FFXIV's story is threading on dangerous religious grounds

[ArkenaeuxBelmont]

Okay, I KNOW you’re trolling, but I just have to say that as a Christian, I have always respected how FFXIV handled religion and gods. The XIII trilogy, specifically with Lightning Returns, always had my eyes rolling with how blatantly insulting the story was towards the idea of God. But I was always amazed with how well FFXIV handled the concept of religion and worship. The characters seek to stop the beast tribes, but never leaned into insulting their beliefs or stomping on it to get what they wanted. The existence of beast tribe quests basically proves this. Anyway, yeah. I burst out laughing when I read the title of this thread.

The least of XIII's problems, by a mile, but valid point.

I prefer to forget that dumpster fire ever existed.

[Catwho]

None of the games in the FF series have ever shied away from smacking down corrupt religions.

It was the major plot point in FFX that the Church of Yevon was perpetuating an evil upon the land and had to be stopped.

[gumas]

if that how you think, shouldnt you be complain waaay before? like back in arr TITAN?

on the other hand, oh hey look another join date dec 2021 with post barely double digits


move along

[KayRadley]

Bruh, you made a forum account just for this crap?

[Alacran]

The main story of this game is threading on dangerous religious grounds mainly because of when a specific groups of people (beast tribes) summon their gods and we go there, kill their gods and put those people in their place after they get brainwashed (tempered) by their respective dieties. This kind of story is very dangerous in religious countries and square enix will get in legal trouble if they continue this type of storyline. This game has now gained a lot of attention and popularity. Its no longer hidden by WoW and the storyline will get a lot of attention now all over the world.

Basically the story of FFXIV is saying that "Don't worship your gods or else we will kill your gods and then put you in your place. All the gods when summoned turns evil and brainwash (tempers) their people".

I was also shocked to see that when a particularly important NPC told me all the 12 gods of the civilized races of Eorzea like Rhalgr, Halone, etc can be summoned if we lavish them with crystals and gorge them with ether. And when summoned the gods will turn evil (just like the beast tribe gods) and will fully brainwash (temper) all their worshippers. This type of storyline may have worked 15-20 years ago but nowadays in this new generation people will not tolerate it.

I won't be surprise if the storyline gets censored in the coming days in majority of the countries.

Oh honey... This must be your first jrpg...

[SamSmoot]

We're just killing physical monsters that these folks happen worship
.You can't kill gods because they exist only in the minds of their believers.

[Comrade_uri]

I wonder how many gods have been killed in the ff series or been used as summons? Clearly you are new to this. Might want to do some reading up.

[Dyvid]

Did all MMO refugees main fishing?