The Case for Spanish -- A Letter of Hope

[Coglin]

As large as the worlds spanish speaking population is, I was shocked it wasn't an option.

[Answa]

I am not a native english speaker myself, so i see where you are comin from.

I am neither supporting or against this idea of yours, but if they happen to do this, there might be more people asking for their language to be translated and it might gives image that SE is playing favourite.

I understand this, but going just by numbers and regional availability, it makes sense to include Spanish above and beyond many other languages. Of course, this is with the utmost respect to all those other languages.

As large as the worlds spanish speaking population is, I was shocked it wasn't an option.

Exactly.

[Frisque]

I am a native English speaker, and despite my best effort to learn in adulthood, my Nintendo DS says I have only reached 2nd grade level Spanish

I support Answa and this thread, and all of the Spanish-speaking players who want to play. And not just because Besaid is fabulous.

SE, donde es espanol?

[Xquiel]

Hola! =), soy de Trabia y pertenezco a una LS de latinoamericanos también ^^
Me parece interesante la propuesta y también me interesaría que todos los de habla hispana nos juntaramos en un servidor para el merge de servidores, y así hacer una comunidad aún más grande =)
Viva el Español! haha

[Lienn]

This is actually very funny since SE does have italian ans spanish versions of EU site.

IMO they should just leave the EN, JP, GE and FR as default game languages, but allow those interested to download (maybe adding language preferences when installing the game) so additional languages could be DLed separately at FFXIVconfig and added to the game. This could even include variations like having both american english and british english, being american english default but having british english as a separated option.

I'm sure that, even if SE lacks in localization team of these languages (like they do even from the current ones since they were looking for french translators some time ago), the community itself could help with this at start...even if, at start, just having the text translated here. Maybe adding at localization forum a part just for translation discussions of languages that aren't the 4 default languages of the game.

Still, this is somewhat hard to happen right now because by adding a new language they would need to add an entire support part oriented to this, like having support service to that language, GMs, etc. which would end as a snowball-like issue, not only regarding menpower but also regarding costs.

[Answa]

This is actually very funny since SE does have italian ans spanish versions of EU site.

IMO they should just leave the EN, JP, GE and FR as default game languages, but allow those interested to download (maybe adding language preferences when installing the game) so additional languages could be DLed separately at FFXIVconfig and added to the game. This could even include variations like having both american english and british english, being american english default but having british english as a separated option.

I'm sure that, even if SE lacks in localization team of these languages (like they do even from the current ones since they were looking for french translators some time ago), the community itself could help with this at start...even if, at start, just having the text translated here. Maybe adding at localization forum a part just for translation discussions of languages that aren't the 4 default languages of the game.

Still, this is somewhat hard to happen right now because by adding a new language they would need to add an entire support part oriented to this, like having support service to that language, GMs, etc. which would end as a snowball-like issue, not only regarding menpower but also regarding costs.

Hell, I'd do it for free. I love translating stuff/helping people out.

[Lienn]

Hell, I'd do it for free. I love translating stuff/helping people out.

And i bet many others would too. I saw a similar request from italian community a few weeks ago. IMO it would be just a matter of SE adding a place where players could support the localization team with other languages.

The support part would end needed, but not for now...it could just become another of the long-term promisses regarding the game while the translation does could be a thing that just need a minimal effort from SE as soon as the community shows the will in supporting this...because we can't ask them to start such language project "because community will help" and then just one or 2 users actually help.

Try and start a petition about this, also asking those who sign it if they will just support the idea or help translating too. If the community show interest in helping with what SE lacks, maybe they do start a translation project.

Now...where is Bay to go dig some info/numbers regarding this for us? =P

[Merle]

I'm also Spanish and, although I can understand English (another issue is that it costs me speak it, sorry lol) there are certain phrases of some NPCs that are difficult to understand (especially Limsa).

As already mentioned, the Spanish community is very large and is, alongside English, one of the most spoken languages​​, so it's somewhat surprising that hasn't been taken into consideration. I understand the politics of translating only if required by law of a country to reduce costs, but it's a shame that Final Fantasy XIV is losing many Hispanic players because they want to play a game that they don't understand

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Yo también soy español y, aunque entiendo el inglés (otro tema es que me cueste hablarlo, lo siento xD) hay ciertas frases de algunos NPCs que son complicadas de entender (especialmente Limsa)

Como ya se ha mencionado, la comunidad española es muy grande y es, junto al inglés, uno de los idiomas más hablados, por lo que resulta un tanto sorprendente que no se haya tenido en consideración. Entiendo la política de sólo traducirlo si lo exige la ley de un país para reducir costes, pero es una lástima que Final Fantasy XIV esté perdiendo muchos jugadores hispanos porque no quieren jugar a un juego que no entienden

[RisaFuria]

Hola! =), soy de Trabia y pertenezco a una LS de latinoamericanos también ^^
Me parece interesante la propuesta y también me interesaría que todos los de habla hispana nos juntaramos en un servidor para el merge de servidores, y así hacer una comunidad aún más grande =)
Viva el Español! haha

Pues q gusto ver q ahi linkshell latinas en trabia durante buen tiempo estuve buscando si todavia existian linkshell latinas en trabia, comentale a todos los de tu linkshell q apoyen este post para q se den cuenta al cantidad de gente en el juego q hablamos español, un gusto y lo mas seguro q para el 2.0 nos dejen mudarnos de server y simplemente seria coordinar entre todas las comunidades para irnos todos al mismo lugar.

[Danielle_Vahn]

Yo espero que nos den la opción de cambiar de servidor antes del 2.0 ya que es esperar demasiado tiempo pues hay servidores con muy poca gente la cual esta sufriendo para encontrar parties ya sean estas para level up o hasta pick up groups para hacer Ifrit o Moogle; no es tanto asi el caso en Trabia pues me parece que el inicio del cobro del juego no nos afecto tanto por acá ya que sigo viendo a la misma gente de siempre conectada pero si se que hay otros servidores que están muy mal con solo 100-120 personas online cuando tu te puedes conectar un rato a jugar y de esas personas solo 30 o menos hablan tu idioma.

Tenemos un grupo en facebook de FFXIV, les pondré el link ahí para que se enteren los demás y puedan leer y apoyar este tema, saludos.