FFXIV's story is threading on dangerous religious grounds

[DBriggs304]

There is just zero effort to trolling these days.

[Saraide]

There is just zero effort to trolling these days.

Even resorting to prae posting, truly a new low.

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.

Tell me you skip cutscenes without telling me you skip cutscenes.

[Darthgummibear]

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I'm pretty sure religion does that job well enough on its own.

[Theodric]

I'm pretty sure religion does that job well enough on its own.

If that's so, then it sounds like a positive message to me! It would be nice if more people took this lesson to heart.

I'm not religious myself, though I know many people who are that are perfectly reasonable individuals that don't force their views on those around them. I also don't think that the absence of religion in the world would actually solve many problems, because from what I've seen, even many people who opt not to be religious end up pursuing other ideologies that might as well be a replacement.

Not that this is the appropriate place to discuss such things at length, mind you, though I'd point to various 'good causes' that warp into cult-like movements, the zeal some feel towards defending certain products and of course, the blind support for 'their team' no matter what policies a political candidate may put forth.

One might even suggest that many supposedly 'enlightened' atheists succumb to such thinking, given how eager they seem to be to look down and ridicule those who might take comfort in religion.

Each to their own though, I say!

[AlyaNimfa]

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.

9/10 bait.

In saying that, unless you are in a 3rd world country, it is unlikely to be banned. Censoring wont work as that would require SE to edit the actual game, which I doubt they'd do.

And just so you know, the new generation cares less about religion than the previous, which cared less about religion that the generation before that. This is shown in census results in all first world countries.

[Syrri]

Know that I'll kill your god if I have to. Maybe even if I don't.

[LalafellDown]

We are killing created gods made with human hands who cannot speak, see or hear. Which I agree with. Burn them down.

[Quintessa]

The game has always had religious undertones and it was really brought to the forefront in Endwalker, especially when you get to Thavnair. The explanation of Tempering pretty much means forced conformation to the ideology of a religion.

[Jennah]

I'm still floored that Vauthy's parentage was half-human, half-divine. And that his main form of worship was all his followers eating bread, which turned out to literally be divine flesh.
And yet nobody seemed to even notice the parallels, let alone get offended.