should not westernize FFXIV

[JakeRoon]

okay that was alot to sift through, but ....question:

"How do you feel the style of ffxiv is being westernized?"
"Can you define your term for westernized?"

I mean I don't think they are going to turn it into a cartoony WoW type graphics....do you?

If you mean everything seems kind of "plain" ......well I agree, but I like it....it adds a bit to the illusion for me, personally. Though I have often felt the cities could use more color.

[Zkieve]

whats the point to westernize ffxiv if the Majority of players are Japanese?
We still playing same version , not tera that is having different versions of the game per area.
<I don´t understand>

[Cendres]

Last time I checked WoW has an active 12 mil subscribers. FFXI or FFXIV wouldn't even come close to having 12 mil subscribers in hundred years. You can hate WoW all you want, but their westernization of the game is successful.

It's pretty hard to westernize something that's already western... Hmmmm?

[Malakhim]

Well if by "western" you mean looking at innovations and cool things that development teams operating in Europe/NA have done with their games and figure out how to integrate them into the game in a way that fits, then by all means do that.

If by "western" you mean turning everything into generic Arthurian fantasy and/or turn everything into bald space marines, then no.