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(08-09-2013, 03:43 PM)Felix Sideris Wrote: You need to remember that the United States is FAR ahead of other countries in terms of accepting homosexuality. Japanese society, as far as what I can tell off of other threads/sites that have talked about this topic, does not accept it as openly. This game is world-wide and thus they need to take into account the customs and socially accepted ways of each country their game goes into. Let's say for example(this is hypothetical)Â Germany was extremely against homosexuality. If they released that on the game, it -could- offend a large part part of the German player base.Â
The chance of offending people is relatively low, but square enix seems to be concerned with -all- of their players, not just the majority. At this point in time they have far more important things to handle than dealing with such a controversial topic, and so the safest thing to do is exactly what they will be doing.Â
It is better to not release it initially and then add it in upon majority player-base request than to add it in and offend some of your players.
I applaud them for their caution about it, because it -is- sensitive to some people, and while I won't argue in either direction for it, I think their decision is appropriate considering the struggles that FFXIV has gone through and the effort they have put into reviving this game into something as amazing as it now is.
Also, a large majority of the player base that wants it added, or would argue against it, would likely be Role Players, which is usually the smallest community in an MMO in comparison to PvE and PvP players.
So, with all that said, I'd say lets sit back and enjoy the game and not get wrapped up in such a controversial topic about a small addition they added into the game. Eventually it will, or will not, be changed based upon the responses they get from the community. They have pretty much promised that.
I think you are giving America too much credit. They are not far ahead as you have stated, but are somewhere in the middle. South Africa, New Zealand, Iceland, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina, and a lot of others have already passed laws allowing it.Â
I am going with Naunet on this one. If they just add it and don't make a big fuss about it then no one will care, just like they did with Rift. I didn't expect that they would allow it and I honestly do not think they will ever allow if.
If they were sincere about it then they would have added it at the beginning. If a movement to allow it would start to ramp up you would then get a movement to not allow it and then SE would just take a neutral stance and do nothing about it (just like the RPC has done with the whole primary and secondary server thing). I would not get my hopes up if someone was hoping for this feature.Â
I will try to keep politics out of my post as I sometimes get a bit crazy, (I can't help it though. I worked in a local political firm for 4 years >.o) but I think they are dropping the ball on not allowing it.Â
Felix and Armi are right about Japanese culture being very conservative (at least the old people who run the country are) so the management of SE Japan is also probably holding back this decision.
Edit: Just realized everything has pretty much been cleared up and everything I said has already been said before >.>. Just go along people, nothing to see here.