Prime Weapon Thread

[Alhanelem]

XI will only hire JP developers, which is a much smaller pool. That's not to say JP doesn't have lots of developers, it's to say they don't have many that will want to work on it as they would if they could recruit from NA and EU.

This is provably false as CBU3 has many people from North America and elsewhere on its staff. Michael-Christopher Koji Fox in particular who heads up lore and localization for FFXIV is not a Japan native, and all of the voice acting sourced from regions where people speak those languages. Many of them work in Japan in the SE offices there. Not to mention all the support staff, voice actors and various other roles all instrumental to the development of their games which in many cases can't really be done by a Japanese person as effectively.

Disclaimer: Yes, I know that FFXI doesn't have voice acting, the point is that, FFXI is maintained by staff at Creative Business Unit III in SE's offices in Japan, and there are plenty of people who work there who are not native Japanese.