Japanese to English translation - Discussion Thread

[Reika]

We’re finally able to give players global MMO experience in FFXIV ARR, so once they understand the systems usage, we’re heading into the next step in patch 2.1. This also goes for the item level requirement for end contents. If we placed this from the beginning there was a high possibility that it will just put the Legacy players on the other side and new players on the other. Where players item levels don’t come near each other and never mixing in together.
We don’t want to close the door on them making it where players with low item levels can’t come over, we wanted the players to go in together with the players with high item levels and understand after fighting together that they need to increase their gear levels, making them want to get gears before entering those dungeons, and for that build a community, we wanted to create that type of flow. This is where the previous FFXIV players and new top group players mix in together, creating the top group for the FFXIV ARR. We wanted to resolve this issue earliest as possible.

If he really wanted to do that, he wouldn't have fucked high level crafting. At least on legacy servers, existing crafters would have been able to more easily craft newer or returning players some good gear and keep them at reasonable prices, but that couldn't happen.

I overall think much of what he said after that is a load of shit. It doesn't even matter if they put Winding coils on the duty finder, most people would treat it just like Titan hard and form server-side parties for it any damn way, but at least people will have the option of just duty-findering it. I don't think they could put it on the duty finder merely because of the checkpoint saving it does. But heaven forbid he say it was because of their own inability :/ But then again crystal tower is said to do the same thing, but it will be on the duty finder, with 24 people...

And I can't believe even he said "Players want us to sell Fantasia Like in F2P games". Does he not know that the current top MMO that has been P2P since launch does Character appearance AND name changes for a fee? I thought he did his research on them for making ARR, but he apparently didn't dig deep enough. You don't have to be a F2P game to provide these extra service, similar to the world transfer service they are going to provide.

The gil earning rate was just fine in phase 3, when Darkmatter was gatherable and guildleves gave a good amount of gil. But the decided to ruin things going into the real game.

[NoctisCaelus]

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This is a translation but not a perfect one. The way he said it, it could have been "Kind of like F2P games" but Yoshida is a open minded guy so don't judge your impression base solely on this.

Did they even talk about that?

When Rein does a translation, he doesn't get every information down but the gist of it. Sometimes miss out on some stuff which happens. It was mentioned, dunno if it was discussed.

[Reika]

This is a translation but not a perfect one. The way he said it, it could have been "Kind of like F2P games" but Yoshida is a open minded guy so don't judge your impression base solely on this.



When Rein does a translation, he doesn't get every information down but the gist of it. Sometimes miss out on some stuff which happens. It was mentioned, dunno if it was discussed.

No I think he was just having a closed mind about the deal. Close mindedness runs rampant with them, thats why they cant balance worth a damn. I also didn't see anything about warriors in there, not even a mention. maybe I missed it.

Also, about the not-so-housing system... I'm guess housing will cost well over 5m gil for just a small house. They wan't individual FC members to dig into their pockets for a house, so its going to cost a bunch. You can't even call it a housing system if it is going to be just for FC of a certain rank. It is more like another part of the FC system, and not a system on its own that the individual can take part of. It will be a good way to delete all of Legacy characters gil tho. 50mil for the large one i'm going to guess.