FF14 director Yoshida asks fans not to “attack” Wuk Lamat actress

[lucatracy]

I think its because the aforementioned team member has no issue with attacking their critics with some of the most horrible rhetoric imaginable; people having a opinion on the performance seem to be pigeonholed into being some sort of horrible person and so I don't think its a bridge too far to assume they are going to respond to implications that they are some sort of closet racist/homophobe - especially given the fact that the FF XIV community has a decent record of supporting minorities and the LGBT community without a fuss.

I'm going to state once again, that this Twitter drama you are all referencing here is most definitely not the main reason a statement like this was made by Yoship and *still* does not take into account the fact that multiple, unrelated team members are supposedly facing harassment.

Also, decent record of supporting minorities? Whatever support that was became a complete joke the moment Sena was revealed to be the VA, not after her inflammatory and combative posts, *the moment she was revealed.* There is a good chunk of people that hate her solely for that and not even her bad performance or online attitude.

[ElysiumDragon]

I'm gonna be honest, the insufferable never-ending Discourse about Dawntrail and Wuk Lamat that pollutes my social media has done more to taint my enjoyment of the game than any amount of 'Speeeeen' or early-MSQ sluggishness.

[BakoolJaJa]

I'm gonna be honest, the insufferable never-ending Discourse about Dawntrail and Wuk Lamat that pollutes my social media has done more to taint my enjoyment of the game than any amount of 'Speeeeen' or early-MSQ sluggishness.

That's kind of a you problem. Why do you let other people influence your enjoyment one way or the other? If you like it, then enjoy it. If you don't, don't. Manage your social media better so the discourse doesn't "pollute" it. My social media with the exception of the forum (which I have to actively open, along with corresponding threads) has zero Dawntrail mentions. It's completely doable.

And what do people expect the forums will be talking about when a new expansion releases and with a poorly written story at that? Obviously people will be talking about the new expansion's story. If that's somehow a surprise for you, I don't even know what to say.

In reality you seek out the discourse, you open the threads with the discourse, follow the discourse on twitter/reddit or whatever social media of your choice. Then you go "aw, can't believe I'm seeing all this discourse!"

[Eraden]

*gives Mao a fish pastry* Curious what you found boring about the MSQ Mao? I did a prior post on this and wonder if it was just me. As we are doing the entire MSQ as a battle job (combat generally being a good way to add stakes to something with the risk of life/death in storytelling) was generally absent throughout the majority of the MSQ and generally most of the conflict seemed to be "you don't know about this culture." So it kinda felt mundane and lacking high points in rather long stretches.

It was mostly "Go here and digs up stuffs and then go there and digs up stuffs and then come backs and start over agains" whats annoyed Mao little bits. Mao is BLMs. Is oks if Mao escortings peoples whats doing that and then has to burninate nasty bads whats show up to nab gatherers, buts if Mao has to do gatherings and then sit back and watch Lady Fuzzy Cat gets credit, then Mao unhappys. Mao already has levemetes for the levelling of gatherings. Mao nots wanting to do that for MSQs as well. Mao nots interested in has catch Alpacas. On other claw, Mao IS interesteds in if Alpacas tasty. Is certain golden Alpaca whats Mao plannings to take bite out of. Also, many of thems MSQs is set up to get players running back and forth over same area many times. Is BORINGS to Mao. Mao wants see new things everytime Mao does new quest. Mao feels like Mao time being wasted when Mao has to run backs and forth like that.

Now....Mao has hot takes comings up. First, Mao likes stealth quests. Mao just wishes thems were little bits more tricky. Rights now Mao can do thems in Mao sleeps. Second, Mao nots all that interesteds in Tulli culture. Folks must remembers that Mao is feral Au Ra whats raised by Dragons. Mao less interesteds in new cultures than in findings out if new peoples tasty. Mao was disappointeds in last part of MSQs. Livings Memory might as well be pile of cardboards to Mao. Nothing in there can be eaten. Third, Mao does NOT like doing trials where Mao is nots Mao. If Mao wanted to be Nots-Mao then Mao would has made character Nots-Mao.

