Translations (JP to English)

[Kirito]

Rein want to translate the gist of the spectator mode topic so we can see what the Japanese players think? It's, of course, fine if you don't want to. I would do it myself but that would take about an hour and I'll be busy for the next two weeks in about 20 minutes...

[Reinheart]

Been waiting almost 2 years for this answer and finally got it. (Since Sept 23, 2010 to be exact)

Some of you may seen my post on other threads long time ago (around when this forum started). I asked if SE is going to change the method of how campaign codes are treated since the campaign code from the FFXIII (JP version) doesn't work on my NA account. I even thought about starting FFXIV with JP account like I did with FFXI but unlike FFXI in FFXIV the credit card payment method is different and you can't use credit cards from the US.

Anyways...

こんにちは。
Hello,

Reinheartさんが特殊な状況におられるのはとても理解していますが、
FFXIII封入のキャンペーンコードは、リージョンをクロスして利用できるものではないため
申し訳ないですが日本リージョンのスクエニID（日本リージョン向けのFFXIVサービス）
でなければ利用いただくことができません。
Reinheart, I understand how you are in a special situation but the campaign code enclosed with the FFXIII (JP) is region specific and cannot be used in other.
Therefore I apologize but if you don't have the JP region SE ID (with JP region FFXIV service) you will not be able to use.

将来のキャンペーンではリージョンに関係なく使えるコードなどが登場する
可能性はありますが、XIIIコードに関しては上述の通りです。
It is possible for future campaign codes that could be used without being region specific but as for the XIII code it's as mentioned above.

Although it wasn't the answer I was wishing for but at least I got my answer, finally after 2 years. I guess if you bought JP version FFXIII because you wanted to play in Japanese, you can make JP SE account just for the sake of PS3 beta test, then go back to your own character or something.

I was already in beta for FFXIV 1.x and didn't care much for the PS3 version beta, was more of the armguards? since that looked cool... but oh well. At least I got the answer! Woot!

[Heavell]

thanks again Reinheart for the translation, i really respect you.

[Dannythm]

There's a lot of new info to include in Yoshi's wiki page!

Also thanks for all the effort Rein!

I like how straight forward Yoshi is, and how is he taking care of everything, and he kept the core of FFXIV, so maybe in time we will see some of Tanaka ideas that for the moment are rejected come alive again and well implemented this time.

[Zenaku]

There's a lot of new info to include in Yoshi's wiki page!

Also thanks for all the effort Rein!

I like how straight forward Yoshi is, and how is he taking care of everything, and he kept the core of FFXIV, so maybe in time we will see some of Tanaka ideas that for the moment are rejected come alive again and well implemented this time.

Don't think so the only few idea i did enjoy from Tanaka was the idea we could befriend beastmen and learn how to make new weps or cooking or even one day how to summon there primal if we do enough quest line for that beastmen to befriend them. It seem that idea wont work in the current ffxiv but we see maybe yoshi-p idea of SMN is something like that you befriend the beastmen and you allow to summon the shadow of ifrit which would be something less powerful then ifrit himself but it still something

[axemtitanium]

Dragon Quest 10 has reached 400,000 accounts and was officially announce but even this amount of players played FFXIV that is 400,000 players only.

Hey Rein, can I get a bit of confirmation here? Does this sentence mean that FFXIV 1.0 had 400,000 subscribers? The relevant untranslated sentence is below, for convenience:
ドラクエ10の課金者数が40万アカウントを超えたと公式発表していて、仮にドラクエ10をやってくれている方が100%FF14をやってくれたとしても40万人

[Molic]

Think its talking about dragon quest 10 had 400k subs?

[Reinheart]

Hey Rein, can I get a bit of confirmation here? Does this sentence mean that FFXIV 1.0 had 400,000 subscribers? The relevant untranslated sentence is below, for convenience:
ドラクエ10の課金者数が40万アカウントを超えたと公式発表していて、仮にドラクエ10をやってくれている方が100%FF14をやってくれたとしても40万人

Think its talking about dragon quest 10 had 400k subs?

Yeah, DQ10 has 400k subs, and YoshiP is saying even if we got those DQ10 customers that's only 400k subs compared to WoW which has 12mil. Then he goes on saying that even GW2 got 2mil subs instantly, thefore SE needs to try and get the US player market in order to even compete. MMORPG market in Japan isn't as large as US.

As he mentioned later in the article, currently in Japan HD consoles isn't doing too well. I've noticed this myself also seeing the ranking it's mainly 3DS and PSP titles. So if you go on your PS3 and create JP account to see what JP store has, you'll see more PSP titles than the US PS market. Also for the DQ10, from what I know from friends and others in Japan. Wii sales in Japan wasn't that good either compared to the US when it was sold out almost in every store.

[Orophin]

Thanks for the translation Rein. It was nice to kind of get a view of what Yoshida's ideologies and experience is in the business.

He started all the way from working in a game store to being the director/producer of a numbered FF title. It seems he has a pretty good grasp on all facets of what it takes to make a successful game. I think we're going to see good things from him in the future and I'd be curious to see if he takes on a role in another major smash hit once development for ARR isn't so hectic.

One thing I kind of didn't agree with though was opening FF14 up to a larger age range. I thought that the "Kid's Time" was a really good idea for DQ10 just based on its overall design, but FF14 was designed with adult dialog and I don't want to see things get watered down because they're trying to get younger people to play. I already know adults that play with their kids, and while I'm sure the kids may be skipping through dialog and just going out and mashing monsters, I don't want the narrative to suffer at the expense of bringing in younger players. I rather like the medieval and archaic narratives sometimes.

[axemtitanium]

Yeah, DQ10 has 400k subs, and YoshiP is saying even if we got those DQ10 customers that's only 400k subs compared to WoW which has 12mil. Then he goes on saying that even GW2 got 2mil subs instantly, thefore SE needs to try and get the US player market in order to even compete. MMORPG market in Japan isn't as large as US.

Ah I understand. Ah well, I guess we'll never really know how many total subs FFXIV 1.0 had. Thanks for the clarification.