Live Letter translations on Twitter are not acceptable

[BunnyChain]

Hell, the community team even outright employed one player doing unofficial translations to join the community team. Can't remember his name unfortunately but it's true and he used to be the guy we relied on for unofficial translations 2 years back. Which is proof there's at least one guy on their team who can do English translations on the fly.

Really, what happened to that guy? Never heard of him since. >.>

If the community team is unsure of what the people want, take a look at the unofficial translations. Live translations with translated small talk.

If you want to know the interest compare the numbers:

Official:
300? audience watching live letter (according to the number shown in recap video)
4.000 views on twitch so far
No official youtube video yet
Last live letter: 16k views
(One would guess that many don't tune in at all since you can't understand the majority of it anyway.)

1 Unofficial Mr.Happy recap video:
19000 views on the 1day? old video
Last live letter: 37k views
(Keep in mind people watching the official live letter very likely tune in into the unofficial translations.)

The question is: why is a game doing such a poor job at communicating with the majority of their audience?


p.s. seriously, even the forums feel super limited with their 1000 character limit and you want to squeeze the translations into the 400 character format twitter supports?

[Vaer]

Really, what happened to that guy? Never heard of him since. >.>

He is on the community team now. He posts on these forums sometimes. Lately I haven't seen them around much. The team must be preparing for Fanfest I guess since it is 7 months away.

[Nezerius]

Number comparisons

You have to keep in mind that most JP players aren't going to be watching it through Twitch/Youtube Live, since the Live Letter is also being streamed on Niconico (sort-of the JP version of Twitch).
If I'm looking at the Niconico page correctly (since I can't read Japanese, but it does list a number of views), it's showing 54593 views.

[BunnyChain]

You have to keep in mind that most JP players aren't going to be watching it through Twitch/Youtube Live, since the Live Letter is also being streamed on Niconico (sort-of the JP version of Twitch).
If I'm looking at the Niconico page correctly (since I can't read Japanese, but it does list a number of views), it's showing 54593 views.

Yes, and how do these poor translations communications efforts affect the JP players?
These numbers do show however, how different the interest is in the live letter across the communities. And what could be a possible cause for that I wonder...

[Tridus]

You have to keep in mind that most JP players aren't going to be watching it through Twitch/Youtube Live, since the Live Letter is also being streamed on Niconico (sort-of the JP version of Twitch).
If I'm looking at the Niconico page correctly (since I can't read Japanese, but it does list a number of views), it's showing 54593 views.

Since the JP players get far better communication than we do, that's kind of the point. Almost nobody uses the LL in NA itself, they wind up looking at fan recaps and translations. That illustrates the problem perfectly. We need third party intermediaries to make SE's "fan communication" possible to understand. That's a total failure at communication.

[Shouko]

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