Japanese to English translation - Discussion Thread

[Reinheart]

Hey Reinheart, I see a few different of JP/eng blogs are pissed (putting it nicely) about myth gear being thrown away from the top spot/being useful from 2.2 onwards. Not happy about the new tomes, & gear level increase & gear being made uselss every 6 months e.t.c. seems to be a 80/20 split on the matter via blogs.

have you seen any posts about it or along those lines in the official jp section?
I have got a Playstation review on FFXIV to do on current matters/opinions.

Hmm I have to check it out, I knew this was going to happen even before launch so I'm not even surprised by ilvl increase making current gears weaker than new ones... It happens with most MMO's anyways. AF1 will probably be upgradable to AF2 and relic will have upgrades but the rest was most likely going to get weaker over time with newer patches.

[Reinheart]

Anything interesting in this page ? http://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20140127032/

For what Wada-san mentions about previous XIV - He says they had to change the team to start XIV to move on forward. By keeping the same lead it would of meant for that person to drop all his work at same time give out new instructions to everyone which would of most likely ended up in worse situation.

Other than that they talk about how Nintendo announced they are in the red (big time) and Wada-san mentioning that 3DS is nice but the market is being pulled more towards the smartphone business and they need to find a way to get it to the same level, or just make for those smartphone devices. As for SE's position on smartphone is that they are trying to approach the audience with the current trend, so it may look like they are fully into smartphone apps right now but that's not the case, if the project fails they still have enough revenue from other games so they are covered in both ways.

Not full direct translation but that's what I got out from reading that article. Also goes into other stuff like why they got Eidos, to try and learn other genres to keep up with the hardware/tech since SE was well known for RPG but it was coming to a point where all RPG's were becoming too similar.

[prymortal]

Hmm I have to check it out, I knew this was going to happen even before launch so I'm not even surprised by ilvl increase making current gears weaker than new ones... It happens with most MMO's anyways. AF1 will probably be upgradable to AF2 and relic will have upgrades but the rest was most likely going to get weaker over time with newer patches.

yeah i've seen a few more posts popping up about it on unrelated matters. Just wote the review how it is, rather than how players may or may not see it. That they are increasing the levels, rather than players are not happy & why.
i was nice enough to point out some of the balance issues in game & Causes bet you anything they dont get published because of the ps4 release PR.

[Gilthas]

Saw your last post Reinheart.

Right after the last live letter I recall someone mentioning that in the live letter there was news of some new stuff for Fisher. Was it only that we'd be able to fish while sitting?

[TheRogueX]

Hey Reinheart, I see a few different of JP/eng blogs are pissed (putting it nicely) about myth gear being thrown away from the top spot/being useful from 2.2 onwards. Not happy about the new tomes, & gear level increase & gear being made uselss every 6 months e.t.c. seems to be a 80/20 split on the matter via blogs.

This is pretty normal for MMOs. It's very close to what WoW has been doing for a long time, even. I'm not sure of the problem?

Anyway, Rein, are they ever going to let people craft decent (not top-tier, but not crap) gear for level cap? Or is crafting seriously meant to be pointless in the long run?

[Reinheart]

Saw your last post Reinheart.

Right after the last live letter I recall someone mentioning that in the live letter there was news of some new stuff for Fisher. Was it only that we'd be able to fish while sitting?

There was fishing while sitting, not sure if that one was for 2.16.

Also there is one about where they are planning to make changes to how you can fish up treasure maps, since some players didn't like it how you got treasure maps after using HQ live fish bait.

[Itachi]

Current gear will not get weaker, it just wont be the best anymore

[Reinheart]

This is pretty normal for MMOs. It's very close to what WoW has been doing for a long time, even. I'm not sure of the problem?

Anyway, Rein, are they ever going to let people craft decent (not top-tier, but not crap) gear for level cap? Or is crafting seriously meant to be pointless in the long run?

Yep, it's the norm in most, probably all MMO's. In order for MMO's to keep the game fresh and to keep the players come back for more they have to place a system like this.

There will be new high-level crafted gear, YoshiP did mention during the live that once 2.2 goes live, for players that want to get to the highest gear level, quickest method first would be crafted new gear + materia. Then like usual dungeon gears. He has mentioned that crafted gear will never be the highest gear.

Crafting will boost the economy when patches goes live, as new gears are introduced but towards the end of current patch and near the next patch, the economy is supposed to decrease, just like how it is now and restart again with every patch. So crafted gear won't be the best gear, but won't be crap gear during that first phase of patch release.

[prymortal]

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/808/808140/

http://www.4gamer.net/games/220/G022...4/index_3.html

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201402/20048324.html

just sharing them. in case theres info someone might find useful.

[Reinheart]

http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/808/808140/

http://www.4gamer.net/games/220/G022...4/index_3.html

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201402/20048324.html

just sharing them. in case theres info someone might find useful.

Posted a whole bunch translations from them on twitter last night. I'll see if I can tranlate the 4gamer one full, rest is pretty much the same as usual. Thx for links, easier than looking through my twitter for it lol.