Thread: Stalk of Ramie, Sprig of Mist Dill may be over-translated (?)

From my limited understanding of the Japanese language, it has a higher grammatical emphasis on 'counting words' (like flock, herd, etc).

I'm guessing this is why FFXIV is so fastidious about informing us that we received 10 gobbets of Bear Fat, 30 chunks of Titanium Ore, 15 piles of Hardsilver Sand, etc.

I believe two items have accidentally been translated with their 'counting word' glued on to the actual item name:

• Stalk of Ramie
• Sprig of Mist Dill

... because they're the only two items I have encountered that break the normal pattern.

This is also supported by the fact that these items do not have an extra counting word tacked on (ie, the chat log tells me I just bought '30 stalks of Ramie' from the Market Board, not '30 bundles of Stalk of Ramie' or something).

This oddity makes these items slightly more awkward, because instead of searching for 'Ramie' the same way I would search for 'Flax', I have to search for 'Stalk' (and only Ramie shows up, because no other items are named with their counting word used as part of the item name).

If you are willing to modify your international multimillion dollar game's database in order to accommodate one user's OCD, please rename these to 'Ramie' and 'Mist Dill' so they fit in with every other item.

They're adding partial word search to the marketboard, in the next patch.

With that feature, you'll be able to search for 'Ramie' and 'Mist Dill' without these items having to be renamed.

That does look like it may have legitimately been an oversight in the editing process, given the usual pattern.

You might want to move or repost this to Localization, though, since that's where text-related bug reports belong and can best be seen and responded to by the community team? With so much text in the game and translations often needing to go live in a hurry, it's pretty common for errors to slip through and be quietly corrected in the next patch, so I'm sure they'd be glad for the report.