What did happen with the Spanish?

[Arcalimo]

Por cierto, mensaje para los hispano hablantes: deberíamos hacer más ruido. Al final siempre pasamos por el aro y estamos todos aquí hablando en inglés. Aunque hablemos en inglés aquí para que todos nos entiendan, deberíamos también poner nuestro mensaje en español. Tenemos que ser nosotros los primeros en ser considerados con nosotros mismos.

Escribir en ambos idiomas es algo coñazo para lo vagos XD
Pero apoyo tu propuesta y me añado tu frase en la firma.
Al menos si que podriamos ponernosla todos para hacernos oir un poco ^^

[Arcalimo]

You're failing to concider the logistics of translating and programming. The potential of the market size doesn't out weigh the cost.

Then why translate to french and german if the market is lower?

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Because they have nothing better to do. Much like there's a Square Enix NA, EU, and so on. DId you concider why there's not a SE Spain or what-not?

[Ilax]

PS2 limitation!!! please forgive me lol because i am for sure just kidding here I don't see why not seriously, i agree they should add it up.

[Arcalimo]

Square Enix EU (SQUARE ENIX LTD.) is for England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and other PAL regions.
Also, as someone said, a lot of their games, including the rest of Final Fantasy saga is translated to Spanish, its only in online games where they fail to do it, the game it self insn't a big deal to translate, even if they dont give support in spanish, the translation of the game alone would be good.
See FFVII, even with it's crappy translation with stuff like "Allé voy!" or "Tifa es pillado por sorpresa", etc., if they didn't translate it RPGs wouldn't be what they are now for the spanish comunity, since that game opened the door.
If they don't do the same for online games what do they spect? They got more spanish people than they deserve for not bothering at all.

For XI i guess it really is ps2 limitations since they can't even add new words to the auto translate function, which is even worse lol
But as said before, for FFXIV they are still on time to work for it.

[Daray]

Exact, if FFVII (who was translated frankly badly) had not come in Spanish, today there would no be so many fans in Spain. On not having translated the game on line, there are no so many Spanish players. Only the most very strong followers, that we fight with the language since can.

Already I said it before, we have received to the Spanish games as FFXII Revenant Wings (Which I celebrate) for what I do not swallow that a translator finds it hard to them to contract very much and to insert the translated texts.

WoW always will win in Spain because YES it is in Spanish

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Exacto, si FFVII (que estaba francamente mal traducido) no hubiera llegado en español, hoy no habría tantos fans en España. Al no traducir el juego en línea, no hay tantos jugadores españoles. Sólo los seguidores más acérrimos, que lidiamos con el idioma como podemos.

Ya lo dije antes, hemos recibido al español juegos como FFXII Revenant Wings (Lo cual celebro) por lo que no me trago que les cueste mucho contratar un traductor e insertar los textos traducidos.

WoW siempre ganará en España porque SÍ está en español

[Vangoh]

Where do you people get your facts?! Who says Spanish speakers don't play video games? YOU CRAZY?! The US has a MAJOR percent of Spanish speakers, in fact is the 2nd most spoken language in the US. Besides is not about a market situation although it would have sales on the side from the Spanish community if we had a Spanish version.

I see it as a...more enjoyable way for the Spanish speaking community to play the game. It is not discrimination against the Spanish speakers BUT there is a preference and I do see the why SE SHOULD have made a Spanish version. I can understand why they would make a French version, there is a decently large French speaker community, BUT not as big as the Spanish speakers, and is good they have a German version but I don't think it was as necessary as the Spanish version, and well....what can we say about Japanese speakers? Their community is even smaller than the Germans BUT it is Japanese who made the game so we can't argue about that LOL.

Yes most Spanish speakers know English I don't understand why they have to be almost...obligated to speak English even when it doesn't concern to other people? I often hear people say "english please!, speak english!, talk english only!" even when the "foreign (not only talking about Spanish here)" party isn't addressing to the English/Japanese ('cause they do this too) speakers who just want to poke their nose into "foreign" business, a good example of this behavior would be any Call of Duty or shooting game where you can talk through a headset, every time someone speaks a "foreign" language that person gets flooded with racist comments. Last I checked in the game rules English wasn't a requirement to play the game so they should have the freedom of speech like anyone else does. I don't want to make this an ethnic debate even though I probably already did, but things are what they are and anyway you sugar coat the truth of the fact is that the Spanish community has been neglected.

So my point is, why bother making versions in other languages and going through all the hassle of....programing and translating when the audience they are targeting is not as vast and large as the others? Leaves me no option but think that that SE has a preference for other countries than Spanish speakers. I could go on and on about this subject but whatever, people will flame me and try whatever to twist my argument invalid but these are my 2 cents.

[Lithera]

Used to see alot of Spanish on Alexander years back. I am not sure why they did not do Spanish. I don't think Spanish is the 2nd most use language because then it would be an official language of the Olympics. also if you choose to live in a country that has a different official language than the one you were born with then yes it is expected of you to speak it openly. This doesn't mean you can't speak your native tongue in private or to translate things or in the rare situation where certain words/ideas don't translate very well. Trust me that it really does depend on which server you're on with what language mixes you'll have. Many original servers have a high Japanese player base with NA players coming second. Some of the newer servers might have a very high NA/EU base and a low Japanese base. Also don't forget that Canada is part of the NA crowd where they even have a whole section of the country that speaks French and at times insists on the rest of the country to speak it because they're that rude again at times. To the point where French HAS to be on everything.