The Case for Spanish -- A Letter of Hope

[WopinOnizuka]

Hello! I'm here to support this iniciative. Not all the people is bilingual, so i hope SE take seriously this post.
I think SE can benefit about this.

[Alkoun]

I grew up speaking both English and Spanish, and support what this thread is hoping to accomplish.

[Aethelinda]

Well, I'm one of those who would love the game translated to Spanish. My first language is also Spanish and even though I know sufficient English to understand the main idea of story line, it is true that sometimes I have a hard time trying to understand some of the advance words that are used. I support the letter of hope and from my heart thank you for starting it the petition. From my point of view I wouldn't mind if the change it or not since I can go through the game without it. However for my friends and for some people out there that are having difficulties or would like to play it but because of the language they can't, I support this letter 100%.

For some of you and you will know who you are, seriously stop just playing selfish. Everything with you is all me me me me. Stop one second and think about it in this way, what about if you had to learn Spanish to actually play a game. And yes we reply in English because how the hell will you non-Spanish speaker will understand us? And we are talking for those who can't write in English duh. Wow people... some common sense here and humanity please! We are lacking so much in the world to bring it in to the game too? We are not only speaking for us, we are spreading the voice for our non-English speaker friends too and the ones we will not meet because of the Spanish translation. Also I'm pretty sure that as selfish as you sound you probably play selfishly too. Guess what this is a game to play as a team not as one and it is very sad that you think that way. Thinking of others is the key to success in many things in life even in a game. Learn that or just go to an Island by yourself and let the ones who really work to grow together as a whole be able to stay away from you.

[Jinko]

I'm not spanish and I support this !

[Aethelinda]

What really got me about his post was the "The Spanish-speaking people will slow down my patches/new content." That's just absurdly selfish, and they would hire translators just for that purpose. They wouldn't steal from the existing teams of coders and developers for another localisation team, and it wouldn't take these new Spanish lore writers/translators any longer than the other lore/loc teams to write the storyline for each patch. As someone else already posted, the localizations are written simultaneously--actually, Japanese probably comes first, and then the teams for EN, GE, and FR would get it at the same time. It would not be any longer.

Regarding South America not being able to afford computers, I don't know if that's relevant. In Spain alone, there are 46,754,784 people. That's not that much smaller than France's 65,312,249. I understand the point that while Spanish may have more native speakers, it has less eligible players, but I still think the translation would be profitable. Portugal has another 10+ million to add to the people that would choose Spanish (I realize Portugese is another language, but I think it's safe to assume that a Portugese speaker could understand Spanish at least better than English, French, or German).

Adding full support in Spanish would be considerably costly, and I can understand the aversion. At the very least, though, I don't think translated text for CSs will run SE's banks dry. Maybe this could even be an add-on after 2.0 that shows player-made translations? That wouldn't really cost SE anything.

Mychael it is so sad that you belong to Selbina , I want you in Palamecia lol. You are too funny and cool.

I agree with you and it was also my motivation to post something here everything that I have been hearing in against the petition has been selfish thoughts. Nothing of reasoning related to others instead it is just about them.

Nice to meet ya Mychael ^_^

[Aethelinda]

Hey vax, I'm Cuban. If you have heard the news or are very interested about others well being, politics, economy etc.. you actually will know that Cuba is in much much worse conditions at the moment than Argentina. You know what? The few ones that actually can afford to play it, why not??? and why does it have to be about you?? Is a game for EVERYONE not about you or me. I live in USA and if there is someone that can actually afford or access ffxiv, which by the way I'm 100% sure that no one can't because internet access it is actually banned from the country because Fidel castro, I wouldn't mind. Way to go. Another one that proves that is a loner. You are in the wrong game.

[Yarad]

I still think the game should be translated into Spanish. Thanks to Nintendo have in Spanish from FFI to FFVI. FFVII to FFXIII-2 are all in Spanish (Less FFXI. Many things I missed Vana'diel!).

Agree that the voices are in English but the texts, it is essential that we have in our language. When I play FFXIV, I have to stop to understand what is happening. If I'm playing with English players, I can not stop to translate what happens in the game.

Unfortunately, Spain is not like other countries where English is treated as the native language. Perhaps we can open a debate on the need to learn English, but we're talking about a game. If FFXIV was in Spanish, more Spanish would play. Many of them will not buy it because it is not translated. If Square-Enix is waiting to see how it sells FFXIV v.2, and I can assure you that had it not Spanish, not sell.

Guild war 2 will be released in Spanish from the first day, because this company is considered with the Spanish community. Square-Enix is one of the great. They could also do it.

Hopefully version 2 can read it in my language.

[HamHam]

According to (http://www.ethnologue.com) there are 358 million people speaking Spanish as a native language and a total of 417 million speakers worldwide. This is a great chunck of the world, so I think SE should have considered spanish as part of the language group in the game. To alienate this part of the population is neglectable at least. I'm sure SE has its reason, but in a global economy and market it doesn't makes sense to not have included spanish in the game.

[vax]

Hey vax, I'm Cuban. If you have heard the news or are very interested about others well being, politics, economy etc.. you actually will know that Cuba is in much much worse conditions at the moment than Argentina. You know what? The few ones that actually can afford to play it, why not??? and why does it have to be about you?? Is a game for EVERYONE not about you or me. I live in USA and if there is someone that can actually afford or access ffxiv, which by the way I'm 100% sure that no one can't because internet access it is actually banned from the country because Fidel castro, I wouldn't mind. Way to go. Another one that proves that is a loner. You are in the wrong game.

I'm sorry, i forget what i said long time ago, and btw i'm not in the wrong game, i just think different than you ^^.

[Yarad]

Final Fantasy XIV can not compete in the Spanish market against games like Guild Wars 2 that are translated into Spanish. S-E still does not say anything about the possible translation in version 2