[FFXI] Japanese language support for non-Japanese region clients

[rog]

There should not. Everyone can use IMEs on Operating System Basis, its just a tool to write non-latin characters.
I really think it's really the dev staff years ago when FFXI was released was going for non-japanese players don't speak japanese and so autotranslate will do the job - like some other poster already said. And kind of chaning it was always too low priority or not even considered by the old team.

Yes, everyone is free to use it for their own personal use, however you are not free to incorperate it in your own commercial programs. SE does not have permission to use it in a commercial product, even if every single user has permission to use it on their own. If they wanted to get permission, they would have to pay royalties.

[Akiyama]

Yes, everyone is free to use it for their own personal use, however you are not free to incorperate it in your own commercial programs. SE does not have permission to use it in a commercial product, even if every single user has permission to use it on their own. If they wanted to get permission, they would have to pay royalties.

Microsoft's IME included within the Operating System is free to use in both Personal and Commercial programs. English region Commercial programs that I use allow the use of the Operating System IME with no problems, and like Limar said, other games such as Aion etc. allow the use of the IME.

[rog]

Microsoft's IME included within the Operating System is free to use in both Personal and Commercial programs. English region Commercial programs that I use allow the use of the Operating System IME with no problems, and like Limar said, other games such as Aion etc. allow the use of the IME.

I dunno then. SE has said it has to do with royalties, and they certainly wouldn't have specifically disabled it (it's still there on all versions, just not usable) for no reason.