Translations (JP to English)

He totally deserves it.

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Originally Posted by Trotsky

He totally deserves it.

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Now that's just cruel...

need the new artwork from the 25 anniversary box artbook ;_;

http://i.imgur.com/Qi2B0.jpg

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Originally Posted by Evangelus

need the new artwork from the 25 anniversary box artbook ;_;

http://i.imgur.com/Qi2B0.jpg

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Where did you find that scan?

That artwork is from the Final Fantasy 25th anniversary collectors pack, it's inside the book "Crystal Works". The Artwork itself has "Free Companies" written at the bottom but in that image it's half cut off.

Holy FreeCOM Chocobo Barding Batman!!! Flags and everything...? *swoon* Please don't over promise and under deliver, SE, but please say it's true!

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Source: [Dengeki] [ my comments ]

As always, no guarantees for translation correctness. I left out some fluff, leaving only the bare points, maybe Rein will want to translate it fully. Yoshida-san talked a lot about their reasons for everything they are doing and he's being honest and straightforward about it, which I like.

• Alpha
  
  • Alpha -> Wipe -> Beta, to not risk dragging any data bugs from alpha to beta
    
  • alpha is currently the minimal niveau they want to have
    
  • Once again a reminder from YoshiP: "alpha" = "stress test", not "play the game"
    
  • Global alpha will start end of the month
    
  • Plans are to get a lot of people in, if login counts drop, more will be invited. Aiming for a login rate of 60% of invited players.
    
  • PR will be parallel to alpha, for example promoting characters not usable in alpha [I'm guessing he means new races?]
• Beta
  
  • Beta content packaging started
    
  • Beta will be next year
    
  • Controller UI will become available
    
  • Phase 1 will once again be a (closed) stress test
    
  • in Phase 2 they will increase the amount of participants
    
  • Phase 3 will make our saved data available
    
  • All races will be present in the beta version
    
  • Not all animations will be present for all races, so dummy animations will be used (for example, miqo'te ears not visible on a helm)
• story of ARR
  
  • something similar to 4 heroes of light of FFI
    
  • end of era trailer has a continuation -> opening of ARR
    
  • ARR is set 5 years after end of 1.0, why world has recovered so fast is related to what happened in the last moments between Louisiox and Bahamut. Will be the main of the 3 storylines in ARR until the first expansion and will explain about the Allag Empire, Dalamud, why Bahamut was sealed and what became of Louisiox.
    
  • 2 other storylines:
    
    • conflict with Garlemard
      
      • first goal of the empire is to stop the beast tribes
        
      • conquest is only secondary
    • fight against the primals
      
      • aether energy is same as FFVII lifestream: use (summoning) damages planet, needs to be stopped
  • story will be episodic
    
    • first ep: conclusion of the 7th umbral era catastrophe (cap still lv50)
      
    • "Ishgard", "Recovery of Ala Mhigo", and "The Garlean Empire" used as examples for new story episodes/expansions
  • old 1.0 story got scrapped, however the essence is still there.
• FATE
  
  • every participant gets a reward
    
  • start will be announced in the field
    
  • event flow:
    -> get close to the area
    -> party is autoformed + level synched
    -> fulfill objective
    -> reward based on damage and participation time
    
  • no timers to be able to participate again
• Housing
  
  • S-sized land = S-sized house
    
  • no expansions; if you want a bigger piece of land, you have to buy it (full price)
    
  • if you don't need land, you can sell it to the NPC
    
  • moving to another patch of land is also possible
    
  • a newly bought house comes without any furniture
    
  • apparently, in L-size houses you can distribute the space inside to make own rooms. [Not sure I got that correctly]
• Cities
  
  • LL & Ul'dah won't be shown a little longer. Both maps and the cities were changed.
    
  • "Universal design": all DoW Guilds are marked red, no matter the city
    
  • What was changed was mostly the ways between point of interest, making them shorter.
    
  • In case of LL, floor textures were changed to better distinguish between lower and upper floors.
    
  • Ul'dah's gate MIGHT be able to open now.
• PS3 Version
  
  • PS3 Beta after PC Beta enters phase 3
    
  • Aiming for about 40 players visible on screen
    
  • additional to that, 4 M-Sized or 1 L-sized monster
    
  • since there will be LOD, you won't get the impression there are only 40 models visible on screen.
    
  • PS3 version coming along nicely
    
  • More about the PS3 version at the beginning of 2013
• Misc
  
  • You won't be able to use macros from 1.0
    
  • Safe to delete the old client, but don't throw away you registration codes! [probably needed to DL ARR CE?]
    
  • Both PS3 preorder and collector's edition will have a bonus
    
  • All music in alpha is by SOKEN
    
  • Dev team size is currently 9 times the size of the original team
    
  • Bahamut design comes from Hiroyuki Nagamine, base by Akihiko Yoshida. Naoki Yoshida requested for Bahamut to be less mechanic and more leaned towards classic design, so that everyone seeing him would instantly recognize him.
    
