Quote Originally Posted by captainpicard View Post
Actually I just believe their investor relations information.

Asia Holdings
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SQUARE ENIX (China) CO., LTD. January 2005 Digital entertainment in China and Asia
HUANG LONG CO., LTD. August 2005 Sale and management of online games in Asia

http://www.square-enix.com/eng/ir/li...0corporate.pdf

Final Fantasy XIV, previously codenamed Rapture (ラプチャー) was first mentioned in August 2005. Notice the establishment date of SE China, and the acquisition date of HUANG LONG CO.
That's because they were going to release the game in China, in Chinese, to expand into that market. Those holdings would be responsible for adapting the game for China, and the former is responsible for publishing their games there in general. They didn't and do not develop anything for Final Fantasy XIV or any other title in the series.

There is no "Chinese" in the game, nor was there ever. That misconception comes entirely from a crappy blog post on a certain triangular site that shall remain nameless that was widely circulated as legitimate journalism for some reason. Anyone who knows either Japanese (like I do) or Chinese would know that it was all complete BS. The things people said were "Chinese" were just some weird and tiny examples of poetic license gone out of hand - roughly the equivalent of making up pseudo-Latin words in English.