Give us our hiragana

[Didgist]

Hello,

Thank you for reporting your concern regarding Japanese input for Final Fantasy XI on applicable clients. Currently, there are no official plans announced to implement this. However, we're going to move this to General Discussion so we can receive some additional feedback.

Thank you,
SQUARE ENIX Moderator

Thank you kindly, and thank you everyone for your comments.

I am the only native English speaker in my linkshell. While I agree I could romanize everything, it is still difficult for some of my friends to understand what I am saying. Sometimes there is a kanji required, and romanization does not help that.

When I originally posted I must admit that I overlooked how the game was developed on PS2 first, at least if I am not mistaken.
Was it Sony who developed the IME for PS2, or Square-Enix? Or did Square-Enix have a third party (chuckles) develop the IME for use in the japanese version due to it being the initial release?

Also please remember that we all don't know why it was removed, try to be civil

[Alhanelem]

Sometimes there is a kanji required, and romanization does not help that.

There are terms in kanji that are unpronounceable? Isn't "Romanji" or romanization simply a phonetic spelling of what a japanese word sounds like when spoken?

The IME tech used for the PS2 was developed by a third party, if it was from Sony I don't think it would have been a problem.

[Mrbeansman]

There are terms in kanji that are unpronounceable? Isn't "Romanji" or romanization simply a phonetic spelling of what a japanese word sounds like when spoken?

I doesn't matter because jps rarely respond to anything but moon runes.

[Karumac]

Wait, are we talking PS2/360 client or Windows Client? My friend loves his moonspeak and sets his keyboard to JP in Windows. I'm pretty sure he was typing into FFXI with his Hiragana the same way.

[Alhanelem]

Wait, are we talking PS2/360 client or Windows Client? My friend loves his moonspeak and sets his keyboard to JP in Windows. I'm pretty sure he was typing into FFXI with his Hiragana the same way.

You need a third party program to make it work. e.g. against terms of service.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

could we stop calling it moon speak or other things other then what it really is? It is the Japanese language, please stop being disrespectful.

I dont/cant speak Japanese, but would love to see this an option, but like others have said, the IME was not licensed to the US copy of FFXI and it the main reason why we dont have the option.

[Didgist]

Should be made available to windows users at the very least, I feel that it was never fixed due to creating a gap between PS2/Xbox and PC players.

If you go into any program with natural input or another IME selected you can enter whatever text your computer supports. You can even do it in notepad, PSO, and most importantly Final Fantasy 14.

FFXI supports hiragana obviously, so if we are unable to enter this text from our client that means the groundwork for accessing it was gutted from the code. This has nothing to do with IME, MS, Sony, or any other company. In my opinion this was done to protect consoles from being outdated.

SE has stated a million times over that they are strongly commited to PC and Console having the exact same capabilities. Remember forced full screen for five or so years?

Any gap creates the "Well, you CAN play it on Xbox but it doesn't have _______" problem, and I highly doubt that looks good for a company to license it's product to 3 platforms and leave functionality out of two.

Also you need Kanji when two words have the same meaning. You would be surprised.

[Sama]

separating the character input system between region is the most silly thing i've ever seen...

[Alhanelem]

FFXI supports hiragana obviously, so if we are unable to enter this text from our client that means the groundwork for accessing it was gutted from the code.

It wasn't exactly "gutted", more just "turned off." The code for it exists in all clients, it's just disabled internally. Some people found a way to re-enable it with third party programs, but since that's against the rules, it's fight club, don't talk about it.

[Didgist]

It wasn't exactly "gutted", more just "turned off." The code for it exists in all clients, it's just disabled internally. Some people found a way to re-enable it with third party programs, but since that's against the rules, it's fight club, don't talk about it.

You have me curious if PS2/Xbox releases contain the dictionaries or at least the functionality to access them. In that case you are right, it would just be a matter of flipping a switch and sending a couple small dictionary files to the system.

Also I should have named the thread "Give us our kaomoji"