Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Shibi]

...Whenever localizers change or erase content it's always extremely frustrating and bad imo, only time I can understand it is if we're talking about some really touchy stuff that enters questionable legal territory too like minors being depicted in certain ways.
But that's totally different than an adult character.
Whenever I hear '' appeal to a Western audience '' too I just dunno how they can say this when the responsive is always so overwhelmingly negative.
It feels like people who went to school for marketing and bring in all of these weird ideas from other industry and are still stuck in the '' family values '' era.....

SE are not innocent in this. Neutering, and eventual kill off of that major Heavensward Character was completely a mess-up of not wanting to offend the "English speaking audience".

Koji is no longer working directly on FFXIV and has been sent over to work on FFXVI instead.

Yeah, all of Shadowbringers and Endwalker I do believe they said.

[Kolsykol]

SE are not innocent in this. Neutering, and eventual kill off of that major Heavensward Character was completely a mess-up of not wanting to offend the "English speaking audience".

If you're talking about the character I think you're talking about I dunno?
The reaction to his death I've seen has been overall positive, not because people disliked the character tho.
Imo I think the character is severely overrated and turned into a meme tho.

I don't really trust SE as a publisher I just trust the devs for FFXIV.
SE as a publisher is a typical greedy AAA publisher who have strange ideas.

I am not entirely sure the exact and precise details and context of the whole Tifa situation for example, and I do think people per usual went completely overboard when they acted like she was '' nerfed ''...
However when I heard them refer to an '' ethics department '' in relation to a female characters breasts it did kinda leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I do think that there was people on both ends who went too far per usual, people who said she had been '' nerfed '' and then also people who still seem'd to believe that but tried to minimize it and go the whole '' who cares you *insert insults here* '' route.

Which I mean... I think it'd be perfectly valid to find the notion of a womans chest size or attire being turned into an '' ethical issue '' distasteful and offensive, that's like some weird and backwards morality police bullshit.
It's really strange to see so many people who still believed it was about that and still choose to defend it.

Ultimately I think it was more about the ratings and as opposed to what some people believe Japanese ratings are actually a lot stricter than in the West.
But I don't really like the idea of an '' ethics department '' micromanaging content like that and scouring through content in games and I think being against that is perfectly justified.
Only time I can understand it is if there's some legal issue or what I mentioned in the post before.

Koji is no longer working directly on FFXIV and has been sent over to work on FFXVI instead. This is his replacement, who participated in one of the recent lore Q&A sessions:

https://twitter.com/fabulafatua

Yeah but Koji was around for most of the time he has definitely had a pretty huge hand in the game compared to other localizers and translators.
I didn't even know this until recently but he co-wrote a lot of the songs too which is pretty cool, it's very clear that he cares deeply about FFXIV.
I dunno who Kate is but I imagine she has probably been mentored by Koji too.

[Larirawiel]

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[Misplaced_Marbles]

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Snow and ice are awesome and beautiful, and they also turn ugly houses into slightly less of an eyesore, so I'm not complaining.

[Lauront]

Snow and ice are awesome and beautiful, and they also turn ugly houses into slightly less of an eyesore, so I'm not complaining.

Me neither - I like the cold, anyway.

[Vahlnir]

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Relatable. It's like that in certain parts of the US as well at the moment.

[Kolsykol]

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Yeah it snowed on Friday, it was really weird lol.
I can't even remember last time we had an actual winter in the southern part of Sweden, when I was a kid we got a lot of snow but nowadays it basically just is either none at all or it snows a little bit and just melts.
And then it also decides to snow in April o_O.

Weather is just really weird these days.