What if: Starting with Dawntrail, everyone starts referring to the WoL as they/them?

[Iscah]

And it would finally free us from extremely weird gendered phrases and idioms where every instance of "man" is replaced by "woman" (as in "a dog is a (wo)man's best friend"), which completely sounds out of place and reads wrong, the biggest offender to me being "old girl" by far. "Old girl" is the reason I will never like Emmanellain. I'll reconsider my opinion of him when he stops calling me that.

The script isn't just limited to dropping "boy" or "girl" into a pre-built sentence – entire custom phrases are substituted according to the player-character's gender. They could have avoided the "old" part entirely and had him call you "my dear" if they wanted to, but they didn't go that way.

[Mosha]

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Right, but FFXIV is a established MMO with some people's WoLs going back a full decade, what have very well established genders. So I'm pretty sure it would indeed upset a lot people if the game forced they/them pronouns on to their WoL suddenly. Would upset as a trans woman who uses female pronouns at least.

[Theodric]

Saint's Row, eh? How did that game fare with its latest attempt at a reboot to appeal to 'modern audiences'?

[Supersnow845]

Like I said it should be an option if you are roleplaying a non binary character but I just don’t see it as a big deal, like I’m not gonna get annoyed when people can (and do) refer to me as my avatars name, do people really think my real name is Andreas, of course it isn’t, am I gonna get annoyed that someone in VC called me Andreas, hell no I prefer you call me Andreas in VC Because that’s what my in game name is

[Denji]

i find this subject fascinating because not every language has gendered pronouns while others are extremely strict about it and in the end all i care about is whatever option allows me to maximize my laziness
so in this instance idgaf about gendered pronouns and idk why anyone would care if it switched to they/them. like who cares. its literally a nothingburger. the ghost of english past isn't gonna haunt you and even if it did you'd be so far down in queue because shakespeare himself didn't give a fk about whether or not singular they/them was correct or not and used it anyway.

[Boblawblah]

OP:


The spirit of Titanmen is alive and well.

[hynaku]

If they did that to me I would ignore them permantly.

[MAJRIS]

[CaptainLagbeard]

The language in the game is definitely not excessively gendered. It's just regular English.