Begging for an arachnophobia filter

[Alicat]

clearly doesn't understand jail breaking a PS5 for mods. BUT are u willing to go that far for .. err a game? If you are, getting a minimal PC for FF14 isn't that expensive.

Don’t have that option at all. Not only is it funds since I can’t work due to health its space. Even for a gaming laptop it would be difficult to have a place to put it while not in use and if I wanted to use it I’m guessing it could be harder to having a clingy cat lol

[RedLolly]

Don’t have that option at all. Not only is it funds since I can’t work due to health its space. Even for a gaming laptop it would be difficult to have a place to put it while not in use and if I wanted to use it I’m guessing it could be harder to having a clingy cat lol

"Use Mods" as the answer despite the storm barely a season ago is a little wild to me, and just not a good answer when the request is for an accessibility option, and ESPECIALLY not for a game that has console players. If she could play on a PC, she would, I'm sure.

(On another note, if you have any interest in other currently popular games, Hades 2 has the actual spider version of Arachne as a primary character. Her design is pretty cutesy, but just in case, she's in so many scenes.)

[Alicat]

"Use Mods" as the answer despite the storm barely a season ago is a little wild to me, and just not a good answer when the request is for an accessibility option, and ESPECIALLY not for a game that has console players. If she could play on a PC, she would, I'm sure.

(On another note, if you have any interest in other currently popular games, Hades 2 has the actual spider version of Arachne as a primary character. Her design is pretty cutesy, but just in case, she's in so many scenes.)

Thanks for the support and it’s good to know. I don’t play a lot of other games for these reasons and ofc cost of them at times. If a game is often brought up in my communities I’m in my first question is it safe for me. When XVI was released a friend immediately messaged to warn me of them.

Hopefully this and the other forum asking for the same will be seen and we can eventually get a filter that makes it less triggering for us especially on console to play.

[Alicat]

Bumping to keep this relevant and to keep ‘fighting’ not gonna let this go

[Alicat]

There's spiders in the game?
I legit haven't even noticed any, is it just arr?

As I’ve mentioned several times there are loads. Weeping city’s first boss is the big one. There are similar style ones in Fell court of Toria (that 6.4 patch was awful for me) again similar ones behind the pixies in Il’Mheg, spinners and that type in places like the fringes and in dungeons like the level 95 dungeon, there’s one in the first walk, its in the mob between boss 1 and 2 but that one is the easiest to avoid.

[Kirutsuki]

If you give Arachnophobia filter, you better also give:

Arachnophilia filiter!

[KadajSynthesis]

In a world — and at a time — where games include all kinds of options for minorities, like vitiligo patterns, breast scars, or “body type A and B” instead of male and female, I’d say asking for such a simple filter is really not much to ask.
Sadly, I was wrong to expect more empathy from people on this forum.

This community is made up of hundreds of different kinds of people — many of them minorities themselves — who are always excited to see representation for their own group. Yet, somehow, there’s still plenty of hate in this thread. Add the usual “stop playing FFXIV” nonsense (yeah, sure, please tell even more players to quit — it’s not like the game hasn’t already lost a huge chunk of its base) and all you can do is shake your head at such ignorance.

Instead of telling someone with a phobia how to deal with it, why don’t you just keep your mouth shut and move on? Do you really get some kind of childish thrill from mocking someone who’s already struggling?
If so, go suck a lemon.

[Astronis]

why don’t you just keep your mouth shut and move on?

This is always an option for the morality tone police as well.

[AstreaLove]

You know they're just polygons on your monitor right? They're just a bunch of 0's and 1's with a hissing sound effect, they can't physically harm you, they can't touch you, and they can't jump out of the monitor and attack you.
You're aware that a fear is just an irrational mindtrick right?

Remember, you're several thousand times larger than ANY other spider species in the world, and it's probably more scared of you, than you of it.

[Astronis]

You're aware that a fear is just an irrational mindtrick right?

That's quite literally what a "phobia" is. Despite the extensive watering down the term has been subjected to over the last forty years so that people are now convinced that anything short of enthusiasm is -phobia...an actual phobia is an intense, completely irrational fear. I would expect someone with serious arachnophobia to find pixel spiders to be scary. BECAUSE it's completely irrational to fear pixel spiders along with real ones, it's a phobia! Like...that's one of the ways you'd know you had a phobia rather than just a run of the mill fear that a lot of people have, you're intensely afraid of them in the most ridiculous manner possible, that you KNOW is irrational, such as when they're just colorful pixels on your monitor.