About the Spanish Translate

[raela]

I've also seen some comments as to Latin countries. Many of these countries actually speak Portuguese so translating the game into Spanish still only serves part of the market.

Lastly, which dialect of Spanish? While Spanish speakers can understand each other much like we English speakers there are enough different dialects that sometime you wonder are we all speaking the same language?

Er, what? No, Latin America is definitely Spanish dominant. Brazil is the only South American country that speaks it primarily. There are however a few African countries that also use it officially.

The people in my FC seem fairly aware of what is "regional" and what is "neutral" dialects, and usually go with neutral language when in a mixed group. I'm in NA, though. Really though, FFXV was able to condense dialects without an issue, so it's not like that should be a stopping point for SE. Don't get me wrong, I can see cost and time being two very good reasons for FFXIV not getting a translation - but dialect, not so much. Hell, it could even feed into regional flare like we get in English...

[Rymm]

Er, what? No, Latin America is definitely Spanish dominant. Brazil is the only South American country that speaks it primarily. There are however a few African countries that also use it officially.

You aren't wrong, but I just want to point out that while Brazil is the only country that speaks Portuguese, it also home to at least half of the continent's entire population. So numbers wise, at least half or close of South Americans don't speak Spanish as a first language.

Now, if you include Central American countries like Mexico, then yes, the scale will tip back toward Spanish, but the Brazilian population still takes a huge chunk (about 1/3rd population) out of the numbers of Central/South American people who would play this game. It's likely that this has some influence on SE's decision to translate or not.