Translations (French -> English)

[Chinook]

Third and last part:


FFR: Recently, FFXIII-2 producer Motomu Toriyama was saying that Square Enix was thinking on reducing his own teams to use more outsourcing. As producer of a big team, what do you think about this ?

Y-P: I know I'm one of the rare to talk about the size of his team, but to tell you the thruth, we also have an external one at Square Enix, one time and half bigger than ours.
Outsourcing is really important, and is efficient in development. This technique allows us to rapidly increase the size of a project, without having to hire more people.


Finaland: You said in the past that FFXIV didn't have enough mage classes. We do not have any information at the moment, but can we expect new classes at 2.0 launch ? A Red Mage for example, or a Summoner ?

Y-P: For now, I will say «*no comment*» (laughs). But I hope you know what that means. If you know how to read between the lines …

I am a big MMORPG player, I have a precise idea of what class balance should be. I don't have stereotypes like X class should be Y type of class. 2,0 will allow us to rebalance everything. We'll give out mmore information soon.



FFU: In a recent Producer's Letter, you mentioned that the promised trailer would soon be revealed. Can you tell us when, and what it will be about ?

Y-P: I can tell you it's soon. This summer, sometimes around Gamescom … (laughs). There will only be 1 trailer. It will mean for us that it's time to start the promotional campaign and talk about game aspects.


At the end of this interview, Yoshi-P invited us to watch the game live on his laptop, and we were satisfied even though the game wasn't optimized yet and was playing on an i5. Lighting effects and 3d details were impressive.

Some notes on what we talked about during the demo:
- The possibility of a Mac OS version of the game will be studied once PC and PS3 versions are launched.
- Xbox Live and its 44m members are appealing, but servers would need to be separated from the rest since Xbox 360 is a “closed” system.

[Duelle]

Finaland: You said in the past that FFXIV didn't have enough mage classes. We do not have any information at the moment, but can we expect new classes at 2.0 launch ? A Red Mage for example, or a Summoner ?

Y-P: For now, I will say «*no comment*» (laughs). But I hope you know what that means. If you know how to read between the lines …

I am a big MMORPG player, I have a precise idea of what class balance should be. I don't have stereotypes like X class should be Y type of class. 2,0 will allow us to rebalance everything. We'll give out mmore information soon.

*starts gathering the reagents to necro one of the several Red Mage threads in this part of the forums* >.>

Nice work on the translation, guys.

[Munba]

Thanks a lot Sephrick, Vingtdeux and Chinook!

[Munba]

Another interview if you want XD

http://www.finaland.com/?rub=site&page=news&id=4593

[Sephrick]

Another interview if you want XD

http://www.finaland.com/?rub=site&page=news&id=4593

Unfortunately it's the same exact thing as the other interview. Finaland and Final Fantasy Ring interviewed him at the same time and published each others questions as well as their own.

[Chinook]

Yes, it's the same interview sadly.

Read it quickly, and there's not even subtle additional information that could come from the use of different words.

[Vingtdeux]

Starting gear in 2.0

That was posted in a thread talking about the new RSE shown at the Japan Expo.

Certains d’entre vous se demandaient certainement si les équipements de départ seront disponibles pour les anciens joueurs. Pour répondre à cette demande, les développeurs envisagent de rendre l’obtention des équipements de départ possible directement via un PNJ ou alors via l’artisanat.

Tous les détails se sont pas encore décidés, mais les anciens joueurs n’ont pas a s’inquiéter !

Some of you must have been wondering if the new 2.0 starting gear will be available for existing players. The devs are thinking of making them available through a NPC or through crafting.

All the details haven't been decided yet, but do not worry !

[Vingtdeux]

New emotes

Hate to be the bearer of bad news ...

Bonjour !

L’équipe en charge des animations m’a confirmé que les emote /slap, /smile ou /hug ne devraient pas être présentes lors de la sortie de la version 2.0 . En revanche il est probable que ces emotes voient le jour plus tard !

Hello !

The animation team confirmed to me that the emotes /slap, /smile or /hug won't be available at 2.0 launch.

However, it is possible that these emotes arrive later !

[Payadopa]

Gods, I SO miss /slap!
Thanks for the translation! ^^

[Chinook]

The original dev post that I translated for /slap emote contained the word "probable" instead of "possible", but used the latter to not make false hope as "probable" isn't 100%.

Hey guys!

Although /slap, /smile or /hug won't be available right at the 2.0 launch, they will be making an appearance after!

Rukkirii smiles warmly.

But Rukkirii just confirmed it will be available later !