Why FFXIV: ARR needs spanish support (and likely other languages.)

[Jaykos]

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[Kiara1]

Choosing only E on the duty finder and the first thing you see is "Salut"... That's usually enough for me.

Oh yeah thats standard! My first moggle king ex run ever was with 7 germans. I had no idea what to do and couldnt communicate with them..
Ended up quiet well though, got to last phase and died.
But still I only tick E cause I dont want ppl to speak other languages when I play with them

[Kiara1]

This is wrong. Most japanese people can understand english well enough if written. And it's way enough to have basic conversations.

I beg to differ. Spent 2 weeks in tokyo and very few understood english. Just asking for directions is almost impossible.

[Warlyx]

1- Brazillians talk portuguese not spanish (some1 traveled to brasil and didnt even know what language isspoken there? lol)

2- some random examples :

blizzard translated WoW to spanish (Spain) at woltk release , then in the next expansion they released Latin american servers and added latin spanish language too.

Aion, after 2 years the game was translated

Gw2 was released on spanish.

DC Universe Online too

ect ect

even Perfect world international / and similar are translating their crappy games to spanish lol

spanish mmorpg players exist and there is a market for them, u dont notice them because they write in english on public chats/forums :P

3- the whole FF franchise has been translated to spanish (but FFXI >.< )

[Crimen]

Anyway, it would be downright dumb of SE to completely dismiss the idea of adding a new language. They'll probably do research or whatever (polls and what not). If the game's popularity and demand keeps growing, they'll add it in a couple of years.

[Sakasa]

What about swahili? You down?

[zaviermhigo]

My thing is, I'm all for more languages if it helps. I personally speak English and French, and am American. But I live in a Spanish speaking area (Nevada) and I know many spanish speakers who play games, they just also happen to know English, but hey I bet some even in the US would like a Spanish Client. My only question would be, there are vast differences in how Spanish is spoke between countries. In one country it may be a nice word, in another it may be a bad word. Some countries have amerindian words they've loaned and mixed into the language even. Spanish is variable, and most of the Spanish speaking population ISN'T in Spain. Even in Spain there are multiple dialects of Spanish, but of course there is Standard Spanish, but again, most of the Spanish speakers in the world do not speak Standard Spanish, and if people think most of the gamers are from Spain, that is also not true. There are a lot of Mexican, Central American, and Latin American gamers. So I'm just making a point, SE would have to look at the majority of it Spanish speakers, figure out where they are from, and put in a spanish that isn't going to offend or confuse anyone. Its more complicated than you think.

France is France, they are so centralized that any French colony speaks pretty good french, its going to most likely be a Parisian Dialect, as anyone who knows french knows they pretty much tried to eradicate regional dialects. Germany is also Germany, while there are regional difference in speech, they never got too deep in the colonization game, and therefore less variation to the language. Spanish is THE colonizer, and just like French in Canada, or English in America, or Spanish in Mexico, you cut contact with the mother language for a while and it will change! (well they changed for opposite reasons). We don't tend to have academies doling out what is the "standard" of the language like Spain and France.

TLDR: I think they should add Spanish to the game, but I think its more complicated than people think >.<

[o3o]

heres the Gaming market as a whole for the year of 2013

so yeah, the money just isnt there to make it worth while. :/


another thing i found is alot of the money is in brazil, which doesnt speak Spanish :/

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

heres the Gaming market as a whole for the year of 2013

so yeah, the money just isnt there to make it worth while. :/

Notice how is Europe, Middle east and Africa and not just Europe.

If we take away middle east, africa, russia and eastern europe countries. Whats the rest of Europe like in numbers? And from those take away all the spanish players from Europe and you have something very close to the Latin American market. And still no Spanish Client? lol.

[o3o]

Notice how is Europe, Middle east and Africa and not just Europe.

If we take away middle east, africa, russia and eastern europe countries. Whats the rest of Europe like in numbers? And from those take away all the spanish players from Europe and you have something very close to the Latin American market. And still no Spanish Client? lol.

that is like comparing every single country south of the US to like a half of Europe. :/ and even then they would probably still have more. its region based. stop being so nit picky about it.