Ezorean Pride Parade (open to all)

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

I have a thought for a fun little event we could do this week (other servers feel free to copy): Ezorean Pride - basically a LGBT pride parade from Ul'Dah to Gridania with stop offs at Black Bush and Drybone for low level players who might not survive the Shroud on foot.

I suggest this as a fun event to promote community cohesion and to as away of showing support to the whole equality in events for the future (see the complaints about valentines day).

Date/Time: 12th February/20:00GMT
Sever: Phoenix (others please copy if you wish)
Location:Ul'Dah /Quicksand
Dress code (suggestions): Pink, bright colours, or the gimpware from the Moonfire festival

This is just a fun event idea for all players no matter of their gender or sexual preferences.

If anyone is interested say so and we can arrange this thing

Edit: Decided to put a date/time on this while I can since this threads gonna deleted or locked sooner or later
If a Rep sees this can you just lock the thread please? That way anyone interested in joining the event can still see the details.

Notice: Please can we not have arguments about marriage/rights etc... anymore then have started in here as that's not what this is for! It's a bit of camp fun for anyone to join as an alternative valentines event not a protest or anything like that!
Thanks.

[CUTS3R]

Sup with all the LGBT stuff lately ? >_>
Its getting old, like really.




inb4 wall of text i dont give a flying F about, from some LGBT person feeling "offended" for no reason by my post.

[Hocchi]

It's a bloody game, this ANTI-GAY, PRO-GAY stuff is getting real old.
No one cares about what sexuality you are.

[KiriA500]

As a gay man, I beg of you...can we please stop with all the LGBT nonsense? I play this game to escape reality, not deal with it.

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

meh ok then, suppose the endless complaints threads and bitching about other players/game mechanics is much more interesting to most then.
Sorry for attempting something different oh exalted ones

oh the whole LGBT thing lately might. be related to the valentines event and the current rampant abuse in Russia - yet some of you think we should have an Olympic event to celebrate to the Russian games.

Also as stated to begin with I don't have an agenda or political motives for suggesting this in a game, only thought if might provide a fun player organised event.

Anyway enjoy the sea of repeated complaints you keep pushing to the forum top.

[Errors]

meh ok then, suppose the endless complaints threads and bitching about other players/game mechanics is much more interesting to most then.
Sorry for attempting something different oh exalted ones

oh the whole LGBT thing lately might. be related to the valentines event and the current rampant abuse in Russia - yet some of you think we should have an Olympic event to celebrate to the Russian games.

Also as stated to begin with I don't have an agenda or political motives for suggesting this in a game, only thought if might provide a fun player organised event.

Anyway enjoy the sea of repeated complaints you keep pushing to the forum top.

[CUTS3R]

meh ok then, suppose the endless complaints threads and bitching about other players/game mechanics is much more interesting to most then.

Actually, yeah.
I do admit the subjects are getting a lil bit redundant and some times truly uninteresting but... It will always be thousand times more interesting than all this LGBT movement we seen lately.

Because as Hocchi and Kimikryo said, nobody cares about your sexual orientation, so stop talking about it .

[Kallera]

Actually, yeah.
I do admit the subjects are getting a lil bit redundant and some times truly uninteresting but... It will always be thousand times more interesting than all this LGBT movement we seen lately.

Because as Kimikryo said, nobody cares about your sexual orientation, so stop talking about it .

"Stop talkin about teh gaem, u guiz."

It's not even about sex, No one programmed sex in this game.

It's about relationships. and some people want romance option to exist with the same gender.

We can put in war, and violence, ravishing, and prejudice, even 4th wall breaking puns, but get in tangles on love?

[Shioban]

It's not even about sex, No one programmed sex in this game.

It's about relationships. and some people want romance option to exist with the same gender.

No-one is stopping you from /pose 'ing your "favourite person".

Stop making mountains out of mole-hills, this is getting absolutley ridiculous now.

As a company Square Enix have an image to maintain, one wrong turn could spell disaster for the entire company.
Laws, beliefs and cultural nuances have to be considered as a whole and how it could benefit or detriment the game and the company itself as a whole.

For the sake of adding in one minor detail it could do more harm than good, as a company they've made the right decision completely regardless of whether we believe its "fair" or not.

I don't even see why this thread got slammed by negativity.

It's an event idea. If you don't like the idea of the event, then don't bother reading the thread or posting about it with "no one cares if you're LGBTQ so shut up". Seriously, it's uncalled for.

Let people who would be interested in the event participate and talk about it. Everyone else has no business bashing on a simple event idea they can easily ignore, especially when nothing within the post was inflammatory or whatever it is people are up in arms about. Personally, this would be a cute in-game player organized event to do. I wouldn't take part in it just because I'm lazy, but it's a nice idea. Reminds me of the ahriman/chocobo/magitek trains you see sometimes in Mor Dhona.

Because of its intention, not the fact that the event is taking place.

If I had a "I want to set fire to a basket of toddlers event". YES people could walk past and ignore it. It's the message and the reasoning behind it being held in the first place that the problem occurs.

"Why is this event being held in a virtual world, what is the point". Is the question.

The OP already showed that he wanted it as a "strike-back" at the supposed "Anti-LGBT community and company"

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Because of its intention, not the fact that the event is taking place.

If I had a "I want to set fire to a basket of toddlers event". YES people could walk past and ignore it. It's the message and the reasoning behind it being held in the first place that the problem occurs.

"Why is this event being held in a virtual world, what is the point". Is the question.

The OP already showed that he wanted it as a "strike-back" at the supposed "Anti-LGBT community and company"

Maybe I just don't read into things as much as half the forums seems to (and half of which I've seen seems to be pulling at straws), but it didn't come off as overly agenda-pushing.

And again, it's an OPTIONAL thing, run by players. People who dislike it and dislike the message of it can just ignore even having seen it. There's no reason to bash on it or any kind of intent it may have solely because you personally feel "that stuff should be left out of a game". Some people like to show their dedication to a cause inside or outside of a virtual world, I don't see what's so bad about that. People are getting up in arms about an optional player-run event, it's ridiculous.