FF14 director Yoshida asks fans not to “attack” Wuk Lamat actress

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Originally Posted by Drimn

Well, Kate is Sena's most ardent champion and likes to jump kneedeep into Twitter culture warring about as much, and YoshiP said not to attack them because "they're doing the best they can." If both the English VA for the face of the expac, and the person both overseeing English localization and acting as a lore consultant get to use their high-profile involvement wirh the game to amass people on Twitter to politically grandstand to, and YoshiP is defending it, that's a very bad sign going forward for the direction of the franchise. Part of what made FFXIV great was the respect for the product everyone had and that it seemed like they wanted to make a game that people would love first and foremost. Kate and Sena seem more interested in using their proximity to the game to clout farm and network. If Squeenix wants to take my concerns about a growing lack of professionalism and how that will impact the game as an attack on them, then that says far more about Squeenix than me. I've just seen things like this happen often among game developers and normally it results in shovelware releases and an arrogant "if no one likes my slop then I'm just misunderstood and they're wrong" attitude towards bad sales.

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i have not seen anything from kate. and i will personally take that as a sign that whatever is happening with her isnt so bad that its getting posted everywhere. but sena has been on many peoples radar ever since she was first chosen. and yes i agree that if any of the devs do not outright say this behaviour is wrong that from S.E this is really a bad sign. but i dont know what conversations SE is having with them behind closed doors. maybe they cant afford to take action at the moment. I personally dont feel comfortable with having somebody like this associated with this game. if i went to work in this Shirt, id be fired. If i went out in this shirt, Id be attacked and arrested.

yoshiP should just remove wuk lamat from the game going forward. nobody liked the character and nobody liked the voice acting, coupled with the behaviour on twitter. id say he has a very easy way out of this entire situation.

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Originally Posted by Zakuyia

Thats easy cause the internet is much more sensitive, and the political scape called twitter mobs make SE so scared they have to cave in. Honestly its more disgusting when u read the comment section and see ppl agreeing. Its down right gross...oh right there are ppl here on forum defending their action.... nvm carry on.

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she blocked every person who didnt repeat the same lines, and created an echo chamber on her twitter. that is why nobody is disagreeing. when i spoke up asking why nobody else had i was also immediately blocked

Or maybe people need to chill out.

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Originally Posted by Vensaval

And it will never not infuriate me.

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Yeah pretty much that, just liking the wrong post got her canceled, others can spread poison as much as they want and it doesnt matter...

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Originally Posted by Folsom

Oh, did he? That's too bad. Until she stops being a horrible person, she deserves what she gets (minus the usual caveats like threats).

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Nope, she deserves those too. After all, she told people to send threats to Bridget's VA for not being trans.

‘Someone posted something controversial on Twitter’
‘Water makes you wet’
‘The sky is blue’

The more i digest and analyze the mess of a msq that is Dawntrail i just cant help but think that a certain localizer and lore consultant had this type of talk with some SE execs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMsxjWgUbI&t=1520s
Would also explain why it seems that there were a lot of changes and rewrites in the story.

"You don't hate localizers enough, you think you do but you don't"

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Originally Posted by Nestama

Or maybe people need to chill out.

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Or maybe people should be allowed to voice out their grievances and frustration with an individual that is just objectively an awful human being. Just because you have no problem with what someone posts/says doesn't mean others won't.

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Originally Posted by dies_irae

The more i digest and analyze the mess of a msq that is Dawntrail i just cant help but think that a certain localizer and lore consultant had this type of talk with some SE execs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMsxjWgUbI&t=1520s
Would also explain why it seems that there were a lot of changes and rewrites in the story.

"You don't hate localizers enough, you think you do but you don't"

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I knew something was up when they randomly told us during a live letter than Beast Tribes will be called Tribes and later Allied Tribes for no reason, Like oh no, are we being racist by calling the literal Bird people, Fish people, Lizard people, Mole people, Elephant people, Bug people, etc "Beasts" You cant make this shit up, its eerily similar logic as the people who say "Orcs are black people so them being a savage race is racist" because that's a thing for some reason (in fantasy worlds that also already have actual Black people too btw)

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Originally Posted by ZodaSoda

I knew something was up when they randomly told us during a live letter than Beast Tribes will be called Tribes and later Allied Tribes for no reason

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I hate that they neutered the threat of beast tribes. They could have done more with them to add some real threat to the world. If they wanted small groups of beastmen or non beastmen to have quests, they could have called them allied hamlets or something and kept the beast tribes a looming danger in the world. That way they could have also brought back hamlet defense, which was a great piece of 1.0 content they abandoned. So a more dangerous overworld with great side quest and story potential and a new piece of content for us to enjoy all without effecting the tribes quests. Would have been 2 birds with 1 stone.