At the Heart of the Mothercrystal: Final Fantasy XIV’s Approach to Localization and Lore as a Virtual Contact Zone

Loading… The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association At the Heart of the Mothercrystal: Final Fantasy XIV's Approach to Localization and Lore as a Virtual University of Wisconsin - Whitewater Virtual worlds by nature of their persistence and ability to have multiple simultaneous users in the same space can act as contact zones, defined by Mary Louse Pratt as a "social space where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domin...