Devs Please Be Careful Not To Disrespect Real Native Cultures In The New World

[ForteNightshade]

If the effort of diversity!

[Nebelheim]

People just need to let the writers and designers design a world how they want to design it instead of forcing them to change it because "It might offend a group of people im not even a part of".

[AlexiaD]

just go away already and stop with this cancel culture crap, its annoying at this point, let the devs create stuff for us instead of trying to stop them in their paths all the time, this is so cringe and yall are the reason why we cant get anything original in this game

[Nebelheim]

just go away already and stop with this cancel culture crap, its annoying at this point, let the devs create stuff for us instead of trying to stop them in their paths all the time, this is so cringe and yall are the reason why we cant get anything original in this game

The cancel culture is whats ruining modern media because they cancel anything that doesnt fit them when they dont even watch or play the things they try to cancel. Then the movies/games flop because companies cater to them.

[WiccaP]

Can we please remember, that the game is made by a Japanese company. While it is a global game, Japan does not have the same history and social issues with colonization and racism that the western world has. And we shouldn't solely look at it through our own biases.
Also, one of the major themes of the game has always been anti-colonialism. The entire Empire is an alagory to colonization, and that the alliance is made up of different cultures and people coming together and working toward a common goal.
We've seen like 2 minutes of the area and cultures. So before we start screaming about this or that. Maybe give them a chance to tell a story, which is something theyve always done well. Yes there are going to be things that we dislike or view as misrepresented, but that's part of representation. The good the bad and the ugly. We have to remember that this is a fantasy game that is taking inspiration from places and people of our own world, not meant as a complete and total real world truth. Some people in marginalized communities are going to hate and be offended and some are not. Minorities are not monoliths and to try and make them one is just as dangerous.

[Alexandre_Noireau]

We even stopped calling them "Beast" Tribes.
As a South American im glad about the feel of the Andine areas, Machu Pichu looks good.

What i actually would demand of the devs is another thing.
S O U T H A M E R I C A N D A T A C E N T E R S

I don't like that the new continent is basically south america and we don't have datacenters, really hard to always be depending on VPNs and always playing above +150ms.

[Cach]

What i actually would demand of the devs is another thing.
S O U T H A M E R I C A N D A T A C E N T E R S

This please, not playing on "Connection = poor" would be awesome. I know its a long shot, given all hardware troubles, but not harm in asking.

As for this thread topic... Terminally online delusional people... don't care much for them, that's all what I'll say.

[AlexiaD]

This please, not playing on "Connection = poor" would be awesome. I know its a long shot, given all hardware troubles, but not harm in asking.

As for this thread topic... Terminally online delusional people... don't care much for them, that's all what I'll say.

South american servers would basically be a double of materia, empty worlds with barely anyone on them, no cross DC travel because of "limitations" too, it'd basically be a wasteland from day 1, so no, no point.

[ReynTime]

South american servers would basically be a double of materia, empty worlds with barely anyone on them, no cross DC travel because of "limitations" too, it'd basically be a wasteland from day 1, so no, no point.

There are more latin american players in FFXIV than there are australian players across every relevant MMORPG.

[TheOperator3712]

There are more latin american players in FFXIV than there are australian players across every relevant MMORPG.

The amount of people isn't the issue. The issue is that a large portion of the target audience for those servers have already been playing the game for years on another region's data center and will have established roots already that make them unlikely to transfer to the new data center. ie, they already have a house on NA, why would they travel to materia/hypothetical LA DC and have to win another one?