Live Letter XIV Discussion Thread

[HumsterMKX]

The fact that there continues to be a lack of side by side English translation for these is upsetting; over half of their player base are English speaking individuals, and they are essentially cutting us out by not offering that option. Instead we have to wait for an indefinite period of time to get an "official" translation.

I feel like this is blatant discrimination and showing favoritism.

Well, maybe they don't have a script, makes translating JP to EN a lot harder and expensive.

[Gormogon]

Well, maybe they don't have a script, makes translating JP to EN a lot harder and expensive.

How can it be "expensive" when some people are willing to do it for free?

[Radacci]

How can it be "expensive" when some people are willing to do it for free?

ppl dont work at SE for free
using official translator, would cost a lot.
only fans do it for free, cause obviously SE wouldn't pay them.

[Gormogon]

ppl dont work at SE for free
using official translator, would cost a lot.
only fans do it for free, cause obviously SE wouldn't pay them.

They don't really have to. Being grateful and giving them a small freebies as gratitude like the music disc, collectors edition, a free tour, or letting them meet Square-Enix members would be more than enough.

Yet they went all out by giving someone a job at Square-Enix especially when it was their dream job.

[Radacci]

Well, maybe they don't have a script, makes translating JP to EN a lot harder and expensive.

yah, they just look at twitter, and answer questions, live. and improvise what they say.
But since they snagged Rein, Rein could do official live translations

[Garlyle]

yah, they just look at twitter, and answer questions, live. and improvise what they say.
But since they snagged Rein, Rein could do official live translations

It's been mentioned that this is now a little more difficult. Even if Rein was to put a disclaimer saying "HEY I MIGHT GET STUFF WRONG", anything that he writes wouldn't just be grabbed up as an official translation, but now people would go "and a square enix official translator said it so it has to be true"... if he was to make a mistake, well, the community'd be all over it immediately, and not even so much in a 'ya screwed up' way, but in a 'no square said it'd happen like this so that's what's gonna happen' and then cause angry whining when it didn't.

People already hyper-analyzed everything he translated, as rough and unformatted as it was, just like anything that comes 'direct from the producers', official or no. One wrong term due to mishearing something on his part or simply choosing the wrong words, and bam - consider the way that someone freaked out about WoW-style flying mounts because Yoshi mentioned the expansion may have a sky/aerial exploratory theme to it.

[Rakashu]

Well, maybe they don't have a script, makes translating JP to EN a lot harder and expensive.

I won't accept cost being prohibitive when as I said we contribute to over half of the player base, and every single one of us pay a subscription fee just like any one else. For such a large company with such a large English speaking fan and player base, it makes absolutely no sense for them not to do it.