Obligitory Pronouns Request

[Faafetai]

I mentioned I was a black woman in a thread that asked for ethnic hairstyles and people-got-heated. I was told I was attempting to be ‘sassy’, referred to as ‘obnoxious’ and was told it was odd I’d be proud to be who I was. So it’s not surprising. * shrug *

As for the request. I doubt it’ll come to pass. While not an unreasonable option, It’ll require more voice work and reworking of a vast amount of text. And different countries have different levels of acceptance regarding this.

I would be happy with just the text being changed honestly. They don't need to do the voice work at least in the japanese. Most of the language if I recall is more direct besides things such as honorifics. If I am incorrect I am sorry. I am still learning a bunch with the language, but going off of most things when listening things are more direct where they usually do not say she or he directly. I do not mind being call by ~chan ~san ~kun ~sama those are all fine because besides maybe kun really can be used depending on the characters personality. At least from someone who speaks a different language natively looking onward would see. I could be wrong, but I am learning the japanese sound currently not the kanji, but even still it would be similar. It would only be the localization team or square that would just need to swap the text. It might even just be in the code and they could just add it along with what is already there.

I am also sorry people can be idiots. My partner has been wanting ethnic hairstyles, the one they would have settled for in the current options was one of the Roe hair styles with braids, but you can't have that on lalafell. There is really only one option besides the silly afro, and as amazing as it's physics are just having simple cornrows or dreads tied back is something they want the most. I honestly would mind it either. Just asking for something simple gets people in these moods, I sware. I would be very sad though if my partner stopped being sassy because of some idiot on a forum.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

I am also sorry people can be idiots. My partner has been wanting ethnic hairstyles, the one they would have settled for in the current options was one of the Roe hair styles with braids, but you can't have that on lalafell. There is really only one option besides the silly afro, and as amazing as it's physics are just having simple cornrows or dreads tied back is something they want the most. I honestly would mind it either. Just asking for something simple gets people in these moods, I sware. I would be very sad though if my partner stopped being sassy because of some idiot on a forum.

It’s all good. I’ve been referred to as the n-word in-game and got harassed by a slavery apologist as well. After a while you just have to deal.

And like the pronouns request, it’s genuinely unlikely we’ll get more options. But thems the breaks.

[Necrotica]

Non-binary subscribers to this game can only play as characters who are referred to as male or female right now, so adding “they/them” pronoun options would be nice for them and doesn’t harm anyone except bigots.

Before any ignorant people reply to me with beliefs that non-binary people apparently don’t exist, please don’t bother posting even more transphobic nonsense; I’m neither interested in reading nor responding to it.

Stop making up nonsense.

[Vav2021]

Stop making up nonsense.

I've seen some of his other posts. I get a very intense victim complex sort of vibe from him.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

adding “they/them” pronoun options would be nice for them and doesn’t harm anyone except bigots.
Before any ignorant people reply to me with beliefs that non-binary people apparently don’t exist, please don’t bother posting even more transphobic nonsense; I’m neither interested in reading nor responding to it.

It harms the game....because it takes time and resources away from other things that would be Objectively more important to/for the Playerbase & the Game.
There is no Transphobia here, I implore you to also stop posting Nonsense.

[KoyaMusa]

I do think this is a fair thing to ask for, and like you said this would be a lot of work.

I would have several questions however. Would pronoun information be publicly presented like how gender presently is on the lodestone? With the amount of people not on board with it in this thread, I think information like that should be kept private.

Additionally alongside old voiced scenes and 10 years of dialogue differences, a decision like this would have to be carried over to at the very least the German, French, and Japanese languages (China and Korea by extension but I cannot imagine pronoun support in those versions of the game). I do not know enough about the forms of gender expression in those languages for how many options could realistically be supported. For voice acting purposes, I feel 3 takes of a line for pronoun differentiation is probably the most that could be reasonably expected.

I could see custom pronouns for text only, but anything verbal I could see be alienating to anyone falling outside of he/she/they.

[MediocreIndigo]

Considering that the game has a sizeable trans fanbase I feel like being able to customize your character's in-game pronouns rather than having them be determined by the model you use is a perfectly reasonable request, though like OP mentioned, it would take a lot of work to implement. Altering non-voiced lines would obviously be easier than altering voiced lines.

[HolyReign]

I too like to play pretend, and demand others support my unhinged ideals for the sake of feeling included.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

I too like to play pretend, and demand others support my unhinged ideals for the sake of feeling included.

Reading stuff like this just makes me sad.

Because I know it’s meant to genuinely hurt someone deeply.

[HolyReign]

Reading stuff like this just makes me sad.

Because I know it’s meant to genuinely hurt someone deeply.

You're reaching for something that's not there, but feel free to feel however you want.