Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
You make the false and arrogant assumption that your position is the default position, and that it always has been. This couldn't be more clear than when you said: "ban in-game gay marriage", as though SSM was already designed into ARR, and Yoshi-P is arbitrarily dropping a ban-hammer on it.

Face it, the idea of gay marriage wouldn't have occurred to any game designer prior to the year 2000. Could you imagine playing FFIV back in the day and seeing Cecil and Kain getting married at the end?? People then would have laughed at it like it was some sort of crazy joke.
However, the world is constantly evolving past such petty closed mindsets

But here's the bottom line:

If people quit FFXIV over an absence of SSM in it, then I think they may have been playing for the wrong reasons.
But if they quit if they add SSM, then its okay?
If people quit FFXIV because SE has effectively taken sides in a hot-button political issue, then it's very likely they will have a distaste for not just this game, but for SE as a company.
Or because they didn't pick the side they are on.
How many people do you know that enjoy in-game ads? What about overt product placement in their favorite show? Well, introducing RL politics into a game is far, FAR worse.


/sigh.. I said I wouldn't' bump this silly thread anymore...
It's already been brought up multiply time that this didn't need to become an issue. Right now, its only an issue in the minds of dieing breeds, which you can see by the poll, they really are dying off. Prior to Y2K, the number of dislikes probably would have been much higher and the likes much lower, according to what you say. But this isn't prior to Y2K anymore.