The New Sage Icon, Thoughts?

[Lauront]

The icon wasn't too great to begin with but the reasoning is rather silly. May as well remove all bladed objects, or icons thereof, because of aichmophobia (=fear of sharp objects) while we're at it... don't get ideas now!

[Kolsykol]

To me it just doesn't tell me '' Sage '' at all.
It's definitely not alone in not really telling you what the Job is just on looks alone, but still.

It could've used the weapons as part of its design like Reaper.
Reaper is very clear what it is when you look at it.

[Theodric]

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.

[Yencat]

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.

I hadn't seen it either, but it's from the JP General Discussion apparently.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...81%84%E3%81%A6

[Caitlyn]

Is SE going to change this, too?

(the following pictures may scare other people)

[Lauront]

Is SE going to change this, too?

(the following picture may scare other people)

Rip it out! Turn it into one big grey box... oh wait, that might trigger some people's glaucophobia.

[Caitlyn]

Rip it out! Turn it into one big grey box... oh wait, that might trigger some people's glaucophobia.

The fear of grey. Well, then SE have to change my character, too. I m glaucophobia in person (not intentionally).

[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.

[Allegor]

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.

My guess is... *puts on tinfoil hat* a handful of people were triggered by it but the larger group used it as excuse to have the icon changed. I'm personally not a fan of either, or Reaper's for that matterm but ehh, they're tiny and never see them until/unless changing jobs or looking at a profile anyways

[Thaun]

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.