After "personal attack" of Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail English VA, MMO boss Yoshi-P says if you have "any sort of criticism, bring it to me, I'm the one approving this material"

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Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki 'Yoshi-P' Yoshida says that some of the abuse the English voice actor behind Dawntrail's lead gets "breaks his heart," calling on fans of the MMO and beyond to "refrain from personal attacks against our staff."

Speaking to Checkpoint Gaming through an interpreter, Yoshida tackles a question about fan reaction to the MMO's latest expansion, Dawntrail, and how happy he is with it. For Yoshida, starting a new saga by letting a character other than our Warrior of Light take the lead was always going to prove divisive, though feedback around things like pacing provides key learning to take forward.

Regarding Wuk Lamat, Yoshida accepts the team could have done more to tell her story better but wants to take those lessons and apply them to future updates so we can get to know her character better – rather than simply letting her fade away in the background.

"She's a very complex character, and she even has a bit of a complex about herself," he says. "Unfortunately, we didn't delve very far into the background of why she had those feelings, so it appeared as if she left a negative impression.

"We accept that feedback. I feel a little sorry that we weren't able to properly depict her. We may have been able to make her more straightforward, so we're pushing her in the forefront as this character. But again, we're going to be reflecting that learning into [content patch 7.1] and onward, we're hoping that we can show more of what makes Wuk Lamat so great, and I'm hoping that we can regain from there."

While Yoshida admits Square Enix could have done better there, he says that some of the criticisms thrown at her voice actor "breaks his heart."

"One additional thing, there were comments about how we are too accepting of diversity – some people seem to be disapproving of that," he continues. "I'm afraid one of our staff members received very negative comments and it almost felt like a personal attack, which breaks my heart, because she