Localization Criticism

[Chyro]

Maybe the face that it's design and those specific number reference a serious terrorist attack, that had massive implication across the entire world. I understand you might be to young to remember the events or even experienced them first hand.

I know the event in question. But a random map section in a game using numbers that happen to match the date of said event with the map itself being vaguely interpretable as two towers doesn't make me think "Oh no how could the localization team have overlooked this clear reference to this historical event". Just because a historical event happened at a certain date doesn't forbid all media from using those two numbers in combination. If there was any reason to assume this was intentional, then yeah, it may be a bit questionable. I very highly doubt it though. And don't see how this is any issue at all.

[VictorSpoils]

It's a reference to FF9 and FF11 (the Alliance Raid series we'll be doing this expansion), like Residential Radius 9-14 was a reference to FF9 and FF14.

That might be an even bigger stretch than the OP.

[Alchemii]

That might be an even bigger stretch than the OP.

My biggest point is the localization team didn't do their job. I understand that it's probably an accident that this happened, and that it means almost nothing to the Japanese team. But it should have been caught by the Localization team, who are based out of California mind you, and renamed to 9- and any other number.

[Rekh]

Localization keeps the trend of "Yes, let's go" in japanese to "Yes, pray let's get together, and pray together and go to Tural."

A lot of characters in dawntrail had 2 different personalities in their japanese and english translations/voice acting. It's the issue that happened with Lyse in stormblood; in japanese she nuance and emotion while in english she was kinda bland and with the snotty proper "english/england" english which was highly off putting in stormblood.

The english team at square enix is doing xiv a disservice by improvising. It's literally changing the presentation of some characters.

[Hallarem]

Not where I thought the thread was going, there are some legit things to complain about with the localization team like how the VA's sound nothing like their japanese counterparts in terms of mood, emotion etc or the translation changes the whole meaning of the sentence or a thing.

Like making Erenville's mother sound completely different to him etc.

[Maxilor]

[DiaDeem]

[BokoToloko]

It has been 23 years, but people keeps bringing it up. Lightning can't melt electrope beams, I guess.

And I would be vastly surprised if there were someone deeply affected by that terrorist attack playing this game.

[SirShady]

This made me laugh. Thank you lol.

[KitiaraIornsight]

It has been 23 years, but people keeps bringing it up. Lightning can't melt electrope beams, I guess.

And I would be vastly surprised if there were someone deeply affected by that terrorist attack playing this game.

I watched that happen on live TV…. And it greatly affected me. I have a veteran of the war that came after in my FC and an FC mate that lived in NYC when the attack happened. There is a large group of players that are 40+ years old that play this game. This is a highly tone deaf comment.