People have a right to be upset about a race being genderlocked. Stop dismissing it just because YOU don't care. It doesn't take away anything because the criticism doesn't stop being valid because posters like you obviously do not care.
I said the tantrums take away from valid concerns and criticism. ME TELLING SOMEONE TO F**K OFF OMG HATE SPEECH IN MY MMO compared to "I believe x is x because x" is massively different.
I do care to a degree or I wouldn't whittle into the conversation or bother to respond to you. I don't care in terms of "it doesn't affect me" because it simply doesn't. I've wanted female viera for ages and I was planning on playing it. I'm excited for it.
Devs also kind of skip over posts that are overtly aggressive. This has happened recently with EA and Anthem, the CM said devs stopped responding because people just shout at them. No one deserves to go to work and do their job and shift through aggressive or angry messages.
People can be critical without being an asshole - there are people who are acting like assholes because the game is doing/designing something different from what they wanted. And honestly, if that's how they act when a VIDEO GAME does something they don't like, I'm happy for them to leave. I'd rather people explain in great detail and time why they think something is bad, over just screaming.
Case and point, I'm ignoring the big caps locked posts and just reading the longer ones that actually have some effort into them. I also ignore stuff where people name call the dev team and yoshi-p. It helps no one.
Mi'qote were also extremely rare yet guess what they did? Added them after the backlash of genderlocked races IN 1.0. Lore is a bad excuse especially for a game like XIV where the lore is constantly ignored.
It isn't obvious at all. It's a crappy excuse so that they don't have to create a female model for the Hrothgar for resource purposes. If backlash matters enough to make Hrothgar the male equivalent then why exactly is genderlock criticism being called entitlement but gender lock for male fans isn't?
Just because lore isn't an excuse you accept, or they've changed their feelings about it in the past, doesn't invalidate their reason here. They have said it's becuase of lore and time restraints. They wanted ot introduce a well loved and wanted race but also wanted to introduce a beast-like race that people have also been calling for. They decided this was the way to do it. Doesn't mean they're right but that is their "excuse" so people claiming there is "no excuse" need to relax a tad.
Development is expensive and difficult and time restraint. FFXIV is starting to become an older MMO, which means less money is going to be thrown at it by SE compared to a new game. We need to be realistic about it.
Is it fair? Fair is a strong word. It feeeeels bad from a player customisation point of view, yes. Unjust? No.... ofc not. It's a video game. The correct way to do it? Not really if I was in charge but I'm not. It might be that the reality is that making races is just really fucking expensive and they have their budget for the next few years planned out and they had to be real about it. Same reason about healer balancing. Time and money. FFXIV is sold heavily on being a story FF as well. They are focusing on that a ton (hense the trust system).
In terms of gender locking being obvious: It is obvious to me from a PR standpoint. You can't introduce a female only race and not add a male only one because people will complain the female characters are getting more. The Galka and Mithra were perfect offsets of this argument. You don't have to like it, it's just a reason as to why.
In terms of entitlement: I haven't seen a split in "entitlement" differences tbh.
Yes there has been sexualized male characters which is great but the fact is all of the female character designs are still very feminine and geared towards looking sexy. This is why Hrothgar would have been a great change for XIV.
I agree with this but I am also aware of the popularity, numbers of people, and how many are actually going to pick up a Hroth. We have to wait and see tbh. People are linking female Ronso designs who are also scantily clad and sexualised as well. *shrugs*
You misunderstand the criticism regarding DNC. People aren't upset that Dancer is a DPS job. They are are disappointed that there won't be a new healer job and the buildup to Dancer was in hope that this might be the next healer reveal. If they announced Geomancer or Chemist as the next healer then no one would even mention DNC being DPS.
I don't misunderstand at all. There is a subset of people who are ANGRY (actually angry) that DNC isn't a healer. I know a lot of people are more upset about hte lack of healer job (I'm gutted but not upset) but a lot of people were mashing about DNC not being a healer because of a leak confirming they were.
I really think the other side who doesn't care about this controversy has overblown the reactions. Most people are expressing disappointment and critiquing the sexist aspects of Viera + healers being ignored again. If there is people threatening Yoshi and the development team they are a deranged minority.
We haven't. I have no idea where this mindset has come from? I've seen posts that say not having male viera is homophobic. That's INSANE to me.
Maybe people don't notice these posts as much if they agree with the "core" of them. Maybe I'm more up to date with posts before they're getting moderated? Everywhere I go, discord, Reddit, forums etc people are losing their collective shit with some interesting dialogue in between. There are also a ton of irritating posts from people asking those to shut up as well.
I think the sad thing is that people arguing with people who aren't going to change their minds. I have no intention of changing anyone's mind with my post. I don't expect yours to get changed either. It's just sad people crying about transphobia and sexism where I think it's misplaced.
It's a video game. Not a players freedom of expression or ideas. It's a developers expression of ideas - not agreeing with them is fine.
I think more people should disagree in a way that makes an impact (aka cancelling pre-orders/subscription). There are lots of people saying they're done with this game, but will probably still pre-order, keep their sub up and buy a fantasia from the mogstation.
If I've ever disagreed with design decisions in an mmo, I've simply just quit.
