The lack of Pride seasonal events is super disrespectful to the trans community

[DamianFatale]

OP:

There are a number of countries where such events in a video game are illegal. Period. This is not the case for the North American servers to which your avatar belongs.

There is absolutely nothing stopping the OP from creating their own Pride event. There are any number of FCs out there that do hold such events, year after year.

Don't put something on Square Enix which you aren't personally willing to do yourself.

Square Enix actually has a pride mascot, and celebrates pride during pride month. They even have pride marchers.

[Vav2021]

Square Enix actually has a pride mascot, and celebrates pride during pride month. They even have pride marchers.

So does every other corporation, doesn't mean much in the end of the day.

[DPZ2]

Square Enix actually has a pride mascot, and celebrates pride during pride month. They even have pride marchers.

Yeah, and they've been very supportive, from things like unlocking gender-locked gear to providing Eternal Bonding to same-sex couples to just plain old recognition over the years of various in-game groups who hold Pride parades.

[Valfreyja]

Not against it, but I'd rather not see any sort of real world group getting events in-game. If one gets added in, then they all will demand to be added in.

Just better to keep it all out of the in-game world and in real life, where it belongs.

[AziraSyuren]

OP:

There are a number of countries where such events in a video game are illegal. Period. This is not the case for the North American servers to which your avatar belongs.

There is absolutely nothing stopping the OP from creating their own Pride event. There are any number of FCs out there that do hold such events, year after year.

Don't put something on Square Enix which you aren't personally willing to do yourself.

If you did that you'd get a 26 page thread about how you should keep politics out of the game :')

[DamianFatale]

So does every other corporation, doesn't mean much in the end of the day.

I don't agree completely with this anti corporate pride trend lately. Don't get me wrong, I GET WHY PEOPLE ARE MAD. Corporations are often scum of the earth. They pollute the world, support pride in one country, and then act homophobic in another market. I get it, but we should be glad we live in countries where pride HAS TO BE SUPPORTED to be seen as a decency. I'm thankful for at least some of the corporate support. Did we forget that we wanted to normalize being queer? I'm just sayin.

[DamianFatale]

Not against it, but I'd rather not see any sort of real world group getting events in-game. If one gets added in, then they all will demand to be added in.

Just better to keep it all out of the in-game world and in real life, where it belongs.

I'm so tired of these takes. It's homophobic to say that our pride doesn't belong in the game because its "political" there is nothing political about being something you cannot control. Politics are choices, but being LGBT, or any color is not a choice. You can't just magically wake up and be straight. I say bring on the pride flags.

[Neoyoshi]

[Akira_Kojima]

By FAR Elezen is the most popular race among trans individuals and Square Enix would actually do a lot of good for their image by acknowledging the trans community by giving them an Elezen-themed seasonal event. It is disappointing that they have not done so.

alright learned my lesson on checking the ffxiv forums during slow times at work

[CaptainCoral]

I'm not understanding what your trying to say, are you saying its not true? If i tried to share one of my stories I been working on in real life I know I would be mass attacked by multiple youtubers since its technically a hero Original I'm trying to turn into a comic. I gave up hope for things being balanced years ago. If something does add something its typically only two girls rarely is it two guys or others, then they are attacked by people screaming woke. "look at Disney and other things that have admitted it."

At the same time, admit some people try to shove it way to much instead of making original content, so they try to refurb old content into it. No matter way something goes it always ends up in a fight.