It seems a bit ridiculous that the Japanese forums get many more weighty posts giving feedback on certain playerbase concerns, yet so few of them actually reach us.
Wouldn't it be better to have a dev sticky thread set up in a Q&A format where maybe on a weekly basis, the community team could put up the most interesting feedback.
For example, it appears that just today they've received some information concerning auto-attack. With the marvels of google translate it appears they're talking about speeding up auto-attack and also emphasising the staged introduction across various patches. Considering the whining that's gone on already about auto-attack, this kind of stuff would be great to know.
It just seems like they wait till a very specific thread pops up on the forums referring to the topic to post about it, but if we received this info regularly it wouldn't require any additional interaction with the dev team, but would certainly enhance the community feeling that the dev team are communicating what's going on. As we all know, the well of information has run a bit dry recently, and I'm sure this would only help alleviate the feeling of detachment many players have right now.
Yoshida said to avoid translating personally, but it seems options are a bit limited right now.
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06-15-2011, 07:23 PMSephrCan we get some official translations of the dev feedback from the JP forum?
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06-15-2011, 07:25 PMJynx
I wonder if the Japanese community wants translations of what we hear from the Community reps. let alone the german, french...ect.
I just wish I could add Dev-filters so the Japanese community reps and devs would show on my dev tracker. -
06-15-2011, 07:27 PMSovereign
Well... I guess there is only one thing left to do...
I'm going to go use Google Translate to get a completely chopped up version of the what the development team posted, then I'll insert my own opinions into the holes where the auto-translate is unclear, and then post it all as irrefutable, mathematically proven scientific fact!
Yes... I don't see how this plan could go wrong! -
06-15-2011, 07:29 PMVahzl
Sorry, it's JPONRY.
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06-15-2011, 07:33 PMSephrI'm not sure if that's commenting on my little example above, but it pretty much supports the reasoning behind why I was asking for official translations o_OQuote:
Originally Posted by Sovereign
Also, JPOnry hurt me for too long, NO LONGER!! -
06-15-2011, 11:56 PMEvangela
how about forming a Gaijin (Alien) Army and start trolling on JP forums until they fulfill our request LOL
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06-16-2011, 12:00 AMZahak
Don't they usually translate important stuff for us?
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06-16-2011, 12:02 AMBetelgeuzah
They do.
But I think they're asking for the really important posts translated to us, such as "this in-game kanji doesn't make sense, please fix it" and so on. -
06-16-2011, 12:20 AMJennestiaStuff like this is why western folks tend to be disliked by many lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evangela
Yep. They already translate everything important. The reason they get "more" is because of the same reason NA/Euorpe gets more WoW/Mass Effect news, it's the native consumer base.Quote:
Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah
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06-16-2011, 12:27 AMBetelgeuzah
Our translation is still better than their original in-game text, tbfh.
"Sword-user" or "Gladiator"? Yeah -
06-16-2011, 03:10 AMRentahamster
Wow you guys are impatient. For what it's worth, I already did a quick translation of a couple recent posts, including the auto attack post (which, btw doesn't really give any new info that wasn't already in Matsui's battle report).
FF11-style EXP chain bonus: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post182501
auto-attack "feels" slow: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post182626 -
06-16-2011, 03:20 AMReinheart
some people in here (myself included) can translate stuff in Japanese but personally some of the replies from forum mods, devs isn't much to report; they respond in a different way but overall it's just same as "we'll look into it"
If you desperately need translation for something you think might be worth reading then post something like please translate this post and pretty sure someone will do it.
I noticed the link on very top right of this site, Dev Tracker - this one includes all the responses from all region from devs, forum mods. I would google translate that if I wanted to know like the german/french responses to see what they are saying, pretty sure you can do the same for Japanese. And like I said if the google translate sucks or don't seem right, you can always ask someone in here to check/translate and I'm sure someone will help out :) that's one good thing I noticed about this forum. Lots of people actually trying to help each other out.