Weird english

[Nestama]

Just remember that this has been said.

It is often (understandably) believed that localization has little to do with the game beyond translating what the development team creates for the Japanese version. While translation is a large part of our job, what is not known by many is that the EN localization team plays a large role in the creation of a lot of in-game terminology and lore which is then localized back into Japanese (with liberties often taken by the Japanese team so that the text might appear more appealing to their target Japanese audience).

Also, you can defeat the character limit via editing

[AshlikeSnow]

Just remember that this has been said.



Also, you can defeat the character limit via editing

Okay I'll edit the settings thanks. I understand that the EN team doesn't just translate but also creates and adds to the content of the game.

[ErryK]

This topic has certainly gotten quite heated.

That's what happens when certain people try to be cute and end up getting the smack down.

[Yasuhiro]

This topic has certainly gotten quite heated.

Nah, it was just one guy that got upset when I brought how repetitive this forum can be with its posting styles.
Getting "heated" between anonymous strangers I'll never meet on the internet is not appealing to me at all.

[tjw]

Nah, it was just one guy that got upset when I brought how repetitive this forum can be with its posting styles.
Getting "heated" between anonymous strangers I'll never meet on the internet is not appealing to me at all.

Funny how you seem to know everyone on the forums well enough to pinpoint people as being 'upset', when they're likely not. Perhaps we should add "Forum Psychologist" onto your list of roles alongside "Forum Police".

And to me, it seems that you're the one who gets upset because people post things you don't enjoy reading on forums, the horror. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But whatever floats your boat.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Isn't that being overly optimistic?

An estimation. Remember, 2.5 had a ton of whining about Midgardsormr, the banquet, and the Steps of Faith for a good while.

[Yasuhiro]

Funny how you seem to know everyone on the forums well enough to pinpoint people as being 'upset', when they're likely not. Perhaps we should add "Forum Psychologist" onto your list of roles alongside "Forum Police".

I don't know, dude, all these labels you keep giving me comes across as pretty aggressive so I must have struck a nerve. I apologize.
I'm backing out of this now. You've "won". Going back and forth is pointless and it just makes it look like we're trying to get the last word in. Have a like.

[enthauptet]

I wish there was a generic option for the text. I've never been a big fan of trying to incorporate old ways of writing into current literature since when those old texts were current they were written in the contemporary style. When past writers were speaking of earlier events they didn't go into an even more ancient speak to talk about it (at least of things I have read). That's like archaic speech inception. I'm waiting now for when we go into another continent where people speak an even older form of our dialects in eorzea and we have beowulf text on our screens. I'd rather read text that was written and spoken to me not someone else that lived 300 years ago. It really breaks me from the game and I don't enjoy it as much because of it. There are some parts where it is enjoyable and fun in the text changes like with beast tribes but the general dialogue definitely falls flat there for me.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I wonder how anyone played past Final Fantasy titles that did the same exact thing as the dialects here. Obviously, those scripts in the past weren't as big or pronounced, but did anyone understand the dwarves exaggerated Scottish dialect in Final Fantasy IX? Those guys are basically pirate speak in a different flavor.

[MercuryD]

Personally I cannot play XIV in Japanese. The voices hardly ever sound like they match the characters and the text is a bit too straight forward and bland for my taste. I like that the EN localization team makes in a point to bring personality to the charters with things like dialect.