JP: Yoshi P should step down, FF14 is a sinking ship, in response to interview

[ZXN]

It's even more embarassing to imagine that people READ this script, and at no point did anyone go "Hey guys, maybe this isn't that good." prior to release, especially with new writers in the house.

While it's just purely speculation, there IS always the chance that re-writes happened, or that Hiroi could've just been stubborn and constantly going "We're doing this no exceptions" with certain ideas when making and presenting the script that eventually Ishikawa and Oda just had to say yes to the script that Hiroi wrote up, lest they risk potentially delaying the expansion. Hell, it could even be a combination of both given how little direction the English voice actors seemed to have had with line delivery and how some of the characters sounded "phoned in" to some players, so I wouldn't be surprised if certain things were changed around even during the very last minute.

It's all speculation in the end and if said speculations are somewhat true then I don't think Yoshi-P and the devs are too keen on saying it straight out to avoid a PR Nightmare.

[Alchemii]

While it's just purely speculation, there IS always the chance that re-writes happened, or that Hiroi could've just been stubborn and constantly going "We're doing this no exceptions" with certain ideas when making and presenting the script that eventually Ishikawa and Oda just had to say yes to the script that Hiroi wrote up, lest they risk potentially delaying the expansion. Hell, it could even be a combination of both given how little direction the English voice actors seemed to have had with line delivery and how some of the characters sounded "phoned in" to some players, so I wouldn't be surprised if certain things were changed around even during the very last minute.

It's all speculation in the end and if said speculations are somewhat true then I don't think Yoshi-P and the devs are too keen on saying it straight out to avoid a PR Nightmare.

Their best bet would be to let Hiroi, and certain other Toxic individual, go, and then "Leak" it to the public that they won't be returning. There are numerous problems with DT, from the Script to the class designs to "others", but there are only a few individuals that we can point at specifically as a problem.

[Raven2014]

While it's just purely speculation, there IS always the chance that re-writes happened, or that Hiroi could've just been stubborn and constantly going "We're doing this no exceptions" with certain ideas when making and presenting the script that eventually Ishikawa and Oda just had to say yes to the script that Hiroi wrote up, lest they risk potentially delaying the expansion. Hell, it could even be a combination of both given how little direction the English voice actors seemed to have had with line delivery and how some of the characters sounded "phoned in" to some players, so I wouldn't be surprised if certain things were changed around even during the very last minute.

Or it could just be another example of an toxic positive environment. Maybe some people did see a problem, but didn't want to say it because "we're all part of the team".

But tbh, I'm leaning more toward interference. I'm no shy from criticizing the current writers, and has been pretty loud about it. But sometime I feel it's almost irrational to believe a professional writer can be "THIS" bad. And given all the inconsistency sprinkle all over the place throughout the MSQ which ... again, again feel impossible to fathom for a team of writers to not see it. So while I don;t know if it's true or not, and I have no evidence to offer beside conjecture ... but this mess we call DT is reek of inference, either from clueless executive decision or brainless consultants that have no idea what the story is supposed to be about. I feel "last minute butchering" is the most feasible explanation for what happens in DT.