Letter from the Producer LIVE this year?

Hey :o
Just wanna ask dev is Yoshida-san planing more Letter from the Producer LIVE this years ? :D
Because i really like it, very exciting and so much information just for 1,5 hours lol :D
/cheer Yoshida-san i want some more shows with him, he is awesome! :rolleyes:

End of last letter from the producer:

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Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

Talk to you next letter, or on the forums. See you soon!

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Yes, they intend to.

Edit: Oh, dang, I missed the LIVE part of what you said. I dunno, sorry :(

Really hope there'll be more Live letters as well. They are very interesting and funny in the same time.

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Originally Posted by Munba

Really hope there'll be more Live letters as well. They are very interesting and funny in the same time.

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I'd prefer a well typed out producer letter that is extra long. They have plenty of options on how to take questions; twitter, official forum "ask question to yoshi" thread, youtube, they could even have the newspaper reporters take questions in game.

The fact is, the live letters were pretty much for JP only other than the pretty pictures and video clips we saw. Then two weeks later we get an official translation.

A well constructed "special" producer letter would be worth far more. They can easily create video clips to include, as well as full hi-res pictures that we could examine. Furthermore, it is significantly less work for them to write a producer letter than worry about setting up feeds, cameras, etc.

I appreciated the effort they put forth for the live letters, but overall it was just a big disaster for anyone but the Japanese.

Furthermore, a better option would be giving developers on special systems spotlight of their own. A developers corner "Final Fantasy Friday's" with one or two updates per week would be most valuable. Tells us what they are up to, gives us an opportunity to post feedback, and also keeps the information rolling.

Hai

times a thousand

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Originally Posted by Tibian

I'd prefer a well typed out producer letter that is extra long. They have plenty of options on how to take questions; twitter, official forum "ask question to yoshi" thread, youtube, they could even have the newspaper reporters take questions in game.

The fact is, the live letters were pretty much for JP only other than the pretty pictures and video clips we saw. Then two weeks later we get an official translation.

A well constructed "special" producer letter would be worth far more. They can easily create video clips to include, as well as full hi-res pictures that we could examine. Furthermore, it is significantly less work for them to write a producer letter than worry about setting up feeds, cameras, etc.

I appreciated the effort they put forth for the live letters, but overall it was just a big disaster for anyone but the Japanese.

Furthermore, a better option would be giving developers on special systems spotlight of their own. A developers corner "Final Fantasy Friday's" with one or two updates per week would be most valuable. Tells us what they are up to, gives us an opportunity to post feedback, and also keeps the information rolling.

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As much as I appreciate how entertaining and endearing the live videos are, I think I have to agree with Tibian on this one. They are great in theory, but don't turn out so well in practice:

The biggest issue is with the translation. The last live letter took two weeks to translate and release. Admittedly, it had some brief bits (mainly the Q&As) translated in real time, catch-as-catch-can, and posted on Twitter. But there was a lot of drama and rage over the fact that anyone who didn't speak Japanese had to wait that long to get information that should honestly have been released simultaneously (the end of the video included some important info--a statement from Wada that confirmed they were considering subscription discounts--which wasn't included in the various 3rd party translations floating around before the official translation was completed). I understand that translations take time. But it's honestly not the best practice to have so many people feel once again that non-Japanese speaking regions are at a disadvantage. One solution would be to shoot the video, but don't feed it live. Wait until the translation work is complete and release it simultaneously across all regions.

Another thing that bothered me was that it felt as though they picked the questions posted on Twitter, even though there was an epically huge forum thread designated as the next live letter question thread nearly a month in advance. I feel a well-prepared written letter would have a better chance of addressing more serious issues, instead of grinning and showing us samples of mounts, armor and a proposed jump animation. Admittedly, seeing those things got me excited. Then, after the video, I was left disappointed that we got more rock star than substance. There were so many more issues that were barely touched upon, and even more completely unaddressed.

Like Tibian said, the live letters cause more issues than they're worth.

People need to stop crying over the translation shit, its sooo retarded... it happens all the time on the forum when devs post in JP, its common sense it will take a while, and if you cant accept it just fking Google it and use your brain to realise what it meant and then WAIT until official one (or Reinhearts, hes pretty epic).

Plus ya know if you all came to xivpads you pretty much get Vid + Translation XD is it a problem that translations are not on the video, but below or too the side of it? haha. Not to mention Reinheart does live ones on Google where you can see what he writes in realtime!!

So stop bitchin, there are lots of ways to understand them.

I hope there is more LIVE, because live is so much better, its so much juicerier, why? Because its LIVE, so Yoshi shows us stuff when he thinks of it, it doesnt have to go through a process, or a possible incorrect translation or even have the dev team say no. He goes "Oh were working on xyz looksee here" n just shows us stuff.

We pull out so much more information in a live letter than we do a normal, because most of it is unscripted and Yoshi is like a kid sometimes and just wants to show off while the dev team look at him with grunting eyes like "noo!!"

