Quote Originally Posted by drtasteyummy View Post
Despite many people omitting this, it's actually quite true that many people find Lalafells uncomfortable to have around because they resemble children, not little people. Dwarves and Gnomes in World of Warcraft somewhat resemble little people, but Lalafells look like children, which many find unsettling. Of course, if you ask in certain people, you will be met with the excuse that they are actually "700 year old dragons" or "vampires". However, the reality is that few want to bring up Final Fantasy outside of its community due to perceived degeneracy. This issue is not exclusive to Lalafells, but it is a significant factor.

The whole community can be summed up in "FF14 is such a cool game, you can play as these little people that don't look like children at all, we call them potatoes to passive aggressively flame them for choosing a little children, but they're not really children when we speak from a moral high ground. However, they are not allowed for ERP because they look like children."
The game has many perceived things about it like when I try to invite friends I played WoW with as a reason to reject trying it "it's a Japanese anime game don't want to play that","don't want to play a game with oversized weapon and well endowed girls as the main focus", "isn't that a weeb game" or if they do download it get responses like "I've already played 16 hours of the game and I feel like I haven't gotten anywhere I don't feel like investing a lot of time", "beginning classes are too easy it's boring" "honestly the small race didn't even come up but that's cuz most people hate even the gnomes and goblins in WoW really so Lalafell are same the few that are still playing that I know (so like 3 out of 13 I invited) see Lalafell as vastly superior and more in depth race tho.