I wonder if SE would remove the Z title?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

The Z title should stay. Leave it alone
It has nothing to do with Current World events. Getting rid of it and changing it would give it power and context that has nothing to do with it, and would be kind of stupid.

[Sotaris]

The letter (or a symbol highly resembling it) is being used as a sort of badge by the Russians to show support for Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Therefore, even though it pre-dates that usage, having Z as a stand-alone title that you can "wear" on your character could be taken as echoing that usage and seeming to show that political opinion.

Though of course, it's muddy and people might just think it's cool and not know or not care that it has picked up a new and darker meaning recently.

I see. Thank you for explaining.
Seem silly to demand that for the game since we had the title since what 2014?

[Iscah]

Seem silly to demand that for the game since we had the title since what 2014?

The Z title was in the game long before the Nazi's co-oped the letter. Also, it's just a letter of the alphabet.

It's difficult and I think both sides of the argument have some merit.

I certainly wouldn't like to apply the Z title to my characters now, but then I'm not keen on using titles in general and have no pre-existing like of that one.

If it was my game, I'd possibly switch the title out for "Zeta". But then anyone determined to use it politically would probably still equip "the title that used to be Z" and then you still couldn't tell the difference between that and the "it just sounds cool" people so it doesn't actually solve the issue.

The whole issue is just one little difficult thing amid a whole lot of very big awful things.

[Syln]

Zumba phobia probably !

[xLucia]

We have a saying for that where I live.. "Turning a mouse into an Elephant". How is a idk how a many years old INGAME title now suddenly offensive? O.o It's got nothing to do with anything that's happening IRL. They may as well close the whole game down then. Because there's gotta be a trillion things in this game that nitpickers can be fussed about. Please *facepalm*

[Wolwosh]

Why am I not even remotely surprised this thread was necro'd by a first-post forum account named something like "EdgeDragon"? Are these idiots even trying anymore?

What I find even more idiotic is that people take the bait

[Bobby66]

The letter Z deserves our respect it has been around for a long time.