FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

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The layoffs don't necessarily relate to the Western community at all. They relate to SE's inability to set up functioning remote work, as well as unwillingness to recruit international talent to deal with their spaghetti code codebase.

e/: Also, at least the French dub is mostly in line with the JP script, at least for battle dialogue. It's frankly infuriating how poorly the English loc does on that because Haha Memes. Can't speak for the German loc because hearing the ShB trailer in German made me wanna quit the game before even starting. But afaik the German at least keeps the FF spell naming theme, which is already miles better than the English lmao.