  • He thought about voicing the NPCs too, but decided against it to favor faster update cycles. Voicing 4 languages takes too long, and should new languages be added, it would take even longer.
    

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"LL & Ul'dah won't be shown a little longer. Both maps and the cities were changed".

Ahhh love this! I thought they didn't change anything to Limsa or Ul'Dah! Im glad to see they will at least look a "little" different from 1.0! ^^

Thank you for the translations! While don't speak a word of Japanese, I do believe I have some simple advice for your translations. You have a tendency to type in run-on sentences. You should split many of your sentences up. Each sentence should communicate just one thought. Below is a really quick example of one of these run-on sentences and how you could split it up.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Could be, but previous broadcast they had they the guys on the show wanted to test out how much a core2 duo laptop can handle FFXIV so was thinking it was more on that, but if they showed the benchmark for it, that would be cool for sure :)

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

It could be. In a previous broadcast, the guys on the show wanted to test out how a core2 duo laptop would handle FFXIV. So, I was thinking it was more on that. but if they showed the benchmark, that would be cool for sure! :)

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I tutored English and writing for freshmen and sophomores in college.

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Originally Posted by Evangelus

need the new artwork from the 25 anniversary box artbook ;_;

http://i.imgur.com/Qi2B0.jpg

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Can we see more pages of this? :p the pic on the right doesn't seem to be FFXIV related and the one on the left is an old guild companies artwork

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Originally Posted by Warlock

Can we see more pages of this? :p the pic on the right doesn't seem to be FFXIV related and the one on the left is an old guild companies artwork

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how is it not? there a lalafall with whm gear and there other one right next him/her other one looking at him.there even a Mi'qote on the back left side which is on the first chocobo you see with red head gear and she seem to be a wearing war AF so yes it's ffxiv related it's the new and old company art work to me.

If you made any attempt to read my post I said below the image is a caption with the title "Free Companies". I actually own the set in which this came.

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Originally Posted by AkiRouscelia

If you made any attempt to read my post I said below the image is a caption with the title "Free Companies". I actually own the set in which this came.

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well then post a better pic of it :D some professional scanning and stuff

edit: when is the nico show gonna start?

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Originally Posted by Warlock

well then post a better pic of it :D some professional scanning and stuff

edit: when is the nico show gonna start?

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Any news from the Niconico? O.o anyone watching it? or something!

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Originally Posted by Warlock

Any news from the Niconico? O.o anyone watching it? or something!

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You're not going to see or hear anything for another 7 hours.

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Originally Posted by Alzelia

Thank you for the translations! While don't speak a word of Japanese, I do believe I have some simple advice for your translations. You have a tendency to type in run-on sentences. You should split many of your sentences up. Each sentence should communicate just one thought. Below is a really quick example of one of these run-on sentences and how you could split it up.

I tutored English and writing for freshmen and sophomores in college.

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Thanks for the example. I will try to work on them for future translations. Thank you! :)

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Thanks for the example. I will try to work on them for future translations. Thank you! :)

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I'm curious, what is Japanese grammar like? Are there sentences like English, and other European languages? Is there anything similar to punctuation, commas, periods, colons and such?

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Originally Posted by Alzelia

I'm curious, what is Japanese grammar like? Are there sentences like English, and other European languages? Is there anything similar to punctuation, commas, periods, colons and such?

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I know this question wasn't directed towards me, but go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation I hope that's what you're looking for. (in that article a period is referred to as a "fullstop".)

and also this was an interesting read (since I don't know Japanese either :P)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language

They do have commas and periods and used the same way, but their sentence structure is different from English.
It's sometimes backwards, like for example "Is anyone selling potion?" would be written "potion selling anyone?" ポーションを売ってる人いませんか？ So when translating stuff like this I have to read through the whole stuff first then translate.

For stuff like live translations I tried in the past for the Producer Letter Live, this was the part that always slowed me down since I have to listen to the whole thing before I start... but by that time they are already onto the next topic/question. I could translate as is but like above example, it's going to be backwards which may cause people get confused even more.

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VoltaAsura's post above is better example. :p

As far as localizing your translations goes, I would recommend reading books. Lots and LOTS of books, especially ones that deal in fantasy and science fiction. The reason why is because the whole point of science fiction and fantasy genres is to tell a good tale, using your words to captivate and paint a canvass in the reader's mind. If you can't do that, your book is sunk. :P

As you read a lot, you tend to start noticing how different authors write in different styles, and you might find yourself mimicking some of them in your own writing. (this is a good thing.) Even if you don't, when you go to write an essay or whatever, you have a very large depository of words, phrases, metaphors, and imagery to pull from and use in your own writing. I've been reading since a very young age, yet I've never struggled to write a compelling essay in my English classes (despite no planning and just writing it the night before a 5-10 page essay is due XD ), managing to pull off an A in almost all of them. It's not due to special talent in writing; it's simply from reading so often that I can pull off repeating the point for emphasis in an essay while finding a hundred different ways of phasing it to keep it fresh.

