Not depicting other cultural influences: Racism, lack of diversity
Depicting other cultural influences: Racism, Colonization, cultural appropriation
Depicting other cultural influences correctly with the input and approval from the natives: Racism, commercialization of culture, and mild cultural appropriation due to SQE being Japanese Company.

It doesn't matter how they do it, if people want to get offended, they will find the way to get offended and deem the thing offensive. We can go on and on about how FFXIV is the nest of racisms, cultural appropriations, and insensitivities, but, in the end, what's the point? If we keep seeing wrong in every single thing, labeling everything with the highest of accusations, as well as fearing that the creation will cause even a mild offensive, then where is the joy? Where is the creative freedom? I find the idea of having to do everything "correctly" to be very rigid and quite restrictive; let everything run wild without the fear of offending anyone, after all, it's a game, a fictional world.