Regarding the Localization of Haurchefant in the EN/FR/DE Versions of FFXIV

[Viridiana]

Just look at Midgarsormr for example: his lines in the english version were horribly confusing and misleading

No they weren't. Plenty of us understood them just fine and tried to tell those of you who somehow didn't get it just what was being said, starting from day one.

After all, it is only the english version that gets so butchered

Right, it's not like the FR/DE versions have the same issue with Hauchefant or anything. Oh, wait, they do.

Just... no. Localization is not an excuse to butcher the translation just so they can cater to a single culture, and we all know exactly which culture it is.

Again, the FR/DE versions did the same thing. You can't just wildly claim that it's one culture when at least three different cultures all made the same change. I mean, you can, because you clearly did, but it just makes you look silly.

Besides, Haurchefant is no worse than Thancred. Remember Thancred's little problem in Rising Stones when 5 of the women he flirted with all showed up there at the same time? Not to mention that one mail quest guy with the Miqo'te twins who had much more suggestive dialogue than Haurchefant ever could.

You mean the ones that were added after they'd already started reverting Haurchefant towards the JP original?

Come on now, the only real difference between Japan and, say, America, in the use of this trope is that in America, this is usually played for laughs with villains rather than played straight with a good guy.

Haurchefant is intended to be received as a good and true ally, but some of his comments directed at the player could, if rendered in EN as it was written in JP, provoke a strong negative reaction for some players (this wasn't so much of a concern for the JP, as his characterization played to a certain arch type which exists in Japanese media of a loveable debauchee).

in America, this is usually played for laughs with villains

Haurchefant is intended to be received as a good and true ally

I rest my case.