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

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Kind of tired of companies coming out in support of the LGBTQ+ community only during the month of June, seems kind of like a cash grab at this point so I don't really care about FFXIV's lack of pride-themed event.

You just need to go to twitter and look at all their rainbow badges on the western company branch. And then the big fat nothing on their middle eastern branches. They don't give a shit about LGBT, they just want your money.

FFXIV expanding the female exclusive outfits to be available to male characters is more support for self expression than any of those companies have ever done. I think they look awful, but I am glad they have the choice.

[Lieri]

Living beings pride day.
Oxygen breathers pride day.

[angienessyo]

I don't think they'll ever do an in game event, but Square Enix has had official FFXIV floats in Pride before. I don't know if there were other instances of it, but they had floats in the Sydney parade one year https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/002680.html

Also this month at least on Aether we always have our own in game Pride parades, I imagine you can find similar on Crystal+Primal if you're on NA.

[Jennah]

In all seriousness, if they had a "25% off Fantasia sales" for Pride Month, it'd make a hell of a lot more sense than what 99% of corporations do.
Get on it, SE.

[Saraide]

Trans people: exist

Some few weirdos in this thread: yea how about they dont!

[Bearded]

There are very few (if any actually) official "Pride" events in mmorpgs - there are tons of well done community created and hosted events though which is better imo.

[KaitoAsaha]

DCUO has surprisingly given a flag cape and flag emblem for this month from last year and not sure what they gave before that. If a game has no history doing it I'd rather they make the decision all their own, than social media or whatever forces that be force them into doing so.

DCUO does it because it's a western MMO, where there's more pressure for representation. Plus the game had been on the decline for years, so you'd want it to be all inclusive to draw in potentially new players. I wanna say there may even be events featuring heroes and villains that are members LGBT.

[AlyaNimfa]

with so many months, weeks, days all called international (insert cause here) day/week/month it's physically impossible. I don't even keep track with it. And I live in a household which is extremely diverse with orientation etc. We just all sorta stopped caring about the superficial stuff and got on with life.

[Kolsykol]

By FAR Elezen is the most popular race among trans individuals

Where in the hell did you get that info from lol?

It's the predatory commercialisation of identity. It allows that company to tell their shareholders and donors that they support a noble cause without donating to anything worthwhile, such as cancer research or research into STDs, which would help the LGBT community. Instead, it's the LGBT community funding organisations to make themselves feel validated because they feel worthless inside. It's predatory as hell and worsens the divide in society. It's not that different from EA preying upon people's gambling addictions.

Please don't be so disingenuous as to pretend that you care about the LGBT community when you refer to them as '' degenerate '' etc.

[Nethereal]

I'm not saying it's a mental health issue I'm just saying if your pronouns change more than once a day you probably have mental health issues.

The biggest Issue I see is that if men can get pregnant they need a say in abortion now since they're giving birth too.