Snakes?

[Saraide]

nope, hinduism was active in japan, google up. they still have temple from pre buddhist times. each primal has it’s japanese name but used sanskrit names in game.

The word "was" is carrying the world there. If you think that past influences inherently move the needle towards more cultural sensitivity then I'm going to have to disappoint you. Judaism, christianity and islam all share the exact same roots but the seperation between them is unfortunately pretty harsh in many occasions.
Yes there are people practicing hinduism in japan and while ~500k people is no small number, compared to japan's population of ~125 million that's not that many.

[Hindu]

The word "was" is carrying the world there. If you think that past influences inherently move the needle towards more cultural sensitivity then I'm going to have to disappoint you. Judaism, christianity and islam all share the exact same roots but the seperation between them is unfortunately pretty harsh in many occasions.
Yes there are people practicing hinduism in japan and while ~500k people is no small number, compared to japan's population of ~125 million that's not that many.

Awareness and number of current practicioners not correlated. it’s about education. With so many Sanskrit words in game, they would have hindu employees for sure.

[RitsukoSonoda]

First I wanna understand why OP thinks that because the devs are "from east" that gives them some sort of immediate cultural sensitivity to hinduism when hinduism is mainly concentrated around the indian sphere of influence but the devs are from japan.

because OP wants ppl to go back to WoW... even with that recent dragonflight thing it must still be lonely over there... >.>;

[Kes13a]

First I wanna understand why OP thinks that because the devs are "from east" that gives them some sort of immediate cultural sensitivity to hinduism when hinduism is mainly concentrated around the indian sphere of influence but the devs are from japan.

its that "cultural sensitivity" of the OP at work there by grouping a large region all together and thinking they are one...

[Zebraoracle]

its that "cultural sensitivity" of the OP at work there by grouping a large region all together and thinking they are one...

Lol I bet if OP were actually Hindu they wouldn't have done that.

[ronibosch]

Isn't the FF series kind of known for this sort of thing, though? Like, what about Shiva being represented as a sexy ice diva?

...Wait a minute, is this bait?

Edit:

So do we also complain about FF making Shiva female when the mythological source of the name is male?

Aw, you beat me to it.

[Hindu]

Isn't the FF series kind of known for this sort of thing, though? Like, what about Shiva being represented as a sexy ice diva?

Wait a minute, is this bait?

Edit:
Aw, you beat me to it.

I dont think they devs are racist or bigoted or hindu haters, i think they just copy pasted nagas from blizzard.

[ronibosch]

I dont think they devs are racist or bigoted or hindu haters, i think they just copy pasted nagas from blizzard.

Ah, I see! My apologies.

[ReynTime]

I dont think they devs are racist or bigoted or hindu haters, i think they just copy pasted nagas from blizzard.

Video games have been doing this long before WoW.

[Fawkes]

i think they just copy pasted nagas from blizzard.