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

[Mifaco]

Don't forget the support issues. Imagine if a player unwittingly presses alt+shift

"What the hell? What are these funny squiggly characters? How do I get out of this?"

He tries contacting a GM, but he can't type because he's still in the JP IME.
He tries logging out and logging back in but it's still the same issue.
By now he's thoroughly frustrated at possibly having to reinstall the game.
Don't think this is possible? Having worked at a helpdesk before, this is an entirely plausible scenario.

Enabling JP support = catering to a vanishingly small portion of the NA playerbase, along with massive support issues. Not happening.

[Meyi]

Don't forget the support issues. Imagine if a player unwittingly presses alt+shift

"What the hell? What are these funny squiggly characters? How do I get out of this?"

He tries contacting a GM, but he can't type because he's still in the JP IME.
He tries logging out and logging back in but it's still the same issue.
By now he's thoroughly frustrated at possibly having to reinstall the game.
Don't think this is possible? Having worked at a helpdesk before, this is an entirely plausible scenario.

Enabling JP support = catering to a vanishingly small portion of the NA playerbase, along with massive support issues. Not happening.

It goes away when you log out and log back in.

I support this. I'd like to be able to talk to my Japanese friends. Even if they made it where you had to purchase the IME and download it seperately I'd do it.

[Midorikaze]

It goes away when you log out and log back in.

I support this. I'd like to be able to talk to my Japanese friends. Even if they made it where you had to purchase the IME and download it seperately I'd do it.

I would pay for the upgrade. We are but a small group....but the language barrier is getting old.

Perhaps something could be implemented with the new UI...?

八(＾□＾*) 私は願っています！!!

[Lisotte]

I believe it was a problem with licensing of the IME on ps2.

[Economizer]

We are but a small group....

Maybe the group wouldn't be so small if NA players had a proper IME?

I think players would put in a serious effort to learn Japanese if they had a real IME. I'd take a serious effort to learn it if FFXI had an IME (since speaking, er... typing? is the best way to learn a language). Make me eat my words SE.

[Belmonts]

Don't forget the support issues. Imagine if a player unwittingly presses alt+shift

"What the hell? What are these funny squiggly characters? How do I get out of this?"

He tries contacting a GM, but he can't type because he's still in the JP IME.
He tries logging out and logging back in but it's still the same issue.
By now he's thoroughly frustrated at possibly having to reinstall the game.
Don't think this is possible? Having worked at a helpdesk before, this is an entirely plausible scenario.

Enabling JP support = catering to a vanishingly small portion of the NA playerbase, along with massive support issues. Not happening.

Lol first of all is not only that you have to change your keyboard to japanese, it is always locked in roman characters when you do that the first time.

Secondly, you have to also type "Alt+~" sequence to start the "squiggly".

Third and most important, if you don't want to squiggle as you said you can choose to not activate that on the first place.

Aside of the "oops, I CTRL+Shift and Atl+~ and in that order, *facepalm* Zomg I can't get out of squiggles!!" thing sounds unlikely and will need some sort of a horrible hand handicap/cramp to happen by accident. And many ppl used to type japanese on their computers knows how to undo that. And new ppl can or do the Atl+~ or, in the worst scenario, restart the game.

[Dragoy]

While that scenario is entirely plausible, would that not happen with any application regardless if Windows IME was enabled. ^^;

In any case, that is certainly not a valid reason to not do this for FINAL FANTASY XI.

With that said, I think it's about time we get it enabled for the PC version at least. The client itself is a big tease when the IME icons sometimes appear, but are unusable of course. Still haven't figured out what exactly triggers it, as it seems quite... um... random...


Yes.

[oliveira]

I believe it was a problem with licensing of the IME on ps2.

PS2 version uses ATOK as input method. It's a alternative method from the notorious word processor maker Japanese company JustSystems. So yes, it was licensing issues as they would need to pay for JustSystems ATOK licencing fees on USA, which would be really underused...

Still SONY paid for all PS3 consoles to have ATOK enabled on it's XMB, regardless of where it is being sold at ...

[Cardinalgate]

i so Support this

[wildsprite]

I support this as well, I think its a great idea, especially since I have a Japanese friend who wants to teach me her native tongue