One of the criticisms of the latest expansion by a notable ffxiv personality (zepla hq) is that the dialog is just bad.
Like you have a quest step where you talk to a few villagers and they all say the same thing with no color/flavor, and everyone's dialogue is in the same voice, whereas in previous expansions they would say something unique but inconsequential from their personal perspective. There's tons of this dialog in ffxiv that seems to be for the girls that play (same appeal as pulp/romance novel I guess).
Somebody should compare the Japanese dialogue flavor to English because I bet it's much better and this translator is just a lazy, zero talent trans like usual.
It’s really symbolic of the fundamental issues in the company when things like this are happening. If she was a Gab user promoting racism they would have fired her; but because she’s on the pedophile site promoting nonbinary ideology she comes “highly recommended”
he was basically embedded within the development team in japan and collaborated with yoshida for a lot of live events he was the reason why the earlier translations and localizations were so well received by the community
i'm guessing this replacement lives in commiefornia
the whole atmosphere of the game changed when she began leading
While I will admit this person's influence is definitely one reason, all of my group is taking a break from 14 because it's genuinely not engaging right now. That's because of a multitude of decisions, not just localization.
Aside from the dialogue which is definitely not going to help, the cutesy/quaint south america vibe did not resonate with a lot of people past the initial introduction, the main villain of the expansion is a schizo mess with no reasoning given to the player, then immediately killed off. Only now 7 months later are we getting a hint of something else coming, no motivating throughline at all except for 'oooh its a shiny rock of unknown power!'
But hey it's a start of a 'new arc' so it might be rough at the beginning, as long as the game content is ok right? Unfortunately not as there's been ~6 months of no long term content because they have continually pushed those back to the middle of the expansions. The one piece we did get is a frustrating mess so far, with hilariously bad balance for a field style map where you literally can't do 1/3 the content if you aren't on top of it spawning.
It was a huge mistake to set the expansion in South America.
There just isn't a compelling story you can make out of their history since most of the good stuff is lost to time. Sorry South America but you're boring. Only thing worse would be setting it in Wakanda.
The other big mistake is the main character being an ugly trans M2F.
The high-tech alternate reality juxtaposed with magic reminds me of the worlds of Stark and Arcadia in The Longest Journey, maybe the greatest point-and-click game ever made, and they could tell an interesting story there.
Its why almost all mmorpg takes place in historical europe or asia. They have the richest recorded history and they are nice to look at. Lots of real interesting architecture and scenes.
I also think End Walker was just a good ending for most players. Your character turned old enemies into new allies, saved the multiverse, and beat the BBEG. Why would I, as the player, care what happens to some random country’s political bull? Yoshi-P honestly should have ended it there and made a new mmo.
Is that the danger hair who at a panel during FanFest was talking about how important it was to her that the Thavnarians had "authentic" voice casting to avoid an "Apu situation?" I remember immediately thinking, "fuck, I hope this person doesn't have much power. She'd burn this game and playerbase to the ground."
She was apparently not the original lead localizer, and apparently the original one was a lot better than her. However he recommended her which is bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi1oE84wls4
One of the criticisms of the latest expansion by a notable ffxiv personality (zepla hq) is that the dialog is just bad.
Like you have a quest step where you talk to a few villagers and they all say the same thing with no color/flavor, and everyone's dialogue is in the same voice, whereas in previous expansions they would say something unique but inconsequential from their personal perspective. There's tons of this dialog in ffxiv that seems to be for the girls that play (same appeal as pulp/romance novel I guess).
Somebody should compare the Japanese dialogue flavor to English because I bet it's much better and this translator is just a lazy, zero talent trans like usual.
It’s really symbolic of the fundamental issues in the company when things like this are happening. If she was a Gab user promoting racism they would have fired her; but because she’s on the pedophile site promoting nonbinary ideology she comes “highly recommended”
wait they got rid of koji fox?
he was basically embedded within the development team in japan and collaborated with yoshida for a lot of live events he was the reason why the earlier translations and localizations were so well received by the community
i'm guessing this replacement lives in commiefornia
AFAIK - They didn't 'get rid' of him, the studio took on multiple projects (FF16) and offered him roles on those other projects.
He was put on FF16 and then was promoted IIRC.
Has any product ever improves with a tranny in some kinda leadership position on a dev team??
I'm sure ropes get sturdier when a fat tranny takes over the rope factory
While I will admit this person's influence is definitely one reason, all of my group is taking a break from 14 because it's genuinely not engaging right now. That's because of a multitude of decisions, not just localization.
Aside from the dialogue which is definitely not going to help, the cutesy/quaint south america vibe did not resonate with a lot of people past the initial introduction, the main villain of the expansion is a schizo mess with no reasoning given to the player, then immediately killed off. Only now 7 months later are we getting a hint of something else coming, no motivating throughline at all except for 'oooh its a shiny rock of unknown power!'
But hey it's a start of a 'new arc' so it might be rough at the beginning, as long as the game content is ok right? Unfortunately not as there's been ~6 months of no long term content because they have continually pushed those back to the middle of the expansions. The one piece we did get is a frustrating mess so far, with hilariously bad balance for a field style map where you literally can't do 1/3 the content if you aren't on top of it spawning.
It was a huge mistake to set the expansion in South America.
There just isn't a compelling story you can make out of their history since most of the good stuff is lost to time. Sorry South America but you're boring. Only thing worse would be setting it in Wakanda.
The other big mistake is the main character being an ugly trans M2F.
The high-tech alternate reality juxtaposed with magic reminds me of the worlds of Stark and Arcadia in The Longest Journey, maybe the greatest point-and-click game ever made, and they could tell an interesting story there.
Its why almost all mmorpg takes place in historical europe or asia. They have the richest recorded history and they are nice to look at. Lots of real interesting architecture and scenes.
I also think End Walker was just a good ending for most players. Your character turned old enemies into new allies, saved the multiverse, and beat the BBEG. Why would I, as the player, care what happens to some random country’s political bull? Yoshi-P honestly should have ended it there and made a new mmo.
Is that the danger hair who at a panel during FanFest was talking about how important it was to her that the Thavnarians had "authentic" voice casting to avoid an "Apu situation?" I remember immediately thinking, "fuck, I hope this person doesn't have much power. She'd burn this game and playerbase to the ground."
Cwynar? That's Welsh. I had to look it up to know what it means. Complainer.
And she named herself.