What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Theodric]

But yeah I am not sure where they are getting some of this feedback. When did beast tribe become controversial enough for it to be changed? They made this sound like it was a complaint for some time. Where did the whole adventure plates idea come from? These are things I don't see here or in game so I guess reddit and twitter.

I'd tentatively suggest it can be laid at the feet of the new localisation lead who took over some of the work from Koji back in Shadowbringers after he was moved to go and work on FFXVI:

https://twitter.com/fabulafatua

I suspect such influence due to this statement made during an interview a while back:



Square Enix would probably do well with diversifying their localisation team to include people who pay attention to and gather feedback from a wider sample of players rather than those who simply flock to Twitter and are often far removed from regular players and their desires/opinions.

Having witnessed WoW devolve into a strange purity spiral based on Twitter sphere 'logic' and 'necessary additions to the game' I must confess to being rather wary of a repeat where FFXIV is concerned.