New gearsets preview is a disappointment

[astralmoon]

Hi. My family is from El Salvador. Get over it. You and your ilk complaining about this are cringe.

That conquistador drip looks great.

Kesiannya, generasi penjajah tak reti baca

[Fawkes]

If SE has a single ounce of sense then Meracydia won't look like Australia and nobody there will have an Australian accent and we won't get any Koala mounts/minions there.

[Khalithar]

Kesiannya, generasi penjajah tak reti baca

Oh I know how to read. I get what you’re trying to say. I just don’t agree.

[Lydeck]

I wish I had so little going on in my life that I had time to be up in arms & offended over something so dumb.

I understand most of you complaining are unemployed and need to do something to feel like you're making some sort of impact in the world, but you should probably do something legitimately productive instead of clutching your pearls online over something so meaningless.

[decomposer]

People saying "how do people have time for this." On this forum. You do realize that are also posting on a forum in the middle of what is currently a work-day for half of the globe, right. Just to be clear. You took the same amount of time as those so-called unemployed to voice your own opinion.

[ChrisKatze]

In love with the new gear sets and will definitely make a glam with them, will voice my opinion loud and clear to square enix that we want and need more outfits like this!

[ColdIronCoyote]

It's been over 10 years since the ARR relaunch and easily like 20 "OMG this gear is so offensive!" If this is the "final straw of disappointment" I don't know why you were still here to begin with.

Next up? We still got Mercydia which is some kinda mash up of Egyptian and Australian influences. So get prepared for more "final straw" outrages from there.

[SaltyDaddy]

Some people should really stop spending so much time on twitter and go outside. FF is not your real life, or the representation of it.

[eikomakimachi]

I think lots of people already pointed out why they are disappointed and the issues about the 7.3 gear set's designs, but I would like to add here my 2 cents:

Please get sensitivity readers, a consultant about history, or even diversify the design team or share possible future designs with people that work in SQEX from other countries (SQEX does have Latam representatives, as far as I know). This is not the first time you seem to fail to do proper research on a certain country's history or people's culture before designing gear for this game and while I believe you don't do this with ill intent this kind of situation could have been avoided with research or with someone with different background and views to point out how problematic certain designs can be. I'm afraid this kind of situation will happen again if this issue is not addressed.

[E2404]

Echoing a lot of the disappointed sentiments expressed here.
I went into this expansion with tentative hopes that the representation and real world cultural inspiration behind so much of it would be thoughtfully implemented as per the dev team's promises (and in the first half of Dawntrail I personally still feel that a lot of it was).
I joined other POC, Native and Latin American folks in their excitement at seeing so many elements of Dawntrail that made them feel like their cultures were sincerely being shown for the first time in ages (if ever), so to then see a new armour set released that is directly inspired by the very people who colonised, enslaved and actively tried to destroy those same cultures feels incredibly careless at best and insulting at worst given the expansion this is — especially after the promises and assurances related to having cultural consultants that were made.
It's not the first time this kind of thing has happened, but it's definitely a very egregious instance of it and they need to do better...