No love for V-day.

[Its_Elodie]

This kinda *is* SE's game to write it and do with it as they will. I'd like to play their version of the game and not every individuals version of how and what it should be. It's a Valentine's event for crying out loud, it isn't the end of the world because all minorities/sexual preferences/religions/cultures/personal lifestyles aren't exhibited in every event/side quest/main story quest. No one is ever going to be entirely happy with everything, it's life. I feel for SE because I see them trying, despite their own cultural differences. Then we get threads like this.

[KodiHivaer]

Marriage announced

Demographic cries out on the beta threads and when 2.0 launched about SS marriage, then claims SE is homophobic and discriminatory, petitions are made and articles are written against SE.

SE makes name/ overallchanges to the system to appease the loud group and everyone is happy
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Valentine's Day event comes along

Demographic cries about the event only focusing on certain groups of people and demands changes

I'm guessing SE has to change everyone so no one will be offended.

[ninthfantasy]

Honestly, it's only a problem if you make it a problem. People take offense to things way too easily.

[Shadray]

You could spend forever trying to ensure you have the correct mix of race/gay/straight/bi/monogamous/pan/pologumous relationships in game.

Can't we just play for fun without crying because our exact specification isn't mirrored by an in game character.

[Felis]

And you're suggesting 1 m/f, 1 m/m and 1f/f - a 2:1 homo to hetero ratio.

2 f/m and 1 f/f
No m/m, because it is valentines day, not white day.

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

I am in love with myself.

And for this reason, I demand a valentines event where everyone just loves me too please.

Why am I not represented?

[AnimazArk]

is just a quest, they openly show support in the eternal bond and other quests, we can argue about then not supporting interracial couples under the same statement if that so. Stop drama, FF is a nice place for everybody, except latinos their languages don't exist for SE lol but I'm not offended by that.

[kyuven]

2 f/m and 1 f/f
No m/m, because it is valentines day, not white day.

3 M/F and 1 F/F would be more interesting. Just swap the gender of the person giving out the quests...
Hortefense->Hortense
Like I said, missed opportunity and a unique one that could show that sexuality/love can sometimes be based on a PERSON and not gender.

actually the more i think about it the more it seems like maybe hortefense may have been originally intended to be female...

[RedAntares]

But.. but... it's just a seasonal event, just for FUN. I'm sure the devs didn't mean to offend anyone by not including same sex couples in the quest events, be glad that they let same sex couples marry. Don't think to much about it, it's just an event in a MMO.

[Feyniphia]

Hey guys/girls, lets make love instead of arguing shall we?

I haven’t participated in this years Valentione’s Day yet, but Valentione’s Day isn’t just about bearing witness to the adoration and affection of others from all corners of Eorzea.

Snippet from last years Valentione’s Day:


Valentione’s Day is also about appreciating the presence of the people around you. Spending time with friends or even people you haven’t seen before. Showing that they as well as you yourself care about their presence and gestures. It doesn’t have directly relate to “Love”.

It’s what you make of it yourself that really counts.

What she said is pretty valid and was quite saddened this was ignored, so can we please stop the bickering about the lack of homosexual couples for one specific event and have everyone getting along for once? Whether there's representation or not does it really matter?