Change/Remove Lalafell "Lifter"...

[CelestiCer]

Lalafell are not meant to be taken seriously. Full stop. When you picked the tiny little actual-stomping-tantrum-emoting gremlin creature, you shouldn't expect everyone to take it seriously. You shouldn't be expecting anyone to take it seriously.

Yes a player playing any race or based on a certain appearance should not be taken seriously. I just view it as people in real-life who can't express their racism wanting to do that anonymously online. Under the excuse by some that RP-racism isn't' real Racism and Lala's or any Race is fake there for its okey to be an asshole. Even though its clearly not okey in the TOS to treat players poorly.

Obviously its fine to treat players badly based on in-game appearances, glad we cleared that up...

[OziAuros]

Not taking someone seriously because they have chosen to play a character that looks like a child and then behave like a child is not racism. If someone IRL is acting ridiculous and then demands to be treated like everyone else, that is the correct comparison to draw. Don't liken this to racial injustice.

[Travesty]

Yes a player playing any race or based on a certain appearance should not be taken seriously. I just view it as people in real-life who can't express their racism wanting to do that anonymously online. Under the excuse by some that RP-racism isn't' real Racism and Lala's or any Race is fake there for its okey to be an asshole.

Final Fantasy XIV is not real life, and "lalafell" is not a real race. Equating ANY actions toward a lalafell to racism is, to any reasonable person, completely unhinged and absurd. This is a video game. You are not your character. RP is not reality.

That being said, it's not ok for anyone to be an asshole toward anyone else. If people are kicking someone from PF or telling them to kill themselves in real life, that's not racism, that's video game griefing, and should be treated as such and reported. REAL racism, would be kicking someone from a PF or telling them to kill themselves because a person found out the player of a lalafell, or any other in-game race, was black/brown/asian/etc. That is racism. Making a baby chair for lalafell's, is not.

[AzanathEU]

You are too late. All the big RPG companies spring in the woke/racism train. They even changed orcs because the Generation that is soon to inherit the earth believes them to be a stand in for black people...