Pretty much, to be a good writer you must first be a good reader! And I'd advise staying away from historical texts and other "dry" forms of writing unless you must, as such works primary purpose is to inform, not entertain. Sadly for them and the rest of us, most such texts don't realize the best way to do the former is to use the latter. :(

Nico is starting.

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv119347878

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Originally Posted by Rustyhagun

Nico is starting.

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv119347878

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Ugh, it seems to require paid premium membership ~_~ Please fill us in afterwards Reiny!

Game looks very good on Low end specs :)

I'm taking the English tweets someone is translating on NICO, and paraphrasing:

- Beta information/roadmap coming to us 1hr after live stream.

-"Instance dugeon" footage, from alpha, being show. Light party

- Dungeons will have lots of gimmicks like in the first FF games.

- Yoshi is showing spec settings, running on specs:
- HighEnd Core i7 3.5GHz / GTX680 / Windows 8 Pro 64bit
- Mid Core i5 750 2.66GHz Radeon HD5750 Win 8 pro 64bit
- LowEnd Core 2 duo 3.0GHz 8800GT Windows 8 Pro 64bit

- Touch Screen support on Windows 8.

-FFXIV will make its way to PSVita.... rumor/confirmed?

-Legacy Members have access to Beta phase 1, without having to apply. big :)

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Originally Posted by mbncd

Ugh, it seems to require paid premium membership ~_~ Please fill us in afterwards Reiny!

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you can register easy enough, its even in english, just log in then go to the page for the video and click "standard entry" button
you won't understand anything but images speak 1000 words as they say.. I think that's how it goes.. or is it the other way around? whatever

but yeah, it's free
if the registration isn't in english, it must be google chrome browser which is doing that for me.. i suggest everyone use chrome anyway, its the best

of course, your seat gets taken the minute it starts.... /sigh

This broadcast is currently at the maximum number of viewers.

D:

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Originally Posted by Ricky

you can register easy enough, its even in english, just log in then go to the page for the video and click "standard entry" button
you won't understand anything but images speak 1000 words as they say.. I think that's how it goes.. or is it the other way around? whatever

but yeah, it's free
if the registration isn't in english, it must be google chrome browser which is doing that for me.. i suggest everyone use chrome anyway, its the best

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I did sign up when I first got the link but every time I click that link (while I'm signed in), I keep getting a page in English all about premium membership, with no standard entry links or buttons of any kind, just a whole bunch of "click here to register for premium membership" stuff. Maybe it's because I'm not Japanese/American, any Aussies able to get in there?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ps765da176.jpg
That's all I'm getting... I've tried logging out and back in but still nothing.

Nah, they only have limited sits for non-premium members, all slots are full.

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Originally Posted by Seirra_Lanzce

Nah, they only have limited sits for non-premium members, all slots are full.

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Ah, thanks, that explains it then.

http://ja.twitch.tv/feed_rss

: beta roadmap will be released in 1 hour
: Final Fantasy XIV for Vita ,confirmed

BOOM!

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Originally Posted by Dragonheart

: Final Fantasy XIV for Vita ,confirmed

BOOM!

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Really? Really?

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

Really? Really?

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comments seems are confirming it

Wowiie I may have to get a vita now so I can play anywhere haha

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Originally Posted by Dragonheart

comments seems are confirming it

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Yoshida said nothing of the sort, unless I completely missed it. Comments were just speculating.

more than a jp comment where saying it at same time... *mumble mumble* .. let's wait for official news

maybe they were talking about some features usable with a PSVITA for PS3 vers, and tablet/phones for PC vers..

:/

Good morning... slept 1hr before the stuff started... crashed on my keyboard... orz...

Anyone got recorded version of the video by chance?

From 2CH only info I got was all legacy members will get in beta.
EDIT: duh it says on the roadmap... lol Started looking through it right now.

http://metenyo.blog15.fc2.com/blog-entry-7191.html this is what I got so far from the broadcast for those that missed it, just images and stuff.

Last part of that page they are confirming all players with Legacy status is automatically granted access to beta, so we probably don't even need to worry about the selection process this time around.

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Originally Posted by Reinheart

Good morning... slept 1hr before the stuff started... crashed on my keyboard... orz...

Anyone got recorded version of the video by chance?

From 2CH only info I got was all legacy members will get in beta.
EDIT: duh it says on the roadmap... lol Started looking through it right now.

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here you go, I hope you find this useful
http://www.livestream.com/rablazonel...e-3c12605da006

Looks like a new 4Gamer article?
http://www.4gamer.net/games/092/G009287/20121227001/