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[Linadae]

Poor Fern... lol getting dragged around the world when all he wants to do is hang out here and chat about ff14 lore.

[Anonymoose]

Poor Fern... lol getting dragged around the world when all he wants to do is hang out here and chat about ff14 lore.

Well, poor hypothetical Fernehalwes / Yoshida caption-meme, at least. LOL

In reality, and this is just a guess, I imagine that when you compare only spreadsheets of translated text and back-end team meetings with some of that and going around the world meeting all the people who love your work and rocking out with Soken, the word "promotion" doesn't quite cover it. ("Sleepless promotion" might get halfway there.)

For what it's worth, I know he reads the forums, but I think he's lost the time required to draft posts and get confirmation and approval and see it through to the boards, as I know a few posts he was planning on have slipped through the cracks for now. Even so, I often come across lines in the game that way too specifically give clarification we asked for or reference jokes we've made to think for a second that they're not at least paying attention to us.

I'd count on the Au Ra conventions turning up at some point, though. You can't just leave a race out on the forum's most popular stickies.