If you are going to do a Live Letter

[Xerkrosis]

They announced it was gonna be Japanese Audio Only.
Stand By for Official Translation

Didn't say so in the news. Neither in english, nor german news.
That's like announcing content updates and the content is japanese only.

...Because they are Japanese? And its at Tokyo Gameshow?
Man, is America this self important that it can't wait till after the Live Show to get it Translated afterwards?

Why are you so entitled to have stuff in your own language?

English isn't bound to America only. It's an international language.

Live translation would lengthen the time which they might not have.[...]

They could do it in english or as others do, do a live translation over the streamed content via translator who is not with them on the booth, but exclusive for the stream.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

--Didn't say so in the news. Neither in english, nor german news. That's like announcing content updates and the content is japanese only.
--English isn't bound to America only. It's an international language.

They announced it here
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...70b5f5fd8b0207
On the Lodestone.

And I know English is spoken by more then Americans, I already said this to someone else.

[HyoMinPark]

And I know English is spoken by more then Americans, I already said this to someone else.

People keep telling you this because of your assumption that someone asking for the content to be translated in English = American.

Yes, but WHY is it still Japanese only. After 6 years, and having more non JP subscribers, are we still not important enough?

...Because they are Japanese? And its at Tokyo Gameshow?
Man, is America this self important that it can't wait till after the Live Show to get it Translated afterwards?

[Fawkes]

Didn't say so in the news. Neither in english, nor german news.
That's like announcing content updates and the content is japanese only.

They could do it in english or as others do, do a live translation over the streamed content via translator who is not with them on the booth, but exclusive for the stream.

That would be expensive, complicated, and completely unnecessary. This stream had five people speaking Japanese to each other. So, you want them to hire five translators to listen and translate at the same time and hire more engineers to run a separate stream with balanced audio so you can hear the translators over the people they're translating but also still be able to hear when they play a music clip (which Yoko Taro also talked over, so you'd need the translator talking over that and end up not hearing the music or hearing too much cross talk with Yoko Taro and the translator)

[Lorim]

English isn't bound to America only. It's an international language.

Like French which is a primary language in a lot of country across the world and is a language spoken by more than 500 millions of person... At some point in history French was even the international language.... But did you ever saw a FFXIV Live Stream whith a French Live Translator?

[Driavna]

Is not NA the biggest FFXIV market right now?

[RenAshdoll]

A large number of the Japanese players does not communicate in English so doing a live event in English at a major Japanese event with limited time will end up alienating the home players. Most LL while they follow a general flow for presentation, most comments from Yoshida/guests are not done strictly via script; any live translator will have to double check what they have jot down with the speakers to make sure they dun release the wrong information.