The New Sage Icon, Thoughts?

[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!

[Sathona]

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!

Cant wait to have Samurai removed due to fear of blades
the entirety of the ruby sea due to swimming fear etc

oh my god SE what have u doneeeee


/s

[Fredco191]

I wasn't even attached to the old version anyway. The new design still looks nice.

[Ranaku]

I mean it's not really overreacting since it's completely stupid. Not the change itself but the reasoning. There is much stuff inside the game that can trigger all sorts of phobias. Especially the one that caused this here. So why the heck changing the job icon if the game is basically a giant phobia trap no matter if you are afraid of holes or spiders or clowns (yeah i look at you Ferdiad you sick voidsend) or whatever.

So it makes basically no difference that is the problem. It's not even about that they used their time to do that instead other things, since i don't think that redesign took more than 30min.

It's like baking a glutenfree raisin bread for your friend who has a gluten and raisin allergy.

[Bellsong]

I mean it's not really overreacting since it's completely stupid. Not the change itself but the reasoning. There is much stuff inside the game that can trigger all sorts of phobias. Especially the one that caused this here. So why the heck changing the job icon if the game is basically a giant phobia trap no matter if you are afraid of holes or spiders or clowns (yeah i look at you Ferdiad you sick voidsend) or whatever.

So it makes basically no difference that is the problem. It's not even about that they used their time to do that instead other things, since i don't think that redesign took more than 30min.

It's like baking a glutenfree raisin bread for your friend who has a gluten and raisin allergy.

Your Whataboutism is correct, we're better off not changing anything ever unless we change everything always.

[Ranaku]

You're Whataboutism is correct, we're better off not changing anything ever unless we change everything always.

Well yeah, i don't argue against the change. Not at all. It's good SE is changing things. It still doesn't matter since XIV is full of holes, just visit Ul'dah on Balmung! Until they fix that this fix here has literally no meaning since the poor triggered fellas will be anyways triggered.

[Jandor]

Well yeah, i don't argue against the change. Not at all. It's good SE is changing things. It still doesn't matter since XIV is full of holes, just visit Ul'dah on Balmung! Until they fix that this fix here has literally no meaning since the poor triggered fellas will be anyways triggered.

Not everything with holes in it will trigger trypophobia, I feel this should be pretty obvious.

[Ranaku]

Not everything with holes in it will trigger trypophobia.

No joke? Never heard that before! Guess that's why crabs don't trigger my spider phobia.

Jokes aside, sure not every hole triggers that specific phobia but there are still clearly dozens of patterns in the game that can clearly trigger people with such phobias. So why showing that you "care" about them and then letting them fall anyways like hot popotos since you can't ban honeycombs from the game cause you need these juicy beloved designs.

[Yencat]

So why the heck changing the job icon

i don't think that redesign took more than 30min.

I think you've answered your own question there.

It turned into a big discussion on the JP forums and it seems it was an easy enough fix to do in very little time, as opposed to ripping out entire sections of walls in dungeons and changing monster models.

[Ranaku]

I think you've answered your own question there.

It turned into a big discussion on the JP forums and it seems it was an easy enough fix to do in very little time, as opposed to ripping out entire sections of walls in dungeons and changing monster models.

Yeah exactly, i said the change itself isn't bad at all. It's good SE is changing things. And as i said i don't think it took any development time at all. So no negative impact on the rest of us. BUT the game is literally full of holes still, what do they plan to do about that? Why showing virtue with the poor phobia people when the game is basically a phobia swamp. Which is normal ofc.

What i try to say is, SE has a really weak reasoning in this one not cause they changed it or cause there are just a few with phobias. But it's literally a change for nothing and they didn't showed any commitment in their statement that they want to change these things too, which would obviously be too much, but as i said weak reasoning then when they care enough to change a little icon people mostly ignore and then having big triggering honeycombs all over the place.

It's like...we care about you fellas but not enough to make any real change.