A Recent Yoshi-P Post that probably needs to be read (Translation)

[Haseios]

Actually I didn't spend 10+ years mastering a language to provide a free translation service for nerds on the internet. I'll keep it to myself in the future. In the meantime, my post is meant to illuminate that this should be taken with a grain of salt until it is officially released and translated by the company who is providing the information.

You were quick to criticize a service another individual took the time to provide. While it wasn't perfect by your standards, it was miles more informative than what little you had to contribute. On top of that you have the gall to retaliate upon a simple request.
While I can't speak for the others, I merely asked if you were willing to do so. A simple no would have sufficed.

I don't see the problem in a simple translation. Not to mention the OP even pointed out that there may be mistakes in his translation, so that "grain of salt" was implied.

[Coldbrand]

Well, I appreciated this very much. Thank you.

As for not being able to afford GM service.. I've reported people swearing and being vulgar in public chat, never got anything but an automated reply back.. and later found out that person i reported never even got so much as another automated message. Also I reported someone blatantly botting and got nothing but an automated message. Are there actual GMs working??

Nah, I've reported huge groups of RMT and if they were actually on duty they could of come in and destroyed a whole ring of them. But, since there aren't actually GMs, nothing happened to them.

[PrettyPrincess]

How can you have GMs when they can't get paid?

[Kajika]

"need funds" can have many meanings. Trying to read into what it means, especially in another language, will probably not help anything.

I.E.: a) We need funds or we will go bankrupt., b) We need funds because it is required that the FFXIV business unit not lose money., c) We need funds so that we can post better results at the end of the quarter, ....

[JackDaniels]

How can you have GMs when they can't get paid?

Just have a program that still lets you report things, but all you get out of it is an automated message.. oh wait..

"need funds" can have many meanings. Trying to read into what it means, especially in another language, will probably not help anything.

I.E.: a) We need funds or we will go bankrupt., b) We need funds because it is required that the FFXIV business unit not lose money., c) We need funds so that we can post better results at the end of the quarter, ....

It's not a matter of them going bankrupt like I said in another thread. It's a matter of them losing out on their annual growth.

[Tonkra]

Im sorry but this is a great idea. We get all the same speaking people on at the same time during peak hours. I think ff11 suffered because of not doing this.

Also JP are mean. Even in ff11 they would say "JP ONLY" when seeking for a party ... i say see ya.

im not the same opinion as you... gobal servers means, that there are plenty players playing the game around the clock, not just only at your "prime time" in your country..

global servers are more crowded than regional servers... and i bet.. if there are going to be german servers or something like that, that they wont be that full like the global servers are now..

these servers will die much faster than any FF global server from today. and people are going to quit much faster because there are not enough people on the regional language server. thats the point.
i dont think at all that this will be a good decision.


especially after a re-release.. i dont think FFXIV will be that successful it could have been at the first release. oh oh.. well i dont think that all these changes are a good decision...

Additionally, we also have plans to open new servers where the slate is wiped clean.

does that mean they want to seperate players who are going to start playing with FFXIV at version 2.0. from players who started at the original release? +language servers?

Really BAD decision in my opinion... so that does mean, that we have servers that are half crowded? what do they think? that three times more people will join the game with FFXIV 2.0? omg..
really if this comes i feel like a player of the third class...

[PrettyPrincess]

Yeah I actually agree that the regional servers thing is kinda silly. to each their own though. I will continue playing on my current server (assuming it will be the same)

[Stanislaw]

Your translation has several innacuracies. You should probably leave messages of this import to be translated by someone else (ie professionals). This is the face of a producer to his players and requires more than a "stab."

I am aware of this, and for that I apologize. But on the other hand, I did this quickly and in one setting. I could do better, but eh, edits... too lazy. =P

However, I would like to point out that I did say:

Please keep in mind that is by no means a complete, 100% accurate translation so the information you see here may not be 100% accurate. For the complete details, it is best to wait for an official translation by the community devs, but until then, I think this post and the information contained within will provide some basic facts and information for people to get by.

Again a reminder: please keep this thread on-topic and civil. I'm afraid it might be derailed again.



Edit:

A earlier poster made a good point.

"need funds" can have many meanings. Trying to read into what it means, especially in another language, will probably not help anything.

I.E.: a) We need funds or we will go bankrupt., b) We need funds because it is required that the FFXIV business unit not lose money., c) We need funds so that we can post better results at the end of the quarter, ....

This above is especially true. I wrote it as "need funds" in the translation, but because it's in another language, trying to read into what this statement really means might be difficult.

Personally I think it's a combination of b) and c). SE has tons of other titles they can dip into for funds in they really wanted to, after all.

[Drako]

The only reason I think I'd choose a NA server is if it was actually IN NA. Besides that I prefer to be in a server that's multicultural. Its just a lot more fun that way.

[AngryNixon]

International mixed servers is what made FFXI unique in it's own way. In my opinion it is a defining feature of the way in which SE runs its MMO servers (with regards to FF anyhow). Giving people the option to not associate with people of differing cultures is a step in the wrong direction. The language barriers caused by international servers are not a big deal, we always managed to get by in FFXI just fine. So you can't have a full conversation about the origin of the universe, it's not the end of the world. If SE lets people regress into their cultural groupings (taking the easier road or the path of least resistance) it will be for the worse for all servers.

Also the Japanese community isn't "mean" or "racist" or any of that nonsense. Some people are mean and racist in any community NA or JP or EU, sucks to those people I'm not structuring what I do or don't do around their dumb-ass view of the world. In any event if you don't really want to play with those people because of the language issue you don't need to... they're in a drastically different time zone that means you basically don't see them anyhow a lot of the time.

Being on international servers can only be to everyone's benefit. It means the markets are getting a constant inflow and outflow of goods at all hours of the day. It means the server does not experience serious dead times because the gap is bridged by people from different time zones. Both of those things seem like a bonus to me.