This frequency of English localization issues is unacceptable

[KariTheFox]

Weren't you guys in another thread talking about how the script was hastily rewritten over the course of two weeks before the release of Endwalker? (And that was the reason for the two week delay.)

There's a reason people are making fun of you guys.

[Theodric]

I think - as always - such comments are rather disingenuous and framing statements deceptively to try and paint absolutely anything critical of the story as unreasonable and 'conspiracy theories'. I believe sources were provided at the time showcasing that the story was rewritten up until the deadline. Certain posters have a trend of going 'so what you are saying is...' only to follow it up with a false version of what they believe is being stated. Even when it blatantly isn't true.

Personally, if people are going to make fun of anyone in these threads I think it'd be better directed at the unhinged posters who insinuate that if someone likes the antagonists in a fictional setting, then they're 'bad people' or 'dictator apologists'. Or perhaps the bizarre claims that various posters here are just alts of one another.

Not those of us who find a hastily rewritten story to be full of all sorts of glaring plot holes and who aren't inclined to bend over and accept that genocide is perfectly acceptable so long as 'mOmMy HyDaElYn' does it.

[Jagick]

Weren't you guys in another thread talking about how the script was hastily rewritten over the course of two weeks before the release of Endwalker? (And that was the reason for the two week delay.)

There's a reason people are making fun of you guys.

That's being pretty facetious. Ishikawa herself admitted in a March 31, 2022 Famitsu interview that her initial run of Endwalker was handed over two days before whatever her deadline was. That has nothing to do with two weeks before release. Yoshida and the team couldn't agree with what she had initially written and had her do rewrites before finally accepting it. If people are making fun of them over something documented and easy to find on the first page of google, it's proving their point. People are attacking them because they have no argument of actual substance.

It's also implied that Ishikawa had content written enough for one expansion, but initially took issue with it being -the- finale. Yoshi had decided that the story needed to end. This is also where we see the mention of Endwalker having potentially taken place across two expansions, one focusing on Garlemald. In the end he decided to cram everything into just one.

Here is the source, by the way: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._with_yoshida/

[KariTheFox]

To be clear, this was people who seemed to be saying that the delay 2 weeks before the release of Endwalker was due to last minute story rewrites, not that rewrites and reworking of the script happened up until the deadline during preproduction (which is a totally normal part of the process.)

And specifically, that these story rewrites were to sanitize Venat and make her look better, somehow.

Now, I'm not sure how this squares with the new theory about the English localization team having a secret pro-Venat agenda. Did Yoshi-P request a 2 week delay so that more pro Venat localization could be hidden from him?

And here's the actual article people are talking about - Yoshi-P was examining the story yes , and his examining took time that ate into QA time so they pushed the release date back so QA would have thier required two weeks.

They want to tie up all the loose ends and Yoshida wanted to examine a lot of subtleties with this regard.

These examinations ate into the master quality assurance time, which necessitated the two-week delay. It was a matter of a few business days in the schedule, but with concerns with congestion they wanted to take time with QA as that is intertwined with how smooth the launch will happen.

No where here does it talk about last minute rewrites or reworking the story, I promise you - if that had been done, the delay would have been a lot longer than 2 weeks.