According to Skill-Up's interview of Naoki Yoshida (Final Fantasy 14 and 16), the term "JRPG" was actually viewed as a derision in the Japanese game development space: Submitted by Gorotheninja t3_11edcsp on February 28, 2023 at 4:44 PM in gaming 16 comments 11
Vyxeria t1_jaehoys wrote on February 28, 2023 at 9:19 PM Yeah this surprised me, but I suppose it's similar to how KMMO is often used derisively of korean style mmos. Permalink 1
According to Skill-Up's interview of Naoki Yoshida (Final Fantasy 14 and 16), the term "JRPG" was actually viewed as a derision in the Japanese game development space:
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