The New Sage Icon, Thoughts?

[Ranaku]

Please remove spiders from the game i am afraid of spiders

[Caitlyn]

Is SE going to change this, too?

(the following pictures may scare other people)

[Pirana1]

That slope can sometimes be slippery.

[Duskane]

Imo, changing a job icon cause of a phobia is no problem to me, it has no effect on the actual gameplay.

They could've just not mentioned it, and nobody would complain about phobia being an issue, since it really has no effect on anything.

its probably why they are quiet on so many things because people complain regardless of reasoning.

[Ryion]

Change Icon ---> 10 Second

Change dungeon ---> 10 Month

~a little bit overdramatic

[SturmChurro]

This sets a dangerous precedent. Coral clusters are present in-game and have many clusters of tiny holes. Will they be removed from the game? If so, why? If not, why?

Perhaps this is yet another example as to why our community representatives need to be present and active on this forum. We really need to know what feedback, exactly, they are passing along to the development team. I didn't see a single comment about people being 'scared' of the Sage icon and I'm pretty active across a number of sites related to discussion of FFXIV.

Some people have a phobia of deep water. Will swimming be removed from the game?

Some people have a phobia of spiders. Will spider enemies be removed from the game?

Some people have a phobia of heights. Will flying and tall structures be removed from the game?

I hope not and I doubt that they will in any of those cases - which makes the reasoning behind the icon's change utterly and totally bizarre.

Exactly my thoughts. If they are going to start consistently removing things over random phobias - I've never even heard of this one before - we will be left with a hollow shell of a game. Actually, I bet there's a phobia against that. I have NEVER seen this feedback on the forums, and I even wanted to look up what the icon was prior, because of how in disbelief I was. Like, I'm sorry there are people with these conditions, but the world can't tippy toe around them all.

[Ranaku]

Since we are so progressive now, how about barrier free access to dungeons for Arenvald?

[Sathona]

So much overreacting, its sad oomf.

Im indifferent about the change tho.

[Jandor]

I'm sorry what? How about we remove everything that people have a "phobia" for? Then we won't have a game. When I was shared this I was in utter disbelief. I don't have any particular feelings about it being changed, but it being changed due to... this?

The old icon was making some people feel sick and it wasn't particularly well liked anyway. I don't understand the massive overreaction from some people here.

[Bellsong]

Wellp, pack it up ya'll, fun is being removed from the game now that they changed a single job icon. SE are now turning over a new leaf and are intent on changing all things that could trigger a phobia. That clearly means the game must simply shut down as anything and everything could present as a phobia.

There's no possible way that a dev or Yoshi-p himself happened to see or hear about the discussion and figure that changing a job icon; that no one seemed to feel very strongly about either way, was an innocuous enough change to make a handful of players feel a little more comfortable amidst everything else in the game that may trigger a strong sense of disgust from them.

Long gone are the days when someone with the omega mount flying above me would illicit such a violent, primal response of disgust and pain that I would visibly crumple in my 400$ gamer chair.

Never again will Saint Mocianne make me pray to every god in the universe to release me from my mortal coil the moment I laid eyes on the honeycombs on all the wall.

This slippery slope is in full effect boys and we're riding it straight into a world first phobia-free calamity!