Live Letter Translation time

Well, with Patch 2.45 starting to be implemented in less than half an hour and a Live Letter dedicated to the details of said patch airing (exclusively in Japanese) almost ten days ago, I am disheartened by the lack of speed in which the contents of said letter were shared in non-native tongue across the forums.

Please do not misunderstand however that this is helpful indeed, however the live letter did contain a lot more than just a few Q&A points.

One needs look no farther than the English General Discussion forums a few hours after the unofficial translations were shared around the community. Ones that might not be exactly how something was worded or the context was misinterpreted.

We, the community, know that the localization team is usually quite busy and tasked with handling many things, especially prior to a patch release. However, I feel it would be in the best interests of the community at large if there was a fundamental shift in priority regarding the Live Letters.

Firstly, no I am not asking for them to be in English only. That would be selfish and still cause problems with the other parts of our community. Second, my proposal is merely a suggestion to help ease tensions as well as help the community better understand how the devs are handling things.

My suggestion is thus:

Live Letters, regardless of language, should be translated in full within a fourty eight hour time span from airing.

We've seen letters being translated live on the floor of E3 and Fanfest. 48 hours should not be an unreasonable request for what the community considers vital information.



Date of Live Letter: Nov 29, 2014
Date of Full Translation: Jan 8th, 2015

We have had 1 Normal Letter from the Producer and 1 Live letter from the producer and the patch related to this live letter before the letter was translated. Forty Days is a bit much for this kind of information.


Fully Translated Letter here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...99#post2695799

I agree, it would be nice to have relatively quick (48 hours like Nel suggested would be fine) official translations, word for word not just highlights, for the entire community. At this point, there is information that will give certain players advantages in knowing changes are coming, and if that information is not available to everyone it creates an imbalance that could be avoided.

I also agree. While I do appreciate the various fan translations that are created by fellow ff14 gamers who speak Japanese and manage to watch the stream, translation in real time can be a little difficult without prep work. I'm sure an official fan translation would lead to more concrete translations since they mostly have archived streams to work off of.

Sometimes when i play this game i feel like a second class citizen for not living in Japan :(.

Ok, new request as well, if the 48 hours can't be met, could we please at least get the translations BEFORE they ask for questions for the next LIVE session.

Bump for importance.

Edited post with new information