History Trivia / FinalFantasyXIV

* WhyTheFandomCantHaveNiceThings: Win trading, the act of giving people guaranteed wins in quests in exchange for gil or items, was very common in the PVP section of the game, which resulted in many people getting high ranks and gear with high stats (including Morale, which is a PVP only stat) without earning them fairly. Frontlines was a second PVP mode added later on to the game and it doesn't use the Morale stat. The act of making Morale useless in Frontlines was very likely done to make sure that people who bribed their way to the top can't have the big advantage over everyone when Frontlines was released. Unfortunately, the motion also punished legit players that earned their gear and ranks for PVP.

* LostInTranslation: A certain naming issue cropped up when Labyrinth of the Ancients was being added and latter, Syrcus Tower. The Dev Team in Japan, wanting to keep the Crystal Tower dungeons true to VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII, wanted to name the final boss of that dungeon after the character it was modeled after, namely, FFIII Titan. Problem is, there's already Titan, the Primal in game. Japan can get around this issue, with a slight change in pronunciation, using '''タイタン''' (EN pronunciation: Tie-tun) for Primal Titan, and '''ティターン''' (Greek pronunciation, and FFIII spelling: Tea-tahn) for the Labyrinth's final boss. The English, French, and Germany language localization teams aren't so lucky. Solution? Get special permission to rename the final boss to Acheron. Everything was fine, until the 2.3 localization came about, and a certain issue seemed to have slipped the Japanese team minds', the full details of which, are found [[http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/178311-The-Sad-Tale-of-Phlegethon-and-Acheron here]], but summed up best with the following.

** Lady Nanamo and Tataru are both voiced by Main/MariyaIse.

* WordOfGod: Like ''FFXI'', the 1.0 launch game was very low on the details, such as what your Name Day and Guardian Deity were for. To get concrete info to the public, the community site had Q&A topics called [[http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/guide/qanda01.html Ask The Devs]]. Since the dev team shakeup, however, there's been much more open lines of communication, although since so much is changing there are often few specifics as to when changes will be coming.

* NoodleIncident: A certain naming issue cropped up when Labyrinth of the Ancients was being added and latter, Syrcus Tower. The Dev Team in Japan, wanting to keep the Crystal Tower dungeons true to VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII, wanted to name the final boss of that dungeon after the character it was modeled after, namely, FFIII Titan. Problem is, there's already Titan, the Primal in game. Japan can get around this issue, with a slight change in pronunciation, using '''タイタン''' (EN pronunciation: Tie-tun) for Primal Titan, and '''ティターン''' (Greek pronunciation, and FFIII spelling: Tea-tahn) for the Labyrinth's final boss. The English, French, and Germany language localization teams aren't so lucky. Solution? Get special permission to rename the final boss to Acheron. Everything was fine, until the 2.3 localization came about, and a certain issue seemed to have slipped the Japanese team minds', the full details of which, are found [[http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/178311-The-Sad-Tale-of-Phlegethon-and-Acheron here]], but summed up best with the following.
--> '''Fernehalwes, English localization team member:''' "Fast-forward to a month before patch 2.3. We get a list of the enemies slated to appear in the second leg of the Crystal Tower...and what do we see? '''アケローン'''. For those of you who don’t read katakana, let me give you a hint: [[spoiler: it’s Acheron]]."

* NoodleIncident: A certain naming issue cropped up when Labyrinth of the Ancients was being added and latter, Syrcus Tower. The Dev Team in Japan, wanting to keep the Crystal Tower dungeons true to VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII, wanted to name the final boss of that dungeon after the character it was modeled after, namely, FFIII Titan. Problem is, there's already Titan, the Primal in game. Japan can get around this issue, with a slight change in pronunciation, using '''タイタン''' (EN pronunciation: Tie-tun) for Primal Titan, and '''ティターン''' (Greek pronunciation, and FFIII spelling: Tea-tahn) for the Labyrinth's final boss. The NA English, French, and Germany localization teams aren't so lucky. Solution? Get special permission to rename the final boss to Acheron. Everything was fine, until the 2.3 localization came about, and a certain issue seemed to have slipped the Japanese team minds', the full details of which, are found [[http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/178311-The-Sad-Tale-of-Phlegethon-and-Acheron here]], but summed up best with the following.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Common consensus is that ''somewhere'' along the line, there's been some. The arguments are over just where, ranging from the theory that FF XIV was rushed out to beat a certain popular MMO's next expansion, to claims the developer replacements were an unnecessary move to give executives a scapegoat (or a publicity stunt). The improvements made to the game after the staff replacement suggest more of the former, however.

