New interview from JP 4gamer site

[kiba]

first of all thanx for the translation u rock. also i agree casino would be nice and even better if it had triple triad

[Holland]

Not really. The Japanese have a LONG history of getting exclusive information and products that never make it anywhere else. I don't see why it's so difficult to wait for a proper translation and releasing the information simultaneously....oh wait, there isn't anything difficult about it. They just choose the give them the information first as they still believe they are the more important demographic.

People just need to admit the the Japanese are racist and Xenophobic and the gaming industry, japanese, reinforces/proves that with things as simple as press release on websites, which can easily all be updated at once at the same time. We don't even have to get into console features and exclusives *cough Wii dvd patch cough*

Even though I agree they could definitely do something to improve on the interview part and/or adding a translation for all regions right away. But accusing them of being racist and xenophobic was uncalled for. Not having the translation right away or specific features on games/consoles, promotions, what ever, is their choice and I do not see any problem favoring the consumers of your own country first. SE has been very vocal about their plans on all regions content always, releasing games on all platforms and regions when possible too to bring it to as many around the world. Their commitment of all regions servers is proof of that, otherwise they would do what every other company does and separate us. In my opinion of course.

[Xenor]

Many people seem to be forgetting that 1.18 also includes quest hubs and leve balancing. If they balance leves right you'll have a reason to do the ones in LL and Gridania giving you variety.

[Rydin]

You do understand that FFXIV would never have 10-15mil players? they even know that why should they work on getting wow players then at the end only get 1-5% of wow players staying in ffxiv?

Ironically enough... 5% of WoW's player base still amounts to more people the FFXI's....
I didn't play WoW... I'm just sayin

[Holland]

Many people seem to be forgetting that 1.18 also includes quest hubs and leve balancing. If they balance leves right you'll have a reason to do the ones in LL and Gridania giving you variety.

As it is, I travel to other cities already, even to the detrimental of my anima supply, just for the sake of change of scenery, npc dialogs, and not traveling the same routes to do the same thing always. No wonder a lot of players are burned out by this repetitiveness after almost a year from release. Even if the leaves dont vary much, but maybe the difference in fiends being fought, walking to different places reading slightly different dialogs can help.

[Reinheart]

Not really. The Japanese have a LONG history of getting exclusive information and products that never make it anywhere else. I don't see why it's so difficult to wait for a proper translation and releasing the information simultaneously....oh wait, there isn't anything difficult about it. They just choose the give them the information first as they still believe they are the more important demographic.

People just need to admit the the Japanese are racist and Xenophobic and the gaming industry, japanese, reinforces/proves that with things as simple as press release on websites, which can easily all be updated at once at the same time. We don't even have to get into console features and exclusives *cough Wii dvd patch cough*

This interview was on a JP gaming site... not from official FFXIV site... I dunno where the hell you're getting this crap... personally being half Japanese, half American I can say in ANY country you will see racist people, they will think their race is better than all; it's kind of getting old when people bring up the race card everytime they feel it's not right for them.

You think NA gaming magazine articles all get proper official translation (in other languages)? NO.

Just wanted to point that out... it's STUPID...

EDIT -- Also to add this kind of post from you is the reason why the devs have to put their information through official translators first pushing the release of info back. I say have the fans who wants to translate it translate it first since most of the time they do it faster than official ones who get paid to do the job. Let the players who wants to read those fan translated comments read and decide for themselves if the translations are accurate, and not to speculate too much on it, just think of it as general idea of whats going on, then once the proper official translations gets announced to go by that. --

[Zenaku]

Ironically enough... 5% of WoW's player base still amounts to more people the FFXI's....
I didn't play WoW... I'm just sayin

5% that would quit when they don't add enough stuff in a small amount of time which then they quit also and go back to wow at some point. WoW players quit wow then play something else and return when wow does a patch then they play other game that came out and wait for other wow patch.

[Evangelus]

they speak about the ps3 version in the end of the interview no?

[Cendres]

Thanks OP for adding some sunshine, better info then expected!

[Reinheart]

they speak about the ps3 version in the end of the interview no?

From the last part of the interview I think you're referring to and I didn't translate since I was super tired lol

4Gamer：
　なんにせよ，PC版が形になってから，ということになるのでしょうね。
4Gamer: Either way making it work for the PC version first right?

吉田氏：
　そうですね。僕は，どっちつかずが一番だめだと思っている人間なので，まずはPC版のFFXIVを立て直したうえで，同時にPS3版での完成度を徹底的 に上げようと思っています。非常に難しいことにチャレンジしていますが，FFXIVはある意味，一度プレイヤーの皆さんを裏切る形になってしまったので， もう二度と同じことはできない。そう思って，チーム一丸となって進めていますので，ぜひ期待してお待ちいただけたらと思います。
YoshiP: Yes, I believe not sticking to one side is being bad (being PC or PS3). First making the PC version of FFXIV remodel and at same time improving for the PS3 version to work as well. It is very challenging task. In a way FFXIV betrayed lots of players, so I do not want to do that again. That is how our team is working together. So if you can please wait and look forward