If you are going to do a Live Letter

[Barraind]

They are saying that you are wrong. And you are. English is definitly not as "worldwide" and easy as you think.

Ehhh, I have had a foot in a lot of overseas communities due to previous employment, and even those communities which are not native-English speaking use English as a common language, specifically where video games are concerned. I was in a few dutch and german groups where addressing me in any language but english was, by their own rules, a suspend/bannable offense, and part of the reason I was interacting with those groups was a passable ability to read dutch and german so they didnt have to use english all the time.

Theres also generally no reason for an MMO or persistent online community to care about those populations which have no internet access (which makes up somewhere between a third and a half of the "dont speak english" category in that link).


On the business side of MMO things, I've never run into anyone who doesnt speak passable enough English to communicate (Squeenix being the one major company I havent worked with/for).

On top of that they most probably felt that it would have been unpolite towards the japanese audience there. You would know if you weren't so close-minded and self-important. The world doesn't revolve around you (general "you"). There's other cultures, and life circumstances related to that, that you should respect.

Theres slapdash speedrunning events or RPG broadcast events that can get barely delayed re-streams in 3 or 4 languages on a weeks notice.

Squeenix is a massive company with people they pay specifically to do those things.

It is not out an out there idea to expect they can re-stream their live letters in their supported languages, especially when they already know what is going to be addressed given they've made slides for it and likely have a rough script.