I've heard the excuse of PS2 limitations for nearly every "How come SE doesn't do this..." question I've had in the past 5 yrs, but now we have this glorious forum with which to ask the questions in a place where we might possibly receive a more definitive answer.
I was wondering if there's anything that can be done to make the Auto-Translate function more... functional? There have been numerous occasions over my lifetime on FFXI where I have been in a party with Japanese players: XP Party, NM camping for Magian Trials, coincidentally running into a JP player at a BC and teaming up for a mission, etc.
And while there is usually "sufficient" terminology available to discuss a very basic strategy using the translate functions, I was unable to find any translations for greetings and basic conversational skills - basically friendly, shootin' the breeze - kinds of words. I'd love to be able to have a basic conversation where we could learn more about each other as a person, our cultures, etc.
I know some smartass is going to tell me to learn Japanese, but I have tried in the past to teach myself basic conversational skills and I get overwhelmed rather quickly because I feel like I'm learning 3 languages at once.
But yeah, we can't even ask "How are you doing today?" lol... All we get is "Hello! Nice to meet you^^ Thank-you, See you again!^^"