Please add trigger warnings to intense moments in the MSQ

[MistakeNot]

What is upsetting varies between people. I am sure that for just about every cutscene in the game you can find someone who was upset by it for some reason.
Trigger warnings are just about never a good solution - you will have to add warnings for just about everything, or you will miss something.

Dark themes and ugly scenes are spread all over the game. Eorzea is not a nice place - it is a very nasty place in a great many ways.

Just assume there is a warning for the whole game: "Some content may be upsetting to some people."

[SomeRandomHuman]

May be a little drifting from the topic, but there are people that check a movie's/book's ending first before enjoying it. They do want a certain outcome, but still enjoy the story after being spoiled. Would you tell those people to just not read the book or watch the movie that seems interesting to them? Same principle.

Some people do want to be spoiled. Just make it an option you have to actively turn on and nothing changes for most of us.

Coming from someone that claims to be a lore-heavy as your signature implies this makes 0 sense. The impact of key events are what can make or break a plotline. I've spoiled endings and stuff for myself but spoiling an ending is not the same as ruining the key moments that bring the elements to their fullest. The rating systems exist for a reason. XIV may be in the limbo between ERSB's T and M rating but a lot of graphic content is fairly obvious when you examine context and other aspects.. Given that you're in EU they may have a different guideline than the NA.

We've already lost content that used to be consistent for new things. I'm not ready to sacrifice a piece of content for a handful of people that have issues when there's health and safety warnings whenever you boot up any kind of game.

[Ranaku]

I mean if the filter would be off by default it wouldn't affect you. But hoping that SE will implement this is borderline madness/insane. "Hope for a quick solution and just keep playing, maybe they fix it soon."

Seriously if it affects your health, stop with it. 1 week of grief over a ded character, increased heartbeat and all that stuff doesn't sound healthy at all and the only healthy solution right now is to just stop to play and search a good therapist. That's the problem with many people who have mental issues nowdays, we have to change stuff cause they don't get the right therapy and endanger themself. What the TC does sounds like a serious case of harming himself and if he keeps playing this game this won't stop.

So seriously, if you are in the same spot search help, it's no shame and learning how to deal with things is really important. Reallife will be also not always nice to you. Putting a filter in front of everything will make it just worse from my experience.

[Penthea]

EDIT: I had suspected this was bait and well it seems the undying Titanmen/Raging Stallion is at it again. Oh well I'll leave the post here because it appears some have liked it, so I suppose it's not entirely useless.

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Titania Jumpscare (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrDYo_R_vqI)

There is ample warning in the cutscene itself that a jump scare could happen. The cutscene literally sets up a horror movie vibe. Sure it made me jump the first time I saw it too but it was not out of place at all. It wasn't unexpected that there was a jumpscare, it was more that you had no way to know exactly when it would happen.

Edda

You would have to be not paying attention to the story for this sort of thing to be unexpected.

Ala Mhigo racism/imperialism/torture scenes

There are a lot of scenes throughout the Stormblood MSQ where you witness Garlemald or Garlean sympathizers basically torturing or committing war crimes on Ala Mhigans. There was a scene where one of the Ala Mhigans begged you not to intervene and to me that was very traumatic and I was not prepared for this dark theme at all and almost broke down. I think a warning that the Stormblood MSQ contains a lot of dark and heavy themes related to war will be nice, because I was expecting a lighter tone and mood.

I don't understand why you were expecting a lighter tone. We were liberating a nation who were being severely oppressed as a result of a war that happened in living memory and all this was known at the end of HW, and long before Stormblood you have warning that this game often doesn't hold back on horrible details.

In the msq alone there are cutscenes of a cute lalafell being assassinated through poison that clearly causes her fear and agony, a distraught highlander losing his arm in a fight, and an elezen getting a hole in his torso from a selfless sacrifice that even caused internal bleeding to seep from his mouth. And this isn't even anywhere close to being the full list of disturbing scenes or plot points. After seeing these scenes, how can a person be surprised that the game shows some of the disturbing things that happen in war?

Good god the first dungeon has human trafficking. Anyone who noticed that would know right away this game has some dark themes.

Haurchefant death scene

I was completely unprepared for this scene and I had to stop playing for a week because it was just so sudden and I was so distraught I felt like I lost a friend in real life. I had to spend a week griefing and I didn't think a video game would hit me this hard but it did. Warning that the scene might be upsetting for some people would be nice.

These are just some examples that I think benefit from having a trigger warning added to them. I'm sure there are more but let's start small and add trigger warnings to the most upsetting scenes first.

Well you were supposed to be unprepared for it. That scene is iconic hugely in part to how it took almost everyone by surprise.

Sure a trigger warning may help you but I think you perhaps forget that triggers are a deeply personal thing. I have anxiety and none of the things that triggered you triggered me. There are other scenes that deeply upset me to the point that I had to take a break but I understand it's because of the unique circumstances of this thing called "my life" and not because SE failed to do something. If SE were to put trigger warnings on anything that could possibly be upsetting to those with anxiety and/or trauma there would be so many that the warning would just lose its meaning.

We already have warnings from age rating, game genre, genre of storytelling, and how the story of the game progressively gets more dark the longer you play, to serve as warnings to those who may be sensitive to certain types of subjects.

I'm not against SE putting in trigger warnings, as long as they're not there by default (because spoilers) but I don't think it's fair to say that all these triggering scenes don't come with some manner of warning already.

[Limecat]

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

This almost seems like a TitanMen thread.... Almost...

[KageTokage]

This almost seems like a TitanMen thread.... Almost...

It is him.

The character is in a FC with exact same name as the ones many of his alts on other servers are part of.

His dedication to posting bait topics is honestly kind of impressive.

[Bright-Flower]

I wouldn't mind as long as it's an option you need to turn on and not something hard coded in that everyone has to have pop up before cutscenes.

[Yoruichi4478]

Is this a troll post? Seriously though, if you can't handle some cgi and there are enough warnings on the loading screen alone, then this isn't the game for you. I wouldn't recommend Warframe either, as by your post I can determine you wouldn't be able to handle The Chains of Harrow either. Can't skip cs's in that game at all.
So you want to ruin other player's experiences because you can't handle it? I'm sorry, but no, just no.

[Ammokkx]

It is him.

The character is in a FC with exact same name as the ones many of his alts on other servers are part of.

His dedication to posting bait topics is honestly kind of impressive.

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?