[Grumpy Karen]

Final Fantasy 16 has been banned in Saudi Arabia | VGC

Square Enix was “unwilling” to make required changes…

www.videogameschronicle.com

In a post on the official Twitter account for its video game division on Wednesday, the General Commission for Audiovisual Media stated that the game had not been cleared for release in the country.

According to the message, the game has been banned because it contains unacceptable content that Square Enix refused to change.

It's not clear exactly which content in the game caused it to be banned, but in February, on the same day a preview embargo for the game was lifted, three writers for Saudi website TrueGaming posted vague tweets implying an upcoming game had LGBTQ+ content. If they were referring to Final Fantasy 16, this would certainly be considered a cause to ban the game in the region.

Insert "red-button-dilemma" meme here.

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I appreciate @Wei Shen is this community's unoffical FFXVI thread-maker. So I hope he doesn't mind me making this thread.

 

[Franky Family]

*Unsheathes scimitar

 

[p_banned]

I thought that FFXVI was supposed to be woke free? Would suck that you'd have a chocobo lesbian mating mini game.

 

[Zeta Dragoon]

There has to be a way to incorporate this into the OT. Right now I'm going with The Ultimate Sweet Sixteen.

 

[Optimus]

Ugh. I really thought this shit would not be in this game. I haven't noticed anything even resembling it in any of the previews, but I'm not exactly paying close attention with TotK right around the corner. What did I miss?

 

[Helljumper]

Been reading around, and there's a rumour that a male character named Dion is "openly gay".
I wasn't even aware of that rumour until today.

 

[TaySan]

Sucks for those that live there. Not my loss.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Been reading around, and there's a rumour that a male character named Dion is "openly gay".
I wasn't even aware of that rumour until today.

Way to give the woke mob ammunition against them while pissing off conservatives that are getting increasingly leery of LGBTQP pandering.

Because you can't claim there are no black people for 'realism', then have a modern day openly gay character wandering around your medieval Europe inspired setting.

 

[Optimus]

Been reading around, and there's a rumour that a male character named Dion is "openly gay".
I wasn't even aware of that rumour until today.

As long as he is totally optional and I can leave him sitting in his out of the way village for the entire duration of my playthrough....

 

[Helljumper]

As long as he is totally optional and I can leave him sitting in his out of the way village for the entire duration of my playthrough....

He [Dion] is Bahamut's summoner. His apparent gayness is just a rumour, though. Still nothing so far to confirm it's true.

 

[Optimus]

He [Dion] is Bahamut's summoner. His apparent gayness is just a rumour, though. Still nothing so far to confirm it's true.

Man, Sony is going to be fully to blame if this shit is true.

 

[O-N-E]

Could be because of how prominent Ifrit is in the game. Your character is basically one with a Jinn.