If you are going to do a Live Letter

[Nora_of_Mira]

Then provide translation. This live letter was an atrocity for a lot of people, and while they provided a little bit of english on the screen, we missed a lot.

This was really just... silly and disappointing.

it was at the Tokyo Game Show...Do you honestly expect full english support?

[Driavna]

it was at the Tokyo Game Show...Do you honestly expect full english support?

Meanwhile in EU/NA shows Yoshida speaks and we have to wait for someone else to translate (which is no problem). However, asking for the same in Tokio, at least the important stuff about the upcoming patch, is a sign of arrogance and entitlement. Ok.

To the usual "WoW bad, FFXIV good!" we have to add "EU/NA bad, Japan good!"

[ForteNightshade]

it was at the Tokyo Game Show...Do you honestly expect full english support?

Purely hypothetically speaking, let's pretend Yoshida spoke full English and hosted a LL in New York. There were no Japanese translations from SE themselves. Do you think the JP community would be fine with that or would they be complaining how it's clearly American bias showing? Considering they have actually accused the dev team of listening to NA more than them in the past, I think we can safely assume they wouldn't appreciate it.

So why does this excuse work when the scenario is flipped? Keep in mind, people aren't faulting Yoshida or any of the dev team. They're pointing to Square Enix, a multi-billion dollar company, not wanting to spend the money to have a translator.

[Fawkes]

Do you think the JP community would be fine with that or would they be complaining how it's clearly American bias showing? Considering they have actually accused the dev team of listening to NA more than them in the past, I think we can safely assume they wouldn't appreciate it.

There's more complaining in this thread than there is on the entirety of the Japanese side of the forums.

[ForteNightshade]

There's more complaining in this thread than there is on the entirety of the Japanese side of the forums.

They don't complain on the forums. Have a visit to 2chan or unofficial forums and you'll find JP is not nearly as saintly and quiet as people like to portray.