Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
That's for the dev team to decide, actually, since it is their game to market, and given that FF has for a large part of its history been intended to reach global audiences, it's a fairly natural decision to make.
No, it's not for the devs to decide whether or not people would be entertained by something or would find it boring. That would be for the for the audience themselves to decide. By omitting or implementing changes/deviations from the source material, they are effectively robbing the end user of their ability to determine that for themselves.
I personally think the changes made by the LOC team are unnecessary and take too many liberties, many of which actually don't fit with what's happening in the setting or situation. It's insulting, quite frankly, both as a fan of the content and as a consumer of JP media.

The game can still exist comfortably as a global export product and still remain true to its source material. It will still sell and have the same mass-market appeal it always had, with the added bonus of being a 1:1 faithful vision.

But the devs don't actually want that, so we didn't get Sexual Harassment Lite and instead received a version much more in keeping with what the players they actually want to consume the game would be more comfortable with.
If they didn't want it, then they wouldn't have included it in the JP script and the LOC team didn't have to go over their heads to implement these changes.
And 'Sexual harassment lite'?? Oh come on, it's literally just a comedy routine in a video game. If you seriously would have been bothered by that to such an overdramatic degree then you literally shouldn't be playing video games. It's one thing to find it tasteless or not funny, it's another to label it like it's some sort of violation. It's not. It's a character in a video game. People would have accepted Haurchefant and gotten over it.

People would have found it entertaining/funny and those who are uncomfortable by it would have their opinions. It's accommodating their insecurities at the expense of a valid (and arguably more entertaining and comical character) while creating a massive discrepancy which the devs apologized for doing. If Japanese audiences can be entertained by him, so can Western ones. It is a JP product, first and foremost.