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

[Berethos]

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.

Something like that - he's one of the two listed as "World Lore Creators" in the opening credits for Heavensward, and I think by this point we all (should) know they pretty much work in house with the devs and scenario writers.

Chances are they all trust the localization team and ultimately are okay with any changes made, which I'll believe over someone from the outside who ultimately bases their "it's bad" argument on it likely just being not how they would have handled it.