Quote Originally Posted by Magic-Mal View Post
I see this is still going. Just going to keep it simple then.
-Gay marriage
-Gay characters
-Crossdressing options
-Various outfits from different real world cultures.

All of that seems to be fine?
You missed the entire point. Read the whole post.

Real world: Humans evolved accross 6 continents, different lattitudes, different environments resulting in a wide variety in the appearance of humans accross the globe.

FFXIV world: We have only seen two continents. One of them is essentially Asia (mongolian steppe area, the 'east' referencess and then entire aesthetic of kugane/Lord Hien's kingdom etc). Many regions of these continents are entirely devoid of humans all together (Steppe for example) resulting in a relatively smaller variance of human diversity. INSTEAD of human diversity we got 4 completely different NON-human races from various regions. Instead of a group of mongolian looking humans, we got Au Ra. Instead of a group of mid lattitude tropical native inhabitants we got Miquote. Not to mention the beastmen tribes all over the place.

Most every fantasy game cuts back on human variety to make space for non-human fantasy races. Go find a game set in a fictional africa and complain there arent enough white people.

With all that in mind reread the conclusion instead of plucking it out to sound ridiculous.

There is a place for intentional inclusion in media and a notable shortage of diversity in many places. This probably isnt one of them.