Please add trigger warnings to intense moments in the MSQ

[Fynlar]

While I do sympathize to an extent, I fully recognize that these moments would lose a lot of their impact for many people if they came with a direct warning. As has been pointed out, the game's ESRB rating does point toward the fact that mature themes are present and not everything that happens in this game is gonna be sunshine and rainbows.

As for the more horror/jumpscarey elements... imagine watching any sort of horror/thriller/slasher flick where, when the killer is about to emerge and strike at our hapless heroine, a countdown of 10 seconds and a description of exactly what will happen when it reaches zero just appeared on the screen. Pretty much wouldn't even make sense to call it horror anymore; if this actually ended up in any "horror" movie people would be calling it a parody or a joke instead. Horror's whole effectiveness hinges on you not knowing what is going to happen, and even if you DO know what's going to happen, you don't know exactly when, or how. The surprise element is vital.

As far as FFXIV is concerned, the game doesn't delve THAT frequently into outright horror. Which helps keep it effective the few times it does show up, because you probably aren't expecting it. Again, that's the whole point.

Regarding character deaths in particular, designers/writers WANT them to feel like gut punches. They are trying to avoid the Eight Deadly Words: "I don't care what happens to these people." If it felt like a gutpunch, that's a clear sign that they designed/wrote the character well enough to the point that you grew some degree of an attachment to said character, as opposed to not giving a crap what happens to them.