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

[Momo_Kozuki]

Inb4 FFXVI just has a single male character said one single line "I like that guy" (for his personality, attitude, bravery...) and let the community imagines the rest.

[kevin_satron]

for main characters, not really need it. Because the devs prefer to not have official sexual preference in their main characters

[hagare]

for main characters, not really need it. Because the devs prefer to not have official sexual preference in their main characters

meanwhile. Clive bangs xD

[TitanMenII]

for main characters, not really need it. Because the devs prefer to not have official sexual preference in their main characters

But we do have official sexual preferences for many other characters, like Dulia-Chai.

[kevin_satron]

meanwhile. Clive bangs xD

pretty sure it's the dominant of odin, Barnabas. not clive

But we do have official sexual preferences for many other characters, like Dulia-Chai.

they already married, so it doesn't really count

[BRVV]

All that drama and it's probably just that Shiva will say she made out with a girl once.

[MagusMirel]

No LGBT+ Content in FFXIV. We don't need this in a Game.

[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.

[Remish]

Sometimes I think part of the reason there is a lack of representation is because developers and media producers are afraid of doing it wrong. Nobody cares how the white straight character is used. Nobody cares if they get murdered or put into some awful situation. Nobody cares if the white straight person is the big bad villain all along. And so because nobody cares, white straight people are often over used because it's safe. If we make the character gay, asian, black or anything else, then they need to do more research to make sure they are represented correctly. For example, if someone needs to be shot and killed in this setting, let's make it a white straight person. Cause if the character were instead gay or black, then people would read to much into it and think the show was trying to portray some false narrative instead. Sometimes lacking representation is a lot safer for producers than to accidently misrepresent in an effort to represent. Nobody sits there and goes, "They did it wrong but at least they tried". No. Doing it wrong gets you called racist, homophobic, transphobic, ect ect. Then they get the held accountable side of things that they should have just did it right the first time. So to avoid that whole problem, they just make it a white straight guy instead because virtually nobody cares what happens to them. If people didn't let how the characters used in the story impact them so much, we might see more representation. But at the risk of being called racist, homophobic ect, they play it safe and keep them out or used very sparingly and with extra caution and care. So this probably does lead to more tokenism in stories because they are trying extra hard to make sure they do it right.

[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!