Quote Originally Posted by Connor View Post
I do mostly agree, but I think the thing about being afraid of ‘criticism’ is more of a cultural thing than the devs themselves.

That is to say, when it comes to the community, things like criticisms can somehow end up jumping straight from 0 to extreme (i.e sending death threats, abusive messages and posts , etc). From what I’ve heard it can actually be really bad in the JP community too. I think, rather than being afraid of ‘genuine feedback’, it’s that kind of feedback that they’re actually worried about; the destructive kind that just hurts people instead of trying to address an issue.

I mentioned in another thread too but it’s also worth considering the (supposed) language barrier. A lot of the time, it’s not so much that they don’t want to directly address NA/EU communities, it’s that they have difficulty finding translators who are familiar enough with the game to understand how to properly translate specific game terms, abbreviations etc. Now, I have no idea whether any of it is actually true lol, but I do know they’ve cited the language barriers in the past as being one of the reasons why they rarely engage with the NA/EU community
Oh there's been several or more dev streams where the entire of the JP viewer base were telling Yoshida to off himself for the changes he implemented, from what Japanese I can read they get very passionate about how they feel about game. and I understand that finding translators is hard, but I also keep in mind that for as long as the games been around they could have just hired someone who would be more or less fully capable of doing the job after all these years, look at Koji Fox and his work on FF11.

And language barriers are a thing, a lot of how the rest of us word things may come off as downright disrepsctful in their language or theres no equivalent word so the sentense gets mangled. But i;d rather them try then remain silent, can't change anything if we all stay complacent with the status quo.