#imagine heavensward but every voiced cutscene had heavy french accents

[kinshiknights]

worst flaw in ffxiv by far:

the lack of linguistic diversity

you seriously expect me to believe that everyone is communicating in perfect british english? eorzeans and othardians have no linguistic barriers at all? not even a "using slang they dont understand" or "cultural miscommunication" problem? like. i know the echo-bearers can *understand* everyone but what about these regular non-echo people. why can the french elf from a country that has spent a thousand years in near-total isolation from the rest of the world seamlessly communicate with a nomadic mongolian lizard from an entirely different continent?? i get that for game purposes it would be unrealistic but like. it is referenced multiple times over that there ARE foreign languages and "old languages" eg "this word is an old garlean word/this is named after a padjali concept" right but like. somehow everyone has no issues. i try to rationalise it in my head as like ah the high-class characters would be educated in other languages / the merchants and those that travel a lot would pick up on foreign languages / the oppressed countries eg doma and ala mhigo would be forced in some way to learn the languages of their colonisers" but like it is SO immersion breaking sometimes that you can take an ordinary commoner from some far-flung place and have them communicate perfectly with someone from halfway across the world who would have no knowledge of their language!!! 90 percent of the time there isnt even much accent diversity either like the viera are kinda icelandic and the thavnairians have indian accents but seriously your studio couldnt find ANY other accents...