During Japan Expo Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida announced that Lightning from Final Fantasy XIII will appear in the upcoming MMORPG , creating quite a lot of controversy between that part of the fanbase that suffers from a serious form of allergy to the character, while others were concerned by the possibility that her inclusion would break the game’s lore.
Yesterday Yoshida-san posted a rather detailed explanation letting fans know how everything will make sense.
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The Xbox profanity filter is currently ruining the readability of the FFXIV chat on Xbox Series X/S due to censored words.
Lol, damn... At this point, they were better off keeping FF XIV away from Xbox. It has been nothing but obstacle, after obstacle.
I'm not convinced this is the profanity filter. It doesn't make sense to censor words like class, harvest and dance. It seems to be a bug.
Yeah these new fangled filters are going a bit too far. I have a game that filters "wtf". It's a censor for a self-censoring phrase. But I think overall it's how it should be. If you don't want certain language being used in your game by your player base, then it's up to you to filter/ censor the language you don't want. I can respect that. What I can't respect is when you say things that are not really offensive then you get ostracized for it.
This is completely false, I tested this on my son's child account and mine, this is not Microsoft censoring they will censor swears but not the combination of letters I can prove this with a screenshot where I use all mentioned words in the article but do not know how to upload a picture.
Urgh...why doesn't he just admit higher ups told him to shoe horn her into the game because they are obsessed with us to love her.
*** The story that answers these questions is already being created and it will also be related to the Lightning saga. This is not just a Lightning clone showing up in Eorzea; it is the one and only Lightning. We are also creating a lot of character dialogue for Lightning as well as special cut scenes. We’ve established a proper story, and I hope you’re excited to see it. ***
So why start with her, what about Cloud, Squall, Zidine, Tidus etc....I bet you right now they won't get any missions. Maybe a few items from their games but nothing special.
I mean they are taking a character which is mostly hated and despite already having three games with her in, they want to shove her in another. A game which is supposed to be separate from FF13s world.
Did anyone find it funny that he only adressed one half of the issues, the "will it ruin the lore" issue...not the "We don't like her, why the hell are you including her" problem.
Honestly...Japanese companies this gen just seem so out of touch and so arrogant. I mean it's like they want us to hate them
I wonder what kind of blackmail material Toriyama has on the other dudes at Square-Enix to get away with forcing Lightning into everything.
I like Lightning but she does not fit in FF XIV at all. I wish they paired her up with Cloud in a game though, they fit each other. They're both mopy-ish.
The one and only thing nobody wants.
Sounds like they've put a lot of thought into it. I for one find something pretty awesome about separate fictional universes crossing over in really deep and convincing ways. The narrative possibilities are endless. Dissidia kind of tried it, but since it was first and foremost a fighting game it seemed to struggle to work the narrative into the game. This sounds like it'll expound the whole parallel world thing in a much more interesting way.
While it is obviously partly marketing for Lightning Returns because I'm sure Toriyama and Kitase are a little bit worried about the game's prospects, it's still cool that they're really putting effort and thought into building a narrative out of it, not just inserting her into the game in a really shallow and meaningless way. Instead of just insulting our intelligence by doing such a thing, they're showing us respect by putting time and effort into crafting Lightning's role in the game.