Plus they can show us video, even play it in real time, where as live letter is usually a trailer... which kinda sux cuse it only shows clips or specific parts. Not to mention we saw JUMP and MOUNTS in a LIVE letter, (even animations!!), do you get that in a static formal letter? No!

Live letters > Static written.

Without translation I couldn't care less, why don't they have an official interpreter who can do live commentary. Television has been doing that for decades.

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Originally Posted by KumaAkuma

Without translation I couldn't care less, why don't they have an official interpreter who can do live commentary. Television has been doing that for decades.

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Television is delayed.

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Originally Posted by DoctorMog

Hai

times a thousand

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ONIGASHIMAS

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Originally Posted by SirOleas

ONIGASHIMAS

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*awkward bow*

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

Television is delayed.

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Yes and your point being?

I can't believe the new year's letter had no relevant information

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Originally Posted by KumaAkuma

Without translation I couldn't care less, why don't they have an official interpreter who can do live commentary. Television has been doing that for decades.

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Because there is no need for it, no need at all, because:
- Most if not all of the important stuff is posted on twitter
- Anything left behind is translated in realtime by the community (King Reinheart for example)
- Video LIVE provides so so sosososoo much more than any static letter.

Stop crying because the text is not on the video itself.

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Originally Posted by viion

Because there is no need for it, no need at all, because:
- Most if not all of the important stuff is posted on twitter
- Anything left behind is translated in realtime by the community (King Reinheart for example)
- Video LIVE provides so so sosososoo much more than any static letter.

Stop crying because the text is not on the video itself.

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If you want to play it that way: they could just stick normal letters and avoid all the whole frustration. But seriously if they want to provide videos for our entertainment then make it so that we can actually watch and understand them or keep the whole hype exclusive to the jp section of the website/forum. Considering the scale on which they're working that really isn't too much to ask.

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Originally Posted by Majidah

I can't believe the new year's letter had no relevant information

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Maybe not, but doesn't mean we can't look forward to seeing stuff later on :D

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Originally Posted by Antanias

Maybe not, but doesn't mean we can't look forward to seeing stuff later on :D

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Yeah, but isn't it "later on" already? SE has been silent ever since we started paying :P

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Originally Posted by KumaAkuma

If you want to play it that way: they could just stick normal letters and avoid all the whole frustration. But seriously if they want to provide videos for our entertainment then make it so that we can actually watch and understand them or keep the whole hype exclusive to the jp section of the website/forum. Considering the scale on which they're working that really isn't too much to ask.

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I dont know man, I think you'd have to have a few screws loose in your head if they showed a video of the jumping animation and you didnt some how figure out and understand that it was a JUMPING ANIMATION and not to mention, the tweet right after said "Yoshi showing examples of jumping in testing", If you can not understand that, then so be it... yanoe?

I dont understand how anyone can not understand the videos when we have live translations already, your asking for shit that is already there, makes no sense....

I just like the way, when a real produsser from SE! lol real one! show up on Youtube say hey to me and he like us, players and want communicate with us... i think he is first i dont know any other produsser from SE who can ask "do you think this will be ok guys? or let me show you here, or this one ok?"
Yes i know its all on JP but its LIVE letter
Sometimes i dont understand hard english that SE uses on history news that have tons of that english words and im trying hard to translate, well i love this game and i see how many human work they made just to make this virtual word look like a real with histrory and ect ect
and yes +Reinheart he is epic as always

LIVE letter its just a big bonus or a gift for me from a Yoshida-san, dont forget we have a letters from him, notes, writers from Eorzea magazines and DEVs

I really enjoy the live letters. It would be neat to get more members of the team speaking up on different things. The Twitter account pretty much translates everything after a few minutes (it was much faster with updating the 2nd time) and the 2nd one got a subtitled video a few days later, so I think the translation situation is fine. Any major revelations get their own threads anyways.

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Originally Posted by Estellios

I really enjoy the live letters. It would be neat to get more members of the team speaking up on different things. The Twitter account pretty much translates everything after a few minutes (It was much better the 2nd time) and the 2nd one got a subtitled video a few days later, so I think the translation situation is fine. Any major revelations get their own threads anyways.

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Oh! awesome idea!
They can even show us the place where they work hard for game like this one :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MtkfA5pWY
i know there was a special show The Making of a Realm :) the can continue this one also

the live letters were really nice and the translations over twitter and from our community (dat reinheart ^~^) had a minimal delay and explained everything important, that they put a properly subtitled version of it on youtube a few days later was a nice bonus.
if that's not enough for you i dunno, learn japanese or something, its a live producer letter and not the superbowl, you cant expect them to interpret every single word in 3 other languages in realtime.

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Originally Posted by Kugata

Oh! awesome idea!
They can even show us the place where they work hard for game like this one :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MtkfA5pWY
i know there was a special show The Making of a Realm :) the can continue this one also

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That would be very neat, they could say they are going to talk to XYZ, so get your questions ready for XYZ people, then during the live, when then switching between people they could introduce him n show what hes working on "here is ui lead *shows v2.0 ui in realtime*", and so on.

Cant get this in a static provisioned letter..