Please add trigger warnings to intense moments in the MSQ

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Holy shit.

The fact it isn't a Hyur in his undies for a change really threw me for a loop.

Then again, Hrothgar is close enough. Wonder if he'll go for Au Ra and Roe too?

...Titanman lala?

Well, I know a few of his characters on jenova are hrothgar, but he usually waits to pull out a new forum account until the last one got banned.


Were now on accounts 3 and 4... Jesus....

[Ayuhra]

Have you tried the Color Filtering option for color blind people? I have never messed with it but it might make things distorted enough to no longer be upsetting.

[Catwho]

Guys, there's no harm is asking for greater accessibility options and filters.
Saying "the game has a rating" while true, isn't verry helpful. What is TC supposed to do? Just not play the game?

I mean, yes?

I do not like depictions of murder in live action films. So I choose not to watch horror movies. I don't watch them and then complain that the movie brought up my PTSD. I just..... don't watch them. The genre of "horror" is the warning.

[Melichoir]

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Edit: Looks like I fell for bait. oh well. Still gonna leave my thoughts up cause frankly I know there are people who have the mindset as the OP.

No.

Two Reasons:

1) There is little evidence that "Trigger Warnings" actually help. At best it has no added or negative benefits. Some evidence actually points to the opposite, that it makes it worse.
2) Youre not the only one with a medical diagnosis for said things and its patronizing to be given a warning for viewing content. Having a bit of a "Oh my god that was a bit horrifying" is not a bad thing. Its part of life, but rather than accept that youre asking that you be warned so you can avoid it all together. If you have a serious issue with viewing certain cutscenes in this game that are a bit more on the horrifying end of things, then you need to work harder on your therapy. This isnt like going to see a jump scare slasher movie or something there of, and most of the content here is incredibly tame by most metrics of horror.

Now before someone jumps down my throat and says "Well be compassionate and empathetic" Im gonna flat out say Ive got a similar diagnosis and you just got to "Toughen Up." I dont want trigger warnings and the like cause it breaks flow of the narrative and, frankly, ruins the surprises and moments of the game. Part of the joy of Edda's thing is the thrill factor of it. Like riding a roller coaster with a sudden dip when going in a dark tunnel. Bit frightening, but also is that little bit that adds flavor to the ride. If they put a sign up that said "Beware of the dip in the dark tunnel on the ride" I either end up overthinking it and stressing myself out in preparation for it, or lose out on the experience of the surprise of it because Ive been told about it before hand. It isnt healthy in either case. Life isnt going to have trigger warnings. You need to learn how to manage that properly instead of hiding from it.

You got a medical diagnosis for anxiety. Alright, a lot of people do. Rather than demanding that you need a "Warning" for distressing things, talk with your therapist on working on how to manage unexpected stressors instead of demanding that the game insulates you from content that may or may not be a bit sad or scary. This is literally toughen up a bit. And if youre anxiety is that impeding, that heavy handed, then you have a lot of work to do for treating and managing it and maybe playing games like FFXIV isnt a wise choice at this time.

[SavishSalacious]

While I get where you are coming from, as others have stated there is a rating for a reason. Its some places its PEGI 16, in Canada Its Teen. If it states There's violence and mature subject content, then take that to mean exactly that. I am all for every person of every colour and sex and all that including all their disabillities to play this game, how ever unless the game starts showing graphic depictions of rape and dark content like that (which they wont) I wont get offended or triggered by the content because I know its a Teenagers game in the sense its rated for teens.

As for warnings and what not. Maybe at the beginning of the expansion, not through out - unless its like "content ahead has strobing affects" even then.

But I am not for changing a story because it "spooked you." Warning sure (at the beginning of the expansion), change no.

[tdb]

Troll post notwithstanding, a glaring problem with this is that there's a large number of actual triggers and people also come up with their own "triggers" in an attempt to censor content or people they don't like. If someone is triggered by rain at sunset, should we prevent that from occurring in the game? What about red shoelaces? Or maybe an NPC who looks like the guy who murdered their wife? If the game includes some trigger warnings, someone will notice that their (real or imagined) trigger didn't get included and raise a ruckus about it. Where should they draw the line of what's included and what isn't?

Another huge problem is the work of reviewing all the existing cutscenes for triggers. There's what, 50 hours of cutscenes? 100 hours? Plus all the possible interpretation issues over what actually constitutes a trigger.

It's not that I'm against the idea, I just don't see it as very realistic to implement.

[Trixxy]

It's like the old argument that creating more content for the "1%" of raiders isn't worth it.
Do you seriously think they'll go through the extra trouble to implement trigger warnings for the 0.001% of players with some form of crippling anxiety?

[lolicon09]

Is this another TitanMe troll post?

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

Really? Really? I hate what this world is coming to. I have anxiety and I have it bad, but this game by no means is "triggering".

[Jin-]

Lol. What's this? Some Californian University?

I have diagnosed panic disorder, anxiety as well and I find this stupid