FFXIV's story is threading on dangerous religious grounds

[Lunalepsy]

There is a god in this game called Lakshmi that we have to fight. And Lakshmi is one of the Hindu gods. Tell me how this type of storyline will not offend Hindu people. I, myself, am a Hindu person and I felt offended at that part of the storyline.

If you are getting offended in an MMO, then you have a lot to think about.

[Mayumae]

There is a god in this game called Lakshmi that we have to fight. And Lakshmi is one of the Hindu gods. Tell me how this type of storyline will not offend Hindu people. I, myself, am a Hindu person and I felt offended at that part of the storyline.

you cannot be serious right now...

[SnowVix]

There is a god in this game called Lakshmi that we have to fight. And Lakshmi is one of the Hindu gods. Tell me how this type of storyline will not offend Hindu people. I, myself, am a Hindu person and I felt offended at that part of the storyline.

You didn't fight Lakshmi, you fought a perversion of Lakshmi (because all primals who came about due to the summoning methods taught by the Ascians are perversions of the object of faith, which will be revealed to be intentional later on). Note that the group of Ananta that sent you to slay the primal also worships Sri Lakshmi, and explicitly calls the primal an abomination and nothing like the Lakshmi they worship if you select the dialogue option that tells them that choosing to send you to deal with the problems means they've signed the primal's death warrant.

In the post Shadowbringers story

you even find a cure for tempering which is explicitly shown not to do anything about the recipients' religious belief. The first group you cure are Kobolds who worship Titan and were tempered when they summoned him. The cure leaves them still worshippers of Titan, but freed of the More Than Mind Control that tempering inflicts. And as you continue, more groups get freed from their tempering.

and as additional evidence to this, do the Amaal'ja daily quests. The Brotherhood of Ash is a group of Amaal'ja who are not tempered, and find the summoned version of their god Ifrit to be an... abomination.

[Mayumae]

There is a god in this game called Lakshmi that we have to fight. And Lakshmi is one of the Hindu gods. Tell me how this type of storyline will not offend Hindu people. I, myself, am a Hindu person and I felt offended at that part of the storyline.

It is a storyline for a reason.

sto·ry·line
/ˈstôrēˌlīn/
noun
the plot of a novel, play, movie, or other narrative form.

I hope you can stop trying to cherrypick a storyline off of a videogame. A videogame has nothing to do with real-world problems. You can also log off.





Deal with it.

[RdehlikaJenma]

There is a god in this game called Lakshmi that we have to fight. And Lakshmi is one of the Hindu gods. Tell me how this type of storyline will not offend Hindu people. I, myself, am a Hindu person and I felt offended at that part of the storyline.

I would have thought Shiva would have caused offense before Sri Lakshmi, but then again, you're just trolling, so....

[snuggans]

There is a god in this game called Lakshmi that we have to fight. And Lakshmi is one of the Hindu gods. Tell me how this type of storyline will not offend Hindu people. I, myself, am a Hindu person and I felt offended at that part of the storyline.

*SPOILER ALERT*

please look through the storyline again, the game is not saying that Lakshmi is inherently bad but that she was summoned by a Garlemald-aligned tribe with less than noble intentions and these intentions do influence the summoned variant, yet even in this scenario it was one of our party members who struck first after Lakshmi offered a truce, the developers were quite careful here. the other Ananta tribe asks you to vanquish this variant of Lakshmi because they know Lakshmi cannot be permanently vanquished and can be resummoned under better circumstances which does happen later. the moral of the story is that the concept of gods can be invoked for good or evil purposes depending on the worshippers, and history shows us this is true for many religions

also there is no singular beastmen hivemind that we "put in their place", there are often different factions some of which have been corrupted by non-beastmen actors, and other factions who are requesting our help

[Siniztor]

There is a god in this game called Lakshmi that we have to fight. And Lakshmi is one of the Hindu gods. Tell me how this type of storyline will not offend Hindu people. I, myself, am a Hindu person and I felt offended at that part of the storyline.

You haven't even done the Lakshmi story line your highest class is 59.... Please lock this troll thread~~~~~

[NegativeS]

I know this is a troll but I want to respond anyway...

The primals in FFXIV, while they are deities, represent an existential threat to the land around them in several ways, including but not limited to a draining of the lifeforce of the land (the effects of this are seen about halfway through the story, with the land turning barren, pure-white, and incapable of supporting life), as well as increased hostilities and needless bloodshed between the beast tribes and mankind.

These primals are only so malefic because the way they were summoned was taught to the beast tribes by the main antagonistic force in the game, the Ascians, who purposefully taught them to make primals that temper in order to further destabilize.

We don't go to kill their gods just for the sake of it, we go to do it because the gods are summoned for the express purpose of burning mankind to the ground. They had the first strike, as it were, and we are only retaliating, later taking proactive steps to ensure that these monsters, which are known for a fact to do harm, do not do further harm.

Later in the story... (EW spoilers)

...the primals are summoned for benefit, as they no longer are being summoned at the behest of Ascians and zealotry, but for an actual cause. This proves that the gods themselves are not the problem, but the way that they are summoned.

[Cadmar]

Nah

/doubt

[Listrella]

the never says the beast tribes are wrong for worshipping their gods, it's simply because the ascians were manipulating them that the summoned malicious variants.
MINOR ENDWALKER SPOILER

near the end of endwalker the beast tribes actually summon benign versions of their gods that help you get to the final location of the game