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Remove Ganpati Mob Or Change Name/Appearence

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edited August 2021 in Suggestions, Feedback, and Requests
While Looking at the Golden Temple Questline it was brought to my notice that there is a Hindu God Ganesha aka Ganpati portrayed as a monster to be killed.

AS a Hindu, I do find it very offensive, and would really like for Nexon to work on removing or changing the mob's Name & Appearance at the least. I believe that it wouldn't be a huge task that the devs would have to spend a long time after. And that it would be very inclusive of Nexon to take care of something that is borderline blasphemous.

While I know that it might not affect many of you, and everyone would be fine with the mob remaining as it is, the little percentage of the Hindu audience that play the game, and that do feel this as little offensive should be considered enough to at-least have an Employee look into the matter.

I'd Also like to note that while I know the devs added this mob, thinking of it to be portrayed as them being inclusive of my culture and religion, it does seem to be a little counter-intuitive given that is it portrayed as an antagonist, that is supposed to be killed. And I hope people respect that.

More Details on how the Monster Resembles, the god.

The Name: Ganpati, is the name of the monster (Link refers to a maplestory fandom page)
exactly same as the name of Hindu God Ganpati(Ganesha) (Link refers to a wikipedia page)

The Physical Apperance : The Monster Has a face of an Elephant which is exactly how the Hindu Lord Ganpati looks with an Elephant as a face.

The Weapon : The Monster Uses an Axe as a weapon again used by the same Hindu God Named GANPATI.

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