Quote Originally Posted by Barraind View Post
The easy answer is that FF14 is handled ONLY in one of their buildings in Japan. They dont use any of the international teams on it, nor any of the other Japanese offices, and most likely have little or no communication with any international team ahead of time for things like this. Squeenix is global, but Final Fantasy is absolutely not.
That's not true, the EU community team of FFXIV for example is sitting in London. They even do some live streams themself, but apparently they have no idea about the current dev state and don't know much more than we players. They read the forums, send our feedback to Japan, doing sometimes these live streams where they talk about lore, are doing some dungeons or raids together with some random players and we can win some merchandise there... and once a year or so they meet with some FFXIV players at these Fan Gatherings... And yeah maybe they translate these Live Letters, wich takes them a few days.

These guys should provide the newest informations for us, not Reddit. But I don't think the HQ in Japan offers them much to work with...