The controversy surrounding the production of Final Fantasy XIV has further intensified with the news that Square Enix is seeking Chinese speakers to run the game’s servers.
Their Japanese recruiting site has posted new jobs – server, database, and network engineers for Final Fantasy XIV – and alongside the usual qualifications they stress the desirability of being able to speak Chinese, which has added to the suspicion that much of the development was outsourced to China:
Aside from the obvious conclusion about the language skills required, there are any number of questions being raised as to why Square Enix is only just starting to recruit critical system administrators after the game has actually been launched and not before.
Just admit it, china is the new super power, cry all you want, buy you precious country will soon be taken over. its already began! RAGE NERDS RAGE! square enix is already infilirated!
The answer is quite obvious – they’re hiring staff too operate the China-only FFXIV service.
As China requires servers for Chinese players to be in China, it makes sense to hire Chinese staff to operate the servers, run Chinese XIV account management, and act as China-server GMs.
Wholly unrelated to the servers the rest of the world uses.
/facepalm. FFXIV has Chinese-only servers (required by China’s government). Of course they’d need Chinese speakers to GM these servers. This has nothing to do with the “made in China” rumors.
I’m all for FFXIV bashing, but c’mon, research before posting.
son of a…
damn it sqaure -____-
Come on, SE licensed the game to Shanda recently, so the staff must be for their Chinese operation support