Mao really REALLY likes explorings. Mao suggesting to make maps LOTS BIGGER. Add in xps for seeing new parts of map and maybe hide interesting things in out-of-the-way places. Things what might give one-times award of some xps or some loot or some lore. Mao was really sad that nothing interestings in the cenotes (well, except for Sad-Dead-Baby cenote).

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Now....Mao has hot takes comings up. First, Mao likes stealth quests. Mao just wishes thems were little bits more tricky. Rights now Mao can do thems in Mao sleeps. Second, Mao nots all that interesteds in Tulli culture. Folks must remembers that Mao is feral Au Ra whats raised by Dragons. Mao less interesteds in new cultures than in findings out if new peoples tasty. Mao was disappointeds in last part of MSQs. Livings Memory might as well be pile of cardboards to Mao. Nothing in there can be eaten. Third, Mao does NOT like doing trials where Mao is nots Mao. If Mao wanted to be Nots-Mao then Mao would has made character Nots-Mao.

Mao really REALLY likes explorings. Mao suggesting to make maps LOTS BIGGER. Add in xps for seeing new parts of map and maybe hide interesting things in out-of-the-way places. Things what might give one-times award of some xps or some loot or some lore. Mao was really sad that nothing interestings in the cenotes (well, except for Sad-Dead-Baby cenote).

The fact that every "stealth" mission is literally a copy paste....right down to the dialogue sort of defeats the purpose I agree and I did feel that the world of Dawntrail seems to largely be devoid of interesting terrain features; most seem very generic and lacking charm of a interesting sites to see.

[LarsBehe]

I think that was just a case of people not reading her tweet correctly and then just playing Telephone with it...

The fact that you say this just speaks volumes of A) how willfully ignorant you are and B) the low levels you're willing go down to just to blindly defend Sena. Anyone with very basic reading comprehension can tell what Sena was trying to allude at with that "If you don't like Smile" post. It doesn't take someone with a PHD or a million IQ to come to that conclusion, and it most certainly isn't a "You all read it wrong"/"Took it wrong" situation.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, people like you who blindly defend Sena are just as bad as the people who directly harass her. You obviously have no principles, no standards, or a moral compass. Only someone driven by an agenda and unwilling to call out shit behavior simply because of Sena's identity. That's just sad.

[lolnah]

Wow 20 pages of people throwing tantrums because Yoshida asked people to stop harrassing a voice actor. No wonder GMs stay far away from this forum.

[Raven2014]

That's kind of a you problem. Why do you let other people influence your enjoyment one way or the other? If you like it, then enjoy it. If you don't, don't. Manage your social media better so the discourse doesn't "pollute" it. My social media with the exception of the forum (which I have to actively open, along with corresponding threads) has zero Dawntrail mentions. It's completely doable.

Absolutely, and that goes for just about everything else on social media as well. My feed in the last decade has always been extremely curated toward what I want to see: specifically gaming, vocaloid, general weeb stuffs and cat videos. And it's not even hard to keep it that way.

In reality you seek out the discourse, you open the threads with the discourse, follow the discourse on twitter/reddit or whatever social media of your choice. Then you go "aw, can't believe I'm seeing all this discourse!"

Yeah, I know A LOT of people who often complain about weird general discords on their feed, and they think there must be some grand conspiracy or propaganda campaign that's force feeding it. I always look at those people and say "no, the reason you're see all of that is because you let the algorithm know you're interested in those kind of things".

[Rayne6665]

Sickness must be purge! YALL DISGUST ME!
(just kidding)

[Antharaes]

It's actually telling, that Yoshi P comes with this now. The "attacks" have been going on since Dawntrail came out. So what is his reasoning for coming with this at this point? And please do me a favor, I am not transphobic, nor am I a bigot, racists or any kind of crap you want to throw at me, the character Wuk sucks and the VA is just a horrible person.