Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's story didn't exactly land with its players. I know because I'm one of them. But while I think a lot of the critiques are pretty understandable, and even asked game director Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P) about them at Gamescom this year, the discussion around what went wrong has also been hijacked to peddle hate.
Sena Bryer, the English voice actress for Wuk Lamat, a character at the heart of critical discussions about Dawntrail, is trans, and has said multiple times that she's been subjected to unacceptable transphobic abuse as a result of her role—strangers using her business email to sign her up for far-right newsletters, as well as "misgendering, death/rape threats, doxxing attempts, threats against my family, etc in every post and all across Twitch/YouTube/Reddit, all [because] I voiced a Final Fantasy character".
