FFXIV Live Discussion and Re-Cap

[viion]

When they announce a live event on their english it's natural to expect that they would have a translator.

It's just dumb how they forgot to mention that said live event would be only available in a language that 99% of us don't understand. I wouldn't have cared much if they had told us, just typical SE. Letting us find out today was a slap in the face though.

Anyway...

JP ONRY

Not really, you were the one who naturally expected that. It says on the post it will be translated on the twitter in live and that is exactly what happened. Dont ignore the key words.

[Jennestia]

When they announce a live event on their english it's natural to expect that they would have a translator.

It's just dumb how they forgot to mention that said live event would be only available in a language that 99% of us don't understand. I wouldn't have cared much if they had told us, just typical SE. Letting us find out today was a slap in the face though.

Anyway...

JP ONRY

They also announced info will be on twitter. They didn't forget to mention anything, they assumed people knew that a Japanese based company with Japanese developers including a Japanese producer and director would be communicating in Japanese.

Square & Enix has been in the gaming field for over 20 years, both well known Japanese companies, I don't think they would have figured people needed to be told that it would be in Japanese...Even people who only know of FFXIV in terms of FF games or what Square has done surely has heard from around the net that they're a Japanese company.

[ViceVersa]

I recorded the whole LIVE feed and took some interesting screenshots in case anyone missed them! The quality of the feed wasn't perfect, so details will be blurry, but still recognizable.

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/1...0040958146.jpg (Zone Redesign 1)

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8...0040958252.jpg (Zone Redesign 2)

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/734...0040959496.jpg (Warrior AF Gear)

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/5...0041000063.jpg (Ranger/Bard AF Gear)

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6...0041000367.jpg (If you notice the text at the bottom left, it says "Bard Bow" and "Quiver Bard")

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5...0041000275.jpg (Transformable Bow???)

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9...0041004073.jpg (Screen capture of chocobo riding at Bald Knoll along with a new Grand Company NPC. You can also see the repair NPC and Merchant NPC icons added to the camps)

http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/2...0041004211.jpg (Chocobo Riding)

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/5...0041006442.jpg (Another shot of the Transformable Bow)

That Moogle sword is pretty awesome haha. If you look close it even looks like it has a mini moogle on it.

[Roaran]

Once again, people manifested an overly optimistic and COMPELTELY impractical best case scenario without giving a single iota of thought... AND complained about it.

For people dissapointed, consider for 30 seconds what it would have been like if it was all translated live. (Which some of it even was!)

4-5 translators for all the languages watching the twitter feed, then having them translate into JP give the question to Yoshi, then you would need another translation for all languages, otherwise they have no idea what is going on, and finally the answer in all languages once again.

This would have slowed down the interview and would have reduced the number of questions available for Yoshi to answer.


I just can't help but feel sorry for the devs that such a vocal part of the community has such incredibly harsh reactions without putting forth the slightest effort in using their brains at all.

[Vesper]

*Yawn* Glad I slept instead of turning in for this.

Also let me get my "Yay to screwing people over who worked hard gathering any HQ gear, all screwed over and a cannot use Materia in stuff they worked hard to get, kick to the groin = 100% complete!"

*Heads back to bed*

[Oscillate_Wildly]

At least the devs know now to make a note that the video footage in the future will be Japanese only.

[Sojiro]

The concept art they showed look pretty awesome. There were some good questions asked, although some of the answers were a little vague, but it is still promising. Now it needs to be the end of the day so I can jump into 1.19!

[Ilean]

It says on the post it will be translated on the twitter in live and that is exactly what happened. Dont ignore the key words.

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...d0539db8d5242d

No it doesn't.

[Jennestia]

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...d0539db8d5242d

No it doesn't.

During the live broadcast, the details on questions and answers will be posted on the official Twitter account on the spot. Also the full details of the show will be posted on the official forum after the broadcast.

Did you choose to ignore this?

[Uki]

"Ifrit is come" that's all i have to say,oh and i can't wait for the Marauder/Executioner AF !!!!!