Should SE make a language spoken census?

[Antonio_Xul]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/667/?order=desc&page=2#threads/289533

After seeing the thread above closed due to the OP asking a question in a different language other than the in-game languages, despite the fact that there were enough people who could answer his question in his language, I think that SE should make a census of languages spoken in each server and post the results to help those chose which server suits them best when it comes to language. It sucks to be a new player and not know where to begin your gaming due to language issues.

[Ultear_Milkovich]

Any language used by the RMTs on their clients will automatically win^^

[Serilda]

Any language used by the RMTs on their clients will automatically win^^

English everywhere then? It always mystifies me that the RMTs continue blindly using English on servers where the English-speaking population is tiny (and mostly made up of people from non-English-speaking regions who have settled on English out of necessity).

It's a pity that the thread the OP is talking about was closed (and that it attracted several dumb replies). I can see why S-E don't like it because it's hard for them to moderate if unsupported languages are spoken - it becomes one poster's word against another's - but it's nice to see smaller communities sprouting up and finding one another.

I imagine S-E have plenty of statistics showing where everyone is connecting from in spite of their client language. They won't know for sure how many of each group speak which languages proficiently, but they'll probably have a rough idea. The recent Fan Fest poll for the European region also gave them some data about a small subset of supported languages and how widely used they actually are within the community.

[Canadane]

English everywhere then?

Yes firend!

[raela]

Yeah, I find that topic being locked a pretty crappy response considering how common Spanish is worldwide (look at how many countries speak it). Even worse is that they have Spanish translators listed in the in game credits, yet Spanish is not an acceptable language in the forums? It's not like they have a section for it here..

[Xlantaa]

Yeah, I find that topic being locked a pretty crappy response considering how common Spanish is worldwide (look at how many countries speak it). Even worse is that they have Spanish translators listed in the in game credits, yet Spanish is not an acceptable language in the forums? It's not like they have a section for it here..

They have Spanish translators for what? Because after a lot of people asking for a spanish translation, till now, Square Enix didn't care about Spanish translation. Even games like Star Ocean V and Kingdom Hears 3D wasn't translated. Knowing that Spanish is the third language after Chinese and English most spoken in the world I don't understand this.

[DefendPopPunk]

Yeah, I find that topic being locked a pretty crappy response considering how common Spanish is worldwide (look at how many countries speak it). Even worse is that they have Spanish translators listed in the in game credits, yet Spanish is not an acceptable language in the forums? It's not like they have a section for it here..

I agree with you 100%. Not cool at all.

[raela]

They have Spanish translators for what? Because after a lot of people asking for a spanish translation, till now, Square Enix didn't care about Spanish translation. Even games like Star Ocean V and Kingdom Hears 3D wasn't translated. Knowing that Spanish is the third language after Chinese and English most spoken in the world I don't understand this.

I don't know why a Spanish translation team appears in FFXIV credits since there is nothing in game that I see translated. However, other games can have non-obvious translations - for example, set your PS3/PS4/Xbox360 to Spanish and pop in a game, and some will have English dub + Spanish game text (dialogue, skills, items, etc) - Final Fantasy 13 series being one example.

[AnaviAnael]

Yeah, I find that topic being locked a pretty crappy response considering how common Spanish is worldwide Even worse is that they have Spanish translators listed in the in game credits, yet Spanish is not an acceptable language in the forums? It's not like they have a section for it here..

You need to understand that the reason why it was closed was because the language used is not the language supported on this particular board. It's a forum rule. Like Serilda said, it can become one person's word against another when the mods here don't know the language. (It does suck for the OP though.) I think the best thing that can be done right now is for the Spanish speaking community to continue petitioning to SE for their own language specific forum. Sure they may need to hire some Spanish speaking moderators, but I think it'd be a decent investment at the end of the day and it would show Spanish speakers that SE sees them as an important demographic.

[Sakuraluna]

Considering the number of times I've seen Spanish speaking players try to post on the forums, I wish SE would branch out more and include more Spanish language support both in game and on the forums.