Ah well, either way, I think we'd need more proof and the writers consent before changing Heidegger. If I had 30 minutes with them, all these issues would be cleared up
Then again, if the job had been done properly from the start, none of these issues would exist and the new names would be the sacred canon.
When you reduce it all down to its basic form, this is what we have:
canon = got here first.
The localizing team could have chosen to keep Bolt 1 2 3 from FF7 onwards, but they made a decision to reverse it and stick with the Japanese convention ru-ra-ga-ja. We've done the same, but that's suddenly not ok. It really doesn't make any sense. Most people here on Qhimm's have seen this same argument do the rounds every couple of months, so it's not like we are learning anything new. It's not like this Sacred Canon is totally consistent, either, it has also changed from team to team - see Malboro. In the end, we chose to localize as close to the writers' wishes as possible. Liberties have been taken where necessary, and I have also allowed a compromise with the character names. But the intolerance is simply due to the fact the game is being changed, nothing more. Some people will never be happy, but some will and that makes it worthwhile.
My final word on this comes from the first post:
In fact, the people who moan the most are the ones who help the least.
We need more people like Ragna, who make valid points and back them up with some evidence.
