Square Enix has changed an icon for an upcoming job in Final Fantasy XIV because of ‘trypophobia’ — a fear of tiny holes. No, seriously, they did. And they made a big, long-winded statement about it. Then we talk about FF14 vs. World of Warcraft. Guest starring SquidKing.
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It's cool to hear from Squid King again.
Dont you dare besmirch my name, Kneon. jokes It's more like theyre becoming a drift.
Kneon you really should name the Reef Community! I love your character drawings you really should make a comic or animated show starring Bubbly Steve, Geeky, Squid King, and yourself along with whatever other characters you have! The Adventures of Bubbly Steve or something like that… Clownfish is officially kicking @$$ and chewing bubble gum and it looks like they're completely out of bubble gum!
I always thought 3 was the right number of holes.
Só is just me or the human race are getting weirder and weirder also weaker…….
Square please dont WoW yourself
Those "people" need to grow TF up
Human skin has lots of holes.
There is a great Trypophobia scene in that CULT season of American Horror Story (scary AND educational).
#PlugTheHoles
OK… I think they did the right thing but did it in the wrong way.
Hear me out. If the logo might make some customers subconsciously averse to buying the game, then altering the logo would lead to higher profits. That's it. No need to "apologize" for "being insensitive" or whatnot. Just business.
This shouldn't be addressed, it's too small of an issue, people with actual trypophobia (I don't even think this is a real phobia, they just find it disgusting) just shouldn't play the game. So next we can't have any spiders due to arachnophobia , flying due to aerophobia, mountains cause of acrophobia and DUNGEONS cause of claustrophobia. All those are way waaaaaay more common than trypophobia. This is just ridiculous and stupid.
Actually as a FFXIV player he new icon looks more like the current ones. The old one looks too different.
Personally, I prefer the new icon aesthetics over the old one. Regardless of the reason.
how often do you look at your class icon,? If you scared of holes, would you not avoid looking at them…
i mean wait till the arachnaphobics see the bog yarzons in the game.
As someone who played WoW for 6 years I have every right to say fack WoW and FACK BLIZZARD.
Hear me now and believe me later, Yoshi P. That could be you someday as well.
Learn from their mistakes.
Figured it would be that phobia every Tumblr user pretended to have.
Pomegranates are the most amazingly delicious fruit in the world. How can anyone be afraid of them?
My cynical mind tells me this is Square Enix looking at what's happening at Blizzard, and going out of their way to be the opposite in hopes of keeping the current ridiculous player influx coming.
i mean… seems like an ok change to me
Oh my god squidking sounds identical to you
Giggity
One of the swamp witches in The Witcher 3 wild hunt that had a wasp nest for an eye freaked some out with this condition. 2 women streamers in particular.
This video is kinda.. lazy? It's not just "holes are scary". This is an actual thing if you look it up. I actually dare you to look at images related to it. Please don't make videos on 14 just because it's growing. It's cringy.
The could just change the "holes" to plus signs like a cross to more resemble the medical cross. But I think the "holes" are sparkle shape so these people might be overreacting.
Wtf man, its a documented condition. This vid is such disservice.
Ok half way into this vid and I can see that this is pointless, if the NA servers complained about it, maybe we would make fun of it, but it was the JP servers and last i checked (and from a lot of your videos) JP doesnt pull that western bs…so WHAT IS THE ISSUE? It wasnt even officially released yet
I think it's perfectly reasonable and a doable change. The expansion is still in development. It's one icon.
This is also refreshing to see in light of recent events in the West where companies ignore the pleas of the fanbase (He-man, Star Wars, Comics, etc)
YoshiP does not take playerbase input lightly (no matter how bullshit some demands may seem to some). These people stuck with FF14 when the whole world made fun of the game during the shitshow that was 1.0.
There's a species of toad/frog that has its offspring under the skin, and when they're ready they pop out like zits, leaving holes in the back of the parent. Really gross stuff.
Yeah but at least in japan dosen't censors that key save icon in final fantasy 14 according to my opinion
I do want to honestly say
The newer Icon does have a cooler look to it.