Now that FF16 will feature LGBT+ characters, can we get some rep in FF14 too?

[Tehmon]

Ultimately the whole FF16 race debacle boils down to a stupid irrelevant question being asked, and it got a stupid irrelevant answer by Yoshi-P.

If asking '' are there any black people in your game '' is seriously an important question you want to ask a director of a game, you must be out of your damn mind. I am always craving for more gay characters in video games, but I'd never ask anything of the sort like '' are there gay characters in the game???? '' from any developer. It's such an awkward goddamn question.

But Yoshi-P's answer or rather justification was pretty dumb as well. Many medieval European inspired fantasy worlds are filled to the brim with '' diversity '' and those limitations you put on yourself and the game you are creating are wholly artificial and self-imposed. And ultimately as I've browsed through all the trailers and pictures of FF16, it's not really heavy-handed with the medieval European inspirations to begin with, so the '' race '' thing being one thing they are seemingly holding fast to seems silly. The whole '' while the characters might not be diverse, they have a diversity of ideas and backgrounds and stories!! '' thing also kind of irked me, as if you could only have one or the other! But there's a kernel of truth there as well, sadly it's generally used AGAINST having diverse characters, as if to maintain the current hierarchy and disregard diversity entirely.

Even so, I don't think Yoshi-P has any ill intent though and I think he just built the foundation of FF16 on a generic vision of medieval European inspired fantasy, and generally speaking those worlds do tend to look a certain way in terms of characters and people in them, mostly white, if not all white. I don't believe there was any deliberate decision to exclude anyone, just the dev team following common tropes and that's that. That doesn't make the game '' worse '' either for not including certain type of characters, and to say that would be weird, EXTREMELY weird.

[Clover_Blake]

Even so, I don't think Yoshi-P has any ill intent though and I think he just built the foundation of FF16 on a generic vision of medieval European inspired fantasy, and generally speaking those worlds do tend to look a certain way in terms of characters and people in them, mostly white, if not all white. I don't believe there was any deliberate decision to exclude anyone, just the dev team following common tropes and that's that. That doesn't make the game '' worse '' either for not including certain type of characters, and to say that would be weird, EXTREMELY weird.

Why should there be any ill intent in representing a certain setting in the way it looked irl? Even nowadays, many European countries are still very white. And no, that's not a problem at all.

America is trying to turn any culture that doesn't look like them into some sort of a sin, but the world outside America is vast, and trying to replace everything with your own culture is not cool with me. There shouldn't have been any controversy about this to start with, and there was nothing wrong with Yoshida's reply.

[Raoabolic]

America is trying to turn any culture that doesn't look like them into some sort of a sin, but the world outside America is vast, and trying to replace everything with your own culture is not cool with me. There shouldn't have been any controversy about this to start with, and there was nothing wrong with Yoshida's reply.

The worst part about all of this is how Califorina, LA/Hollywood in particular, have made all of us look bad on the world floor. This may be a shock, but among the dwindling middle class, they really don't care about X's inclusion in Y. The only ones that tend to push that mess are the usual suspects. I would start naming things in particular but I feel like taking shots at Califorina is already putting me in hot water depending on who is reading, lmao. Oh well, I'm still enjoying making jokes as things get worse. What else is left at this point? We are already in too deep!