difficult for some people. If someone's in a bad place mentally and uses the game as a distraction or escape, being confronted with the questions that put them in that place may not be so good. They're the big questions of life, which don't really have an answer - but seeing the various answers presented at the end (especially last map and dungeon) I can't help but imagine someone going through that story and going deeper into their own depression. Sure the story is all about being that last hope that makes it through all that, to keep going and hold on. But I feel for someone in a bad place, it might be easy to tune that out and focus more on the parts that drag you deeper or make you question the point of your own existence.

Don't know if anything should be done about it in form of a content warning or similar. I just don't wish anyone to be drawn deeper into their own negative emotions by the game they love.

Hey, person that lost a mother this year, got really unlucky with some choice of friends and has been diagnosed with depression since 15 years of age though was showing signs since I was 13. My personal experience? It just talks about the stuff that I think to myself all the time, it never really made a difference to me, I guess in a way it makes it even harder for me to feel anything since in general I only really feel strong emotions during moments of true pain, like this Christmas, my very first without my mother. Then again, while I have suicidal thoughts quite often, the only things holding me back is saying to myself that my father, grandmother and sister still need me, seeing someone kill themselves in a movie or game never really affected me. FFXIV has been my distraction from life for about 2 months now, the only times I stop playing is when I go to the gym pretty much and even then I usually go once or twice because I really can't bring myself to leave home all that often, and while I leveled as DRK first, the way the story talked about death, loss, how our lives are truly meaningless and it's up to us to make sense of an otherwise worthless and empty existence feels bittersweet, Endwalker was very much the same.

Then again, these were my experiences, it has been ages since I truly felt any sort of strong emotion aside from sorrow from moments that I just can't hold it in anymore. Otherwise I am pretty apathetic to the world. So I don't know, I know I am hardly the only one that feels like this so trigger warnings for these kinds of things always felt silly to me, but then again, everyone deals with these stuff differently.

[Vahlnir]

// Vague spoilers regarding the final parts of the story

Idk. While I'm not that sensitive to it at the moment, I certainly noticed how the topic towards the end of the expansion could be really difficult for some people. If someone's in a bad place mentally and uses the game as a distraction or escape, being confronted with the questions that put them in that place may not be so good. They're the big questions of life, which don't really have an answer - but seeing the various answers presented at the end (especially last map and dungeon) I can't help but imagine someone going through that story and going deeper into their own depression. Sure the story is all about being that last hope that makes it through all that, to keep going and hold on. But I feel for someone in a bad place, it might be easy to tune that out and focus more on the parts that drag you deeper or make you question the point of your own existence.

Don't know if anything should be done about it in form of a content warning or similar. I just don't wish anyone to be drawn deeper into their own negative emotions by the game they love.

Eh, I've got issues with depression myself. I know full well the struggles that come with it, much to my dissatisfaction. While certain things hit me kinda hard emotionally, especially the bigger questions of life, it actually had a pretty good payoff toward the end. Instead of going further into depression, I went the opposite direction. I guess that goes to show that everyone handles things differently. As to the topic at hand...well, I don't think we really need trigger warnings for this bit of the story, or much of anywhere outside of maybe seizure trigger warnings or something, which can be fatal depending on the person. Depression can be too I suppose, but there are ways to cope or deal with it outside of the game. I don't need a pop up saying "Oh btw, you might not like this if you are depressed!" lol That just seems counterproductive to me if I'm trying to enjoy a story. That's just my opinion. If they started being added for anything that might bother some people, we'd get one before just about every cutscene, and that would be more of an annoyance than anything. I'm all for certain beneficial QoL additions if they serve a greater good of sorts. I just don't think this would.