** The response to the fatigue system was not very warm to say the least. There may have been aggravating circumstances, but even the developers have copped to it being a bad idea to begin with.
** The lack of an Auction House (and by extension the Market Wards) was rather unpopular at launch. When the head of the largest community site for your game [[http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/2010/10/06/dude-wheres-my-auction-house/ goes on a rant about the entire economic system]], you have a problem.
** The patched in "player history" system, which is best described as an ad hoc achievement system and is publicly viewable. While the addition itself works fine, it also promptly exposed a number of stories made by Japanese "official players" playing the game as complete fabrications.
* LyingCreator: Hiromichi Tanaka, reigning champion from his time as producer of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', returns to (among other things) cause a large part of the controversy surrounding the AntiPoopSocking system by lying about it being in the game after it was already discovered and hours before it was announced. There's also the case of Guildleves being the main system of gathering ExperiencePoints in the game, but as that comment was made much earlier in development it may have just been an honest change in development priorities.

* WordOfGod: Like ''FFXI'', this game is very low on the details, such as what your Name Day and Guardians are for. To get concrete info to the public, the community site has Q&A topics called [[http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/guide/qanda01.html Ask The Devs]]. Since the dev team shakeup, however, there's been much more open lines of communication, although since so much is changing there are often few specifics as to when changes will be coming.

** [[OreImo There is no way]] Thancred could be this Creator/YuuichiNakamura

** "Lahabrea, he is a [[{{Mobile Suit Gundam}} Char]]!"
** In 2.2 we get Yugiri, voiced by RinaSato.

* DuelingGames: The game was supposedly rushed out to beat a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' expansion to market. This, combined with this game's extremely critical reviews resulted in this approach not turning out well for SquareEnix.

* LyingCreator: Hiromichi Tanaka, reigning champion from his time as producer of VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI, returns to (among other things) cause a large part of the controversy surrounding the AntiPoopSocking system by lying about it being in the game after it was already discovered and hours before it was announced. There's also the case of Guildleves being the main system of gathering ExperiencePoints in the game, but as that comment was made much earlier in development it may have just been an honest change in development priorities.

** [[OreImo There is no way]] Thancred could be this Main/YuuichiNakamura

** If I were to describe a demure young Noble Woman who knows more than she lets on, speaks very politely, and is voiced by Main/RieTanaka would I be describing Kan-E-Senna or [[GundamSeed Lacus Clyne]]?

** Papalymo is EriKitamura.

** [[Creator/AkioOhtsuka Gaius]] what's wrong? Gaius? [[MetalGearSolid Gaiiiiiiuuuuuuuussssss!]]

** If I were to describe a demure young Noble Woman who knows more than she lets on, speaks very politely, and is voiced by Creator/RieTanaka would I be describing Kan-E-Senna or [[GundamSeed Lacus Clyne]]?

** [[OreImo There is no way]] Thancred could be this Creator/YuuichiNakamura

** Papalymo is Creator/EriKitamura.

** On a similar note; [[AtsukoTanaka Merlwyb]] is the [[FateStayNight Caster]] of the 5th Holy Grail War
** If I were to describe a demure young Noble Woman who knows more than she lets on, speaks very politely, and is voiced by RieTanaka would I be describing Kan-E-Senna or [[GundamSeed Lacus Clyne]]?
** Minafillia is MiyukiSawashiro
** [[OreImo There is no way]] Thancred could be this YuuichiNakamura
** Yda is not the first FetishFuelStationAttendant voiced by AyaEndo, because she is [[MacrossFrontier Sheryl, Sheryl Nome.]]
** Papalymo is EriKitamura.

** [[AkioOhtsuka Gaius]] what's wrong? Gaius? [[MetalGearSolid Gaiiiiiiuuuuuuuussssss!]]

* LyingCreator: Hiromichi Tanaka, reigning champion from his time as producer of VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI, returns to (among other things) cause a large part of the controversy surrounding the AntiPoopSocking system by lying about it being in the game after it was already discovered and hours before it was announced. There's also the case of Guildleves being the main system of gathering ExperiencePoints in the game, but as that comment was made much earlier in development it may have just been an honest change in development priorities.

** The patched in "player history" system, which is best described as an ad hoc achievement system and is publicly viewable. While the addition itself works fine, it also promptly exposed a number of stories made by Japanese "official players" playing the game as complete fabrications.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Common consensus is that ''somewhere'' along the line, there's been some. The arguments are over just where, ranging from the theory that FF XIV was rushed out to beat a certain popular MMO's next expansion, to claims the developer replacements were an unnecessary move to give executives a scapegoat (or a publicity stunt). The improvements made to the game after the staff replacement suggest more of the former, however.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Common consensus is that ''somewhere'' along the line, there's been some. The arguments are over just where, ranging from the theory that FF XIV was rushed out to beat a certain popular MMO's next expansion, to claims the developer replacements were an unnecessary move to give executives a scapegoat (or a publicity stunt).