If you are going to do a Live Letter

[Kaiserdrache]

Definetely, these stream was from the second part on absolutely a waste of time, 99% of the second half was only japanese talk that 90% of this world and most of the interested watching players around the world absolutely don't understand a single word abot .

Sure it is in Tokyo, Japan, but so proffesionall should we players expect it to be, that in an internationally played game like FF14, should be always presented new informations like this also too in a professional way, so that most of all plaers can understand the informations. What would have been the great deal really to have sit that sweet sounding assistant there too, like usually, so that at least an English Translation could have been offered like the last few time.

When you have there sitting 4 people talking with each other, for 1 hour, without showing anything what has been talked about - you know, sometimes are pictures more worth than 1000 words, if you can't live translate - and everything you hear fo an hour sounds to you only like gibberish yadayadayaddaadad yadadda, then this starts to begin feeling disrespectful and kind of at a certain point even discriminating, like the kind of way as - we have new things to talk about, but we share for now this knowledge only with those who can understand us by being self Japanese, wait for the translations to come later (if at all)

They use even English in the Screen Presentation, would it have been really asked too much to blend in within the last hour say every 15 Minutes a chart, which tells for streamwatchers in a few understandable line some eventually nice to know things that has been talked about?

This way was the first hour awesome for everyone, but the second half wwas more like a pure waste of time

[MsQi]

This live letter was an atrocity

Are you sure it wasn't an apocalypse? I mean when it comes to hyperbole, why hold back?

[TheGrimace]

I really, really don't care. For people who want a direct translation in a timely manner, Reddit provides. SE used to provide live updates on this very forum, but stopped because they were unpopular, especially compared to the speedy and accurate Reddit translations.

The most important snippets are translated into English on the powerpoints. Beyond that, the most you're missing out on is a little bit of exploratory banter. These PLLs are off-the-cuff and generally have minimal planning because they want their conversations to be organic. That's great for Japan, but it doesn't lend well to live translations and so they generally only do stuff with Aimi and Koji when they're abroad with immediate non-JP audiences. I'm just happy to receive news each month.

[Kaedan]

We get official translations of the Live Letter a little later... so what's the problem?

It's logistically near impossible for them to do a live translation for every live letter. For one, it would double the length of the Live Letter, which in itself is a huge problem. Not to mention taking their translators away from other tasks they could be doing, the extra cost in bandwidth and studio for doubling the length of the show, etc.

And as mentioned, Reddit has volunteers that translate live, so it's really, really not a problem.

[Oichi]

I just want to warmly thank the volunteers that translate the live letters on FFXIV discord, in real time.

I find perfectly understandable that a Tokyo show, with 4 persons commenting spontaneously, has no simultaneous translation. If it did, it would have to be slow-moving, mostly scripted and, in general, it would be tiresome for everyone. And they always provide a digest in English on the official site a bit later.

[Reap00]

Why would they bother to do that?
They are known to treat NA/EU as 2nd rate customers.

It has nothing to do with being second rate customers. I know this is hard to believe. Prepare yourself. This is a Japanese game. SE was at the Tokyo game show in Japan. It was completely unnecessary for them to translate at this venue. You are not the center of the universe.

[Driavna]

We get official translations of the Live Letter a little later... so what's the problem?

It's logistically near impossible for them to do a live translation for every live letter. For one, it would double the length of the Live Letter, which in itself is a huge problem. Not to mention taking their translators away from other tasks they could be doing, the extra cost in bandwidth and studio for doubling the length of the show, etc.

And as mentioned, Reddit has volunteers that translate live, so it's really, really not a problem.

All the important talking points are selected and prepare beforehand, that why some of the stuff is already translated. Expanding, withing reason, the information for an important part of the player base (in reality it should be translated for all the officially supported languages by SE) should not be a big deal instead of making people wait for a translation.

Anyway, for some reason, people keep forgetting that NA is the biggest market for FFXIV. We are not talking about a Korean game with a small western audience here.

[Nalfein]

So what did they say? Now I'm curious!

[Nomuno]

use your resources! there are translations all over but the best are in the reddit discord.

[ForteNightshade]

In all honesty, you missed absolutely nothing. They pretty much reiterated everything we already knew, refused to reveal the Ultimate or Trial and mostly went on about Fellowships that I suspect only JP will care about. It was not a good LL by any stretch.