Why FFXIV: ARR needs spanish support (and likely other languages.)

[Sadana]

That's exactly right. Plain and simple.

I bet there would be way more than there already are if they had the game in their language. I would think they could at least subtitle cs in spanish. I'm on a JP server with a small EN community and we even have a handful of ES speakers from different countries. There's even a guy from Spain that does not speak EN... THAT'S determination right there.

[Norit]

Most Spanish speaking country's are not very into mmo gaming or are just plain scary/3rd world places. So bbasically they would lose money translating it

Yeah, here in Spain I spend all my money paying drugs, guns and ice cream, my main hobby is hide in the street and wait for little lalas to come near so I can kill them making them eat tons of icecream until they explode : DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

There's many people in Spain that don't know english, they don't play the game because they can't afford it or because we're scary and third world. I had to translate stuff with people I used to play from Spain, they even tried to play.

Guild wars and guild wars 2, by example, has spanish translation and subtitles, so I don't think the spanish gamming community is so small.

[o3o]

I bet there would be way more than there already are if they had the game in their language. I would think they could at least subtitle cs in spanish. I'm on a JP server with a small EN community and we even have a handful of ES speakers from different countries. There's even a guy from Spain that does not speak EN... THAT'S determination right there.

That's 1 person. Every game has fans in all languages. Just gotta be enough of them. And subtitles would cost the most since most of what goes on is in text with the occasional voice acting. And then you have to translate all future content aswell as advertising and so on.

[o3o]

Actually. I just thought of something.

Why not just do a fan translation? Lots of non localized games like monster hunter frontier are not in English but the fans themselves translated the text.

Basically just like a fan made mod.

[Jaykos]

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[Kuroyuki-Hime]

Actually. I just thought of something.

Why not just do a fan translation? Lots of non localized games like monster hunter frontier are not in English but the fans themselves translated the text.

Basically just like a fan made mod.

You think SE would open the source for one of their successful games for the public? Think again.


Also, it seems there is already a good Spanish community here, how many more market shares could SE gain by investing in translators, voice actors, programmers, web designer, supporter etc.
I don't think a Spanish game client would be a bad idea but it should have been released with ARR. After all SE is a profit oriented company.

[Kiara1]

Choosing only E on the duty finder and the first thing you see is "Salut"... That's usually enough for me.

Oh yeah thats standard! My first moggle king ex run ever was with 7 germans. I had no idea what to do and couldnt communicate with them..
Ended up quiet well though, got to last phase and died.
But still I only tick E cause I dont want ppl to speak other languages when I play with them

[Felis]

Choosing only E on the duty finder and the first thing you see is "Salut"... That's usually enough for me.

This was because the frenchman also chosed E

Duty finder:" The one can english, the frenchman here can also english it seem. So putting them together should not be a problem, because both can english."

[Kiara1]

This is wrong. Most japanese people can understand english well enough if written. And it's way enough to have basic conversations.

I beg to differ. Spent 2 weeks in tokyo and very few understood english. Just asking for directions is almost impossible.

[Marael]

And since when does mandarin is the most spoken language. Sorry but that is just wrong.

You do realize that there are nearly a billion Mandarin speakers in China alone, not even counting the millions that lave left their home country to seek their fortune elsewhere, and still speak Mandarin as their first language, right?

Let me put this in perspective for you.

There are 235 million people living in the entire United States.

35 Million of these people do not speak English, or speak it poorly enough that they prefer their native language over it, whatever that might be.

That leaves about 200 million English Speaking people in the USA.

Now, take all of the people who speak English in the USA... and multiply them by five.

That is how many people speak Mandarin in China alone.