In collaboration with Sydney Gaymers, Final Fantasy XIV Online took part as the first gaming related float. During Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday 2nd March, and pictures in now finally surfacing.
The collaboration was first announced in February 2019, and marks the coming together of Australia’s 2,600-strong Sydney Gaymer community with the critically-acclaimed MMO.
Sydney Gaymers is thrilled to be collaborating with FINAL FANTASY XIV Online for its 2019 float entry, titled Realms United. It means so much to receive direct support, validation and acknowledgement from such a force in the industry. Not only that, to be supported by a game where so much of our community and values are represented. The FINAL FANTASY XIV Online community does not discriminate and respects everyone’s freedom and their individual values equally. For many LGBTQI+ people, online communities provide a space for the journey and exploration of personal identities They allow us to connect, and celebrate, and they reinforce that we are not alone. Sydney Gaymers could not have a better sponsor to help create the most ambitious float it has ever undertaken. – Organiser for Sydney Gaymers, Peak Distapan
This collaboration could never have been realised without the efforts of our community. When FFXIV took part in PAX Australia, it was the FFXIV players in Australia who offered us the greatest welcome and utmost support. This led on to our community and Sydney Gaymers working together to make the collaboration a reality. To see it makes me very happy indeed, both as the person in charge of FFXIV and also as just another player of the game. FFXIV is another world that continues to grow and expand online. In that world people become adventurers, known as the Warriors of Light, and can continue to be free. I would like to continue developing this world, hand in hand with communities across the globe. – FINAL FANTASY XIV Online Producer and Director, Naoki Yoshida
Source: Square Enix Press Release
