New Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LVI

[KaitoAsaha]

They are probably going to make materia melding 100% guaranteed, and have data center cross visit. Which means markets will be the same across all data centers. Not even messing around. I think it’ll happen.

The melding process is perhaps the only thing that puts me off on crafting endgame stuff as a whole. I'd love some mercy system at least, for say like the third socket having10 fails guarantees a success on the 11th, the fourth slot being 20 fails, and the fifth being 30.

[MOZZYSTAR]

A Japanese game created by a Japanese company dares to have a presentation in Japanese?! There is a full translation going on in a twitch channel if you want it.

When a very large fraction of their paying player base doesn't speak Japanese, they should provide subtitles or some other means of translation. They're not a poor indie game company, they can provide translation. In fact, during one of the Japanese notes, we had those two translators basically voice over in English on the English twitch account (which is maybe what you're referring to?). Pretty sure they didn't do that last time which was the issue. Hopefully they do it again this time.


Whether it's voice over or subtitles, here's hoping we're not left in the shadows. /wiggles brows

[Infindox]

I don't mind that they dont translate everything in these Live Letters, but they should keep the discussion behind each thing to a minimum until the slides are done. I've had multiple times they start to chat about something not on the slide and it ends up to be interesting,only for me to find it out later by someone else.

Anyway, pretty excited about some of these changes, especially the fc party requirement removal. Not entirely convinced that the Ranking system WON'T be abused by bots/people with all the time in the world or another to play while they are busy, but we will see.

[Gula]

When a very large fraction of their paying player base doesn't speak Japanese, they should provide subtitles or some other means of translation. They're not a poor indie game company, they can provide translation. In fact, during one of the Japanese notes, we had those two translators basically voice over in English on the English twitch account (which is maybe what you're referring to?). Pretty sure they didn't do that last time which was the issue. Hopefully they do it again this time.


Whether it's voice over or subtitles, here's hoping we're not left in the shadows. /wiggles brows

I'm just gonna quote myself, it's easier.

And people don't seem to get that unless they have a script, a strict one, subs up to standard for their company will not be available. Like reactions to the chat or someone saying something out of left field. And translating a 14 hour stream with Ami would turn it into a 16 hour stream, not to mention how stilted it would become having her going between the like 10 people in the room when the core team said hello

[Deceptus]

The melding process is perhaps the only thing that puts me off on crafting endgame stuff as a whole. I'd love some mercy system at least, for say like the third socket having10 fails guarantees a success on the 11th, the fourth slot being 20 fails, and the fifth being 30.

Would love a trait that increases chance by 2% after every failure. At least you know the more you fail, the better your chances.

[MrKusakabe]

A Japanese game created by a Japanese company dares to have a presentation in Japanese?!

This "argument" again? Remember the Volkswagen emission scandal? Who needs it in English? It's a German company that produces German cars and helds their presentations in German. Affected U.S. customers can get some random translation somewhere else, and if details are gone, whatever....

I am "mad" because I am actually interested in it.

[BloodRubyXII]

I fixed your post for you.

On a more serious note, I can understand why people get upset the live letters are not translated. It creates the impression one player base is preferred over the other as they get all information about the game delivered in a language they can understand at the time it’s announced. This is certainly not great customer service on SE’s end, and when customers feel they are not being treated fairly by a business they complain.

However, I also see the business end. Great customer service comes at a cost and there would certainly be costs to SE for providing live translations for more Live Letter. Businesses weigh costs versus reward. Are they going to lose customers because they don’t provide these translations? I don’t think so. Are they going to gain customers by providing more live translations? Also very unlikely. Therefore, there isn’t really a good business reason to provide this service, and businesses, especially big publicly traded companies, don’t tend to do anything there isn’t a good business reason to do.

So while it would be nice if everyone got the same level of service, I wouldn’t expect SE to change its current practices. It also doesn’t help any chance for change that a certain portion of the international player base is fine with the status quo.

Classic Western American attitude.

[Vahlnir]

Classic Western American attitude.

I can't really see that in the post you quoted. They simply agree with the sentiment about not having an English translation but they can also see it from SE's point of view and completely understand. But you know, let's just label them American like it's a bad thing because it's the "cool" thing to do.

[Infindox]

Also on the one dungeon per patch thing, hope they put more effort into the dungeon itself/trials/everything else to compasate.

[Vahlnir]

Also on the one dungeon per patch thing, hope they put more effort into the dungeon itself/trials/everything else to compasate.

I'd prefer quality over quantity any day of the week.