Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
What is there to even engage with here?
The Enemy, apparently.

Every single time a English writing poster starts complaining about lazy developers, their actual point gets ignored. Every time Square Enix is the subject of derision, the actual point gets ignored. Every time players take sides and prepare for War, the actual points get ignored.

Every time someone expects the developers to actually Read the English forums, they are going to be disappointed for the reasons just given. Who has time for that?

Nuance is not translatable. English speakers take too many shortcuts in explaining what they want. Shortcuts that may be ambiguous to a translator whose first language is probably going to be Japanese.

I'm sure someone reports on general themes. Personally, I would not translate English posts from these forums into Japanese for all the money you might care to throw at me. It's much more difficult than running things through Google Translate.