Translation of Liveletter?

Many apologies, does anyone have a link to a translation of the recent liveletter? I'd appreciate it.

I know it's floating on the ffxiv reddit somewhere. It's also in that reddits discord too, though you'll have to go to reddit to actually get in.

From official channels, it doesn't exist yet. You're looking at a week minimum before the English translations SE provides are posted on the forums. The earliest you can get translations is the Reddit megathread/discord about the letter itself through the work of normal players.

Didn't we used to get at least a summary of the Japanese-only events in EN\FR\G as they were happening, or am I just imagining that? It's somewhere between worrying and downright insulting that the majority of the userbase has to rely on fan translations to keep current, especially with a company like SE that should have it together enough to have all the major info translated ahead of time and someone on-call to fill in anything extra that might come up during the conversation. They've been really good about this in recent years, too, so this feels like a backslide.

Yes, but they stopped doing so the live letter prior to this one. They changed it to a Twitter feed - you could look for that, but the consensus seems to be that the post size limit imposed by Twitter makes it useless. I don't Twitter, so I've not seen to judge myself.

This one seemed to cover most things and they posted often. The start is a bit of a way down because they cover other FF titles/events in addition to FFXIV.

https://twitter.com/Nova_Crystallis (Starts ~3:30 AM PT May 11)

This one also covers all the live letters. https://twitter.com/xivtrivia

it's really difficult to get excited about the upcoming patch when i have to go to a 3rd party to tell me what's coming.

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Originally Posted by reiichi

https://twitter.com/Nova_Crystallis

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Thank you! This is by far the best and most comprehensive Live Letter translation I've seen so far.

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Originally Posted by Nova Crystallis

The limit on aquariums has been increased. Small: 6 Medium: 8 Large: 10

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Can anyone confirm if this is referring to the amount of aquariums you can have in each type of house?

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Originally Posted by Lukha

Didn't we used to get at least a summary of the Japanese-only events in EN\FR\G as they were happening, or am I just imagining that? It's somewhere between worrying and downright insulting that the majority of the userbase has to rely on fan translations to keep current, especially with a company like SE that should have it together enough to have all the major info translated ahead of time and someone on-call to fill in anything extra that might come up during the conversation. They've been really good about this in recent years, too, so this feels like a backslide.

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The major info is translated ahead of time - it's right there in the slides as the LL is broadcast.

The live commentary is what we used to get a quick translation of, followed by a more thoroughly checked version with added pictures and such that we know as the digest.

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Originally Posted by MisterSpamtastic

it's really difficult to get excited about the upcoming patch when i have to go to a 3rd party to tell me what's coming.

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Can you not read the English on the slides during the LL?

It sucks that additional detail requires waiting for the digest or going to a 3rd party, but you will absolutely know all of the features/additions coming just from watching the LL.