Request: Limiting the number of blatant Game of Thrones references in future?

[KerenRhys]

That's not what localization is. Reasoning like this implies "I know better than the original author what is good for this character." This is authoriship, and a localization employee is not an author.

I may be wrong, but I think Koji is both the head of the localization team but also a member of the story/authors team, so he's perfectly in his right to go authorship on FF14. Actually, I think he's in the best place to determinate how SE wants to convey the lore to both english speaking and japanese speaking populations and I'd bet he's doing it with the full agreement of Yoshida and the rest of the story team.