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  1. 10-19-2015 12:02 PM #29
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    OP, what you need to realize is: though FFXIV is a Japanese game, the "original" script is not the Japanese one. The Japanese scripts are made at the same time as the English ones, and it may shock you to know that the ENGLISH lore is often "back-translated" back into Japanese. So any inconsistencies you see? Those are the JAPANESE translators changing things, not the English ones.

    It's a common mistake to assume that because the development team is Japanese that the Japanese text/VAs are the original, which is not the case in FF14, sorry.

    You can see this here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2804270
    They talk about it in this panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvNpO4gy_Tg
    Transcript of that: http://gamerescape.com/2014/10/18/fi...nel-live-blog/

    FFXIV has one of the best localizations and localization teams in the entire industry. I will agree with you that the English localization is not friendly to non-native English speakers, however.
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