Request for Czech translation / AI translation support

Hello,

I have been playing Final Fantasy XIV and I really enjoy the game. However, for many players in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the language barrier makes it difficult to fully experience the story and lore.

I would like to kindly ask if Square Enix has any plans to add Czech localization in the future, or at least an option for an AI-assisted translation in real time. Even a basic machine translation would help many players to understand quests, dialogue, and enjoy the world of Eorzea more.

Thank you for considering this request. I believe it would make the game more accessible for a wider audience.

Wrong forum.

This is the only post the devs might take action on tho 😭

I'm sorry, but the playerbase in either country is most likely so minuscule that they can never justify making localization for them. Also, you had years of English at school, we all did. You have the internet. Literally nothing is stopping you from improving your English.

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Originally Posted by PercibelTheren

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Really no reason to be an ass about it. Asking for additional languages is not an unreasonable ask even if the chances of it in this case are unlikely (e.g. Spanish has a higher chance before Czech). Literally nothing is stopping you from just letting the request be.

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Originally Posted by Kurando

Really no reason to be an ass about it. Asking for additional languages is not an unreasonable ask even if the chances of it in this case are unlikely (e.g. Spanish has a higher chance before Czech). Literally nothing is stopping you from just letting the request be.

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My reason is that I am Czech and I know that people here have 6+ years of English in school, yet barely anyone speaks the language worth a damn. Why? Because the broad attitude is that speaking English is not important, everything is always translated for you eventually. Not everyone will reach native-like fluency but learning to understand the language is not hard, you just have to try, just a little, instead of expecting everything to be dubbed and/or subtitled for you.

To counterpoint, we already have issues with people joining up for duties while not understanding how game works and not speaking common languages (I have only english marked and still meet them). There is a reason on EU we have the meme of "F debuff" for French that dont speak english at all and underperform. (To be clear, there are absolutely cracked french player that i know, however its just hard to ignore when you roll into a stanceless marauder that doesnt reply to anything and only says "merci" after getting carried through the whole dungeon).

Same reason why i dont really push for my own nationality localisation (Polish), despite having a not negligable player count. The ability to speak a foreign language is a sort of filter, while its not the most refined, it definately makes the experience of everyone involved better.

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Originally Posted by NobleWinter

This is the only post the devs might take action on tho ������

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If they even still read this Section of the Forum.

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Originally Posted by Sani2341

If they even still read this Section of the Forum.

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It's the only new post in half a month and it's not even related to Healers, geez.

Meanwhile, the Tank forum has four new DRK rework threads pop up hahaha.

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Originally Posted by LynxDubh

It's the only new post in half a month and it's not even related to Healers, geez.

Meanwhile, the Tank forum has four new DRK rework threads pop up hahaha.

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Tbfy after *Checks calendar* 6 years of things only getting worse Not much new stuff to say really.

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Originally Posted by LynxDubh

Meanwhile, the Tank forum has four new DRK rework threads pop up hahaha.

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Yeah but two of them are clearly AI generated. Much like this translation idea here, I'd like to keep AI slop that seems to cap at telling you to put glue into your pizza sauce or encouraging depressed teens wanting to use it as a psychologist to off themselves away from this game, please.

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Originally Posted by Sani2341

Tbfy after *Checks calendar* 6 years of things only getting worse Not much new stuff to say really.

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The fact the healer forum is dead really speaks volumes to how much people have given up any hope for reasonable changes to the healing role by Devs that care. They have consistently made things less fun, less engaging, and less necessary. Being a long term healer main is infuriating when you see DPS and Tanks getting more and more of your responsibility while your own DPS and Healing optimizations get worn away or made completely unnecessary (looking at Warriors in Dungeons specifically). If I hadn't put so much effort into housing because healing sucked I wouldn't have a reason to keep playing.